Peter Horton

Characteristics Extremely hardworking, honest, caring, and driven to be the very best at anything and everything.

Skills Strong creative, people, leadership, managerial, motivational, planning, and organizational skills.

10 Point Teaching Philosophy: 1. A teacher must be the very best teacher he can for his/her students and their parents.

2. A highly qualified teacher must be an excellent learner not just a teacher.

3. A teacher must do all he can to learn anything and everything about the content he teaches, the methods he teaches with, and the strategies he uses to help his students.

4. A teacher must set high language, content, cultural, and moral standards in the classroom.

5. A teacher must work very hard to learn any and all technology available, so he can put it to use in the classroom.

6. The teacher must write and deliver an excellent lesson; furthermore, reevaluate it to see how it could have been better.

7. A teacher must try his very best to gain a complete understanding of the student needs, abilities, skills,

and how to motivated the student to do his very best to improve.

8. A teacher must be ready to adjust his teaching methods, strategies, and lesson to fit all the students

needs.

9. Professional development must be an ongoing process everyday of a teachers life.

10. A teacher needs to love teaching, his students, and think only of the students needs and requirements.

Qualifications Over 30 years of management, marketing, sales, training, military, and education experience.

B.S. in Business Education, Marketing, Sales, Management– A teaching degree.

TESOL Minor of 21 credit hours, 120 hours practicum, over 390 total hours in the program.

State of Michigan K6-12 Provisional Teaching degree in Business and TESOL.

Ten years of teaching in China, Korea, and Saudi Arabia; in elementary, middle, high school, college, and university level.

Taught IELTS for 2 years in high school and at university level.

Extensive work in curriculum, assessment, and standards development.

Designed, and taught Intensive English Programs for 10 years.

Taught English teachers, soldiers, and business people in management, sales, retailing, merchandising and more. Now teaching English with Machining, Air conditioning, and Electronics content.

Able to use computer lab, software, and websites to teach students

Objectives To gain a position as a supervisor, manager, marketer, and teacher trainer

To hire, train and motivate staff through professional training and other means.

To create a teamwork approach to daily business, training, and education.

To put into place my curriculum ideas, methods, and strategies for teaching and learning.

To motivate general staff, teachers, and students to want to be the very best they can be.

Current address: Nesma Compound Off King Abdul Aziz Rd. Tabya Rd. Jubail 31951 KSA https://www.linkedin.com/in/-identity-name

Date Available: 30 day notice Citizen: USA Cell Phone: Saudi Arabia 966-03 568406967 Skype: petej0018 E-mail: petehorton2012@yahoo.com

Education

09/2009-05/2011 Saginaw Valley State University.at University Center, Michigan 48710 USA TESOL Minor and Certificate: The program requires over 390 hours of classroom activities, 100 hours of supervised practicum, and 20 hours of advocacy training. Approximately 24 textbooks required for the program of study. 09/1982-05/1986 Ferris State College (Renamed Ferris State University in 1987), 1201 S. State Street, Big Rapids, Michigan, USA – 49307 Ph: (231) 591-2000 B.S: Business Education, Marketing/Management/Sales with many teaching methods State of Michigan Provisional Teaching Certificate in Secondary Education

TESOL Experience

05/18/2014-Present International Institute for Languages Co. is my employer , but I have been contracted out to NITI. in Al Hassa, KSA.

Taught students general English and English for Special Purposes. Trained teachers, create teaching materials that I shared with other teachers.

April 1st, 2016 I was transferred to King Fahad Naval Academy Project in Jubial, KSA Teach cadets Create teaching materials Do anything and everything I can to make sure this project is successful.

12/15/2012-22/2014 Saad Boys National School: Al Khobar 31952 KSA

Teach English and Social Studies. Design of lesson, unit plan, and curriculum ideas towards our American diploma program.

09/20/2011-09/30/2012 Technical/Vocational College Interlink/EGA/TVTC P.O. Box 7650, Dammam 31472 Saudi Arabia

Teacher of two block classes a day plus one module period. To develop a Student Centered Computer Lab with computer programs and websites. Planned, put together a curriculum and teaching materials for students Used Student Centered, tasked based, and audio lingual teaching methods.

09/2008-08/2009 Hailiang Private High School #8 Huan Cheng Bei Rd. Zhuji Zhejiang, China 311800 Ph: 86-575-8706-5066

Students’ ages (16-23) 10th-12th grade students Supervisor of English Teachers & Designer of Curriculum Taught IELTS to twenty classes & International intensive language program with IELTS Trained English teachers 3 hours every two weeks One of my responsibilities was teaching Intensive English in an International Department which pre-

pared students to take the IELTS exam in order to studying abroad. I taught English with contents relat-ed to history, geography, social studies and natural science, plus used IELTS textbooks.

08//2007-08/2008 Doegin Middle School Mokpo, South Korea

Students’ ages: 11-15 Taught twenty classes to 670 junior high students grades junior 1-3 or called 7-9 grades Wrote two language books for my students Performed special vocabulary, reading, writing and speaking assessments Put together a curriculum teaching materials for teaching and learning

TESOL Experience

08/2006 - 08/2007 Chungnam Office of Education Daejeon, South Korea 301-705 Ph: 042-580-7232 Students ages 11-15, grades 7-9th, 21 classes a week, taught at four schools a week

Co-taught with many Korean teachers at four middle schools

Taught 30 English teachers English and Methods of teaching two afternoons a week

Presented a Reading/Vocabulary program to about 250 English teachers of the Province

Taught classes for gifted students of the city on Sundays

Co-wrote a book for the City English Camp and taught summer and winter English Camps

Performed reading and vocabulary assessments on 840 students at the four Middle schools and wrote a report on the issue.

Presented my report and reading program to all English teachers in the province.

08/2005-08/2006 Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China 15001 Ph: 86-0451-8251-9791

Taught 20 classes to 15-28 students per class Designed and taught Intensive English to prepare the students to take the IELTS Exam Developed my own teaching curriculum and classes to teach Intensive English and IELTS. Wrote a book that covers many different topics, such as sports, cooking, gardening, music, science,

history, family, friends, travel, business, and current hot issues of the country Created library in the classroom to get the students reading more

02//2005 – 07/2005 Huizhou Number One Middle School Huizhou, China

(Contracted through Hope Rising) Students’ ages 14-17, 10th grade Taught 20 classes a week, 55-70 students per class, about 1100 in total

Business Development, Management, Marketing, and Sales

1994-2004 Advance Abrasive & Cutting Tools, Inc. Burton, MI USA

President of Company Planned goals and objectives of the business then wrote the business and marketing plans to reach those goals Manager, Marketer, and decision maker for the company Researched customers, products, market and distribution channels for the company Developed customer base, market, products, sales team, and staff Trained staff

1991-1994 Blanton Abrasive & Cutting Tools-Troy, Michigan USA

Job: Outside Sales reprehensive and manager of sales staff Researched new product lines, market expansion, customer development, and services Trained sales representatives

Purchased cutting tools, machine shop supplies, tool & die machinery, coated and bonded abrasives, and safety equipment. A complete industrial supply warehouse. Note; I fir st star ted in the business world at sixteen (1970) in my parents restaurants. Plus, I worked for many larger companies or corporations.

11/1976-11/1979 Active duty, US Army, Fort Hood Texas Combat Engineer-Bridge Specialist

I attended basic training-12 weeks, plus two military schools where I was taught how to train soldiers.

Within two weeks of being in basic training I was put into the roll of squad leader. Plus, I was the first person promoted out of about 220 men.

Hobbies I enjoy reading about everything and anything, such as, travel, different counties, history, culture, sports, gardening and how to teach ESL/EFL. Furthermore, I take pleasure in listening to music of different cultures, dancing, cooking and travel. I love playing baseball, basketball, American football, and swimming. I have coached baseball, American football, soccer, basketball, swimming, and weight training.