Michael Fares
Educator and Student of Web Development
- Contact:
- Email: mjfares@gmail.com
- Phone: 703.244.0370
Personal Summary
I am a professor with over ten years of teaching and administrative experience in higher education. My background is in language pedagogy, curriculum design, and teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language. I am currently embracing the certain future of technology in education, learning full stack web development at Austin Coding Academy Bootcamp.
Core Skills
- Curriculum Design
- Educational Administration
- Research
- Public Speaking
- Web Development
Work History
Assistant Professor of Arabic
University of Houston
2012 - Present
Helped create, grow, and maintain the UH Middle Eastern Studies Program through various initiatives including student recruitment and advising, interdisciplinary and community partner outreach, public event planning, digital media, public scholarship, and grant writing.
Helped create, grow, and maintain the UH Middle Eastern Studies Program through various initiatives including student recruitment and advising, interdisciplinary and community partner outreach, public event planning, digital media, public scholarship, and grant writing.
- Designed, implemented, and taught Arabic language curriculum for all levels of Arabic beginning through advanced.
- Increased program profile by mentoring students to receive nationally competitive awards including the Critical Language Scholarship and the Fulbright Scholarship
- Winner of Provost's Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
Education
Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp
Austin Coding Academy
2021
Learning the latest technologies in full stack web development and coding. Designing and building a full stack application to help streamline targeted audio pronuciation feedback for students of foreign language in a variety of settings. Anticipated graduation: November, 2021
- Git and Github
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Skills Learned
M.A., Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
The University of Texas at Austin
2012
My M.A. degree focused on research in foreign language acquisition and best practices in teaching and cirriculum design for students of Arabic.
- Taught, co-created, and implemented Arabic language courses to undergraduate students of all levels while completing graduate study
- Studied and implemented serveral methods for technology integration in the foreign language classroom