salwa elbanna

Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of subjects. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills.

IB PYP Teacher (Grade 4)

Yusr International School | 09/2018 – 06/2021

• Conducted interconnected teaching session that integrated English, Math, Social Studies, and Science 
• Taught using PYP delivery methods upon IB standards (Themes, line of inquiries, central ideas).
• Designed theme-oriented subject planners, lesson plans, summative, formatives, and rubrics.
• Designed various differentiated learning engagement that aided the students to connect knowledge from the classroom to real-life experiences.
•  Delivery of lessons followed certain objectives to insure that the students become one step further into becoming thinkers, inquirers, knowledgeable and caring young people that will bring more peace into the world through their intercultural understandings and respect.

Math Teacher (Grade 7)

AlMoktashef International School | 08/2021 – Current 

• Designed lesson plans, weekly plans and PowerPoint presentations on weekly bases. 
• Utilized independence and creativity to allow students to reach to a solution on their own pace and their own ability. 
• Allowed students to find various ways to come up with a solution that suits them 
• Lessons were introduced by critical thinking allowing the students to present their prior knowledge using KWL charts, flip classroom, or peer discussions. . 

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 2018