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English for Everyone

BMCC-Borough of Manhattan Community College Student Resource Centre, New York City

My experience as an English teacher started in the year 2000 teaching my peers at the university where I was studying. I taught native English, college level students remedial English and made sure they were ready to enter the university classroom and lecture hall, understand what was being taught, and produce university level academic work: we studied reading comprehension and composition.

Wall Street Institute, Israel

I left New York in 2002  and on arriving in Israel the most natural job for me to pursue was teaching English. I was hired by Wall Street English Language Institute and after a two week crash training course I began teaching adults. I worked at Wall Street for one and a half years until Dana and I opened our own Institute ELC-English Language Centre (website is in Hebrew)

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ELC-English Language Centre

I was the educational and managing director at ELC and it was an amazing experience which helped me develop both as a teacher and as a manager. During the two and a half years that I ran the school I took many workshops which helped me in all areas of my professional development as a teacher, an educational director and as managing director of the school.

Our students were of all ages, backgrounds and levels: we had children as young as four years old and our oldest student was 82; we had beginners who had had absolutely no experience with English and we had business men who required course in business and technical English and on etiquette: Doing business in Europe and in the United States.

Nicosia, Cyprus 

Dana, the children and I have been living in Cyprus since August 2007.

I recently completed a University of Cambridge certificate in teaching English, the CELTYL: Certificate of English Language Teaching for Young Learners.