Jay David Cederholm
Certified English as a Foreign Language & Geography Teacher

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Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Birthdate: November 15th, 1982

Table of Contents

1. Teaching Experience
2. Education
3. Language Skills
4. Technical Skills
5. Personal Interests/Hobbies
6. References

Crown Institute of Studies

English Language Teacher

November 2010 - Present
Auckland, New Zealand

• Create and present English lessons to beginner elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate students.
• Adapt material from New Cutting Edge and Total English course books to enhance student learning.
• Administer grammar, speaking, reading and listening assessments.
• Prepare and introduced lessons focusing on writing and conversational skills.
• Crown Institute Lesson Plan
  Lesson Type: Grammar Clarification - Practice Level: 3X Time: 60 mins Date: 15 March 2011
  Main aims: To provide controlled and freer practice of positive/negative statements and questions of simple past.

Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme

Assistant Language Teacher

July 2008 - July 2010
Hokuto City Board of Education, Hokuto City, Hokkaido, Japan

• Created and introduced lessons about American and Western culture for students between the ages of 12 and 15 at five different junior high schools.
• Taught pronunciation techniques and English grammar to students between the ages of 6 and 75 by developing worksheets and individual tutoring.
• Interacted with students at lunch time and helped them clean the school daily.
• Halloween Pumpkin Carving & Seed Preparation Lesson Plan
• Halloween Party Lesson Plan
• Halloween Door Decoration Lesson Plan
• Outside Resources Adapted for Japanese EFL Classes

Aldine Ninth Grade School

Initial Professional Educator

January 2007 - July 2008
Houston, Texas, USA

• Developed and presented lessons in the subject area of world geography for students in grade 9.
• Cooperated with other departments by modifying assignments to meet the special education requirements, providing writing samples for English and TELPAS.
• Completed all responsibilities outside of the classroom by attending daily department meetings, attending weekly staff meetings, and arriving early to school to help supervise the students on a biweekly basis.
• Instituted and maintained a student paper recycling program for 30 weeks.

Grantham Academy

Student Teaching

October - December 2006
Houston, Texas, USA

• Designed and introduced lessons in the subject area of U.S. history for students in grade 8.
• Handled grading responsibilities through Integrade Pro; exported report card and progress report student grades.

MacArthur Ninth Grade School

Student Teaching

August - October 2006
Houston, Texas, USA

• Created and presented lessons in the subject area of world geography for students in grade 9.
• Differentiated lessons in world geography to include students in the English Language Institute Program by modifying content and adjusting lessons.
• Taught a unit on human geography culminating in a 3 day alternative assessment with students researching facts about a country to analyze the dominant religion, population pyramids, government, culture and standard of living.
• Designed a bulletin board on the Five Themes of Geography.

Eleva-Strum High School

Clinical Experience

November - December 2005
Strum, Wisconsin, USA

• Designed and introduced lessons in the subject area of economics for students in grade 12.
• Taught a week long unit on personal finance that covered microeconomic principles including maintaining a personal budget, credit card debt and obtaining a loan.

Fall Creek High School

Junior Observation

Spring 2004
Fall Creek, Wisconsin, USA

• Observed lessons in the subject areas of world history and U.S. history for students in grades 9, 10 and 11.
• Taught one lesson covering the global environment after World War II to students in grade 10.

Altoona Middle School

Junior Observation

Spring 2004
Altoona, Wisconsin, USA

• Observed lessons in the subject area of English for students in grade 5.
• Taught one lesson covering possessive pronouns.

Cambridge University's Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

September - October 2010
Languages International | Auckland, New Zealand

Grade: Pass B

• Lesson Plan No. 1
  Lesson Focus: Vocabulary & Listening Level: Pre-intermediate Time: 30 mins Date: 27 September 2010
  Aims: To clarify and provide practice of relationships vocabulary; to provide gist and detailed listening practice; to provide a clear context for the subsequent grammar clarification & practice.
• Lesson Plan No. 2
  Lesson Focus: Speaking and Reading Level: Pre-intermediate Time: 30 mins Date: 30 September 2010
  Aims: To provide spoken fluency practice; To practice and develop skim reading skills.
• Lesson Plan No. 3
  Lesson Focus: Vocabulary & Listening Level: Pre-intermediate Time: 30 mins Date: 1 October 2010
  Aim: To practice language associated with starting and ending conversations.
• Lesson Plan No. 4
  Lesson Type: Speaking skills Level: Pre-intermediate Time: 40 mins Date: 5 October 2010
  Main Aims: To provide controlled and freer practice of some typical ways to express apologies, reasons and promises and respond to apologies.
• Lesson Plan No. 5
  Lesson Type: Grammar clarification & practice Level: Pre-intermediate Time: 40 mins Date: 7 October 2010
  Main Aims: To contrast present continuous verb forms with present simple verb forms. To provide controlled written practice of present continuous and present simple verb forms.
• Lesson Plan No. 6
  Lesson Type: Writing practice Level: Upper Intermediate Time: 40 mins Date: 11 October 2010
  Main Aims: To develop writing fluency through writing a complaint letter. To practice and develop recognizing differences in register by comparing informal speech with formal writing.
• Lesson Plan No. 7
  Lesson Type: Freer Oral Practice Level: Upper Intermediate Time: 40 mins Date: 13 October 2010
  Main Aims: To provide freer oral practice in the context of a telephone conversation between boyfriend/girlfriend.
• Lesson Plan No. 8
  Lesson Type: Speaking/Listening Level: Upper Intermediate Time: 40 mins Date: 15 October 2010
  Main Aims: To develop gist and intensive listening skills in the context of achievements.
• Lesson Plan No. 9
  Lesson Type: Spoken Fluency Level: Upper Intermediate Time: 60 mins Date: 20 October 2010
  Main Aims: To develop spoken fluency in the context of Auckland tourism. To develop intensive reading skills with authentic materials.

University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

Bachelor of History in Education, Secondary Education

2002 - 2006
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA

• Certification:
• EAA – Early Adolescence through Adolescence (Ages 10-21)
• Broadfield Social Studies with an emphasis on history
• Phi Eta Sigma – Freshman Honors Society

• Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)

• Avid music fan who has attended hundreds of concerts on four continents.
• Interested in file sharing and distribution of live recordings.
• Amateur disc golfer.
• For more information about the sport, please see the Professional Disc Golf Association website.

Professional and educational references are available; please send an e-mail request to cederhjd@live.com.