Michael Larsen

• 1995-1997 Master of TESOL, California State University, Sacramento

• 1991 -1994 Master of Divinity,  Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

• 1983 - 1987 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology,  University of California, Berkeley

• 1996 Ordained as an American Baptist Minster Master of TESOL

• 1998 Received Adult Education Teaching Credential

Instructor, American River College - 1998-present
I am teaching English as a Second Language, focusing on reading, writing and grammar.

Pastor, First Japanese Baptist Church - 1994-present
A Japanese pastor and I work together to lead a church of about 80 people.

Summer Instructor, University of California, Davis - 1998
I taught intensive English and culture classes to Japanese high school students.

Instructor, Pacific American Institute - 1997, Fall
I taught a three-week intensive English program for Japanese college students.  The emphasis was on American culture.

Instructor’s Aide, Workplace Resource Learning Center - 1997, Summer
I taught vocational English at the computer company NEC/Packard Bell as a representative of the Los Rios Community College
District.

Publishments

My fictional short story, "The Last Room," was published in the Spring 1999 (vol. 6, No. 1) edition of Undercurrents, a faculty literary review for community colleges in the Sacramento Area. "The Summer Bachelor" was published in the Fall, 1999 edition.
If you would like to read these stories, please click here.

Other information available upon request:

• References
• Credentials
• Transcripts

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