Alex Guenther

About Me

I am an experienced teacher, travel writer, editor and translator currently teaching Middle and High School English as a Second Language (ESL) at The American School of Bangkok, as well as serving as ESL Department Head. I previously taught part-time at the International School Bangkok and at Mont’ Kiara International School (M’KIS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

My main areas of interest are English Literature and English as a Second Language. I have Virginia State Teaching Certification in ESL (PK-12) and in English (Provisional License), and completed my Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in the summer of 2007.

Before becoming a teacher, I worked as a professional editor and writer. These years of experience – including time as an in-house trainer and head copy editor for a travel guide publishing company in Germany, and as a project manager for a translation firm in the United States – are now combined with an intense desire to share my enthusiasm and knowledge with students, in order to create a welcoming, fun and stimulating environment that fosters student learning. I am not only passionate about languages, literature and linguistics, but I am also creative, good-humored, patient, excellent with children and very flexible, all of which helps make me a motivated and inspiring ESL and English teacher.