Personal and Contact Details
Name Kirstine Milne
Sex Female
Date of Birth 1977
Address
Renfrew
Renfrewshire
PA4 0BB
Telephone No. +447941458757 0 / +441415810672
Email Address kirstine_milne@hotmail.com
Skype live:kirstine_milne
Wechat milnski77

Personal Statement
Motivated and enthusiastic community learning and development worker with 13+ years of experience identifying and assessing the learning and social needs of young people. To design and facilitate pieces of quality learning development programmes and recreational activities that meet their community educational needs and aspirations.

Key Skills

Innovative and creative lesson and workshop
planning
 Interactive teaching / learning
Active participation
Community Outreach Women’s issues
Experience in working with special educational
needs young people
TEFAL Certified
ITALL Certified
ESOL Certified

Employment History

Dates
From Name and Address
Of Employer Position held - Duties and Responsibilities
August 2015 - Present PKU College Preschool. Beijing Campus English Teacher. Teaching English as a second language to preschool students. Devised and taught English lessons to suit the learning styles of the students. Supervised tests, counseling and supporting students and promoting life long learning.
May 2015- August 2015 Creative Teaching Program. No. 459 GuMei Road, MinHang District, Shanghai ESL Teacher - Teaching English as a Second Language. Lesson planning, preparation and teaching English. Supervising tests, counseling and supporting students. Participating in CTP social program.
March 2015- May 2015 English Excel - Hong Kong Design, coordinate and teach English classes as a Second language. Supervise tests and grade.
June 2011 -March 2015 West Renfrewshire Cars.
Suite 16b Bridgewater Place, Erskine PA7 8AA Part Time English Tutor, employed when required teaching non native employees English. To enable them to communicate effectively in English with clients who use the private hire company. Design and facilitate English lessons to meet the language requirements of employees.
August 2013- March 2015

Private TEFL Tutor - self employed. Private TEFL Tutor
I devised and facilitated flexible teaching lessons that benefited their learning styles. I taught from kindergarten to adults.
August 4th -August 31st 2014 tefaltoulouse 4 Week Intensive TEFAL Course
120+ hours of instructed classroom time
14 hours of teaching practice
Experience of teaching different levels and learning styles.
One to one project
Feb 2008 - March 2014

October 2006-February 2008 Govan Youth Information Project
9 Water Row
Govan Cross
Govan
G51 3UW

Inverclyde Council
Municipal Buildings, 24 Clyde Square, Greenock PA15 1LY

Project Outreach Worker
The key purpose of my role was to be responsible for the development and delivery of outreach services offered to young people within S.W. Glasgow.
This would primarily involve implementing issue based work with young people focussing on personal and social education. The programmes I devised and implemented consisted of raising awareness of health and social implications such as alcohol misuse and bullying.

A large element of my role was to assist in the design and facilitation of Multicultural events to embrace diversity and to challenge racism. Involved in this role was to deliver ESOL classes to young people from multicultural backgrounds in the local high schools. I designed and facilitated 5 two hour lessons per week during the school calendar.

In addition, I assisted young people and members of the local community in selecting perspective career and higher education choices and CV‘s.

Another responsibility I had was to provide information and support services to young people and work in partnership with the local High Schools to organise and facilitate information road shows/displays in schools and community facilities.

Throughout the school calendar my duty was to co-ordinate, design and deliver various workshops on issues affecting young people.

An additional responsibility I had was to manage three youth provisions in a socially deprived area of Glasgow for children and young people aged 5-18 years of age. My role was to support the young people and to deliver educational lifelong learning programmes.

Moreover, the responsibility along with other team members of designing and facilitating holiday programmes.

A key responsibility I had was to deliver sexual health awareness and distribute condoms to clients.

Furthermore, I coordinated, designed and facilitated the Drama provision. Throughout the year young people who attended GYIP performed in productions that I created and directed.

I was responsible for the management of occasional staff and volunteers. In addition, to apply for funding for various projects that I was developing and managing.
Community Education Worker
The main responsibility I had was to be responsible for the overall development, organisation, operation and coordination of Community Education Programmes.

One of the foremost duties was to be responsible and manage various youth provisions that were held in school youth wings in local High Schools across Inverclyde.

The responsibilities I undertook was to develop and implement programme and activities that met the needs of young people.

An integral element of my role was to coordinate Holiday Programmes. This involved designing programme, hiring part time staff and managing the budget.

In addition, I was responsible of Inverclyde’s participation in ’The Young Scot Quality Awards’. The involved organising and facilitating a training weekend for the nominees.

An element of my role was to select young people to participate in the ’Tall Ships’ expedition. This involved training young people and applying for funding and organising fundraising events.
September 2001 - February 2006

Universal Connections
South Lanarkshire Council
Almada Street
Hamilton Community Education Worker
The key purpose of my role was to fully engage with young people in the local community and deliver within a team setting quality learning and recreational programmes relevant to the needs of young people.

I developed programmes such as a young women’s programme as it became evident that many of the young women I was working with were disaffected, disengaged and socially excluded. They were vulnerable to exploitation and criminal activity.

Another responsibility I had was to work in partnership with NCH and the local High School to design and delivery of a surviving school programme to pupils who were finding school challenging.

A key element that was identified was that many of the students were having numeric and literacy problems. Therefore we facilitated group and one to one ITALL lessons with young people who were experiencing difficulty in reading and writing English as well as having difficulty with everyday mathematics.

In addition, I worked in partnership with South Lanarkshire Young Carer’s project and my role was to provide a support and respite service for young carers. In addition, I designed and facilitated ESOL classes to young carer's whose first language was not speak English.

Moreover, I worked with children from Children’s Units to develop relationships and promoting opportunities for them.

I was also responsible for an area based youth provision in the village of Law to organise young committee skills programme. In addition, to design and facilitate educational workshops and youth programmes that met the needs of the young people.
August 2000-July 2001 Youth Action
10-12 Bishop Street
L’Derry
Northern Ireland Peer Educator
The post involved working in four ‘interface’ and excluded communities to strengthen community relations among young people living in divided communities to promote cross community integration.

The post involved delivering the Bronze Youth Achievement Award to young people from the divided communities.
October 2000-July 2001 Drumahoe YMCA
Drumahoe
L’Derry
Northern Ireland Part Time Drama Facilitator
My role was to engage with young teenagers and to utilise drama as a means to explore their issues of concern. I devised an assembly piece for the young people to perform in.
August 2000- August 2000 The Vale Centre,
Greysteel
Northern Ireland Part Time Drama & Art Facilitator
My duties were to devise and implement drama and art workshops to encourage young people living in divided communities to promote cross community. This was a Holiday Programme post.
September 1999- December 1999 Fergal Barr
Eglinton Community House
Eglinton
Northern Ireland Part Time Youth Worker
My role was to consult with young people at risk of re-offending and to deliver specific programmes of intervention

Education & Qualifications

Tefltoulouse
International Accreditation of TESOL Qualifying Organisation
August 2014
Certificate in TEFL

Strathclyde University
September 2003-June 2005
Post Graduate Certificate in Community Education & ITALL and ESOL certified.

Northern Ireland Open College Network
September 2000-June 2001
NVQ Conflict Resolution - Mediation skills NVQ Level four

Northern Ireland Open College Network
September 2000-June 2001
NVQ Principle and Practice of Work with Young Women and its Underpinning Theories NVQ Level four

Northern Ireland Open College Network
September 2000-June 2001
NVQ Community Development Work with Young Women NVQ Level four

ASDAN
September 2000-June 2001
Platinum Youth Achievement Award

Queen Margaret University
September 1995-June 2000
Undergraduate Degree in Drama and Theatre Arts

Park Mains High School -1993-1995
Higher Modern Studies A
Higher History A
Higher Geography B
Higher Art & Design B
Higher English C
Higher Mathematics C

Course Run By Description of Course Date
GYIP
Glasgow City Council
GYIP
GYIP
GYIP
Sandyford
Princes Trust
Buddies for Learning
South Lanarkshire Council
South Lanarkshire Council
Landed
South Lanarkshire Council
South Lanarkshire Council
National Children’s Homes Smoking Awareness
Exploitation
Alcohol and Drug Training
Sexual Health
Street work - detached
C Card
Excel Training for Young People
ITALL
Assertiveness
Counselling Skills
Young Women and Alcohol
Behaviour Support for pupils in schools
Child Protection
Mentoring 2013
2013
2009
2009
2008
2008
2006
2005
2005
2004
2002
2002
2001
2001

Interests and Hobbies
I have a keen interest in music and the arts and I enjoy Hill Walking.