About the Director

John Kirk is a semi-retired English teacher who has been living in Quito, Ecuador for ten years. He has had a variety of experiences teaching ESL. He graduated from the U. Of Denver in 1973 with a degree in English teaching. He taught in Taiwan, China and Korea for seven years at several universities and an international school. He also taught college and workplace education English as a Second Language (ESL) in the U.S. in Maine and Massachusetts for ten years.

In Boston he was On-site Director for the Immigrant Worker English Program at a large hospital with over 100 employees/students for two years. Before moving to Quito, he taught in Cuenca for two years for La Dirección de Educación, L’Universidad del Pacifico and CEDEI. In Quito he has worked for Inlingua Institute, Universidad Tecnológica América (UNITA), and taught private classes.

He is now working as the Director of JBK English. JBK is an on-site English program that offers a variety of Business English instruction. (Please see the page on this site entitled JBK English Courses.)