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From 2000 to 2003, I worked in Tokyo Stadium (now Ajinomoto Stadium) in Tokyo Japan as a vendor for the company "Foody." I worked primarily during summer and winter vacations when I had time off of school. I sold beer, burgers and fries to fans who came to visit the stadium to watch soccer. The job taught me perseverance and grit, and the importance of customer service. It also gave me an opportunity to work in Japanese From the summers of 2004-2009, I worked five days a week for a month at the Summer Day Camp program at the American School in Japan. This was the first time I experienced "teaching." Although I was only an assistant, the experience introduced the idea of teaching as a carreer to me, and taught me the joy as well as challenges of being in a classroom full of students
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During University I had two jobs. The first was working for a clerk at a local Japanese DVD store. The store was called "Video Eye" inside of Mitsuwa Market Place and rented out DVDs to patrons of Japanese TV shows and movies. The job helped me develop customer service skills, and allowed me to continue to use my Japanese in a business setting, even while living abroad in the USA.
My other job involved teaching soccer to children ages 3-6. The experience provided me with an opportunity to learn about differentiation and patience (especially with the 3-year-olds). I learned how to be patient with young players, and was reminded that we all start from a low level in the learning process.
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I landed my first job after University as an analyst for the PricewaterhouseCoopers Tokyo Office. Later in the first year of my contract, I transitioned to being an associate for the company, working as a consultant for Tyco Flow Control Japan on matters pertaining to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and for Merck Serono on matters pertaining to transitions and mergers. This job provided me with an opportunity to work with people from a variety of industries and companies.
About 80% of the time, I used Japanese during my time at PwC, which helped me improve my communication skills both verbally and in writing in Japanese.
I left the firm in May of 2010 in order to begin pursuing a teaching certificate. |
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After completing a year of student teaching (Grade 7 humanities) at the American School in Japan under Daniel Smith, I had the fortune to land my first full-time teaching job at Modern Knowledge Schools (MKS) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. There, I taught Sociology and Economics as an elective course offered to students from grades 10-12.
During my time there, I started the "University Club" where students collaborated with each other and shared information about various universities. I was also the MUN coach, and the head coach and founder of the Girls Soccer team. It was a very different experience from teaching in East Asia, and helped me become a more versatile teacher, adept in handling students from various cultures. I fulfilled my one year contract and left the country in June of 2012, to head to my next destination, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. |
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In Honduras, I fulfilled two years as a history teacher, assistant Boys Soccer coach, and as the MUN teacher/coach. For history, I taught grade 9 Modern World History encompassing the time frame of the 1500s to the modern era. During my time at EIS, I also started an MUN conference known as the SPSCON, the San Pedro Sula conferences, which started as a small conference with 50 students and that grew to a conference with over 300 students from multiple countries attending each year.
During this time period, San Pedro Sula was known as "the world murder capital." Living in the city during this tumultuous time helped me grow as a person and made me appreciate the stability and safety I took for granted in other countries I had worked in before. |
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I started working for in Korea the fall of 2014 as a grade 9 Global Studies (Ancient World History) teacher and MUN teacher. I taught MUN for two years, but the course was eventually phased out as my course load for grade 9 History grew and I was no longer able to teach the elective course.
I continued to teach Global Studies 9 until 2018. From 2018, I started teaching AP Capstone: Research. When I made that transition over to AP, I also gave up my Global Studies 9 class in exchange for three new elective courses: Debate, Economics, and Psychology. The elective classes were open to all grades in the high school, while the AP class was limited to seniors. This switch was not easy at first, but I learned to enjoy teaching mixed-grade classes because it posed its own unique advantages of bringing together students who may normally not have classes with each other. Personally, I really enjoyed being in a position where I could teach all four grades, which helped me connect with students from all grade levels. Starting from 2022, I began teaching AP Psychology. For the 2023-24 school year, I have three sections of AP Psychology, one section of AP Research, and one section of elective psychology. Outside of the classroom, I continue to serve as my grade level team lead (G10 Team Lead), the MUN coach, sponsor for the DECA (Business club), and head coach for the high-school boys soccer teams. During my time at KISJ, I started the Global Education City Model United Nations conference from the spring of 2015. Since then, the conference has grown to become one of the largest conferences in South Korea, accommodating hundreds of students from around Asia. In 2020, I started my own online conference, No Borders MUN, which helps raise money for UNICEF. We have completed two successful conferences, and hope to host a third conference in 2022. |
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2024-Present IB Economics World History I World History II Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
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I moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to join the American International School of Riyadh as an IB Economics and World History I & II (Grades 9 and 10) teacher.
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