I am a dedicated, experienced, and most importantly patient teacher and private tutor, who has been working in education for the past six years. After I gradated from UCLA in 2009 with a B.A. in English Literature, I decided I wanted to challenge myself and live overseas on my own for a few years. My parents had worked with the State Department when I was in high school, so I was no stranger to living overseas, but I wanted to live abroad on my own. I quickly learned that teaching English...
I am a dedicated, experienced, and most importantly patient teacher and private tutor, who has been working in education for the past six years. After I gradated from UCLA in 2009 with a B.A. in English Literature, I decided I wanted to challenge myself and live overseas on my own for a few years. My parents had worked with the State Department when I was in high school, so I was no stranger to living overseas, but I wanted to live abroad on my own. I quickly learned that teaching English abroad would give me the unique opportunity to travel the world while also working to educate other people. I received a TEFL certification through the TEFL Institute of Chicago and accepted my first overseas teaching position in Seoul, South Korea, in the Spring of 2010. In Seoul, I primarily worked as an ESL teacher. I taught pre-kindergarten age students in the mornings. I helped this age group develop basic English speaking. In the afternoons, I worked with middle school age students. I focused on more complex reading and writing with this age group. After I finished each day at the hagwon, or private English academy, I would privately tutor adult students throughout the city in business English and professional English writing. I worked as an ESL teacher and private tutor in South Korea for two years.
In the fall of 2012, I relocated to Shanghai, China and accepted a position at an established International School, Shanghai High School International Division, or SHSID. For my first six months in Shanghai, I worked with the graduating seniors, assisting them in writing and editing their college admission essays and personal statements. I would also edit writing composed by the Chinese faculty. This position, which is unique to China, was referred to as the “library teacher,” it was like a combination of a copyeditor and a college advisor. After the college admissions period was over, I was assigned my own homeroom class in the 4th grade. It was an International School, so my students came from all over the world. Some of
