As an educator, Miguel King is committed to teaching excellence and student engagement. His teaching background spans 17 years including high-school teacher, teacher-trainer, college instructor, and currently a lecturer at the university level. Additionally, his professional background includes working as an Assistant Registrar at a multi-national testing agency, and as a Junior Psychometrician at the Canadian Securities Institute where he managed a highly effective team of test developers in authoring and analyzing some of the largest financial services exams used across the nation. Miguel currently teaches Business Communication at the university level, combining years of teaching and industry experience to prepare students for excellence in written and oral communication in higher education and beyond.
Miguel has adopted a very student-focused pedagogy. He believes that when he meets struggling students where they are and helps them to develop a healthy relationship with failure, those students can begin to reach their full potential. Miguel also appreciates the unique challenges facing Canada’s large international student population. As an Applied Linguist and certified TESOL practitioner he can identify linguistic barriers and help his students overcome them so they can better focus on content. This highly rated educator is currently co-authoring an open educational resource textbook to make Business Communication even more accessible for students.
