My name is Milica Vukadin, and I live in Europe, Serbia. I am a preschool teacher and a primary English teacher.
I am currently finishing my Master’s studies, with an additional course program for English methodology for young learners. My biggest passions are environmental education and distance learning.
In my free time, I volunteer online with the Granny Cloud where I have sessions with children from India, and in my city, where I conduct a storytelling-based learning program for children coming from low-income communities.
Last, but not least, despite being an early childhood educator, I also teach adults. I am an online ESL teacher – head of language studies in B.Y.Mafit IELTS center in Nigeria and freelance English teacher on Preply. In the past year, I started conducting teacher trainings, and I hope to develop more professional development programs in the future.
My online teaching alias is Alice, so don’t let that confuse you while you go through my portfolio.
P.S. I recently became a board member of the ELTA organization in Serbia!
Scroll down through my portfolio for more information!
[Philological Grammar High School in Smederevo]
[2006] – [2011]
[Studied subjects: Serbian, English, Spanish, Latin, World Literature, Methodology of Translation, Linguistics, Rhetoric.]
[Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac, Bachelor Studies]
[2011] – [2015]
[Preschool teacher & primary English teacher, relevant studied subjects: Psychology, School and Preschool Pedagogy, Didactics, Methodology of teaching Art, Music, Science, Language, P.E., Inclusive education, TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test), Introduction to English Teaching Methodology, Creative Activities in English Teaching]
[Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac, Master Studies + additional English Methodology minor – ongoing]
[2018] – [Current]
[Relevant studied subjects: Academic English, Methodological Approaches of Teaching English, Curriculum Developing, English Teaching Practice.]
10.0 GPA - English Methodology, 9.30 GPA M.eD.
Average GPA without the thesis (currently in progress)
[Working with students from Asia and Europe mostly. The students were all ages (from children to adults) and all levels (from beginner to advanced). Rating 5.00 based on more than 700 student ratings!]
[Organizing children’s birthday celebrations, performances, and plays. Organizing competitions, games, and activities. Organizing creative workshops for children. Writing scripts for theater shows.
[Teaching predominantly teens and children.
Developing original lesson materials and individualized curriculum.
Cooperating with the families of the students and developing students’ learning autonomy and 21st-century skills.
Selected as one of the top 10 tutors on the platform to teach group webinars for children. For the lesson recordings, click here.
Held an official professional development training for tutors on how to teach young learners. For the webinar recording and a reflection article, click here.
More than 1200 lessons conducted so far, rating 4.93 – click for my profile here]
[Organizing an English summer camp for the 3rd and 4th graders. Developing thematic lesson plans, along with creating promotional videos. The topic was World Travel and we spent one week in every country – Egypt, Sweden, Japan, and Mexico. Click here for the Sway program invitation.]
📢 Accountability:
Website development in WordPress (education only), design, branding, LMS design, e-commerce store design, blog design, digital portfolio design, and e-commerce store for courses.
Helping with hosting and domain purchase, installing the website to the server, working in cPanel, creating subdomains, installing Moodle & WordPress.
Worked on website optimization and SEO.
🥇 Achievements:
The highest SEO score I achieved on one of my websites is 79 out of 100!
More than 10 pages and posts ranked on the first page of Google.
✨ Some of the websites I made in 2020:
Designing the course, developing the curriculum, communicating with the students after the lessons, conducting the assessment, writing articles, and giving live group IELTS lectures online.
The course was presented at EdmodoCon in Miami 2019and was internationally recognized as a teaching innovation in terms of student engagement by Edmodo.
Created on Canvas LMS platform, consisting of:
1. Live video lessons and lesson recordings;
2. Essay assignments and peer-review submissions;
3. Oral summaries and debates;
4. Detailed strategies following the Official Guide to IELTS;
5. Interactive tests;
6. Use of ICT in Education to engage a large group of adult students;
7. General English and grammar in use.
[Developing and teaching a storytelling-based curriculum with a collection of more than 35 books for primary school students in English. Focusing storytelling and crafting as the main tools for language acquisition. This curriculum is created for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade, and it is organized in a local cultural center which aims to provide many educational activities. It is located in the suburbs and another aim is to include children from socially deprived environments by providing free education. Click here for an example of a storytelling workshop – Class 2 at the Zoo]
[Developing and conducting educational workshops at the Institute and International School Savremena and creating video tutorials and video-based training for using digital tools in Education. Click here for an example workshop – Harry Potter escape room – Building Literacy and STEM skills]
Teaching in 2020 requires new tools and skills from both sides, where the learning is student-centered, current, and where students are co-constructors of knowledge, while teachers are moderators and observers. To get closer to the digital natives (students born in the era of technological growth) the educators must develop various digital competences. To achieve that, the use of technology has to be demystified, and teachers have to be motivated to develop their eclectic digital skillset. The program focuses on automatizing certain processes of the educational system and avoiding burn-out by having time for what matters the most: teaching. Less is more, and one ring (digital tool) can rule them all. At the same time, all the technology in the world will never replace a teacher, and it can be ineffective, or even negative if not used meaningfully.
This course shows how can inspiring teachers integrate digital tools and various 21st-century skills such as creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and last but not least, digital literacy and digital citizenship of both students and teachers.
Student testimonials from students I've been teaching for more than 1 year
[Organizing inclusive workshops to promote violence prevention and explaining children’s rights. Developing children’s motor and language skills. Working on inclusion and interactive communication. ]
Inclusive project in Smederevo – ”Svi plovimo istom rekom”
The project was realized under the auspices of Save the Children. The project was presented in the
Belgrade Center for Human Rights. The project consisted of organizing an inclusive
ballet show with a girl with down syndrome. She was supported by another project
leader who is also a ballerina. The project had a charity rock concert and all of the
money raised through the ballet show and through the concert was donated to the preschool.
The third part of the project consisted of raising awareness about the problems
children with difficulties face through local radio, newspapers, and workshops and last but not least, organizing an inclusive rugby practice so that the participants can work on developing their motor skills in a motivating environment. Click here for the project presentation.
[In August 2019, association KIBITZ KOLEKTIV participated in a project organized by our Swedish partners Föreningen Framtidståget from Stockholm, Sweden. This Youth exchange named “Learn 2 be intercool2ral” gathered 30 youngsters from 6 European countries: Austria, Serbia, Sweden, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Italy. The main aim of this project was to encourage diversity amongst young people, as well as promoting tolerance and peace in our society. The project was implemented from 28th of August till the 4th of September 2019. in Stockholm, Sweden. This project was co-financed by Erasmus plus program of the European Union. Click here to read the program reflection.]
[A workshop organizer and presenter for a current ImpactECO project ‘’Cool KidsFor Eco Beats’’ In this project, we are conducting workshops in elementary schools with a goal to connect children with their environment and develop their ecological awareness. Click here to see the topics of our workshops.]
[A session facilitator for The Granny Cloud volunteer organization which aims to develop language and 21 st century skills in deprived children in India. Facilitator’s obligations are: stimulating children’s curiosity, exposing them to people and worlds beyond their context, fostering independent thinking, improving English conversation, improving literacy skills, familiarizing with the internet, developing search skills, strengthening social skills, encouraging collaboration with peers and developing habits for lifelong learning. Click here to visit the website of the Granny Cloud.]
📢 Accountability:
English Language Teachers’ Association in Serbia – the youngest board member.🎉
In charge of technical support, website development, design, social media marketing & distance education professional development programs.
🥇 Achievements:
Created branding for ELTA, developed an online professional development program in March 2020 to help teachers with emergency remote teaching, created 2 websites for the association.
Peek into my online and offline classroom and scroll through the image gallery
An example of a fully interactive lesson material, which can be used both in the online and the regular classroom
National Geographic Certified Educator project summary video – Project ‘Perils of plastic’
Preply public webinar-based lesson for kids – 100+ kids present: Let’s talk routines (ages 8-10)
ELTA SIG day Conference: Game On! Engaging Young Learners – Workshop: Learning English Through Music and Movement
Digital Learning Day in Miami – Blended Learning Practical Applications workshop
International conference – EdmodoCon 2019 Miami – From Blended to Distance Learning: Engaging Large Student Groups Online
International conference – Professional Competencies for Teaching in the 21st Century conference at the Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac
Research presented: Developing 21st Century Skills Through Theme-Based Instruction and by Applying Multiple Intelligence Theory: Teacher Competencies
Teaching Young Learners English Following the CLIL Methodology and Developing 21st Century Skills
International School Savremena in Belgrade– 4-hour workshop – Harry Potter Escape Room – Development of Literacy Skills, STEAM, and Various 21st-century Skills in Students (teenage learners)
International Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece – TESOL conference – ELT Reimagined – Using Drama in the ESL/EFL Classroom with Young Learners – Official ELTA representative
Asynchronous training for the Institute of Contemporary Education – Practical use of Edmodo+Genial.ly+Zoom in the distance learning instruction
Introduction to Teaching Young Learners Online – Preply – https://www.facebook.com/preplycompany/videos/710186706473452/
Distance Learning in 10 steps – ELTA Serbia – https://youtu.be/1Fgc8_K7E68
Content creation tools (Canva and Genial.ly) and lesson interactivity (young learners and teenagers) ELTA Serbia
Formative Assessment and Edmodo– (teenage learners) ELTA Serbia
Flip your Classroom to Promote Communication and Collaboration – ELTA Serbia
ELTA conference: Fantastic Journey – Destination Digital Classroom. A lecture titled: Digital Competencies of Educators Needed for Distance Learning – Professional Development
FlipTech Conference 2020. Interactive Q and A session titled: Flipping the Professional Development
4th PanEuropean Conference, Primera Slovenia – Storytelling and ICT with Young Learners
Nurturing Reading Literacy in Second Language Learners: A Sociocultural View (young and very young learners) – British Council Colombia & Secretariat of Education in Bogota https://www.facebook.com/redacademica/videos/364374268184229/
Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactive Tasks for Distance Learning (young learners and teenage learners) – IATEFL LTSIG
An example of a training presentation, along with training steps and tasks – Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactive Tasks for Distance Learning (young learners and teenage learners) – IATEFL LTSIG
From Blended to Distance Learning – Presentation recording, EdmodoCon University of Miami, 2019
Published papers
Developing 21st Century Skills Through Theme-Based Instruction and by Applying Multiple Intelligence Theory: Teacher Competencies
Published in УЗДАНИЦА; 2019, XVI/2; стр. 235–251, December 2019
The paper was presented at Professional Competences for Teaching in the 21st Century conference at the Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac.
British Council – Tabula Rasa – Entering the Classroom With a Blank Mind
British Council – Think Like a Teenager – 10 Methods to Motivate Teenage Learners – FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK IN JANUARY 2020
British Council – Online Professional Development – Experiences, Quality and Current Opportunities – FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK IN NOVEMBER 2019
British Council – Contextual Grammar Teaching – Activities for Making Grammar Meaningful to Your Students – FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK IN OCTOBER 2019
British Council – Differentiating Assessment – Because One Size Does Not Fit All
British Council – Start Your Journey to 21st Century Education with Geo-Inquiry – FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK IN JULY 2019
British Council – Classrooms Without Borders – FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK IN JULY 2019
British Council – Being a Mentor and a Mentee – Developing Together
Genial.ly – An Open Letter to All Students: Key Tips for Students in the Distance Learning Process
ELTA Newsletter – Distance Learning in 10 Steps – Reflection, page 40.
Genial.ly – 6 Techniques for Effective Online Communication between Students and Teachers
Interview – Online ELT Marketplaces: How They Work, What They Charge & How to Make the Most of Them?
Trained the trainers to use the platform and give live lectures on the platform via the given platform video conference tool.
Maintained the course project and completed ongoing technical tasks.
Reduced course development hours by creating a structure.
Designed and executed the newsletter for the program, which included informing all students of the acceptance and lesson schedule before every live lesson.
Adapted the whole research after COVID-19 started and transferred it into an online professional development course.
Created and converted existing academic research-based professional development into an online learning format.
Designed and executed the newsletter for the program, which included informing all educator of their acceptance to the program
Created and converted existing instructor-led curriculum into an online learning format.
Developed all the program materials including video, audio podcasts, graphics, interactive presentations, example lesson plans, and many interactive tasks.
Adapted the whole research after COVID-19 started and transferred it into an online professional development course.
Created and converted existing academic research-based professional development into an online learning format.
Designed and executed the newsletter for the program, which included informing all educator of their acceptance to the program
Created and converted existing instructor-led curriculum into an online learning format.
Developed all the program materials including video, audio podcasts, graphics, interactive presentations, example lesson plans, and many interactive tasks.
A selection of my favorite professional development courses/webinars
- National Geographic Certified Educator Course
- Teaching Global Climate Change in Your Classroom
- Geo-inquiry Process in Your Classroom
- Teaching Grammar Communicatively
- Teaching Young Learners English
- Empower Every Student With an Inclusive Classroom
- Teaching Assistant Course Certification
- What Children’s Perspectives Tell us About Inclusion
- Attachment in the Early Years
- Games for skill-building
- Apps for the classroom and self-study
- Optimizing classroom time
- Differentiation for language and special needs
- Formative assessments
- How to encourage risk-taking in the classroom
- Understanding Child Protection
- Understanding Special Needs
- Engaging With Reading – skills development
- Active listening – skills development
- Assessment and Intervention – Autism and Anxiety
- Inspiring STEM Learning for Young Girls: Tips from Research and the Classroom
- Connecting Young Children and Nature: How to Educate and Enchant
- Supporting Young Children’s Emerging Math Skills with Developmentally Appropriate Music Activities
- The Flipped Classroom – The Role of TED and Technology Can Play to Get Students Speaking
- Nurturing Reading Success in Young Learners of English
- 21st Century Skills in Young Learners
- The Value of Gamification for Language Learning
- Immersive Games and English Language Learning
- Bilingual Learners, Bilingual Brains: Language Acquisition Patterns in Different Types of Learners
Cambridge University Press – Collaborative Learning and Project Work
Oxford University Press – Enquiry-based learning in the Primary Classroom
British Council – Developing cross-cultural awareness in the monolingual classroom
National Geographic Certified Educator
Genial.ly Ambassador
Edmodo Certified Trainer
Member of the following organizations
ELTA Serbia – English Language Teacher Association
IATEFL – International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Culture Station Barka, Novi Sad
Languages spoken
Contact me if you need a:
Curriculum and material designer for:
- Young learners – CLIL & Theme-Based Instruction;
- Teenage learners – contextualized & communicative methods with a lot of digital tools.
Specialized on designing courses on Canvas Instructure LMS.
Help with designing classroom flow on Edmodo, Class Dojo, Google Classroom, and plenty of other social-media based LMS platforms.
Available for any kind of professional development connected to early childhood education & English language teaching (along with the use of digital tools in the classroom.)
Collaborating on official, large-scale projects or individual classroom collaboration online.
Available for collaboration on research connected to:
- Environmental education;
- Teaching English to young learners;
- Applying digital tools in the educational context (all ages).
I am not available for full time teaching positions at the moment (online and in the regular classroom).
Please do not send requests if you are a recruiter for an online teaching company.
You can contact me via email through the contact form below, or write directly to my Facebook page through the purple messenger button in the bottom right corner.
