Dr Andy Curtis

I received a teaching degree (BEd) from Sunderland University, UK in 1991, and a Postgraduate Diploma in TESOL from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, also in 1991. In 1992, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics and in 1996 a PhD in International Education, both from the University of York, UK. For two years, from 1998 to 2000, I was the program manager for a new graduate level EAP program offered by the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where I received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999.

From 2001-2002, I was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Language Teacher Education at the School for International Training in Vermont, where I developed and presented new courses on curriculum design and on educational technology. From 2002 to 2006, I was the Executive Director of the School of English at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada where I managed and led a staff of up to 40 fulltime and part-time teachers and administrative support staff working with up to 1,000 international students from 50 countries.

As an invited speaker, workshop facilitator and consultant, I have given more than 100 presentations, most of them invited, and worked with 10,000 language teaching professionals in 21 countries and territories: Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (South), Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

As a teacher, since 1989, I have designed, presented, evaluated 50 tertiary level courses for 20 educational centres. In 1999, I received the TESOL Leadership Mentoring Award from the TESOL Association, and I have recently completed writing the In Service professional development columns for the four 2006 issues of the Association’s magazine, Essential Teacher.

In 2006, I co-edited Colour, Race and English Language Teaching: Shades of meaning (2006) with Mary Romney, and in 2004, I co-edited Washback in Language Testing: Research contexts and methods with Liying Cheng and Josh Watanabe. In 2002, I co-authored with Kathi Bailey and David Nunan Pursuing Professional Development:  The Self as Source. I have published 60 book chapters, papers in refereed journals and articles in professional publications, as well as conference proceedings. For full details of my publications, please see the Academic Coaching pages of this site.