Resume

Resume

Alaitz Aritza

Education:

Bachelors of Arts and Science: Music, Culture and Cognition

Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

GPA: 3.65

Completed 12 week full semester summer program at Berkeley College of Music, 2012

Completed Advanced Spanish Program at La Catolica University, Quito, Ecuador,  2012

Completed Beginners Korean with Korea University through the Fulbright Program, 2014

Research Experience:

Pitzer College, Language and Music Cognition Lab 2013-2014

·        Prepared experiment stimuli

·        Drafted and edited IRB proposals for experiments

·        Ran participants through behavioral experiments

·        Applied, cleaned and recorded data from EEG equipment

·        Learned to use “presentation”, ”audacity”, “word”, “excel” and other computer programs

·        Prepared and design fliers advertising experiments

·        Person to person recruitment of participants

·        Prepared, manipulated and managed participant databases

Teaching Experience:

Fulbright Grantee 2014-2015

• Designing and implementing lesson plans to teach English as a Foreign Language to over 600 middle school students of varying abilities, as well as a week-long 20 hour winter English camp for 20 students.
• Designing and Administering speaking performance tests for over 600 high school students
• Acting as an American cultural ambassador to the people of Jeju Island in South Korea

Discussion Group Leader with Pitzer College office of International Affairs 2013-2014

·        Led discussions in English for 6 hours a week with Japanese exchange students

·        Took students on weekly excursions to practice language in real life situations/facilitate cultural immersion

·        Tutored students with their class work

Intern/Teachers assistant at National Guitar Workshop, New Haven Conn. 2010-2011

·        Worked in a class room with various professional music teachers

·        Designed lesson plans for classes

·        Tutored individual students

·        Studied various pedagogies

·        Led ensembles, from teaching songs to students to performing with them on stage

Private Guitar/Voice Lessons 2006-present

·        Taught youth, peers, and adults for many years

Other Jobs:

Jr Councilor for Camp Fire USA, Salem MA 01970, 2006

General Labor for Marblehead Garden Center, Marblehead MA 01945, 2007-2008

Painter for the Salem Community Development Committee, Salem MA 01970 2009

References:

Professor/Advisor: Dan Segal, 909.607.3645, dsegal@pitzer.edu

Professor: David M. Tanenbaum, 909.621.8722, dtanenbaum@pomona.edu

Employer: Todd Sasaki, 909.621.8308, tsasaki@pitzer.edu