Michael Surrett Email & Phone Number

Stafford Springs, Connecticut, United States

Currently co-teaching an ESL course for TTM's Vietnamese employee demographic along with training employees with plant wide 'umbrella SOPs', which also includes a specific simplified approach for the Vietnamese population to ensure inclusivity and understanding while teaching them more relevant and advanced vocabulary at the same time. My role is continuing to become more defined and branch out as time goes on. Still new, but eager to learn and grow.

Buffalo, New York, United States

I was responsible for teaching an ESL class to the plant employees for all three shifts as well as write SOPs, conduct audits, and train new machine operators. I designed and implemented a method to train operators with process SOPs and teach them conversational work-related English at the same time as a diversity management tool. The labor pool on the production floor was extremely diverse with over 31+ languages being spoken. I also helped with the recruitment and retention of employees by assisting with hiring events.

Dunkirk, New York, United States

Began teaching three students at night, which slowly grew to 38 at its highest point, with many of them attending regularly. I used the Best Plus at a metric for language proficiency and really poured myself into curriculum design. Aside from the attendance hours being a positive, the efficacy of my curriculum design eventually began moving regular attending students who were not speaking English very much (if at all) in the beginning, and helped guide them into employable and conversational English proficiency after just 40 dedicated attendance hours in my class. This usually took about 3 months for someone attending 3 days each week for a couple of hours. Students who put in the time and effort will see it pay off, I just helped them navigate their path of success. Several students ended up getting jobs they thought would be a stretch for them, which was rewarding. One of them even became teacher's aid for E2CCB shortly after she tested out of the program!

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Cultural Anthropology

Master'S Degree, Cultural Anthropology