Higher Education

 

August 2023-June 2025

Teaching Fellow, Department of Professional Studies in Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA

 

Responsibilities included:

 

• Developing and delivering undergraduate courses

• Creating course materials and syllabi

• Assessing and evaluating student work

• Providing academic support and one-on-one advising

• Supervising students during field placements

 

Courses taught:

 

ECED 117- Family, Community, and School Relationships in a Diverse Society (in-person) (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)

 

HDFS 224 - Marriage and Family Relations (online) (Fall 2023)

 

ETIT 103- Digital Instructional Technology (online) (Spring 2024, Fall 2025, Spring 2025)

 

ECED 411- Social Studies for All PreK to Grade 4 Learners

(in-person) (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

 

ECDU 342 -Field Placement Supervision (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

 

 

August 2021- June 2023      

Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Professional Studies in Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA

 

 

The job duties included:

• Providing support to a faculty member's research projects

• Conducting library research and compiling literature reviews

• Supporting innovative projects in the department

 

March 2022 -June 2023

Instructor and Tutor, American Language Institute (ALI) - Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA

 

The job duties included:

 

• Teaching English to international students, focusing on academic writing, speaking, listening, and reading skills.

• Working with undergraduate students on professors' referrals (mainly writing assignments: essays, final papers, etc.)

• Evaluating students' performance throughout the academic year. 

 

October 2021- June 2023

Guest Lecturer, IUP's Department of Professional Studies in Education

 

·Teaching guest lessons to undergraduate students in the Early Childhood/Special Education programme (BSEd). The lessons included the following topics:

 

• Augmented Reality and Literacy in Early Childhood Education

• Sensory Play and Language Development

• Inclusive Play

• Visual Literacy and Logo Designs

 

• Guest instructor, IUP's Literacy Center: Teaching guest lessons to undergraduate students in the Early Childhood/Special Education Programme (BSEd). The lessons included the following topics:

 

•  Teaching literacy to non-native English-speaking children

 

 

Other Work Experience in Higher Education

 

• Co-investigator, Fulbright Grant: worked as a co-investigator with Professor David P. Corina, a professor in the Department of Psychology and Linguistics and faculty at the Centre for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, on a research project that examined language and cognitive development in deaf children with cochlear implants across various countries (2019-2020).

 

• Digital Communication Specialist (September 2019-November 2021); Qatar University.

 

• Editor (August 2014- September 2019); Qatar University, College of Arts and Sciences

 

 

K-12 Experience

• Teacher, San Stefano Secondary School, Cairo, Egypt (September 2001-June 2002)

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Other Work Experience:

 

• TV Producer (April - December 2011), Qatar TV.

• Journalist (May 2010 – February 2011), Al-Raya newspaper, Qatar.

• Journalist (October 2001 – 2010), Al Qahira (weekly cultural newspaper).