My name is Jonathan Highmark, I graduated from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Campus with a bachelor’s degreein Asian Languages and Literature. I have over a decade of university teaching experience and have spent nearly 9 years working in China. From 2015 until 2019, I served as an English Teacher at Zhejiang Normal University, where I taught courses in Oral English, Cross-cultural Communication, and English Writing. Additionally, I acted as the foreign faculty advisor for the English language speech team. Following that, from 2019 to 2020, I worked as a language instructor at Berlitz Training Center in Shanghai, providing Business English classes to working professionals both one-on-one and in small groups at various international companies. In September of 2020, I began working for Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), where I joined the foreign experts team teaching at SISU Training Center for Overseas Study (TCOS) and College for International Cooperative Programs (CICP). In my role, I occasionally teach Oral English classes for the Ministry of Education Visiting Scholars program, Business English courses for working professionals, as well as several preparatory courses including Oral English, Western Culture, Presentation and Academic English, among others.
我的名字是Jonathan Highmark，我毕业于明尼苏达大学双城校区，获得亚洲语言文学学士学位。我拥有超过十年的大学教学经验，有近9年的中国工作经验。从2015年到2019年，我在浙江师范大学担任英语教师，教授口语英语、跨文化交流和英语写作课程。此外，我还担任英语演讲队的外籍教师顾问。随后，从2019年到2020年，我在上海贝力兹外语培训中心工作，为多个跨国公司职员提供一对一或是以小组形式的商务英语课程，2020年9月，我入职上海外国语大学，成为出国留学人员及海外合作学院外教团队的一员，教授的课程有教育部访问学者项目英语口语，为企业员工开设的商务英语，以及预科项目的英语口语、西方文化，英语演讲和学术英语等课程。