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HELLO THERE!
I'm Isabela.
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BECAME A TEACHER
I began learning English at a very early age. When I was 15 years old, I moved to a different city and continued my English studies at a language school called Red Balloon (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). 2007 was my last year as a student though, as in 2008 I started working as a Teacher Assistant there.
2011
EFL Teacher Assistant
2012-2018
EFL Teacher
Taught English to Brazilian students at various levels and ages (3-16).
Drama Teacher
(2014-2017)
Developed and directed student performances.
Promoted to full-time teacher.
Mentorship of new hires.
90%+ approval on Cambridge Language Examinations.
Implementation of Google Drive for teachers.
Teacher training for the project "Skype in the classroom".
Co-wrote 4 plays and co-directed 7 plays.
Isabela has been a very active, hands-on, engaged, committed and responsible teacher, to say the least. She has quickly become someone all teachers looked up to, and who also served as a role model to the newcomers.
Personal collection.
My colleague Mariana Crivano and I during a storytelling activity.
Teaching a class of 5-year old students.
Personal collection.
Personal collection.
Personal collection.
Students performing an adaptation of Matilda
the Musical for the end-of-the-year presentation.
2014-2016
EFL Teacher
Taught English to Brazilian students at various ages (kids, teens, and adults) and levels (from A1 to B2).
90%+ approval on Cambridge Language Examinations.
Selected to present the project "Using tablets with young learners" at the Teachers' Seminar.
Selected to be a Cambridge Key Multiplier.
Isabela is a creative and responsible writer who is proactive towards problem solving. She is also attentive
to details and committed
to deadlines.
2014
Passed two teaching certifications by Cambridge: Teaching Knowledge Test – Modules 2 and 3.
BECAME AN ELT WRITER
In 2014, while working for Cultura Inglesa as an EFL Teacher, I started my career in ELT writing and editing by doing some work for Learning Factory, Cultura Inglesa's publishing division.
2014-2016
EFL Teacher
Wrote units (Student’s Books and Teacher’s Books) for the following coursebooks: "High Resolution"; "Brownie and his friends"; "Meet Brownie"; "Magic Minds". Also wrote digital activities and lesson plans for different levels and ages.
Isabela has been one of the brightest (and sweetest) authors I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. I could always count on her commitment, creativity and curiosity.
2015
Passed the Cambridge C2 Proficiency with 219/230, acing the Use of English part.
Personal collection.
2017-2018
EFL Teacher
Taught English to a Year 4 class (Brazilian students aged 9-10) in the school's bilingual programme (15h/week).
100%+ approval on Cambridge Language Examinations.
Teacher training for the project "YouTube in the classroom".
Isabela created and shared a whole lot of engaging and student-centered projects. What's most impressive about her is that she gives all the projects she takes on her very best, however big or small they may be.
Personal collection.
At the end of our last term together, students presented me with this painting.
Students creating a spider craft to sum up everything they learned over the month. Each spider leg had a strip of paper with a target language item or a topic which they learned about.
Personal collection.
Personal collection.
Students grocery shopping during a school trip to a market when we were doing a unit on fresh food.
Personal collection.
Notes I got from the students at the end of our last term together.
Personal collection.
2017-2019
Speaking Examiner
Assessed the accuracy, acceptability and appropriateness of spoken English at the following examination levels: Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers, A2 Flyers, B1 Preliminary, and B1 Preliminary for Schools.
2018-2021
Instructional Designer
Created LMS content for self-study courses for business education.
2018
ELT Writer
Wrote lesson plans for secondary students (Year 8) for Nova Escola's lesson plan project promoted by Google Education and the Lemann Foundation. The lesson plans are in line to BNCC (Brazil’s Common Core).
Isabela is extremely creative and collaborative. The lesson plans she wrote were among the best ones of the whole project, being used as models for other authors. She is surely aware of the many challenges of ELT and able to provide structured basis and guidance for teachers.
2018
Consultant
Consultancy for assessment criteria development for lesson plans aimed at pre-primary students.
2018-2019
ELT Writer
Wrote tests and lesson plans for the coursebook "Become" for secondary students (Brazil).
2018-2021
Editorial Coordinator (18-20)
Editorial Project Manager (20-21)
Managed the overall production of all the coursebooks for pre-primary and primary students (all in Portuguese and in line to BNCC). Also managed the production of the bilingual programme for primary students (Go Bilingual), the social-emotional learning programme for pre-primary and primary students (LIV) and the digital materials for secondary students.
100% (2019), 89% (2020) and 84% (2021) of business goals achieved.
Production of 100+ coursebooks for pre-primary and primary students.
Leadership of 15+ team members.
180k+ students using the materials in K-12 schools.
Promoted to editorial project manager.
5+ training sessions given to the editorial team of 50+ people.
Participation in the Leaders’ School (a 7-day workshop for new managers).
New coursebook in line to BNCC (Brazil’s Common Core) for pre-primary and primary students.
Isabela is an organised, empathetic and attentive leader. She is very skilled at implementing workflows that are suitable for editorial projects and at training an editorial team.
Isabela is a great professional and an exceptional leader. She's very organised and always comes up with innovative ideas that are in line with the possibilities of each project and corporate goals of the company.
Personal collection.
Workshop on design thinking which I cowrote and offered with my colleague Erika Scheiner to the editorial team.
On my last week working at Eleva, my team gave me this illustration of us together as a gift.
Art by Michely Klopper
2019
ELT Writer
Wrote a lesson plan for BrELT (Professional Development for Brazilian Teachers of English) to be used during the ELF WEEK 2019.
2019
ELT Writer
Wrote units for the coursebook "Angles" (Student’s Book), A2 level.
2019
ELT Writer
Wrote quizzes for the coursebook "Hop Up" for primary students (Year 3) (Brazil).
2019-2020
Teacher trainer
Trained pre-primary and primary teachers.
Mariana Pekin/Nova Escola.
Teacher trainers at the 3-day long immersive training.
Teacher trainers doing an activity on the first session of the training.
Mariana Pekin/Nova Escola.
2020
Copy editor (materials in Portuguese)
Copy edited Teacher’s Books for pre-primary education (Brazil).
2020
ELT Writer
Co-wrote the coursebook "Xperience" for secondary students (Brazil). The project was promoted by the Skills for Prosperity programme (S4P).
Nova Escola.
Nova Escola.
Nova Escola.
Nova Escola.
2020
ELT Writer
Wrote units (Teacher’s Book) for the project “Highlights” for pre-primary students.
Personal collection.
2021
Passed the Google Certificate Educator (Level 2) exam.
BECAME A FULL-TIME FREELANCER
In 2021, I decided to quit my full-time job and work exclusively as an independent writer, editor and consultant. The decision wasn't easy as I had to give many things up, but it has definitely been one of the best decisions of my professional life so far.
2021-present
ELT Writer
ELT Editor
Consultant
2021
ELT Writer
Co-authored their main coursebooks for pre-primary students (Brazil) as well as the Teacher's Books.
2021-2022
Project Manager
Co-managed the editorial production of their main coursebooks for primary students (Brazil).
Nova Escola.
Nova Escola.
Nova Escola.
Nova Escola.
2021-2022
ELT Writer
Co-wrote the self-study course "LIFT" (Language Improvement for Teachers), promoted by the Skills for Prosperity programme (a global initiative by the UK government and a consortium with Nova Escola, the British Council, the Lemann Foundation, and Reúna).
2021-2022
ELT Editor
Co-edited the coursebook "Teláris" (Student's Book and Teacher's Book) for secondary students for PNLD 2024 (Brazil's National Book and Textbook Programme).
2022-2023
CLIL materials writer
Wrote LMS content (quizzes and lessons) for their bilingual programme for primary and secondary students using an authoring tool software.
2022-2023
ELT Writer
Writing the Teacher’s Book for a coursebook for primary students (Brazil). Also responsible for writing video scripts and recording the videos in a studio to provide training to teachers on how to use the coursebook.
Recording videos for teacher training at the studio.
Personal collection.
2022-2023
ELT Writer
Co-authoring a coursebook (Teacher's Book and Student's Book) for primary students (Year 2) (Brazil).
2023-2023
ELT Editor
Editing LMS content to be used as complementary materials for a coursebook (advanced).
2023-2023
ELT Consultant
Writing and delivering talks and workshops at schools in Brazil whose students use NGL coursebooks.
2023-2023
CLIL materials writer
Co-authoring a coursebook for primary students (Year 5) (Spain).
2023-present
ELT Writer
Writing video scripts and LMS content for their bilingual programme.
2023-present
ELT Writer
Writing assessment materials for the primary coursebook "Our World" (levels 1, 2, 3) (Asia).
AND THE JOURNEY GOES ON...
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