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Foreign Language Department Staff Director Education: TESL Certification from TFLI, Nashville, TN. Graphic Design, Display/Exhibit Design coursework at FIT in NYC. B.A. in Fine Arts(dual major:Visual Art/Music, minor in Italian) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Academic Year in Florence, Italy. High School Exchange Student in Colombia, SA.
Experience: Following her TESL Certification and 2 years as an ESL Instructor at TFLI & VUMC in Nashville, TN., Sidney served as the Assistant Director of the Foreign Language Department at TFLI for a year. Her former life in NYC as a struggling professional musician and actor also provided experience in Display/Exhibit and Graphic Design, Advertising, Marketing, Management and Sales. Sidney lived in Italy and South America and has traveled extensively in Europe.
Great at ping-pong. Can't dance.
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish.
| Miranda Runcie  Assistant Director Education: B.A. English, Truman State University Experience: Miranda studied at L'Abri Institute in Huemoz, Switzerland and at the International College of Seville in Seville, Spain. She instructed an Environmental Awareness class at Truman State University and volunteered in the campus recycling program. Miranda also spent a year teaching English classes to adults in Quito, Ecuador and to children at the Hacienda de Esperanza children’s home in Tabacundo, Ecuador.
Languages: English, Spanish
| Maria Simpson, Senior Spanish Instructor Education: B.A. in Education(major in ESL) Instituto Universitario Pedagógico de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Florida University, in Miami, Florida. Experience: A native of Venezuela, Maria taught ESL in high schools in Venezuela. She was the Assistant Director at the Bolivar and Bello Institute, in Kingston, Jamaica and taught in vocational and elementary schools in Plymouth, Montserrat and at Florida National College in Miami, Florida for two years. An Instructor at TFLI since 1993 as an independent contractor and as a staff member since 2000, Maria has traveled in Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean. Languages: Spanish, English |
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