Where in the World is our TESOL graduate Roberta Diamond

When Roberta Diamond volunteered to teach English at a local nonprofit, she “didn’t have a clue about how to make a lesson plan!”  Determined to learn about them and other good teaching tools, she enrolled in the TESOL certification course at English for Life.  What a difference it made in her life!  She says, “Presently,…

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Meet English for Life TESOL graduate Emily Cooney

      So much has happened for Emily Cooney since she taught EFL and Business English in Indonesia!  Let’s catch up with her: What are you up to nowadays?  I’m now in my fourth year of the PhD program in rhetoric/composition/linguistics at Arizona State University.  I’ve also become certified to teach second-language writing courses…

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Meet English for Life TESOL graduate Emily Pressley

          Although Emily Pressley didn’t study education as an undergrad, after college she spent a year teaching kindergarten at an English immersion school in Mexico.  There she “fell in love with teaching and with ESL.”  When she returned to the States she worked in a few nonprofits with international clients and…

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