Jason Packman Email & Phone Number

Tokyo, Japan

• Recruit and interview EFL instructors for placements at private junior and senior high schools around Japan
• Implement and oversee projects to support our instructors, including a yearly orientation, newsletters and blogs, and professional development seminars
• Observe instructors at our client schools and provide feedback both in informal meetings and in formal written reports submitted to client schools
• Provide pedagogical, academic, and career advice to instructors
• Respond quickly at any hour to provide support to and facilitate communication between instructors and schools via email and Slack
• Substitute and participate in lessons and educational activities at client schools

Outside 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

• Solo teach, evaluate, and grade conversational English classes for first and second-year junior high school students at a private junior/senior high school in western Tokyo
• Manage team of three teachers (myself, another instructor from our company, and a JET instructor)
• Write syllabus and oversee curriculum for classes taught by our team of teachers

• A list of short term courses I have taught in both Japan and the United States
• Joshibi University of Art and Design, study abroad prep class at the Sagamihara and Suginami campuses
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan intensive English language training course, Sagamihara, Japan
• Three week summer course for adolescents for International House, San Diego, CA
• Lower level academic speaking course at the American Language Institute, San Diego, CA
• One intermediate and two beginning level classes at the English Language Institute, La Jolla, CA

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

• Work with a diverse group of residents in Kanagawa to submit a report with policy suggestion to the governor of Kanagawa with policy suggestions on how the prefecture can further assist non-Japanese residents to live.
• Maintain clear and effective oral and written communication in Japanese with native and non-native speakers
• Member of the 10th Council from November 2016 until May 2019. Member of the 11th Council starting from Spring 2020.

Tokyo, Japan

• Provided Japanese to English translation as well as proofread English documents written by Japanese native speakers related to a cutting edge networking technology for a business promotion consortium
• Content ranged from event programs and promotional documents to research papers and presentations

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

• Taught English as a Foreign Language classes to high school students

Tokyo, Japan

• Instructed and evaluated university students in English communication and presentation skills in freshman, sophomore, and remedial English as a Foreign Language classes at Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Taught individual and small group lessons for students ranging from elementary school children and young adults to business executives and retirees at Berlitz Language Centers throughout Tokyo

San Diego, CA

• Wrote curriculum, designed lessons, and facilitated classes to assist refugees acculturate to life in San Diego

San Diego

• Interview diverse group of native and nonnative speakers of English about current public policy issues over the phone and accurately code responses for use in quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Greater San Diego Area

• Oversaw annual Japanese language and culture quiz contest for over 100 high school students in San Diego County
• Facilitated communication among stakeholders at area high schools, San Diego State University, and the Japan Society
• Transitioned question delivery platform from PowerPoint to Web-based application
• Moderated preliminary and final rounds

• Taught required freshman college writing class to students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
• Responsible for evaluating students both formally through grades and informally through one to one meetings

• Worked in the admissions office of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• Hired, managed, trained and delegated projects to four graduate student interns
• Managed a Facebook page to assist admitted students to get to know each other and current students
• Evaluated applicant files for admission
• Planned and oversaw two day open house for 40 admitted students, coordinating with staff, faculty, and students
• Managed operations in the admission process.

• Explained application process to the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego as well as the program's advantages at information sessions, on the phone, through email, and face to face to.
• Analyzed and formatted information on incoming class, school curriculum and student outcomes for internal and external use

• Planned and taught weekly discussion session for International Studies department required class on Globalization and Culture
• Collaborated with fellow teaching assistants and professor in designing curriculum and grading papers and exams

• Designed and taught Japanese culture lesson at local charter elementary school
• Surveyed and interviewed San Diego area Japanese language teachers in Japanese and English
• Collaborated on Japan-related projects with local nonprofits in the San Diego area

Tokyo, Japan

• Taught Japanese elementary students using original curriculum and created materials for use in lessons taught in conjunction with homeroom teacher
• Observed fellow EFL teachers and submitted qualitative evaluation reports to observed teacher and supervisor
• Developed and led curriculum and teaching development seminars for both foreign and Japanese EFL teachers
• Participated in ongoing in-house training workshops, including voluntary year-long seminar on Zoltan Dornyei’s theory of motivation and a teaching methods workshop led by Dr. John Fanselow

Ojiya, Niigata, Japan

• Participated as the first Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program teacher in Ojiya to work directly for the Board of Education and to regularly visit elementary schools
• Created materials and taught original lessons at middle and elementary schools in collaboration with Japanese EFL public school teachers
• Published monthly English language newspaper for all the junior high school students in Ojiya
• Initiated community meetings for international residents of Ojiya which resulted in regular Japanese as a second language classes and publication of waste disposal guidelines in English and Chinese

B.A., East Asian Studies

• Undergraduate coursework on the history, culture, politics, and language of East and Southeast Asia, concentrating on Japan, •.

M.P.I.A., International Relations, Non Profit Management And International Education

Activities and Societies: • Vice President, Asameshikai• Graduate level coursework on program design, evaluation, management, marketing.

Advanced Graduate Certificate In Teaching English As A Second/Foreign Language, Applied Linguistics

Activities and Societies: • President of the Linguistics Student Association, 2010-1• Earned Advanced Teaching English as a Second/Foreign.