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Our TESL graduates are impacting the world – why don’t you join them?
Rose Collins graduated from TWU in spring 2008.  On graduation day, as she waited to cross the stage to pick up her diploma, she began a mental checklist of what she needed to accomplish in the next 12 hours.  She wasn’t concerned with post-graduation parties or her future career … she had to get on a plane to China, en route to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (yes, North Korea). 

As part of Rose’s TESL certificate practicum, she taught a group of teachers from North Korea over a period of six weeks in Langley and volunteered with other delegations over the past years.  Now she was headed to the country to work as a teacher and program coordinator after her three-week teaching engagement there.  When Rose started the TESL program, she never dreamed it would open doors into such a mysterious and misunderstood country. Currently, our TWU professors and TESL graduates are working with the North Korean Ministry of Education to staff 12 teachers for a short-term teaching contract in May 2010. Recruitment for long-term teachers for Fall 2010 has also begun. 

Could North Korea be your destination? 

Contact Lucy Gerbrandt at 604-513-2121 x. 3847