* Solo instructor at a private school, teaching students in the 1st - 3rd grades of high school (equivalent to 10th - 12th grade in the U.S. system).* Responsible for the contents of all lessons, and collaboratively designing testing material with the rest of the English faculty.* In addition; teaching after school programs to develop further English fluency, including speech and presentation skills, as well as advanced essay writing.* Administered a portion of the "Summer Seminar" in which students were instructed on contemporary global issues.* Homeroom teacher: Providing guidance to students as they prepare for university entrance applications, interviews, and exams.

• Teaching English to students at two Japanese public high schools.• Design and implement my own lesson plans in concert with the teachers I work with.• Create exams for foreign language course students, as well as assist with general English exam creation.• Managed daily operations of the English club; English conversation with members, debate preparation.• Helped with translation work for JET Association (English to Japanese) for their annual report, as well as newsletters.

- Organizing Post-Doctoral Scholars across the University of California system to work towards improvements in salary and benefits.- Recent campaign resulted in a successful contract negotiation that was ratified by a super-majority of memebers.- Conducted membership drive that saw a super-majority of eligible scholars join the union.

• Teacher’s Assistant for Culture and Society: International Perspective, Spring 2007; conducted study sessions and office hours with students, as well as running one of the main class lectures, and answered questions when the professor was unavailable.

• Teacher’s Assistant for Language, Culture & Education Sociology Course, Fall 2006; conducted study sessions with students, and answered their questions when the professor was unavailable

Worked as an English teacher with students ranging in from 5 - 65 years of age. Oversaw continuing improvement in the test scores of my students; recognized by the company for superior teaching.

Worked three years as an assistant english teacher in the six Japanese junior high schools in the city of Iwaki, Japan as part of the JET Programme.