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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
10th Grade, 10th Grade Reading, 10th Grade Writing, 11th Grade Reading, 11th Grade Writing, 12th Grade Reading, 12th Grade Writing, 1st Grade, 1st Grade math, 1st Grade Reading, 1st Grade Writing, 2nd Grade, 2nd Grade math, 2nd Grade Reading, 2nd Grade Writing, 3rd Grade, 3rd Grade math, 3rd Grade Reading, 3rd Grade Science, 3rd Grade Writing, 4th Grade, 4th Grade math, 4th Grade Reading, 4th Grade Science, 4th Grade Writing, 5th Grade, 5th Grade math, 5th Grade Reading, 5th Grade Science, 5th Grade Writing, 6th Grade, 6th Grade math, 6th Grade Reading, 6th Grade Science, 6th Grade Writing, 7th Grade, 7th Grade math, 7th Grade Reading, 7th Grade Science, 7th Grade Writing, 8th Grade, 8th Grade math, 8th Grade Reading, 8th Grade Science, 8th Grade Writing, 9th Grade, 9th Grade math, 9th Grade Reading, 9th Grade Writing, ACT English, ACT Reading, ACT Science, ACT with Writing, ACT Writing, American History, American Literature, GED, GRE Subject Test in Literature in English, GRE Subject Test in Psychology, GRE Subject Tests, GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Reasoning, Psychology, SAT Verbal, SAT Writing, World Literature, Writing