UC Berkeley Extension

I'm an honored instructor at UC Berkeley Extension where I teach on the Certificate in Teaching ESL/EFL.

These are the classes I have taught on the Certificate program:

• Methods and Materials for Teaching ESL/EFL
• Fundamentals of Linguistics for ESL/EFL teachers
• Practicum in Course Design for ESL/EFL teachers
• Teaching English Abroad
• Pronunciation as a Communicative Skill
• Communicative Grammar Teaching

The New School New York

I'm a part-time assistant professor on the New School online MA in TESOL. I co-wrote two of the classes on the program with Jeremy Harmer and we usually co-teach these classes.

• Methods and Materials: Systems
• Methods and Materials: Skills

City College of San Francisco

City College of San Francisco receives groups of teachers from Brazil, China and Korea and I have had the opportunity to work on teacher development programs there.

Some of the topics I teach are:

• Learning English in the 21st Century
• Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
• Individual Learner Differences
• Using Prior Knowledge in Teaching English
• Classroom language and Instruction Giving
• Form-Meaning Connections in Grammar Teaching
• Bilingualism and the Brain
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)