Muhammad Hasanul Banna Al-Maruf

Over the years, I have honed maverick skills and cultivated extraordinary abilities that transcend traditional teaching roles, blending rigorous academics with charismatic creativity and profound mentorship. My career ambition is to serve as a master educator, philosopher, and guide, dedicated to cultivating wisdom, nobility, and the sublime in every student. I strive to empower students with the intellectual and emotional tools necessary to lead, innovate, and contribute meaningfully to society. Through engaging classroom instruction, creative projects, or mentorship in drama and debate, I aim to inspire students to become architects of a better world—leaders equipped with the creativity, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial spirit to make an enduring impact.

• Interactive Learning: Introduced and encouraged debate-style classroom setting to increase student active participation and critical thinking.
• Nominated for the “Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Award” from Cambridge University Press, voted by the students from the DPS STS School, Dhaka, for two consecutive terms (2022 and 2023).
• Technology Integration: Participated in technology training courses and trained colleagues in new technology concepts and practices applicable for the classroom.
• Published poetry, short stories, and literary criticism, and opinion articles in celebrated national English dailies, as well as, global literary journals and websites.
• Tremendous success rate with the students helping them achieve high grades in their IGCSE, A-level, and IB Diploma Exam.
• Organized and hosted at school during their social and cultural events and extracurricular programs..
• Curriculum Development: Tailored educational curriculum to students with a range of learning styles, disabilities, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Developed innovative semester/term lesson plans and practical application exercises for the classroom.
• Interactive Learning: Introduced and encouraged debate-style classroom setting to increase student active participation and critical thinking.
• Student Motivation: Developed materials for an after-school book club to motivate students to read classic novels and increase literacy among middle school students.
• Student Progress Conferences: Conducted conferences with parents, administrators, testing specialists, and social workers to discuss educational plans designed to promote students' educational and social development.

• Regular contributor, writer to the Literature and Book Page of the Nation's Premier English Daily: The Daily Star: https://www.thedailystar.net/author/hasan-maruf.
• Featured in National and International Literary Magazines for Short Story and Poetry Publication.
• Contributor and columnist to Bangladesh's leading news media outlets, The Business Standard and The Daily Observer.
• Education and academic content writer for the GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, and International Baccalaureate Students in the Substack, and LinkedIn. https://hasanmaruf.substack.com/; https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasan-maruf-1292555b/
• A genuine researcher on education, lifestyle, arts, culture, and literature.

I am a devoted literary artisan—a poet, writer, teacher, performance artist, literary critic, and former journalist—rooted in the bustling city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, I embark on a therapeutic journey, weaving together the threads of practicality and philosophy through the art of teaching IGCSE English as a First Language, IGCSE Literature, A-Level English Language and Literature, and International Baccalaureate English Language and Literature.

As a teacher, I envision myself as a quiet alchemist, daring to glimpse a fragment of divine perspective. My aim is to evoke an atmosphere of unparalleled wisdom and immaculate pedagogy, unlocking the sacred gateways of my students' intricate and untapped souls. In my roles as teacher, writer, and phonetics expert, I hold firm to this conviction: a masterful English teacher must write with the unbridled spontaneity of a poet, speak with the eloquence of a seasoned orator, guide with the penetrating foresight of a philosopher, and shape the budding brilliance within the classroom as a sculptor chisels raw stone into timeless art.

• A wide range of proven training on “teaching methodology, leadership, and effective classroom management.”.
• Cambridge introductory and extension training on the IGCSE First Language English (0550, 0990) program.
• Multiple pieces of training on professional development in teaching.
• Training on blended learning for integrated online and offline classes.
• Training on Visible Learning Guide to Student Achievement.
• 3-day exclusive day-long international conference on Hybrid, blended, and E-learning organized by Education Technology and Management Academy (ETMA), India
• Training on developing teaching and learning principles and practice in the classroom.
• Training on the learning theories in the classroom, i.e., behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism, and connectivism.
• Participated and completed the Virtual MOOC Camp on "Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom," organized by the US Embassy Learning Centre, Dhaka.
• Professional training in copywriting, reporting, and news presentation from established media houses in Bangladesh.

• Dr. Fakhrul Alam, Professor and Director, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Research Institute for Peace and Liberty, University of Dhaka, former Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Email: falam57@gmail.com, Phone: 01556343771.
• Dr. Shamsad Mortuza, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka.
• Dr. Sohana Manzoor, Associate Professor at the Department of English and Humanities at ULAB; story writer, translator, essayist, and artist. Email: sohana.manzoor@gmail.com,
• Mr. Shamim Hosen, Head of Department (English), Senior Section, DPS STS School, Dhaka; Examiner, Cambridge English Language Assessment; Certified Teachers' Trainer (British Council). Email: shamim.hosen@dpsstsdhaka.org, Phone: 01715244245.