"I'm an experienced English, Humanities and ESL teacher who recently returned from Zhuhai, China, where I spent roughly two years teaching college-prep English through the China Social Welfare Education Foundation High School to High Level University (HHU) program at the Zhuhai No. 2 High School. I also spent one month teaching students in another branch of the same program at the No. 1 Haimen High School more...
"I'm an experienced English, Humanities and ESL teacher who recently returned from Zhuhai, China, where I spent roughly two years teaching college-prep English through the China Social Welfare Education Foundation High School to High Level University (HHU) program at the Zhuhai No. 2 High School. I also spent one month teaching students in another branch of the same program at the No. 1 Haimen High School, the top-ranked school in all of Jaingsu province. During my time teaching at HHU, which uses 'high-intensity learning' techniques to prepare Chinese students to enter top-tier universities abroad, I taught not only spoken and written English, but also TOEFL prep, SAT reading, vocabulary and sentence completion, grammar, essay writing, literature, drama, cinema studies and global history. Additionally, I worked extensively with the students one-on-one on their college admissions essays, and served as an adviser on the overall college application process.
Currently, I am teaching courses at Wesleyan University's Green Street Arts Center, where I am offering classes on the history of Israel and Palestine, which covers the history of the region from ancient times into the present, and on Creating Your Own Utopia, which chronicles the history of utopian movements and encourages students to utilize these ideas to create their own vision of a utopian society. Previously, I taught reading comprehension, grammar, enriched vocabulary, writing, and speech to students ranging in age from 9-15 at Kent Prep, a Queens-based test prep school. I also taught ESL for seven months in Nicaragua with the non-profit org. Projects for People, which utilized drama,creative writing and visual art, and culminated in the performance of a play the students wrote and memorized in that was entirely in English. In addition, I worked with homeless children in New York City as an Artist Mentor with the Builders of the New World Program at the Actor's Theater Workshop, and taught drama to inner-city youth at the Cypress Hills Community Developme" less...
