Marian Melina Bradshaw Overseas Address: Permanent Address: Shanghai American School 6532 Nevin Road Shanghai Links Executive Community Charlotte, North Carolina 1600 Ling Bai Road, San Jia Gang United States of America Pudong New Area Home phone: 704-596-5662 Shanghai, China Email: sunshinebradshaw@yahoo.com Email: marian.bradshaw@saschina.org Mobile: 13816499264 Website: http://teachers.saschina.org/mbradshaw/ EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Presently working on an ESL certification through the College of New Jersey. Expected date of completion: summer 2016 2001 Masters in Curriculum and Teaching Michigan State University, Valbonne, France 1993 Bachelor of Arts in History College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts CERTIFICATION National Board Certification in Social Studies (2008) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Teacher, Shanghai American School, Shanghai, China Aug. 2008 *Plan lessons and teach 6th and 7th grade Humanities (Social Studies and Language Arts to combined) present *Served as sixth grade team leader which involves setting the weekly agenda, facilitating weekly team meetings, attending weekly Leadership Team meeting, implementing grade level activities * Served as Humanities Department Co-Chairperson *Served as Model United Nations director *Served as trip leader for the annual sixth and seventh grade China Alive! trips Aug. 2003 to May 2008

Teacher, American Embassy School, New Delhi, India v Planned lessons and taught 6th grade Humanities and 6th-8th grade Advanced ESL v Served as sixth grade team leader for three years which involved setting the agenda

and facilitating team meetings, attending monthly Leadership Team meetings, and implementing activities

v Served as NESA representative for three years which involved sending monthly updates, organizing pre-conference workshops, and making travel arrangements for participants to the annual Educators Spring Conference

v Served as coordinator and trip leader for the annual sixth grade Week Without Walls trip

v Assisted the director of the spring middle school theater performance v Assisted the leader of the Reachout program (a community service project on

campus) v Created and hosted the weekly MS Tea social for the entire MS faculty and staff v Created and organized the annual faculty gala for two years for the entire school

Aug. 1998 to June 2003

Teacher, Cairo American College, Cairo, Egypt v Planned lessons and taught 8th grade United States History, Global Connections,

Model United Nations, and Language Arts v Served as co-leader of the 8th Grade Team which involved setting the agenda and

facilitating team meetings, attending monthly Leadership Team meetings, and implementing activities

v Served as trip leader for annual 8th grade trips to Sinai Desert v Developed standards and benchmarks, grade and subject appropriate, for U.S.

History and Global Connections courses v Served as Co-Sponsor of the Middle School Student Council and Sponsor of the

Environmental Club v Mentored a student-teacher from the University of Iowa for one quarter

Sept. 1996 to June 1998

Teacher, The Ursuline School, New Rochelle, New York v Planned lessons and taught Global History II, Global History II Honors, African-

American History, United States History and 6th grade Social Studies v Served as Academic Advisor for 15 students in grades 7-10 v Moderated the Black Essence and the Environmental clubs

Sept 1993 to June 1996

Teacher, William W. Niles Middle School 118, Bronx, New York v Planned lessons and taught 6th-8th grade Social Studies and 7th grade Career Skills v Collaborated with Lincoln Center and Julliard School to have Romeo and Juliet

and Othello performed for students v Coordinated an interactive mock U.S. Supreme Court trial for students at Federal

Hall

HONORS/RECOGNITION Sept. 1997 Alumnae speaker at a convocation on the 25th anniversary of women being admitted to my alma mater, College of the Holy Cross PERSONAL INTERESTS Traveling, cooking, reading, yoga, pilates, scrapbooking