Eric Hanson attended the University of Northern Colorado, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1985. He is highly qualified in middle, high school and university-level instruction, and has been teaching within both physical classroom settings and with online tutoring platforms for more than 34 years (he also possesses two TEFL certificates: one for 40 hours of online instruction and the other for 120 hours). While serving as an educator, Eric also spent more than a decade in television news, serving as both an anchor and field reporter. In 1990, his wife Carla became pregnant with their daughter Gina, and that's when he decided to focus only on teaching. It was during this time that he served as an educator at Southeastern Union Institute, an exclusive private school in Miami where he spent 15 years educating high school students. Eric created complex lesson plans, lectured before classrooms consisting of high numbers of students and worked in small lab classes on off-lecture days. In 2000, he changed gears and moved over to a private K-12 institute where he taught such things as English, World History, U.S. History, Public Speaking, Journalism, English as a Second Language (ESL), Literature, Elementary Math, Psychology and Sociology. Since 2016, he has worked as an online tutor for a Taiwanese-based language school and, to date, has taught more than 18,000 classes consisting of more than 12,000 students. He also works online with gifted students at a private school based in New York City. His teaching philosophy is simple and straight-forward: to form relationships with his students while trying to help them find their dreams and strengths. P.S.: Jump ahead 34 years from 1990, and making the change from the news media to teaching was one of the best decisions he's ever made. Gina is a graduate of Stanford University's Medical School and recently finished her seven years of residency; she's now a practicing neurosurgeon in nearby Pembroke Pines, Florida. Would this have happened had Eric stayed in the news media? Undoubtedly. Of course. But as a teacher, he had (and has!) MUCH more time to spend with those he cared about as opposed to being out on the road, traveling the news circuit and just... not being home a lot. Your baby is only a baby once. Enjoy every day of it.