{"id":571,"date":"2025-08-16T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=571"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:16:18","slug":"michelle-smith","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/profile\/michelle-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle\u2019s early teaching career brought her to public schools in the US, language institutes abroad, and community-based immigrant programs in Massachusetts. For the past twenty years, she has taught in higher education at various universities around Boston. Her teaching philosophy is student-centered. She tries to learn her students\u2019 individual needs and goals in order to build lessons that are meaningful and relevant. She has been at CELOP since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle earned a BA in German Language and Literature from Boston University. Later, she returned to BU to get her EdM in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is happiest when she is traveling, especially to places she has never been to before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Memberships and Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TESOL International Association<\/li>\n<li>MATSOL (Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michelle-smith-049b5044\/\">Michelle&#8217;s Linkedin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10133,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/celop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}