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To Whom It May Concern,

It would be an honored for me to tell you my story. Initially, I pursued a major in Marketing at Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. However after graduation from college, I pursued a different career path based on my specialty and interests, which was to become a teacher. Since college graduation on December 2015, I had been preparing for teaching license, and I eventually obtained a mathematics teaching license on September 2017.

I am excited to get involved with a school that values every single member of the school supporting every student. My personal experiences in student teaching, academic tutoring, working at academy as a teacher, and even working as a marketing manager at an international school, have all taught me the importance of connecting with students and challenging to continually grow as a teacher.

Much of my success I believe stems from my personal and work experiences. As an international student for 8 years in the United States, I have learned how to embrace people from all different cultures and backgrounds and communicate with people from different backgrounds. It was a valuable experience that greatly influences my decisions personally and professionally. During my college years, I did a few internships at companies in Korea for summer break. Being a part of community or group has steered me to becoming responsible and loyal person. In addition, I have realized how significant it is to work in groups.

I would like to highlight the teaching experiences that have helped me grow as a teacher. First, I partnered with a tutoring services for students in grades ranging from elementary to eleventh grade in mathematics and English courses. Thanks to my natural talent and passion for teaching, I was able to teach students and prepare to become a teacher. This experience was while I was preparing to obtain my teaching license. Besides tutoring, I also worked at academy as a teacher. It was very helpful experience to learn how to manage and motivate students in class.

Before obtaining a teaching license in 2017, I completed my student teaching at Korea Foreign School (previously known as Rainbow International School) for three months as a MYP (Middle Years Programme) Mathematics teacher. By teaching students from grades sixth to eighth, I learned how to effectively make lesson plans and set up a student-centered learning environment. Even though it was short period of time, I learned many skills required from becoming an excellent teacher. Next, I transitioned to a position as a marketing manager. This job opportunity was a beneficial experience for me to understand each of students’ and parents’ expectations from school. Additionally, I became aware of the importance of communication among everyone involved in school. Through these experiences that mentioned above, I have acquired valuable opportunities to improve myself.

I do hope this letter effectively outlines my qualifications for this position, and I look forward to having opportunity to discuss my resume, and the more personal experiences, I believe will benefit your school should we decide to work together this next year.

Sincerely,

To whom it may concern,

I would like to express my interest in this advertised role.

I am currently living in Korea and have recently just completed my Instructor and Curriculum Developer role at YBM Adult Institute in Seoul. I currently work as a freelancer, teaching business and conversational English at GCS Institute in Seoul. Also, I was an elementary school teacher at Anyang Elementary School (안양초등학교) in Gyeonggi Province. Initially, I applied through EPIK (English Program in Korea run by the Korean Ministry of Education) and was successful for a previous teaching role with Aron Elementary School (어론초등학교) in Gangwon Province (which I commenced from August 2013 and finished August 2014).

I am a native speaker of Australian English; I was born in Darwin, Australia and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I have been educated in primary, secondary, and tertiary schools located in Melbourne – please refer to my CV for more information. Aside from my years of experience teaching ESL English geared towards elementary school students as well as adults, my past work experiences have allowed me to develop and maintain a professional demeanor, attitude, appearance, and ability to conduct oneself in a manner befitting the environment.

As I have completed undergraduate tertiary studies – a Bachelor of Arts majoring in the criminology field (alongside my other major – sociology), I have been provided with analytical skills in relation to designing and conducting criminological research; particularly when it comes to researching specific case studies and then applying those studies alongside critical thinking to formulate arguments in order to relate them to criminological issues such as crime prevention (whether it would be in the social or environmental preventative framework), explaining causes of criminality (whether it would relate to sociological and/or psychological theories), the discussion of prisons and the concepts of imprisonment as a criminal deterrent, and issues of transnational law enforcement.

I believe interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to construct rapport amongst other individuals, are paramount when it comes to organizing and producing high-quality results. I believe education and other work/life experiences have certainly developed my “active listening” skills, thus I have achieved consistent and high grades/results. This achievement required a great understanding of developing written communication skills in order to support critical and analytical thinking for the development of arguments.

One of many academic assessments involved criminological psychology research in relation to critical thinking and the formation of arguments in relation to offenders in prison – whether prisoners should receive rehabilitation or punitive punishment. Many steps were undertaken to ensure my written piece was properly done; including the development of researching skills, responding to key arguments, and enhancing academic writing and correspondence – using clear, concise and understandable language.

My past experiences in the security industry made me develop and improve my verbal communication skills, particularly for utilizing customer service abilities to patrons. Aside from security duties conducted, we are seen as ‘walking concierge desks’ – an expectation to deliver quality and efficient information to patrons in need of location whereabouts and general inquiries.

As I mentioned in the resume, I was a former instructor of ESL (English as a second language) to non-English speakers and also developed curricula at YBM, a renowned adult-geared ESL education company and institute in Seoul, Korea. During my current employment there, I gained professional experience in terms of helping Korean adult English-speakers here improve, refine, and implement confidence in themselves to engage in spoken English during classes. This is a stark contrast to when I was teaching English in elementary/primary schools, where it was more about classroom management, discipline, and simply trying to make English a fun experience for the students.

ESL teaching, specifically Adult-based teaching, provides a platform to express different cultural barriers between Western and Korean/Asian culture – although I already had a high understanding of the Korean culture and language prior to coming to Korea. Many adult students were interested in my background; especially since I am an Australian or Vietnamese heritage, and some were even curious to know how and why I can speak Korean. Because of this, I felt it was a rewarding professional achievement in terms of connecting and establishing great rapport/communication – which is highly pertinent in any teaching job over actual English grammatical corrections and/or learning about English expressions. Similarly, my primary/elementary ESL teaching experiences involved a lot of communication with the children not only just professionally, but also on a personal level as well. It felt very rewarding because it was almost like babysitting and allowed me to develop better relationships with children (something I wasn’t really great at before coming to Korea).

My overall experiences in verbal communication, as well as experiences in written communication which developed my problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking abilities, have all given me a high understanding of communicating and working effectively with other people – particularly building rapport, cooperating and communicating effectively within a team; and to achieve driven, committed, and specific planning and goals – which I believe will be fundamental to the duties of providing assistance, teamwork contribution amongst colleagues, as well as an adaptation to various responsibilities required in this role I’m applying for.

Please carefully consider my application.

Regards,

Thy (Tyson) Q Linh

• Exellent interpersonal skills with an ample range of business skills which allow me to efficiently present on a wide variety of topics including: Sales reports, business stragegies, trainings and consultings.
• Natural team player – efficiently follow and plan out directives and orders; Capable of handling multiple tasks given at once.
• Able to handle the leader role and/or instructing others – Adapted wide variety of employee relations skills throughout seven years of real-life experience in the human resources field.