Shaheed Sabrin(I)

Shaheed is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with a Master of Arts in Teaching- TESOL, a B.A. in Dramatic Arts (Jack Nicholson Award winner), and a minor in Entrepreneurship. He has taught EFL & ESL learners + teachers in China, Los Angeles, Malaysia, and South Korea, plus facilitated workshops in Bahrain, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. As an English Language Fellow with the U.S. Department of State (2014-2016), he worked directly with the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, local teachers, students, and education professionals to enact meaningful and sustainable changes in the way English was taught. In 2017, he taught at Irvine Valley College, helping adult-ESL students develop the language skills they needed in order to thrive in the United States. From 2018-2019, he was the Senior Teacher at Aidi Middle School in Beijing. Over the past three years, Shaheed has taught reading, speaking, TOEFL, and phonics skills to 1,800 preschool-9th grade students online with VIPKid, and logged more than 2,600 hours of one-to-one virtual teaching. While assigned to the U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur, Shaheed worked on curriculum development, facilitated over 100 workshops throughout six countries in Southeast Asia, trained teachers, coached Ministry of Education officials, and supported the U.S. Embassy's English ACCESS Microscholarship program. During his time as a Fellow, he started the edcamp "unconference" movement in Malaysia, presented at regional TESOL conferences, and won Gold for "Best Workshop" at the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICELT). In 20 months, he taught over 3,000 students and trained over 3,000 teachers in the East Asia and Pacific region. Currently, Shaheed teaches for Golden West College, Coastline Community College, Chaffey College, and facilitates virtual teacher training for the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.