I believe I would make a fantastic English teacher due to my educational background in Creative Writing, Publishing, and my TEFL certification, as well as my professional experiences as a teacher with Elite Education, Oxford Learning, and Frontier College.
My undergraduate degree in Creative Writing & Publishing provided me with many classes that would assist me in teaching English, including editorial classes with a specific focus on English grammar and a Creative Writing pedagogy class where our assessments were based on how well we could teach lessons to our peers. I have also completed the TEFL from TEFL.org, which built-on my already-established skills and gave me a framework of what to expect when teaching abroad.
I have extensive teaching experience through a multitude of companies that focus on after-school, holiday, and summer classes. I am currently employed with Elite Education, where I teach a variety of group and individual lessons for children aged 10-17. In this position, I primarily teach English reading and writing skills with a focus on teaching grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, literary analysis, and essay writing. Many of my students have newly immigrated to Canada, so I am familiar with teaching students who do not speak English as a first language.
During the summer of 2019, I worked as a Literary Camp Counsellor for Frontier College. This position required me, alongside a co-teacher, to develop a 6-week curriculum with an emphasis on teaching literacy skills in a fun, camp environment. This taught me how to create interactive, interesting lesson plans that convinced students that they wanted to return to camp every day. This position relocated me to live on an Indigenous reservation in northern Ontario, so I have experience leaving home and teaching in an unfamiliar place. As my students were all Indigenous, I also learned cultural sensitivity and how to incorporate cultures that are not my own into my lessons.
I want to teach in Korea because I am very interested in the culture and am excited at the prospect of living in a new country.
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