What Nate Fair does: Nate teaches a variety of courses for the ELP, including Advanced Writing for Academic Purposes in the Intensive Program and Leadership & Teambuilding in the Institute for Academic and Professional Studies. He has also led workshops for international students enrolled in graduate programs at Penn.
Experience: Nate is an applied linguist interested in multimodal communication and community development. Over the past decade, he has taught students across a wide range of ages, from young children to senior citizens. At his undergraduate university, he was a tutor for a variety of subjects, including Arabic, history, linguistics, and Spanish. He spent two years teaching English overseas before completing his master's degree at Penn, where he taught in community-based programs and served as a peer mentor for first-year students in the TESOL program. Additionally, Nate has several years of experience teaching SAT Reading/Writing, AP Language & Composition, AP United States History, and AP Psychology to high school students across the United States. He also coaches them through the college application process. Outside the realm of education, he has several years of experience in the translation industry, as both a translator and project manager. Currently, Nate teaches for the Penn ELP, ELS at Saint Joseph's University, and a test preparation company.
Travels: Nate has studied and taught in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Education:
- MSEd in TESOL, University of Pennsylvania
- BA in Spanish; BA in Middle Eastern Studies; Minor in Modern Standard Arabic; Certificate in Levantine Arabic, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Talk to Nate about: Anything! Just be prepared for him to talk your ear off if you decide to strike up a conversation.
