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E-Mail
charles@danoff.org |
Phone / SMS Text
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Fax
+1 (928) 438-0553 |
Skype
cdanoff |
ENG 101 - Writing Persuasive English Essays |
ESL 101 - Conversational English |
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Are you a high-school or college student? Do you want help writing essays for school? |
Do you want to improve your spoken English? |
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| Course Structure: Each week a student will e-mail me an essay, I will read and edit it, then send it back with comments. We will then have a half-hour lesson to talk about the essay. | Course Structure: Half-hour English conversation, where I talk with the student and teach them what they want to learn about speaking English. |
| Charles Jeffrey Danoff (aka Mr. Danoff) is the CEO of Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory. He is a certified English Language teacher whose taught English as a Foreign Language at three institutions and has contributed to or edited three books about teaching English. He has a BA from Colgate University majoring in Economics and English, completed the TUCK Business Bridge Program and proudly earned his high-school diploma from New Trier. |
| Dates | Institution | Location | Description |
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| September 2010 - October 2010 | The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) | Online | Co-organized Collaborative Lesson Planning with Dr. King, a course for teachers who are interested in improving the quality of their lesson plans and in making them available for others to use in the third cycle of P2PU. |
| August 2009 - June 2010 | Anqing Foreign Language School | Anqing, China | Conducted 21 Classes per week of Aural English at Anging Foreign Language School based on the FUN WITH ENGLISH 7A/B, 8A/B textbooks to 7th and 8th grade junior-high school students. The lesson plans I wrote were used to make the "Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books" Open Educational Resource on Wikiversity. |
| July 2008 - July 2009 | Hamatonbetsu Board of Education | Hamatonbetsu, Japan | As an Assitant Language Teacher (ALT) I worked alongside Japanese Teachers of English's (JTE) at 10 schools schedule by the Hamatonbetsu Board of Education. I was on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. Some of my lesson plans and related Open Educational Resources are on my original teaching website: "The Teaching Homepage of Charles Jeffrey Danoff, a.k.a. チャーリー先生 (Charlie Sensei)". | June - July 2008 | Château des Enfants (CDE) | Montagnola, Switzerland | Co-taught Beginning English classes at CDE at The American School in Switzerland as part of my counseling position. |
| One definition from Oxford English Dictionary1 of the adjective form of "academic" is "Of or belonging to an academy or institution for higher learning; hence, collegiate, scholarly." Their second example of the word in print comes from Bp. J. Hall in 1598 who wrote "Oh let me lead an Academicke life." I hope to carry that spirit through my work as well. |
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| Dates | Degree / Certificate | Location |
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| November - December 2010 |
Cambridge University's Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)
Teaching House New York
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New York City, NY, USA |
| January 2010 - Present |
EFL/ESL Teaching Certificate
Indiana University's EFL/ESL Program via Distance Education
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Online via Bloomington, IN, USA |
| June - July 2007 |
Tuck Business Bridge Program
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
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Hanover, NH, USA |
| August 2003 - May 2007 |
Bachelor of the Arts, with Majors in English and Economics
Colgate University |
Hamilton, NY, USA |
| August 1999 - June 2003 |
High School Diploma
New Trier Township High School |
Winnetka, IL, USA |
Mr. Danoff is taking Open Governance and Learning at Peer 2 Peer University, L540: ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Education, ACC164 - Microsoft Excel for Accountants at Oakton Community College and a Novice Japanese Class at the Chicago Japan Information Center as part of his Handmade Spring 2011 Semester.
My formal education began with Winnetka playgroups in the mid-80's and continued through Tokyo's Nischimachi International School, Winnetka's New Trier High School and Hamilton's Colgate University. I have also completed the TUCK Business Bridge Program at Dartmouth College and earned my Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA).
My professional teaching career began in summer 2008 in Montagnola, one of the prettiest places in the world, tucked into a tiny corner of Italian Switzerland. Shipped next to Japan for a year in the winter wonderland of Hamatonbetsu and followed with a year in Anqing an up-and-coming Chinese city. I taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in all three jobs, and in 2009 my work traveled online primarily with this website. A year later I Co-organzied my first online course on the Peer 2 Peer University, and tutored two Chinese junior high-schoolers via this website.
Building on all of those wonderful experiences, living again in Winnetka, I am now on a new adventure, teaching two courses online through this website: "ENG 101" & "ESL 301".
You can find more details on my resume/CV.
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