My Education
Diploma in Ornitholigy - Home Study Institute of South Africa, 1998.
TEFL certificate from the Cambridge University, U.K. - 2002
Teaching English to Children - Lambert University 2004
Teaching English using Grammar - Lambert University 2004
Teaching English using the internet - Lambert university 2004
Teaching English as a second language (TESOL) - Lambert University 2004
Diploma in TESOL - Lambert University 2004
My Experience
Teacher of Ornithology to tour guides in Africa.
Second Language teacher in Asia for 4 years
My Awards
Lushan foreign experts award. Awarded to Ex-pats who have excelled in their various feilds and who teach in different parts of the Jiangxi Province in China. August 2003
Jiangxi Teachers Award for Paper written "Teaching English in China" December 2002
Asia TEFL presenter - "The Brain the Key to a Fruitful EFL classroom" Seoul, Korea 2004
Presenter at the Asia TEFL conference, Beijing 2005 - "Asia and the internet"
Outstanding teachers award - Yichun University, Jiangxi, China 2005
Plaque of appreciation for education upliftment - Vietnam, 2005
My Publications
Numerious EFL teaching and learning Magazines Yichun University, Jiangxi Province, China
"Open your mouth Oral (英语口语)" English book series. Published by Qinghua University Press, Beijing, China (清华大学)
ISBN - 7-302-09911-1 (Teacher's book)
ISBN - 7-302-09910-3 (Student's book)
Book two is due for publication in January 2006
"Varieties of English" learning material for students to hear and distinguish the difference between native English speakers living in different countries all over the world. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asiatefl/files
"The brain and the English language classroom." Presented at Guiyang Amity foundation (爱徳) winter conference:
http://www.amityfoundation.org/page.php?page=1517 (PDF format)
"The brain the key to a fruitful EFL classroom". Presented at the Asia TEFL conference in Seoul, Korea, November 2004
"Throwing the course book out the window": http://www.ajoyfulplace.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=46&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
"Baobaogao English song book series". A set of 5 song book series especially designed for EFL students to practice their listening skills and learn how to sing English songs
"Living in China" A short book designed to help people to live in China. Extracts can be dowloaded for free at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asiatefl/files
A talk about "Asia and Asians learning English as a foreign language" and the impact foreign teachers have on Asia as a region