About Will J.Moore
Over 27 years teaching English across various countries!
William grew up in a very remote, very small community on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island (see Course 4/Life in a West Coast Logging Camp/The Early Days). Early education first consisted of a one-room, one-teacher, all grades school in the fishing village of Winter Harbour – a thirty minute tugboat ride away. He did Grade 8 by correspondence and so learned how to learn without instructors. Secondary school meant boarding out, so he attended St. George’s (Private) School for Boys in Vancouver, graduating in 1968.
In the fall, he entered UBC – the third year in a row that UBC had doubled its student population. The Science profs were too busy to even talk to him, and his studies were mostly too easy after the high-powered instuction of St. George’s ‘streamed’ instruction system. So during second year he contemplated his future and decided to travel to ‘finish’ his education.
The next nine months saw him visit New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Britain before returning to Canada. After a brief stay he returned to Australia to live in Adelaide for a year. Then returned home to his father’s logging camp to work for five years, left and moved to Port Alberni where he married and began his family. He continued his education at BCIT doing the Fish, Wildlife, & Recreation option in the Forestry Faculty. He moved to Burns Lake where he worked as a Habitat technician and as a Forestry engineer before returning to the north Island to build a fish farm at Coal Harbour (near Port Hardy). Finally he entered Simon Fraser University where he achieved his B.Ed, Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and M.Ed with a focus on TESL.
His mission in life since beginning to teach ESL has been to rewrite the English grammar, explaining how English works in a different way such that the explanation of the grammar is more easily grasped by both foreign and domestic learners. He calls this system “A Simple English Lesson – which you already knew if you are reading this! The most important aspect of his alternate explanation is that it would be easily understood by those currently teaching ESL. He invites anyone to refute his work.
Curriculum Vitae
Will Moore is a seasoned educator with over 27 years of ESL teaching experience across Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE