Teaching Experience

       As a graduate TESOL student at Teachers College, Columbia University, I have been teaching at the Community English Program (CEP) since February 2013. There, I have had the opportunity to teach several advanced ESL classes based on a textbook series in the Spring and Summer, as well as one in the Fall without a textbook in which I developed the curriculum, syllabus, and materials directly based on the results of my student needs analsysis. Through both an individual and a team-teaching paradigm, I developed courses based on student needs to deliver integrated skills classes for two hours, three times a week, totaling ten weeks at 60 instructional hours.

            Below you will find the course syllabus, needs analysis, and sample lesson plans I developed for advanced classes at the CEP. For more information on the CEP, please click here.

            Prior to the CEP, I taught for 15 months at ILA Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. There I had the opportunity to work with a variety of ages and proficiency levels for general EFL classes, as well as conduct specialized IELTS and TOEFL prep classes. For more information on ILA, please click here.

             Currently,  I work in the CEP office as a Program Assistant, as well as an ESL tutor at the Korea Finance Corporation in New York. There, I provide twice-weekly one-on-one lessons developed according to the changing needs of my students. Through this customized instruction, I have the chance to address first language transfer issues in order to improve everyday conversation, formal and informal usage, as well as professional English presentation skills.