Iain Wyder

A businessman but also a "closet academic" I came to China in 1996 with the intent of establishing an apple cider company. However in 2001 I began to teach at Ludong University Yantai in 2001, teaching College English to non-majors. By 2003 with Chinese partners I was offering business English and management consulting in Suzhou to several Fortune 1000 companies. In 2006 I returned to secondary education joining a Cambridge International Centre in Yantai teaching CIE IGCSE and A levels Economics. This became a passion on joining a Shanghai CIC where with a Chinese co-teacher (Taosha) we achieved spectacular A level learning results placing hundreds of students in the most prestigious English speaking universities in the U. S., Canada, the U.K. and Hong Kong. Returning to management in 2011 in Beijing, Harbin and Chongqing building and leading new Cambridge Schools. This work included operational oversight implementing proper Cambridge International Examination Board (CIE) policies, procedures, general teacher and student management including teacher training. Much of 2013 was spent researching better ways to prepare low English vocabulary Chinese high school students for examination by the CIE. A paper reporting te results of this action research can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95532510/Breaking%20the%20L2%20learning%20barrier%20for%20content%20language%20learning.docx