SREEJA TIRKEY Educational qualifications • 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 Professional Development courses and Workshops attended • 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. Work experience • 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 Examiner for English A1 paper 2 and Internal Assessments. • This is the first year in GSIS More about me…. • 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 gleems that untravelled world, whose margin fades for ever as we move-”