Jason is a highly experienced instructor with over 15 years of experience teaching at high school, university, and business level. Designing a classroom experience centered around creativity and innovation is an exciting topic for this educator with a background in plant ecology, linguistics, and design. Jason likes to create a fun and comfortable classroom atmosphere with a focus on communication.

Previous work has included teaching Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classes with a strong focus on science and design. His academic interests also include creativity and design thinking in the ESL classroom, extensive reading, IB education, and vocabulary.

Jason has a master’s degree in corpus linguistics, holds three Japanese high school licenses and he now teaches high school design thinking with the International Baccalaureate (IB) program combined with the national requirements of industrial arts and home economics. Jason is also active in giving presentations and workshops at conferences around Japan, active in the maker movement in Tokyo, and the adult guide at TEDxYouth@Tokyo.