ESL Teachers

I am a very friendly and ambitious person. I work well with people under any circumstances i am an active person and im always keen to learn from other people

I have the heart and patience for younger children. Growing up With so many little cousins, I can easily say that they look up to me in many ways and always look to me for guidance.

In high school, I gained some coaching experience as a public speaking mentor. As a senior public speaker, I would meet up with the grade 8 students and help them write powerful speeches and coach them into delivering their pieces with confidence.

I have experience as an au pair on two separate occasions. The first being in my final year of high school, where I au paired a 6 year little girl.

The second being in 2020 where I spent the year au pairing two girls, one aged 7 and the other 17.

Both times au pairing, my responsibilities included pick up and drop off from school, assistance with homework such as reading, writing, maths, etc. With the younger children, I often created fun games and activities to help them grasp more difficult concepts.

In my final year at university, I served on the house committee, where I mentored and tutored first year students.

I was a part of the residence mentorship program and helped first years with Spanish classes and often hosted conversation classes to help them improve their conversational Spanish and confidence using the language.

I have three years experience teaching elementary and middle school students. I love the idea of going to class everyday because I love being around children and when I see them my mood changes instantly sometimes I can't even control myself around them I just want them to have fun while learning . The most important thing in the classroom though is management and I have my ways of controlling bad behaviour. I have also worked as an acting HOD for a year where I learnt leadership skills and teamwork.

I hold a 120 hour TEFL certification, so I know how to teach students and feel comfortable designing and delivering effective lesson. I'm also a self starter- my favorite jobs are always those in which I'm in charge of directing myself and how to get my work done.
I really enjoy volunteering, especially with kids! For a couple years in high school, I helped coach a team of students for a mathematics competition, which was a blast. I loved teaching them new concepts and seeing their faces light up when they understood. Also, finding activities that they would enjoy was a fun challenge. I have also taken the opportunity to work with kids during college. That volunteer opportunity is less about teaching, but I still get the chance to read with kids and play with them, which makes my day every time!
In terms of my personality, I'm a little more on the quiet side when you first meet me, but I do love to get to know people over time. I like to have fun, which sometimes means hanging out with people, but also means watching a movie by myself. The most important things to me are enjoying my life and continuing to learn, which I hope to do by gaining more real-world experience as an English teacher.

Patience: I am a very patient person when it comes to demonstrating/teaching a new concept to a colleague that has no prior knowledge of this concept. My roles in finance have helped me develop this strength as I trained new starters that don’t have a finance background before which required me to be patient and recap any topics they did not understand with them until they gained an understanding of said topic.

Time management: I meet tight deadlines in my current role as I have to prepare tax returns for multiple different tax authorities on a monthly basis. In order to meet these deadlines, I have to organise multiple different pieces of work and work on multiple tasks simultaneously while managing my time well each day.

Communication: I have good communication skills, whether that be reading, writing, listening or speaking. I can effectively communicate with clients/customers, colleagues, managers and children.

Sociable: I am an approachable, kind and caring person who looks forward to meeting new people and enjoys conversation.

Teamwork: I am a great team player, helping out colleagues with workloads as well as doing overtime in my tax role when needed.

Leadership: I have led team presentations in economics at University. I co-ordinated what topics to research as well as doing a lot of the talking. Presentation went smoothly, attaining a 1st class grade.

I am native English-speaking graduate. I am a South African citizen, and also have citizenship in Portugal. I am BA Graduate and have completed a Level 5 TEFL Certificate with The TEFL Academy in UK, this was made up of 148 hours of academic work and 20 hours of live practical practice teaching, overall, 168 hours.

I strongly desire to help people; it has always been an interest of mine. Furthermore, I genuinely enjoy engaging and interacting with people and through teaching English, I look forward to doing both of these whilst creating lessons which keep my students interested and engaged. I also have what many have described as a bubbly personality and am generally not shy, I have experience performing in front of crowds and peers and therefore am not likely to be intimidated whilst teaching the class rather it is something I personally enjoy. In addition, during high school I taught a class of ten-year-old children each week for 30 minutes.

Experience
– Work with children that includes volunteering as a teaching assistant for 6 months in a primary school in Australia, working with a charity for children in Zambia for 2 weeks and leading creche sessions in Sunday school.
-6 years of work experience around my schooling in both retail and hospitality, starting with a Saturday job when I was 17 and including both seasonal/part-time and full-time employment in holidays/ between school and university.

Personality
I am a happy, bubbly and enthusiastic person who loves working with people – both adults and children! However, I am also mature, sensible and deeply empathetic which enables me to be an effective leader and an attentive listener.

Skills
I believe my naturally outgoing personality combined with my experiences in customer-facing jobs has given me excellent communication and people skills. My work with children so far has also broadened this skill and improved my multitasking abilities. Studying for my degree and working throughout my schooling has refined my time-management, prioritisation and organisational skills.

I love children and just seeing smiles on their faces makes so happy. I have 3 years experience working with all ages groups (5-60 years old). I worked at a gym where I taught fitness classes to children between the ages of 6-12 years old, twice a week. This experience will help me in my English classes, as I'm aware of how to deal and work with students.

I was also granted a management role and lead a team of 7 members for 3 months. This position gave me an opportunity to motivate my team lead them to success.

I therfore, will use all my skills and expertise in my English classes.

As far as my personality goes, I'm very energetic and I care a lot about others. I have experience working with children of ages 5 to 12, and I can be very flexible throughout the work day. Working as a substitute has taught me how to adjust to different situations. Although my substitute teaching doesn't qualify as real teaching, I like to add that to my strengths. It shows that I have experience working in front of a classroom, following through with the lesson plans those teachers leave for me, and it gave me time to think about if teaching would be the right fit for me.

My name is Dylan Arthur Manning, And I am looking for a teaching opportunity in Korea.
I have always been passionate about seeing and ensuring young people progress, and succeed in Education.I am deeply invested in understanding the barriers that one might encounter in learning, and my role in dismantling them.I believe that language is one of the most important and difficult barriers to education and success that people encounter.

I have over a year's experience working as both a teacher covering a diverse range of subjects and gaining familiarity and knowledge of how to help people achieve their goals in a curriculum and as a support, primarily focused on working with children with speech and language difficulties. This experience gives me invaluable insight and confidence in allowing me to ensure children who either do not have English as their first language or the confidence in the language to be able to flourish and succeed in progressing.

I would love to work in Korea as I have always held a deep respect and fascination for the culture and lives of people who live there. I find it exciting to immerse myself in a culture unlike my own and learn myself, the differences in a number of things, the etiquette, the types of entertainment and to meet and interact with people who I wouldn’t have the chance to if I stayed in one country. All of this greatly excites and fascinates me as a culturally enriching experience for both parties that I believe I would be an excellent part of.

I am very familiar with teaching in a range of environments from 1:1 work all the way to larger classes of 30 students. My background as a special needs educator as well as leading large drama workshops and projects as part of my community and university theatre scenes has developed my knowledge in both areas. My familiarity with larger groups compliments my experience of a more 1:1 approach to learning I often take working within SEN. Wherein I am able to directly steer and devise a curriculum more tailored to a students ability and adapt learning on the go to suit their pace, and reach the standard schools desire.

I encourage and foster a high standard of learning having graduated with an upper second class honours in History from King’s college London, while maintaining my extra-curricular passions as head of university theatre society. Alongside this I have a qualification from the TEFL organisation having completed their 120-Hour long course, with much of the tutoring and learning I have received being valuable in further honing my skills working within speech and language.

I am a highly valuable asset able to approach learning flexibly with my experience running workshops and a deep interest in fostering a strong relationship within my classrooms. This ensures that everyone is able to gain the confidence they need to fully achieve and access their learning and potential.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I look forward to hearing from you and building a relationship where we are able to create a future where the standard of education is higher and more accessible for all.