Qualified Adult ESL Teacher (Beginner-Upper Intermediate Levels, including IELTS prep) with 10 years experience. Online or in-person (Vancouver, near UBC).

For more than a decade, I have had the opportunity to work with Dorothy as a teacher/trainer, and in my experience, she is an exceptional educator. She demonstrates a strong commitment to her students by providing them with organized and effective lessons tailored to their individual learning needs. Dorothy’s compassionate nature and willingness to use various teaching approaches ensure that her students gain a deep understanding of the subject matter. Any student who has the privilege of being taught by her will receive an unparalleled level of dedication and expertise.

Dorothy is very experienced and helpful teacher,she always gives to me valuable feedback including correcting my grammy mistakes, telling me the inppropriate use of vocab,which is what i am looking for. What more, she is very patient to students and she uses different strategies to teach students at different levels. by the way, she is the nicest person I've ever met! I highly recommend her to be a teacher for everyone!

Dorothy led a team providing "English Conversation Circles" service. My friend and I met Dorothy when we went to the English Conversation Circles where we learned that Dorothy was an ESL tutor. Due to low scoring of speaking, my friend had failed in several IELTS tests before she had Dorothy as her 1-1 IELTS tutor on speaking. Dorothy’s tutorials concentrated on variety of topics, test points and solving problems. I witnessed how my friend’s IELTS speaking was improved during these tutorials - I was there accompanying my friend on her sprint. In one month - one tutorial per week, my friend’s IELTS score increased from 5.5 to 6.5. I was so impressed by Dorothy’s tutorials. Recommend Dorothy to anyone who speaks English as his or her second language and wants to take English proficiency tests.

I went to Canada to study English. She was one of my best teachers. She was very patient and always worried if we understood what she was teaching. She explained in different ways until we got it. She always worked on the subject we were poor at.

Dorothy is a wonderful, highly professional and enthusiastic teacher. She is genuinely dedicated to her students and has extensive experience teaching ESL students of all age groups around the world. I found her to be extremely patient, conscientious, adaptable and reliable. From the very get-go, she was able to quickly identify and focus on my needs and aligned her well-prepared and personalized classes to address my deficiencies through interesting customized exercises, tailor-made discussions and role plays whilst also sharing cultural insights about the English language.
I believe Dorothy is a very competent teacher with a wide range of teaching skills. She structured her lessons to not only meet my objectives and expectations but exceeded them through constantly engaging in interactive and real -life situations utilizing these instances to incorporate learning of the various elements of the English language including; grammar, pronunciation, idioms, and useful phrases, thereby ensuring that as a student, I had a holistic experience of the language.
She encouraged me to practice the English language in both written and spoken forms as often as possible which led me to improving my English language skills. I am very happy with my progress and would happily recommend Dorothy to any person or organization who is looking to up skill in the English language.
K. Nithya