Daniel Priest

A highly motivated, hard-working individual eager to learn and undertake new challenges. EFL Teacher with practical teaching experience in both Japan and the UK, specialized in teaching students from diverse age groups and backgrounds. Creative writing background with published works.

EFL Teacher at Shane English Schools (2025-05 – 2026-03)

Lived and worked in Japan as an EFL Teacher across 6 locations, accumulating over 1000 hours of practical teaching experience.

• Taught students aged 3 to 80 years old
• Worked approximately 29.5 hours of teaching per week
• Utilized textbooks from multiple publishers including Oxford and Cambridge

EFL Teacher at Ardmore Summer School (2024-07 – 2024-08)

Second summer of teaching at Ardmore Summer School, teaching international students.

• 150 hours of paid practical teaching
• 12.5 hours of paid lesson preparation
• 7.5 hours of additional lesson preparation outside office hours
• Taught students aged 12 to 18 from multiple countries

EFL Teacher at Ardmore Summer School (2023-07 – 2023-08)

First summer of teaching at Ardmore Summer School, accumulating 300 hours of practical classroom teaching experience.

• 150 hours of paid practical teaching
• 12.5 hours of paid lesson preparation
• 7.5 hours of additional lesson preparation outside office hours
• Taught students from Japan, Brazil, Italy, France, Russia, Kazakhstan and Israel, aged 12 to 18

Cleaner (Part-time) at Richard Hale School (2023-04 – Present)

Part-time cleaning position to support self while actively seeking EFL teaching opportunities.

• 12+ months of cleaning experience

Staff Member at Post Office (2022-02 – 2022-09)

Member of Post Office team with responsibilities in customer service and administrative tasks.

• Handled money and government documents
• Assisted customers with postal services and delivery options
• Completed various other operational tasks

Self-employed Delivery Driver at Hermes (2020-06 – 2020-07)

Part-time self-employed delivery driving position during COVID-19 pandemic reopening.

Delivery Driver at Royal Mail (2019-12 – 2020-01)

Seasonal Christmas delivery driver position.

• 5 weeks duration

IT Technical Assistant (Work Experience) at GlaxoSmithKline

Secondary school work experience program placement with IT team.

• Computer maintenance and support
• Deskside support for IT team

Shop Assistant (Work Experience) at SCOPE

Secondary school work experience program placement in retail shop.

• Customer assistance
• Stock management on shop floor and in back office

168-Hour Level 5 Online TEFL Course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language – The TEFL.org (2020-04 – 2021-06)

BA in Creative and Professional Writing – Bangor University (2016-09 – 2019-07)

A-Level in IT – Simon Balle School (2014-09 – 2016-08)

A-Level in Business Studies – Simon Balle School (2014-09 – 2016-08)

A-Level in Religious Studies – Simon Balle School (2014-09 – 2016-08)

GCSE in General Subjects – Simon Balle School (2011-09 – 2013-08)