• Bachelor of Education (English) in 2004 from Mahatma Gandhi
University, India
• Master of Arts in English Literature in 2003 from Mahatma Gandhi
University, India
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours Course) in Communicative English (main subjects - English Prose, Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations,
Entrepreneurship Development, Mass Communication, Business
Communication and Office Management, Translation Studies)
(subsidiary subjects – English Poetry and Sociology) ) in 2001 from
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
• National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in English
• Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Technology in 2012 from Indira
Gandhi National Open University, India.

• International Baccalaureate - IB English A1 online workshop in 2009.
• University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) - Stage 2
Online Professional Development Course – GCE AS/A Level (Int)
English Language in 2009.
• University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) -Stage 1
Online Professional Development Course –Cambridge IGCSE First
Language English in 2008.
• International Baccalaureate - Introduction to MYP Local Community
Workshop at Sekolah Global Jaya, Indonesia in 2007.
• International Baccalaureate - IB MYP Inter school Job-alike session in
GMIS, Jakarta in 2007.

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Worked as :
Lecturer in English in St. Teresa’s College, Kerala, India, from 2004-
05
• Lecturer in English in Government Vocational Higher Secondary
School, Kerala, India from 2005-06
• Lecturer in English in St. Xavier’s College, Kerala, India from 2006-07
• IB/ IGCSE Teacher in Gandhi Memorial International School, Jakarta,
Indonesia from 2007-2010
• IB Teacher in Taejon Christian International School, Daejeon,
Republic of Korea from 2010-2011
• IB Teacher in Gyeonggi Suwon International School, Suwon, Republic of Korea from 2011 onwards.
• IB Examiner for English A1 HL paper 2 and Internal Assessments.

• I like to read books
• I scribble my thoughts and I have published a few of my thoughts in booksie.com
• I was born and brought up in India
• Got married to Arvind Tirkey in 2008
• I enjoy every second of my day and am so thankful to God for giving me a chance to learn more everyday
• I like Tennyson’s lines from his poem Ulysses- “Every experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades for ever as we move”