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I am a fun, enthusiastic and passionate person. I pride myself in doing a good job and making sure my students learn while having fun. I’ve been apart of a volunteer teaching work for 6 years to the present and have been teaching online as an English instructor to Koreans for almost 3 years. I teach students from as young as 3 years old all the way up to 65 and up. I am experienced in different cultures as I have taught students from different parts of the world as well. I speak English, Spanish and Russian.

My name is Thato Maboa and I recently completed 150 hour TEFL Course. I have 6 years working experience, 4 years from SMSNET-SA private company occupying position of PA to Managing Director. Through my multi tasking skills I was promoted to Project Manager position and later promoted to Office Admin position. I then landed a job at Mmola Investment Group private company occupying Finance Manager position for 2 years. Unfortunately the company had to liquidate. After looking for a job since 2017 , I then decided to further my studies through LearnTEFL. Throughout my TEFL course I've learned that education should not be taken for granted and therefore no child should be left behind on education. My strength is that I'm a hardworking collaborative individual who believes in synergy. My TEFL Course duration takes 6 months to complete and I once again exceeded my expectation and completed the course within a month. My weakness is that I'm a hard-worker and end up losing track of time due to work dedication.
I'm a fun loving caring person who welcomes any challenge that comes through as I believe I will again surpass my expectations. My greatest achievement will be to allow students to learn and surpass their expectation of learning English. I believe the more they communicate the language the more they will improve in writing, speaking, reading and listening.

My name is Thato Maboa and I recently completed 150 hour TEFL Course. I have 6 years working experience, 4 years from SMSNET-SA private company occupying position of PA to Managing Director. Through my multi tasking skills I was promoted to Project Manager position and later promoted to Office Admin position. I then landed a job at Mmola Investment Group private company occupying Finance Manager position for 2 years. Unfortunately the company had to liquidate. After looking for a job since 2017 , I then decided to further my studies through LearnTEFL. Throughout my TEFL course I've learned that education should not be taken for granted and therefore no child should be left behind on education. My strength is that I'm a hardworking collaborative individual who believes in synergy. My TEFL Course duration takes 6 months to complete and I once again exceeded my expectation and completed the course within a month. My weakness is that I'm a hard-worker and end up losing track of time due to work dedication.
I'm a fun loving caring person who welcomes any challenge that comes through as I believe I will again surpass my expectations. My greatest achievement will be to allow students to learn and surpass their expectation of learning English. I believe the more they communicate the language the more they will improve in writing, speaking, reading and listening.

My strengths lie in my ability to communicate well with others, I use clarity and concision to convey my ideas. I am also a good listener, which is just as important. I am confident in myself and I am able to stand up in front of a group of people and channel that confidence into whatever I am talking about. I am a hard-worker but I am also easy-going, I like to balance the two and feel that it will be particularly important in the classroom.
I am very passionate about education, especially educating young people in a way that opens up unlimited opportunities for them. I am keen to fuse my passion for education and my interest in new cultures and ways of living while I work and live abroad. I believe that education is the way to change our world for the better and I look forward to sharing my enthusiasm and passion with the children and young people I will be teaching. I think that teachers are important for helping young people stand on their own feet and look at the world in a more open-minded way, which I hope to do.
I have experience informally teaching English to people of varying ability. Whilst volunteering at the Hope Café in Athens I helped people of all ages improve their English, I noticed that the children were particularly driven to reach a level of near fluency and so I dedicated much of my time to helping them. I also attended Conversation Club while at university, which involved helping the local refugees (from many different countries) improve their English. I believe that this has given me much needed experience of communicating with people who do not speak English as a first language.
I am currently studying a 120-hour combined TEFL course, during this course I have come to appreciate the challenges and rewards that come with teaching English as a foreign language. I have found it fascinating learning my native language from this perspective an it has given me a deeper appreciation of the language and the importance of teaching it well to others.

While I have no TEFL teaching experience, I do have experience in classroom and formal speaking settings. In my final semester of university, I served as a teacher assistant and would hold lectures when the professor had to step out and also held the review sessions before examinations.

In 2017 and 2018, I had spoken in La Romana, Dominican Republic, and Cancun, Mexico, respectively, for week-long lectures. During this time, I had classes of around 40-70 people per any given night.

I am a very open-minded person who is very interested in learning of new cultures. I enjoy the any chance I get to share what I know to help others, as well as learn something new myself.

I am a highly experienced teacher with over 32 years work in educational positions including Brunel University in London and several places abroad. I possess a Bachelor Degree, Master's Degree, CELTA certificate and TEFL Teacher Training Diploma. My last position was in China where for four years 2014-18, I worked in a combination role of Orchestral Conductor and English Teacher at No.2 High School in Hangzhou. I was also Senior Adviser to students wishing to study abroad and responsible for IELTS training and advising them on suitable universities for their course of study. I also created a ten-week course in Critical Thinking for these students. My general classes in English covered all four principal skills and were built around much group and task work to encourage speaking and confidence in students.
As a Senior Academic Adviser to Haida International, working as part of a team, I regularly trained new teachers and carried out hundreds of teacher evaluations for them in several Chinese cities. In Shenzhen, I set up their teacher evaluation program and trained the team who would be responsible for it. I also worked at university level in China at The Tourism College in Zhejiang. Several of my Chinese students are now studying in the UK, US and Ireland. I am also joint author of the TEFL in Action TEFL course. I use a wide range of tried and tested teaching ideas in addition to plenty of things I design myself for specific classes and groups of students. I can also offer Business English, Academic English and Cambridge Exam preparation.
I am highly computer literate and familiar with a range of standard programs including Excel. I am available from around the end of August.
My CV/resume has a photograph on the last page.

I have previously studied in Seoul at Sungkyunkwan University for two semesters from 2017-2018. After visiting South Korea as a tourist in 2015, I fell in love with the country, its culture, its history, food and lifestyle. During my time at University of Leicester, I have mainly focused on Asian history modules and have gone on to write my dissertation on the Korean War. When I went on to study in Korea, I developed a lot of personal friendships and relationships with Korean people and their kindness and enthusiasm towards welcoming me has confirmed that I would love to live there in long-term and give something back. The best way to do this is in the form of teaching. Koreans have an incredible passion and respect for their education and they are always striving to improve their English speaking skills, often asking me to help assist them in their learning, or things they were struggling with. I am a helpful, kind person by nature and was always happy to oblige. Teaching English would be a really rewarding career, knowing that you are able to assist somebody's development and help them to connect with people across the world. As a native speaker, I am in the privileged position of being able to develop peoples' skills in learning the global language.

I am an outgoing person and believe I would be an excellent teacher when I gain experience in the classroom. I have the energy and enthusiasm to begin teacher career and always strive to develop myself as much as possible.