Our TESOL / TEFL Course Coaches

Corinne Thomsen

Hi! I’m Corinne, and I love the art and adventure of traveling, teaching, and exploring the world. I first got into ESL teaching mainly as a means of satisfying my Wanderlust. I loved exploring new places, having new experiences, learning new languages and gaining understanding of different cultures and people. I soon found that teaching ESL abroad wasn’t only a way of paying for my travel experience, it was my experience. I found that through teaching, I was gaining unique cultural insight, forming lasting friendships and getting the true experience of living and working in a foreign country. I was both a teacher and a student.

But, it wasn’t until I had a class of Japanese kindergarten students that I realized how much I really LOVED teaching ESL abroad. I found myself teaching animal vocabulary, running boorishly around the classroom, roaring like a lion, scratching my armpits like a monkey, and flailing my imaginary octopus arms in the air while screaming out “Lion! Monkey! Octopus!” And the students squealed with understanding and delight. Somehow, I knew then that I loved the energy and enthusiasm of inquisitive students learning a new language and, also, that it was kind of fun to act like an octopus sometimes. I can’t wait until the next time I go abroad to teach and learn! I’ll see you overseas!

Corinne worked as an ESL teacher ALPS Language School in Seattle were she taught multicultural groups in English grammar, conversation, speech, listening, role-play courses, and TOEIC preparation.

Prior to that she taught English conversation to Japanese children at the Hosshoji Junior High School in Tottori, Japan. She also worked as an English Teacher in Tortona, Italy.

She volunteered to teach under-privileged, “at-risk” children in Quito, Ecuador.

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