Cambridge University CELTA 130 hours
International House - Krakow, Poland 2005
University of California, Los Angeles MFA Theater Arts
Los Angeles, California 1983
•UCLA Alumni Award for Academic Distinction
Western Washington University BA Theater Arts
Bellingham, Washington 1981
Working History
Lecturer
Kasetsart University (Khamphaeg Saen, Thailand)
Aug 2012 – July 2015
• Coordinator/Director Drama (Performance in English)
Class produced and performed a one act comedy Check Please! Jonathan Rand
• Guest Speaker Kasetsart Department of Education – How to Win in the Classroom
• Coordinator/Lecturer Periods & Movements in Literature and Art
Haiku, Renaissance (Shakespeare Sonnet), Enlightenment (A Modest Proposal), Romanticism (Telltale Heart), Victorian (A Christmas Carol) periods examined using a workbook developed by myself.
• Coordinator/Lecturer Interpreting Literature
Basic analysis of various poetry and the novel Rice Without Rain, Ho (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books) using a workbook adapted by me.
• Coordinator/Lecturer Listening & Speaking 2
Q:Skills for Success 2 Listening and Speaking Sherman (Oxford University Press)
Communicative listening and speaking with an emphasis on function.
• Lecturer Foundation 2
Network Get Connected Hutchinson, Sherman (Oxford)
• Lecturer Foundation 3
English File Intermediate Latham, Oxenden (Oxford)
• Lecturer Academic Writing
The Short Essay Effective Academic Writing Savage, Mayer (Oxford)
• Lecturer Listening & Speaking 1
Q:Skills for Success 1 Listening and Speaking Scanlon (Oxford)
NEST
Cheong Deok Elementary School
Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, Seoul Korea
Sep 2008 to Aug 2012
Awarded NEST Teacher of the Year in Seoul. Designed the lesson plans integrating communicative teaching into the existing curriculum. Also, taught intermediate English to teachers from around the school district. As Head Teacher lectured on effective co-teaching to incoming NESTs and evaluated Korean University Exam demonstration teaching.
• Native English Speaking Teacher of the Year, Seoul 2009
• Head Teacher for Seongbuk District 2011-2012
• Seminar – Effective Co-teaching
NEST
Kontekst Language School
Wieliczka Poland
Oct 2007 to Jun 2008
Communicative methodology used to teach classes, most of which were focused towards taking and passing the Cambridge FCE and CAE English Language certificates.
NEST
Word Language School Kurdwanow, Poland
Oct 2005 to Jun 2008
Communicative methodology used to teach classes, most of which were focused towards taking and passing the Cambridge FCE and CAE English Language certificates. Adult, University and High School aged students. Marked and graded upper level writing assignments.
Guest Faculty
Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington
Jun 1993 to Sep 1993
Guest faculty for the summer quarter to design course and teach acting to university summer stock theatre students.
Personal Introduction
I am a dynamic, award winning teacher and would like to be considered for a position teaching English at the university level. I believe in teaching the mind first and the subject second.
After obtaining my CELTA in 2005 I taught in Krakow, Poland for three years.
In 2008, I came to Korea to work for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education teaching 5th & 6th grade English. My experience teaching in Europe made it possible to integrate the lessons I'd learned into the existing curriculum and I was honored to be named the NSET Teacher of the Year in Seoul for 2009. I also served as Head Teacher for my district in 2011-2012.
Finally in 2012, I accepted a position as Lecturer at Kasetsart University where I worked as a coordinator and lecturer until July 2015.