“Acharn” Terry Fredrickson

Terry Fredrickson is presently the head of educational marketing and teacher support for the Bangkok Post. He previously initiated and edited the Bangkok Post’s weekly education section, known as the “learning post”. He has worked for the newspaper since 1992 in education-related activities.

Mr Fredrickson has an MA is TESL from the University of Minnesota (1985) and a BA in History from Stanford University (1968). He originally came to Thailand as a US Peace Corps volunteer in 1968 where he taught English for three years at the teachers’ college in the southern province of Nakornsrithammarat. He then went on to work for the Teacher Training Division of the Ministry of Education in Bangkok, teaching at Suan Dusit Teachers’ College with a short stint at Chandrakasem Teachers’ College as well.

After receiving his MA, Mr Fredrickson taught English for six years in Malaysia with an innovative twinning programme run jointly by the Malaysian government and the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA). In this programme, Malaysian government-sponsored students enrolled in Malaysia in Indiana University courses offered by US faculty. Mr Fredrickson was eventually appointed head of the pre-university phase of the programme which was designed to develop the English of prospective students to level required for university study.

Mr Fredrickson has written numerous textbooks for the EFL/ESL field, many of them based on reading the English language newspaper. He has also conducted hundreds of teacher seminars over the past decade, so he is quite well known in Thailand’s academic community.