Omar Chaudhry (Curriculum Vitae)

Current Address
551 Reddings Lane
Hall Green
Birmingham
B288TE
07591812023

Objective

My purpose is to build on my previous special needs experience by working with special needs
children more directly. I feel like one way to do this in the short term is by working as an special
needs LSA.

EDUCATION

PGCE Primary and Early years (From 09/12 to 07/14)

Birmingham City University

Theology courses September 2010- March 2011

Marmara University Theology faculty/ISM islamic institute under the supervision of Dr Recep Senturk
Istanbul, Turkey

Master of Science in Socio-cultural anthropology, September 2008

St Peter’s College
University of Oxford, UK

Bachelor of Social Science in International Politics, May 2006

University of Wales, Aberystwyth, (Wales, UK)
Included a one semester exchange program focusing upon ‘International Relations’ at the
University of Southern California during Fall 2004

WORK EXPERIENCE

- Private Turkish language tutor (2015-ongoing)

- NQT Classroom teacher Year 4 Academic year 2013/2014

Regents Park Community Primary school

◆ Member of ICT subject leader team

◆ Trained in TEEP teaching methods
◆ experience with autistic child

- NQT Classroom teacher Year 4 January-June 2017

Al-Hijrah school, Birmingham
 ◆ Completed NQT year.
◆ Gained experience of planning using International Primary Curriculum for topic
◆ Experience of teaching in a faith-school
◆ Gained experience of using target tracker and summative assessments half-termly.
◆ Commended in NQT report for developing positive relationship with class.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, September 2008 to May 2009

State University of New York, Binghamton, New York

◆ Marking students’ essays

◆ Helping students with academic needs
◆ Helping to create exam questions

Teacher (English as second language to 13/14 yr olds) February 2010 to May 2010
ISM Centre for the Sciences and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

Sufi Wisdom Magazine Turkish to English translation service November 2011 to Current
Birmingham, England/Istanbul, Turkey

Work experience with Year 6 class (March/April 12)

Springfield Primary school
Sparkhill
Birmingham

Languages

Urdu (spoken with family at home with elementary reading skills)

Arabic (Intermediate level reading, listening and writing skills)
Turkish (Studied in Turkey for two years in order to study at University in Istanbul)

Extra Curricular

- Reading novels, non-fiction, nature especially about plants

- Travelling
- Enthusiasm for Badminton
- Weight training/Running/Social walking