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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.

I am currently teaching at a Public Middle School in Korea. This year I have learned how to develop effective lesson plans. Before this year I also have experience in teaching in the United states. I worked at a Pre-k and as an English tutor for foreign college students.

I'm very polite and easy going. In the past I worked at Disney World which has one well known rule for employees, they must always smile! This was not difficult for me in general I am a happy person.

To begin with, I have 7 years of English education experience altogether. Moreover, I have a TESOL degree, so I am highly informed on how to teach first language and especially ESL students. I chose to get a teaching degree but it is my passion and joy to see others enjoy learning. I am very organized and creative. At my current job in Korea, I have had to make so much supplementary materials and a lot of them I made from scratch myself. I am very loving towards students but can also give a healthy and appropriate amount of discipline by showing students what they did right or wrong. I hope I am the right person for this job.

I would be an excellent candidate for this role as I have a strong desire to start a career in teaching English and I am a native English speaker from the UK. I have a great amount of experience and skills, as well as many strengths and characteristics which would make me a great ESL Teacher.

To begin with, I have a lot of work experience gained through a variety of roles. I first took an interest in working with children when I completed a two-week work placement during high school working within a nursery. During this placement, I gained experience working with children between the ages of 3 to 5, and I enjoyed assisting the nursery teachers in organising activities and games to play with the children. I gained experience working in a team with the other teachers, as well as experience working independently and supervising small groups of children during activities, which was really enjoyable and fulfilling to assist in their learning. More recently, I have been working on the Visitor Team in an art gallery in the UK for the past three years. This role has provided me with a lot of experience with communicating with a wide range of people, including children of all ages and I have enjoyed talking to children and teaching them about the art and artists on display in the museum. In this role, I have also organised and delivered arts and craft activities and workshops for families and their children, which will be advantageous for this role as a teacher, as I have had experience coming up with engaging and creative activities as well as supervising a group of 10 – 20 children in workshops. I have also had experience in speaking to large groups in this role, as I have delivered tours of the museum to people of all ages, including children and students. Through my role at the museum, I have also received training including emergency first aid at work, health and safety, and fire awareness and evacuation. Therefore, I have had a lot of work experience in public facing roles and working with children, which will help me in the role as an ESL Teacher.

I also have many great skills gained through my work experience and university. I developed excellent verbal and written communication skills whilst studying for my BA (Hons) History of Art degree through writing many essays and have also gained great presentation and public speaking skills through doing presentations to small groups. I have further developed my communication and public speaking ability through delivering tours to smaller and larger groups at the art gallery and through managing the main reception desk and answering enquiries. I have good IT skills and have the ability to use a variety of Microsoft Office programmes such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook gained during university and through my current role, as I have had to create spreadsheets and deliver presentations to my team and other departments at the museum. I am very organised, motivated and I have a great skill in time management and ability to meet deadlines, gained through completing assignments at university and organising the art workshops in my current role.

Also, I have many strengths in regards to my characteristics and personality traits which really match those needed for an ESL Teacher. I’m very kind, caring and nurturing, as well as very empathetic which will be important when understanding and addressing student’s individual needs. I am also very sociable, friendly and approachable which will allow the students to feel welcomed and comfortable during lessons. I am a great listener which is essential for the role when answering questions from the students and listening to any worries or concerns they have in regards to their English skills. I am very creative, artistic and very organised, which will help me to plan engaging and varied classes and activities.

Therefore, I believe I would be a great teacher and I see this job as the perfect opportunity to utilise my strengths, experience and skills and a unique chance for further development and as an enriching experience. I have previously visited South Korea and would be thrilled at the opportunity to live and teach my language in Korea and hope to learn Korean also which would help my teaching also.