Robert C. Thierfelder Jr., TEFL
Florida, USA. Phone: Mobil (908) 872-1489
Robthierfelder@icloud.com
D.O.B: 1969

Education:
Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA;
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration; Minor in Marketing; May 1991
ITTO, International Teaching Training Organization certificate (TEFL/ TESOL); April 2016
• 140 hour course teaching English as a second language; Distinction Grade

Core Qualifications:
• Approaches & Teaching Methodologies
• Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary
• Receptive Skills training
• Classroom Management
• Basis of Grammar Structures & Phonology
• Advanced lesson planning skills
• Pronunciation skills training

Work Experience:
Private tutor: current
• Teach students one-on-one
• Utilize realia, pictures, and actions
• Create a fun and exciting environment with music and rhyming exercises

Carlie Simon English School, Mexico; 2016

Teacher
• Taught groups of 4-10 students
• Focused on conversational English
• Brought realia into the classroom to offer a solid teaching perspective
• Utilized maps and pictures
• Core focus was to make things; i.e. make letters into words, make words into sentences, make sentences into phrases then make phrases into paragraphs
• Worked one-on-one with students to overcome obstacles
• Pronunciation and verb endings were key components to the core curriculum

Music instructor teaching bagpipes; current
• Work one-on-one with students
• Teaching students how to read and interpret music
• Teaching students both online and in person
• Working with students both advanced and beginners