Guy V.
Private tutor in Tigard, OR
Education
EDUCATION 2010 Master of Arts: Theater, Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2007 Bachelor of Arts: English, Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2015 CBEST (California Basic Education Standards Test) Portland, Oregon 2012 TESOL/TEFL Certification (100 hrs. in class): Oxford Seminars Portland, Oregon PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE English Instructor, Wittayanukulnaree School. Phetchabun, Thailand. December 2014–October 2015. Designed curriculum and taught 20 classes per week for High School juniors and seniors, averaging 40 students per class. English Instructor, By-Lingual International Language School. Utrera, Spain. Sept.–December 2014. Taught 9-week program to prepare adult students for Trinity College Exam, Levels B1/B2. Coached individual students to strengthen their oral interview skills and written portfolios. English Instructor, Huntington Career College. Los Angeles, CA, USA. April 2012–July 2014. Taught all levels of adult EFL students. Prepared students for TOEFL exam. Co-wrote and edited HCC student and employee handbooks to achieve national accreditation status. Represented HCC at ACCET accreditation conference in Orlando, FL. English Instructor, Vacances Educatives Sejours Linguistiques. Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 2014. Designed curriculum and taught a 3-week summer intensive English course for intermediate-level French high school students. Camp Counselor, Fitness by the Sea. Los Angeles, CA, USA. May–August 2014. Taught children aged 5 to 12 surfing, swimming, volleyball, music, and theater activities. Flight Attendant, United Airlines. New York, New York February 1997 – August, 2003 Provided food and beverage services on domestic and international flights: Qualified as safety professional on 9 classes of jet. PUBLICATIONS Don’t Be Gentle; I’m Not Used to It… (a collection of single panel comics illustrated by the author). Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing Company, 2014. Hardboiled in Honolulu (A rock & roll album: written, composed, and performed by G.V.), 2014. Slang is Doom Reviled Slob; My Symbols Deliver Mood-Signals! (& other palindromes illustrated by the author). Dorrance Publishing Company, 2012. A Dose of Foe Soda: New Palindromes Illustrated By the Author. Dorrance Publishing forthcoming). I, Pundit: Over 100 Original Puns Illustrated by the Author. Dorrance, forthcoming). Writing, illustrating, music performance and composition on guitar, 7-ball juggling, unicycling, tennis, surfing.
Experience
I am a university graduate with a Master of Arts degree in Theater, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, a 100 hour in-class TEFL certification, a CBEST certification, and I am passionate about the art and craft of teaching. The act of imparting knowledge of word meanings and social concepts with their practical applications and special usages, finding new ways to make this knowledge desirable and accessible to different personality types with their uniquely informative histories, and witnessing the subsequent epiphanies of understanding—to me, this is a challenging, a meaningful, and a fulfilling pleasure. I understand intuitively, empirically, and theoretically the learning trajectory that distinguishes adult learners from children, advanced learners from beginners, and reluctant learners from self-starters. Incidentally, it's my experience that evincing a favorable emotional response to an educational lesson, regardless of the subject, is the shortest path to activating an integrated understanding of the matter. By mingling appropriate ad hoc theatrical techniques such as pantomime and illustration, (sometimes singing and dancing), with more traditional methods of pedagogy such as individual recitation, choral drilling, collaborative games, and writing repetition – I have consistently elicited optimum results from past students in such diverse milieus as airline safety and airline computer programs, to ocean surfing, teen theater, and teaching English as a foreign language in America as well as Spain and Thailand. Whether working within an established syllabus or engineering my own I always endeavor to create lesson plans that simultaneously challenge and affirm student capabilities. And above all, I attempt to create a learning environment that is a place of conspicuous safety where no one need ever be reticent about sharing the extent of their learning. I make this clear from the beginning: mistakes are opportunities; the less a person fears making them, the more enjoyable and effective the learning process becomes. In addition to my formal education, my professional experience as a teacher and curriculum designer, my years as an international flight attendant, and experience as a published author, illustrator, and performing song-writer have conspired to make me a supremely adaptable, discreet, diplomatic, and effective instructor for people of all ages, adults, adolescents, and children. I hope I've succeeded in conveying my competence and enthusiasm for any teaching/tutoring positions you have available.
Subject Expertise
7th Grade Writing9th Grade Reading9th Grade math9th Grade8th Grade Writing8th Grade Science8th Grade Reading8th Grade math8th Grade9th Grade Writing7th Grade Science7th Grade Reading7th Grade math7th Grade6th Grade Writing6th Grade Science6th Grade ReadingWritingGRE Subject Test in Literature in EnglishGRE Verbal ReasoningGRE VerbalGRE Subject TestsGRE Subject Test in PsychologySAT WritingSAT VerbalPsychology6th Grade mathGEDAmerican LiteratureAmerican HistoryACT WritingACT with WritingACT ScienceACT ReadingACT English2nd Grade Writing2nd Grade Reading2nd Grade math2nd Grade1st Grade Writing1st Grade Reading1st Grade math1st Grade3rd Grade12th Grade Writing12th Grade ReadingWorld Literature11th Grade Writing11th Grade Reading10th Grade Reading10th Grade10th Grade Writing3rd Grade math3rd Grade Reading3rd Grade Science3rd Grade Writing4th Grade4th Grade math4th Grade Reading4th Grade Science4th Grade Writing5th Grade5th Grade math5th Grade Reading5th Grade Science5th Grade Writing6th Grade
Availability
Any day at any time
Can Meet
Up to 15 minutes away for no additional charge, Up to 5 minutes away for no additional charge
Hobbies
I have a passion for creative writing and comic-illustrating, (to date I have written and illustrated 4 single-panel comic book collections (2 of which are original palindrome collections, and one, of puns; my fourth comic book is simply straight forward single-panel comics)). I love both composing and performing music on guitar. 7-ball juggling is one of my favorite personal achievements. I enjoy riding unicycle and juggling at the same time, also. Tennis is probably my favorite sport to watch -- although, sometimes I think soccer might be also. Surfing is, bar none my favorite athletic activity. I've had the excellent fortune to live in Hawaii (I hope one day to return to live), where I took up surfing and fell in love with it from the first wave.
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