Dr. Troy Fullerton

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Teaches

English

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Spanish

Esperanto

Certified language teacher with over 25 years of experience!

Teaches

English

Native

Speaks

Spanish

Esperanto

Certified language teacher with over 25 years of experience!

About Me

Resume & Certificates

From United StatesLiving in Other, United States (02:22 UTC-05:00)

About Me

italki teacher since Dec 22, 2025

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I'm a Spanish and ESL teacher from southwestern Oklahoma in the United States. I acquired my master's degree in a program conducted entirely in Spanish, which is my second language, so I am intimately familiar with the challenge of acquiring bilingual skills in one's second language, even on the academic level. I also have thousands of hours of interpreting experience (mainly English to Spanish). I have taught for over 25 years on the high school level, plus I have taught ESL in a community college adult education program, and I have taught ESL for the past three years through an online format. I am a personable, hands-on teacher, and I connect with my students using a variety of styles, according to my students' individual needs. I use a conversational approach and am very good at breaking down complex concepts to make them easily accessible. While I am always willing to bring lessons and come prepared with exercises, I prefer to let lessons over specific grammatical or vocabulary-related themes arise naturally from conversations. I like to bring up random topics of discussion, discuss them in English, then go back and cover what I have heard, providing help with grammar, pronunciation, and natural ways of saying things in a native-sounding fashion. For some of my lessons (when it is beneficial), I use the Off2Class platform as well as articles from bilingual news sources to provide practice materials, and I often simply create my own materials and share them with m...

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Certificates

Troy L Fullerton - Oklahoma State Department of Education - 2023I am a certified teacher of both Spanish and English as a second language for all grades in the state of Oklahoma (USA). In order to qualify, I earned my bachelor's degree in language education from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois (USA) and passed certification exams for both Spanish and English as a second language.

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Teaching experience

2006 - 2025

Middle School and High School English and SpanishTecumseh High School - Tecumseh, United StatesIn addition to my full-time teaching job at an Oklahoma public school, I have taught English as a second language at Mid-America Tech School (Wayne, Oklahoma) in an adult education setting, and I currently teach ESL online through Bilingual Barrier Busters, an online language-learning community. Altogether, I have 25 years of teaching experience.

Education

2015 - 2022

Doctorate - Education--ESLNorthcentral UniversityI have a doctorate in education with an emphasis on English as a second language. My dissertation dealt with the acquisition of English on an academic level for the purpose of university success

Work Experience

2022 - Current

Spanish and ESL teacherBilingual Barrier Busters, LLC - United StatesTeaching Spanish and ESL to individuals and small groups in an online platform.

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Rating

Students

Lessons

100%

Attendance rate

100%

Response rate

5.0