Help me
This week I've been working on putting a resume together using some of the information I learned at the Yokohama conference. One of the things I learned at the conference was that it is important to get feed back from other people when putting together a resume. So, at the risk of abusing the patience and attention spans of the readers of this site, I thought I'd use this weblog to post my first draft of my resume.
Any and all feedback and constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated. (joelswagman@yahoo.com). Please e-mail me if you think I should leave something out, or add something in. If you can think of a better, more assertive way to phrase something, please let me know. Hopefully the spell checker should have gotten all the spelling mistakes, but if you see anything....
And if any kind soul is willing to take on the grammar, that would really be a help.
The formatting (type size, bold print, spatial arrangement, etc) got lost when I was copying and pasting this from word, so just ignore that for now. Everything else is fair game.
Anyway, here it is. If anyone can help me fine tune this thing, I'd appreciate it.

JOEL M. SWAGMAN
102 Go, Choei Daibutsu-jutaku, 214 Daibutsu, Ajimu-Machi, Usa-Gun, Oita-Ken, Japan 872-0523
0978-34-4806 joelswagman@hotmail.com

Education
Calvin College Grand Rapids, Mi
Bachelor of Arts December, 2000
l Majored in Secondary History Education, Minored in English Education
l Teacher Aiding at Pathfinders High School (Grand Rapids, Mi)
l Student Teaching at Tri-Unity High School (Grand Rapids, Mi)
l Volunteered teaching English to immigrants

Professional Experience
Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) Oita Prefecture, Japan
English Teacher, Ajimu Board of Education August, 2001-Present
Taught English in Japan for 3 years at the Elementary and Junior High school level.
l Created curriculum and presented original lessons at the Elementary school, and experience team teaching at the Junior High School
l taught the English Speaking Society (ESS) club at Ajimu High School
l designed curriculum and taught an adult English conversation class
l Initiated an English section in the Ajimu town library and collected materials for this section
l Served as the only chaperon for 8 Japanese students on a 10-day trip to America; initiated and organized this trip.
l Delivered presentation on “Presenting Global Issues in the Classroom” for JET prefectural mid-year seminar
l Passed 4th level (2002) and 3rd level (2003) of Japanese Proficiency Test
l Assisted the Ajimu-Usa Rotary club in hosting the Morialta Rotary club of Australia; helped to guide and translate for this exchange

Additional
l Hitch hiked from Kyushu to Hokkaido during summer vacation
l Published articles in college newspaper and Oita Prefectural magazine