Master of Arts: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL@PSU), Portland State University

Bachelor of Arts: Japanese Language and Literature, University of Oregon

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999 - 2006  - ESL Instructor - Intensive English Language Program, Portland State University, Graduate Teaching
                       Assistant for academic school year 1999 - 2000

• Teach academic skill-based courses in reading, writing, grammar and listening/speaking
• Incorporate web-based activities into the classroom
• Design activities to meet the needs of students in an academic program
• Encourage student collaboration and communication
• Facilitate culture learning in multicultural classrooms
• Attend staff meetings, hold office hours, participate in committees, proctor placement exams

• Co-designed language curriculum to meet student and program needs
• Maximized classroom learning by developing appropriate learning materials
• Evaluated curriculum in an ongoing process of information gathering, analysis and synthesis
• Served as academic advisor and counselor to Transnational Program students
• Observed office hours and attended weekly meetings

• Developed and coordinated a three-week survey of volunteerism in the Portland area
• Contacted volunteer sites and researched relevant background information
• Presented student orientations to volunteerism in the US and Portland
• Exposed students to real-life situations and language outside of the context of the university classroom
• Gathered, analyzed, and synthesized information for final program evaluation

• Considered language-related needs as well as human needs while instructing adult students of varying ages and abilities
• Modified, adapted, and designed activities for a multilevel classroom
• Supported individual students with beginning literacy

• Assisted Japanese English teachers with in-class teaching, lesson planning, and evaluation
• Created interactional activities and modified existing learning materials to meet the communicative needs of students
• Coordinated English language clubs and extracurricular English activities

• Designed a 10 week curriculum on the theme of "English for Travel"
• Created materials to satisfy multilevel adult students
• Improved students’ listening and speaking abilities

• Designed private English lessons for Japanese professionals
• Developed customized lesson plans to meet individual student needs

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Mailing Coordinator, ORTESOL Executive Board, 2001 - 2003
Secretary, ORTESOL Executive Board, 1999 – 2001
Student-Teacher, ESL Department, Portland Community College, South East Center, Ms. Sharon Hennessy, Winter 1999
Seiko Epson Business Exchange Summer Internship recipient, Suwa City, Japan Summer 1992

PUBLICATIONS

Siebert, L. (2003) Student and teacher beliefs about language learning.  The ORTESOL Journal, 21, 7-39.

2002    Ten collaborative reading activities that work.  Demonstration co-presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, April 9 - 13

2001    Ten collaborative reading activities that work.  Demonstration co-presented at the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ORTESOL) Annual Conference, Albany, Oregon, October 26

2000   Exploring students’ and teachers’ beliefs about language learning. Paper presented at the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ORTESOL) Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 27

1996   Team-teaching demonstration lesson - intermediate level. Demonstration lesson presented to Japanese educators at the commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of Miyanomori Junior High School, Sapporo Board of Education, Sapporo, Japan, April 28

1995   How to work with Japanese teachers of English. Workshop presented at the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Annual Mid-block Conference/Northern Region, Iwate, Japan, November 15 - 18

1994   The steps to effective lesson planning. Demonstration presented at the Annual Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Orientation, Tokyo, Japan, July 19 - 23

• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL, Inc.)
• Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ORTESOL)
• Japan Exchange and Teaching Alumni Association (JETAA)
• Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT) 1995 – 1996

Spanish – Courtesy Level
Japanese – Intermediate Level