Miss Xingyu Ma

maxingyu@upenn.edu +1-614-3973-049

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 09/2021-present

Major: TESOL

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 09/2018-05/2021

Major: Human Development and Family Science
Degree: Bachelor of Science
Honors: Dean's list for three successive terms spring 2020-fall 2020

INTERNSHIPS

Northeast Academy of Philadelphia, English teacher 09/2022-12/2022

 Teach English reading, listening, speaking, and writing twice a week to students.
 Write lesson plans based on students' learning abilities.
 Select teaching topics based on students' needs and interests.
 Identified students with varying levels of English proficiency and divided them into
different groups.
 Responsible for checking students' learning.

PTA in the Center of Children's Education and Development, UNICEF 01/2021

 Understood UN's role in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, as well as its policies of 17
Sustainable Development Goals, including quality education and gender equality;
 Wrote advertising articles for UN's international summer adult student camps and
helped arrange the international activity schedules for the camps;
 Understood the structures of the UN China Office, and assisted with the office routines
like Chinese-English paperwork translation;
 Referred to works of literature about the child-friendly school, social-emotional learning
and positive discipline and took self-reflections.

College International Student's Tutor , Easy Group Online Education 05-12/2020

Had daily administration on nearly 100 international students and provided counseling work
for students' academic and personal life;
Gave planning work on students' academic development, social practices, and career
guidance;
Wrote paperwork for publicizing the student life in OSU and its neighboring areas.

Teaching Assistant, Royal International English Education Group 05-08/2019

Provided part-time training in critical reading, English conversation stimulation and oral
presentation skills.
Collaborated with a team of faculty at the weekly meeting and actively contributed new
ideas on teaching;
Successfully balanced aiding student workload with correcting homework workload;
Advertised business by handing out brochures of weekend events that increased amount of
customers;
Monitored students' practice language exams to improve student's language skills.
Learned specific teaching methodologies for small class TESOL teaching.

COURSE PROJECTS
Simulation of Counseling and Psychotherapy Treatment 10/2019
 Built a virtual female character who needs medical help and counseling to overcome life
difficulties;
Learned the counseling principles of SMART-Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant,
and Time-bond;
Drafted a movie review on Good Will Hunting and analyzed the counseling skills in the
movie in a professional way.

On-field observation of children's self-regulation behaviors 02/2019

 Took ten hours in the Schoenbaum Family Center, observed three-to-seven years'old
children's self-regulation behaviors, and recorded the details scientifically;
Had assessment on children's speaking and activities.

VOLUNTARY WORK & ACTIVITIES

Voluntary English teacher in China Society Charitable Foundation 12/2018-01/2019

Guide 14 primary school students English Reading and Speaking for holiday improvement.
Made teaching schedule according to the learning ability of the pupils;
Found the uneven situation of the students' English proficiency and sorted them into three
different groups (Hello ABC, Kindergarten, and Grade 1-4);
Being responsible for checking homework, after-class learning guidance and tracing
feedbacks from students' parents;
Played games and told stories for students and entertained them in class.

Voluntary teacher in Shaanxi Prisoner's Child Rescue Center 06-08/2018

Team leader of the 15 volunteers;
Helped finalize the detailed procedures in the voluntary teaching;
Taught primary students' English and Chinese Reading courses; wrote the on-field
investigation report and called for more concerns on juvenile crimes and children of
prisoners.

Having provided voluntary work for 50 hours for the SPARK Global Volunteer Online
Education Program summer 2018

SKILL & CERTIFICATE

Counselling Skills: ETHIC model, SMART model, Open- and closed-ended questions;
Analysis skills for children's development; Editing video and photo; First aid skills; Native
Chinese Speaker
Certificate: American Health & Safety Institute (ASHI) Certification.