This is Mr. B’s 24th year teaching and his first year at TCIS. He is originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He has taught overseas throughout his career, beginning in Auckland, New Zealand, before moving on to Beijing, China, then HCMC, Vietnam, and most recently to Windhoek, Namibia.

Mr. B is an avid ice hockey player and has played and coached professionally. He currently plays here in Bangkok in the Siam Hockey League. He loves traveling, adventuring, eating, and exploring new places and cultures. He is excited to be back in South East Asia and has recently visited Vietnam and Cambodia. He loves to be active and (tries) to keep fit through hockey, softball, gym, inline skating, walking his dog, Ny, and doing just about anything active.

Mr. Jim is from Windsor, Ontario in the Great Lakes region at the very southern tip of Canada where he spent his whole life before becoming an international teacher. First completing a Bachelor of Human Kinetics, then a Certificate in Business Administration, and then completing his Bachelor of Education all at the University of Windsor. His first international teaching job was teaching ESL in Odessa, Ukraine followed by more than 4 years in Cairo, Egypt, then 1 year each in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Beijing, China before settling into TCIS. He has wanted to teach in Thailand for a long time and is very happy to be here! Mr. Jim is a fan of and respects virtually all physical movement. He has participated in organized ice hockey and school volleyball, basketball, American football, wrestling, track and field (shot put and discus), and baseball. He was a member of the World Champion U18 Canadian Baseball team which was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and earned first team all-American honors in a small junior college. He enjoys continuing education and is currently working towards the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach certification and Precision Nutrition Level 1 nutrition coaching certification. He loves teaching PE and coaching youth and competitive sports.

Mr. Jonathan grew up on the East coast of the US, but attended college in Upstate NY, where he attended film school at the Rochester Institute of Technology. After university, Mr. Jonathan lived and worked in Hollywood, California, for several years before moving to Shanghai, China, to pursue a career in education.

Now in his 9th year of teaching 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts, Mr. Jonathan has continued to educate himself and has earned his Master’s Degree in Education from the Buffalo State University and acquired his teaching license from the state of Florida. As a new educator, he continues to improve himself by taking professional development courses to improve his education knowledge.

To keep himself well-rounded and busy, Mr. Jonathan is a student of music, and he is learning to play the drums. He  uses yoga as a way to keep himself grounded and aware of the world around him. 

Mr. Hsieh, Ju-Hung is Taiwanese. After receiving complete elementary school teacher training in Taiwan, he obtained a teaching qualification. At the same time, he studied at the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University and obtained a Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language professional teaching qualification.
Mr. Ju-Hung has served as a Chinese teacher in middle and elementary schools at TCIS. He has taught for 17 years. He likes Chinese culture and art and he has also served as an art teacher and instructed related club courses.