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Teacher Jeff

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Linguistics degree holder with over 10 years of English-teaching experience

Teaches

English

Native

Speaks

Chinese (Mandarin)

Other

Linguistics degree holder with over 10 years of English-teaching experience

About Me

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From United StatesLiving in Salt Lake City, United States (23:44 UTC-06:00)

About Me

italki teacher since Mar 13, 2020

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(请使用Italki聊天窗口或Skype预订课程。微信没有屏幕共享功能。谢谢！) Growing up, I'd always been fascinated with the natural world, space travel, psychology, and all of the sciences. Linguistics was a good fit for those interests. From my teens into college I enjoyed break dancing, martial arts, and meditation. I've lived most of my adult life up to this point in China. Fortunately, I actually enjoy my work as an English teacher. I'm excited to see some of my old students joining me for online sessions, as well as to meet new students and help them to acquire English. I'm a career language educator and have taught English in China for over 10 years. I Studied linguistics (language science) and I'm always on the look out for tools and techniques that work in the classroom. I'm very motivated to work with my students to figure out the best path to their English proficiency goals. I see these online lessons as a great opportunity to apply what I've learned at university and in the language-teaching field. I tend to be more effective without a big bureaucracy telling me what works best for them. I want us to use what works best for us! The Input Method is what gets the best results out there, so that's what I've used to sculpt my teaching style, and that's what we'll use together. You may feel like your shyness is holding you back, but most often, I've found, students' don't get enough compelling, comprehensible input. Once you get enough, then you'll naturally start to volunteer more and...

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Certificates

TEFL 120-hour Certificate - Bridge Linguatec Online - 2020This course taught the basics of the composition of the English language and how to teach it in the Communicative Method. I passed their course, but I'm still an Input Method educator.

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Education

2009 - 2012

Bachelor’s - LinguisticsUniversity of Utahgeneral, theoretical track

Work Experience

2007 - 2008

Volunteer English TeacherInternational Language Programs - Zhengzhou, ChinaA group of about 15 volunteers left the U.S. (mostly Utah) together to experience teaching in the countryside about 50km outside of Kunming for about 4 months.

2010 - 2011

English TeacherAston English - Zhengzhou, ChinaTaught for private English franchise. All levels and ages from 4-14 years old.

2012 - 2014

Kindergarten Teachers and Teacher TrainerGuangya IB School - Dujiangyan and Chengdu, ChinaI brought what I'd learned about babies and language to small classrooms in Sichuan. The goal was to get the babies comfortable listening to and playing in English, so they'd be more receptive to the language when starting school and reading. We were very successful with the babies and families willing to try.

2014 - 2016

English Teacher and Teacher Traineri2 - Chengdu, ChinaThis was a pilot program for very young learners. My goal was to do it first and do it right.

2016 - 2019

English TeacherSel Employed - Chengdu, ChinaI developed my technique, an app, a children's puzzle book, and several other tools to supplement my private lessons. This was also the time I prepped the 2018 4th/5th/6th grade English contest winner for her winning performance in Beijing!

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Rating

1,261

Students

7,675

Lessons

100%

Attendance rate

99%

Response rate

5.0

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