Yasmin Fortune Special Needs; Teen & Adult Education; Culture; Equestrian Teacher/ Tutor - Wicklow, Ireland
I am an award winning literacy and numeracy specialist (see links for my 'Liter-a-teen' Projectwhich won NALA ACE Awards and featured on Six One News) and an experiencedCommunications, ESOL, TEFL, Work Experience, Horsemanship/ Equestrian and Equine AssistedLearning (EAL) teacher and facilitator. Recently Published 'Dancing Home - A Collection of Poetry'. I have extensive experience in adult and teenager basic education and in teaching Travellersadpeople with special needs/ disabilities. Travelled extensively in Europe and Asia - veryinterested in culture.Highly motivated, very agreeable and easy to relate to; I work well both onmy own initiative and as part of a team. I have excelled in any area where I have applied myself. I am a skilled writer and am currently writing a novel. I have experience as a recruitmentconsultant and hence career guidance has become an element of my work. I have been involvedin a number of voluntary projects and I love drawing and travelling. Yasmin Fortune's Professional Experience Self-Employed - New Equine Assisted Learning Business Currently setting up an Equine Assisted Learning Business. Watch this space .
New business, Equine Assisted Learning, EAL
Yasmin Fortune - Dancing Home - A Collection of Poetry - Self-Published Author of poetry book Click on the following links to view/ order my Book of Poetry http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/yasminfortune http://www.lulu.com/shop/yasmin-fortune/dancing-home-a-collection-of-poetry/paperback/product- 20740480.html
HTML, HTTP, Irish interest; Irish poetry; Irish poet; Irish culture, Poetry, women's studies, sexualpolitics, travel, feminism, gender and power
Self-Employed - Free-lance Educational Consultant January 2012 - September 2012 Designing and writing materials for FAS-spec FETAC level 4 Workplace Safety, Teamworking and Communications modules for a charity which specialises in delivering education to teenagers with disabilities and special education needs in an equestrian setting. Following a highy competitive interview process I was offered the position of Equine Instructor at Cherry Orchard Equine Centre in February 2012.
EAL, Equine, FETAC, Consultancy, equestrian , FETAC
Festina Lente - Equestrian Training Programme Facilitator Festina Lente is a world renowned Charity which provides training, occupational,learning and employment opportunities to people whose needs are not being met by mainstream society through the medium of horses and horticulture.
Teaching Horsemanship,FETAC Level 4 Communications, Stable and Yard Routine and AnimalWelfare to 18 students with disabilities and behavioural issues (Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome,ADHD, Addiction; Dyslexia, Schizophrenia, Asperger's, Autism) and managing and supervising themin caring for 40 horses (feeding, grooming, rugging, muck-out, turn-in, turn-out, tack-up, yardmanagement)
Assessing students for FETAC certification in Sport Horse Riding and Stable and Yard Routine
Facilitating Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) therapeutic sessions with horses and teenagers;completing Individual Training Plans (ITP's) and Progress Reports with students
Teaching Natural Horsemanship horse training skills (Chris Irwin method) to students
Developing L4 Communications Handbook specifically for equestrian setting
Animal Welfare, Charity, Communications, Disability, EAL, equestrian , Equine Assisted Learning,facilitator, Festina Lente, FETAC , Horsemanship, Literacy, Special Education Needs, Stable YardRoutine, Teacher, teenagers, TUTOR, work experience
BrayTravellers Community Development Programme - Facilitator - Diversity Training - Traveller Culture Training Travellers, who are existing community leaders in Co. Wicklow, to deliver presentations on their culture in local school settings. Facilitating the group to make a presentation on Traveller Culture for College Academics and the Garda Minorities Liaison Unit for Munster at the University of Limerick. I designed a powerpoint presentation for the course which John Heneghan, Senior Lecturer at UL, has requested be used to inform a visiting delegation of Turkish officials who are coming to UL to see best practice in working with nomadic groups.
culture, diversity, facilitator, Teacher, Travellers, TUTOR
Co. Wicklow VEC - Literacy and Numeracy Teacher/ Project Manager - Literateen Project Literacy and Numeracy Teacher in Bray Youthreach and Wicklow Youthreach Singled out for praise by Brendan Doody, Senior Inspector in Dept. of Education for excellent literacy and numeracy contribution and achievement 2010 winner of National Adult Litercy Agency (NALA) 's Adults Continuing Education (ACE) Award with my 'Liter-a-teen' Project - developing a system and materials and resources for teaching literacy to teenagers - prize included €10,000 for in-centre project research and development, software development Project Manager - Literateen Project - budget management, managing literacy team, research and development My Project featured on Six One News - 6th July 2010 see: http://www.rte.eu/news/2010/0706/6news.html (Pioneering literacy programme to be rolled out Kathy Donaghy reports the National Adult Literacy Agency's programme offers early school- leavers a second chance)
(http://www.nala.ie/press_releases/2010/05/project-aimed-tackle-teenage-literacy-wins-2010-adults-continuing-education-a)
Communications, culture, Disability, diversity, FETAC , Literacy, NALA ACE Awards, numeracy ,Special Education Needs, Teacher, teenagers
Co. Wicklow VEC - Youthreach - Teacher: Communications; Cultural Studies; Interculturalism; Personal Effectiveness; Personal and Interpersonal Skills; Maths; Work Experience; Living in a Diverse Society Teacher: Communications; Cultural Studies; Interculturalism; Personal Effectiveness; Personal and Interpersonal Skills; Maths; Work Experience; Living in a Diverse Society I taught the above FETAC modules to teenagers - I also taught the Young Mother's Programme (for single parents)
Communications, culture, Disability, diversity, FETAC , Literacy, numeracy , Personal andInterpersonal Skills, Personal Effectiveness, Teacher, Travellers, TUTOR, work experience
Bray Travellers Community Development Programme - Teacher/ Tutor - Literacy; Diversity; Cultural Studies I was teaching literacy/ communications and later FETAC Living in a Diverse Society to Traveller
Communications, diversity, facilitator, FETAC , Teacher, Travellers, TUTOR
Bray Adult Learning Centre - Tutor: Literacy;Numeracy; ESOL; Spellings Tutor: Literacy; Numeracy; ESOL; Spelling groups Outreach - Literacy Tutor for clients with mental health issues such as schizophrenia at Lincara House Bray (Mental Health Centre)
Disability, Literacy, Special Education Needs, Teacher, TEFL, TUTOR
Pace Language Institute - TEFL Teacher All levels – Groups and 1 to 1. Including one to one tutoring for members of Spanish army and teaching staff members at Marriott Hotel, Kilcoole. Preparation for PET, FCE, CAE, TOEFL, TOEIC and IELTS exams. English in Dublin, Merrion Square - TEFL Teacher All levels - including teaching Embassy staff at Russian Embassy, Rathgar. Preparation for PET, FCE, CAE, TOEFL, TOEIC and IELTS exams Exchange House Travellers' Centre - Administrator Administration, reception and secretarial duties Sihanoukville Cambodia - Anthropological Research for MA and voluntary TEFL Teacher I conducted research for my MA thesis "Heads above the Water: Coping Strategies and Survival Tactics in Present-Day, Post-Communist, Cambodia" in Sihanoukville Cambodia. My thesis was largely comprised of oral histories and survivor testimonies which I collected during my field-work I also taught English voluntarily to local street-workers and tourism employees Reed Recruitment, Dawson Street - Front Desk Office Manager & Recruitment Consultant I started as a Candidate Consultant/ Front-desk office manager in which role I ran the front-desk office, screened CVs, interviewed candidates, gave advise on making CVs, designed marketing- mailers and leaflet on tips for sucessful intervews and CVs, and organised promotion events. I was promoted to Multilingual Consultant: I set up the multilingual desk from scratch. I was approached personally by Chairman of the Reed Group - James Reed - and asked if I would like to get involved with the company's charity work for Africa. I declined at the time as I had my heart set on returning to Cambodia.
Career Advice, Marketing, Office Manager, Recruitment Consultant
Tamagawa High School, Kusatsu Japan - High School English Language Teacher 1 of 44 candidates selected from over 1000 Irish graduate applicants for prestigious Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme run by Japanese Board of Education
Asia, Japanese Board of Education, JET Programme, Teacher, TEFL
Yasmin Fortune's Education and Qualifications Masters/PostGrad - Social Anthropology The Queen's University of Belfast Bachelor/Degree - English UCD - University College Dublin Bachelor/Degree - English - Erasmus Year Universiteit van Amsterdaam Yasmin Fortune's Additional Information My Award Winning Project - http://www.nala.ie/press_releases/2010/05/project-aimed- tackle-teenage-literacy-wins-2010-adults-continuing-education-a Six One News: My Winning Project - see Pioneering literacy programme to be rolled out - http://www.rte.eu/news/2010/0706/6news.html My Project in NALA Magazine - http://www.scribd.com/doc/33731854/Final Me training my kids' pony - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rTFTJiebKs My Book - Yasmin Fortune - Dancing Home - A Collection of Poetry - http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep? type=&keyWords=yasmin+fortune&sitesearch=lulu.com&q=&x=11&y=7 Me in the Author's Spotlight - Yasmin Fortune- Dancing Home - A Collection of Poetry - http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/yasminfortune Languages Irish - Working knowlege French - Working knowlege Japanese - Working knowlege Interests Horse-riding; Travelling; Asian Cultures; Anthropology; Community Development; Volunteering; Culture; Writing; Reading; Painting; Drawing; Hill-walking; Education; Politics; Equine Assisted Learning; Equine Assisted Therapy; Equine Assisted Learning; Horse Training; Member of Connemara Pony Breeders’ Society (CPBS) and Kerry Bog Pony Society (KBPS). Horse Training; Basic Level of Cambodian/ Khmer Buddhism (I studied Vipassana meditation in Burma) Poetry (published in local booklets as a child) Voluntary work: teaching street workers and kids in Asia, teaching art at my children's school; teaching Japanese culture at a kids' summer camp, teaching Traveller kids, teaching literacy, and helping out on a friend's election campaign. Memberships Election Campaign - Volunteer I was very involved in a voluntary capacity in a friend's successful National Parliament Election Campaign - I canvassed door-to-door; postered; mobilised local business people to attend Business Breakfasts; interviewed local businesses for a survey on Challenges to Local Business; organised 'Tea-Party'events; recruited volunteers; advised the team on Education Policy - specifically in the areas of literacy, numeracy, classroom management and parental involvement in education. I have worked as a groom/ horse-riding extra/extra on Braveheart; Far and Away; Into the West; Moll Flanders. I was approached in 2002 personally by Christina Noble of The Christina Noble Children's Foundation to relocate my family to Mongolia and manage the Ulan Bator office. I declined as I felt it was not the right move for my young family at the time. Awards NALA ACE Awards Winner 2010 'Literateen' Project - €10,000 dvpt. prize. Featured on 6-1 News Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) – Level 1 Sports Coaching Course Horse Boy 1 Training with Rupert
Isaacson – November 2012 EAL & EAT Training Rancho Bosque Equestrian Centre – July 2011 VEC Managing Abusive Behaviours in Students Training 2010; VEC Equality, Child Protection, &Dignity in Workplace Training 2010; Dyslexia@Bay Training 2010; VEC QFI (Quality FrameworkInitiative) Training and Equality Training 2006-2010VEC Special Education Needs (SEN) Training - 08Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) Curriculum Dvpt. and Group Dynamics modules towardsHigher Cert. in Literacy Dvpt. - ; Family Learning Training & MLJ - BALC 05 & 06NALA Literacy Tutor Training - BALC 03Wrote nomination for Diversity Training Project - 2012 AONTAS STAR Awards - short-listed ,
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