English Language Fellow
Claire Lee
Renewing English Language Fellow in Tokyo, Japan (2023-24)
English Language Fellow in Tokyo, Japan (2022-23)
Virtual English Language Fellow in Osaka-Kobe & Naha, Japan (Spring 2022)
Virtual English Language Fellow in Iloilo & Bataan, Philippines (2021-22)
Welcome to Claire's English Language Fellowship portfolio, which gives information and resources on the various projects she has worked on during her Fellowships.
She has reached over 2,500 teachers, students, & other key audiences with over 75 workshops and programs.
The English Language Fellowship is a program of the English Language Programs, funded by the U.S. Department of State.
Watch this interview video between Fellow Claire and RELO Carleen Velez.
About Claire
Claire Lee completed her second-year as an English Language Fellow at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo working with the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education in June 2024. She is a professionally licensed English teacher with ESL endorsement in the United States. She has 12 years of teaching, curriculum development, and teacher training experience. Claire earned her Master of Education from Harvard University and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Secondary Education from Wellesley College.
She has taught in the United States, South Africa, Vietnam, and virtually in China and the Philippines. She was a Fulbright ETA scholarship recipient and a Virtual English Language Fellow through the U.S. State Department. She has lectured in Teaching Methodology, English as a Medium of Instruction, English as a Foreign Language, and Academic English.
クレア・リー先生は在日アメリカ大使館の英語専門家の先生です。アメリカでは英語の教員免許を持ち、１1年以上の経験者です。名門女子大であるウェルズリー大学卒後、ハーバード大学の教育学修士を取得しました。
The English Language Fellow Program is the premier opportunity for experienced teachers of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) to enact meaningful and sustainable changes in the way that English is taught abroad, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) with funding provided by the U.S. government.
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the English Language Fellow’s own and do not represent the English Language Fellow Program or the U.S. Department of State.
All teaching-related content from this site is licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 attribution 4.0 license, except where noted. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. For photo usage, please contact Claire.