STEPHANI CLOUSER

SEConDARY ELS

I am from Indiana in the northern Midwest of the U.S., but I have spent most of my adult life living and working in China. I studied English Secondary Education so that I could be prepared to teach English in Chinese universities. After several years of teaching in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces and in America, I got an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. From 2001-2003, I lived in Changchun, Jilin Province, where I studied Chinese language full-time. During my 15 years in Changsha, Hunan, I taught high school students, university students, home-schooled my own two daughters and even taught Chinese to some Americans. Two years ago, I returned to Indiana and taught ELL in a middle school where I learned how fun it is to work with middle school students. I am certified to teach high school English, K-12 ELL and middle school Language Arts, but my favorite group of students to see daily are the middle school ELL students.