Gari Kostadinova
“Norwood ETRCC is fortunate to have Gari as an instructor. I wish you could clone her for the South Coastal Career Centers!” This is a comment Gari Kostadinova received at one of her Excel Level II classes.
Gari Kostadinova is a certified Master Instructor in Office 2002. She is proficient in Office 2003, and is currently working on mastering Office 2007. Her experience includes more than 7 years of teaching computer literacy classes, as well as beginner to advanced level classes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
Gari’s entire career has been in Adult Education. She received an M.A. in Teaching Russian Language and Literature from St. Kliment Ohridsky University, the oldest and most prestigious university in Bulgaria. Right out of college, Gari competed with several candidates, and was hired as an Assistant Professor in Translation Theory by the Russian Language Department at that university. She worked there for number of years, and honed her training skills developing curricula and assessment tools for various courses, teaching college students, and supervising student research.
Decades ago, Gari moved with her family to the US. Her current employment is with a Career Center in Massachusetts, where she had a chance to prove her training skills during a massive training event. The Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training needed to train more then 1,000 people on a new database system in only 1 month, and Gari was appointed as one of the primary trainers. She received excellent reviews, and this led to being offered a computer trainer position. At that time, the Career Center had only 2 short beginners’ classes in Word and Excel. Gari redesigned these classes, and later developed classes in Power Point and Access. They were, and still are very successful.
Several years later Gari designed and implemented advanced classes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. The project involved, among other things:
- designing the class format
- choosing training materials
- creating lists of prerequisites for each class
- writing facilitator guides
- teaching all these classes
This is what clients had to say about Gari Kostadinova’s technical and training skills:
Testimonials:
"[Gari] is always prepared and very knowledgeable. She shares practical 'real world' info with regard to using what we are learning in an office environment…"
"Gari has a great presentation style – she is very articulate, well organized, keeps things going".
"[Gari] handles questions very effectively, insuring that the students validate/understand the answer".
"The 'feed rate' for the information was excellent, not too fast and not so slow that we were all bored to tears. Thanks!"
"My second class with Gari – she is the best instructor I have encountered".
Gari Kostadinova offers one-on-one tutoring and group training with advanced notice. All clients interested in tutoring receive free skills evaluation, and customized training plan.
You can contact Gari by calling (781) 784-2786, or you can email her by completing the form below.
