Tom Mason              

Education

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
TESOL Certificate, December 1995, GPA 3.9

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Bachelor of Arts in English, August 1994 GPA 3.2

Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida
Associate Arts Degree, with Honors, May 1991, GPA 3.8

Experience

Current Positions

Case Manager / Job Developer. Department of Juvenile Justice Independent Living Program at Santa Fe Community College. Gainesville, Florida

Manage cases and develop jobs for at-risk youth. Duties include, but not limited to, counseling, teaching, and training adjudicated teens with their efforts to stay straight, earn their GEDs, go to college, find steady employment, enter vocational programs, and ultimately become productive members of society.Full-time.

Community\Continuing Education ESL Teacher. Gainesville, Florida

Plan and teach classes for students taking ESL listening/speaking and grammar, and TOEFL prep classes in local community\continuing education program.. Part-time.

Past Positions

ESL teacher at the ESL Intensive English College Preparatory Program at Santa Fe Community College. Gainesville, Florida

Teach listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to adults interested in entering college in the USA. Help develop advanced listening and speaking unit on the environment. Work closely with students in the computer (CALL) lab and tutor ESL students who have writing difficulties in college composition courses. Write materials for use in sentence workshops, reading workshops, composition lab, and the listening/speaking classroom. Part-time.

ASPECT Foundation International Coordinator. Gainesville, Florida

Promote international student exchange for the ASPECT Foundation (a non-profit organization). Supervise teenagers while they study in the USA. Counsel teens and their host families when necessary. Part-time.

Conversation leader at the English Language Institute at the University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida

Helped ESL students become proficient in spoken English and eased the difficulties associated with cultural adjustment. Developed training seminar for new conversation leaders and wrote a Conversation Leader Handbook . Part-time.

Capabilities

• Teach English as a second or other language
• Prepare lesson plans, outline for daily/monthly course studies for reading/writing and listening/speaking skills
• Write competently as well as edit and evaluate the writing of others
• Help improve the academic speaking and listening skills of others
• Counsel and direct student activities.
• Tutor one-on-one or with groups of students
• Write materials for use in the classroom
• Work with computer assisted language learning (CALL)
• Organize outdoor activities for students: camping, sailing, canoeing, hiking, etc.
• Cook killer barbecue for large groups
• Arrange and supervise student travel trips.
• Work competently on team projects
• Generate creative ideas
• Promote and market educational programs
• Understand and meet the needs of at-risk students
• Strong computer skills especially in Microsoft Windows 95/98 and educational applications
• Plan, write, publish, and maintain web pages.

Professional Development

• Member Alachua County EXCEL Council: Coordinate with local agencies and school board helping young people with disabilities make the transition from school to community employment; coordinate annual agency showcase: Membership current.
• Adjunct Representative on Santa Fe Community College's Technology Advisory Committee: Bring adjunct issues to the committee table to be sure that adjunct issues are in the college's technology plan: Membership current.
• Grant Programs Representative on the Santa Fe Community College Senate's Budget Advisory Committee: Membership current.
• Member of The Preserve Inc. Board of Directors: Helping plan and implement a safe homelike setting for at risk youth with access to resources needed to develop independent living skills: Membership current.
• Member of Florida Association of Community Colleges, FACC: Membership Current
• Completed workshop in Students with Hidden Disabilities: 10/13/99
• Completed Independent Living Skills Training Class at The Daniel Memorial Institute: 11/11/99
• Currently taking child development courses at Santa Fe Community College: GPA 4.0

Achievements

• Eagle Scout Award: Boy Scouts of America
• Three Gallon Blood Donor: American Red Cross and Civitan Blood Banks
• Successfully implemented a part-time faculty e-mail proposal as the Adjunct Committee representative on SFCC's Technology Advisory Committee
• Write and maintain the Adjunct Faculty Web Page at SFCC
• Assist in writing and maintain web page for the Adjunct Advisor, a part-time faculty newsletter
• Write and maintain web pages for the SFCC United Way Campaign.
• Planned and directed first annual agency showcase for the Alachua county EXCEL council, helping disabled young adults find services in the Gainesville area:October 1999

Contact Information

Tom Mason 8008 NW 31 Avenue #705 Gainesville, Florida 32606  USA

Home: 352-376-2703 Office: 352-395-5934 Fax: 352-395-5271

   tommason@sfcc.net