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I am both an ESL teacher and a teacher trainer. I teach at the International Education Center at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA. It is an intensive academic English program that prepares international students to go to college. I have been teaching there since 2004 and really love it. I am also a teacher trainer with the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT. In the summers, I teach in the MATESOL program at Marlboro College Graduate School, which is also in Vermont. I have been training with them on their SIT TESOL Certificate program since 2000. In addition, I have a small educational consulting business called Berkeley LTC and do workshops for different organizations.
Before moving back to the United States, I lived and taught in Japan and the Republic of Georgia. In Japan, I taught at several universities, including Kansai University, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, and Osaka Gakuin University. In Georgia, I worked for the U.S. Peace Corps as a technical trainer in 2004 and also was teacher trainer on a U.S. Embassy project called the ELCE program in 2012-2013.
I live in Berkeley, CA with my wife, Eka, and my son, Luca.
Before moving back to the United States, I lived and taught in Japan and the Republic of Georgia. In Japan, I taught at several universities, including Kansai University, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, and Osaka Gakuin University. In Georgia, I worked for the U.S. Peace Corps as a technical trainer in 2004 and also was teacher trainer on a U.S. Embassy project called the ELCE program in 2012-2013.
I live in Berkeley, CA with my wife, Eka, and my son, Luca.
