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Ray left the UK in 1998, on completing his PhD at Cambridge and getting married, to start over and raise a family in Argentina. On arriving, he worked as an IB teacher in elite bilingual schools before soon ascending into senior management roles and driving success in international examinations. He has always been a teacher from his early career to the present moving from high school to university teaching over time. His areas of specialty include US history and politics and cultural studies. In a substantial and rewarding teaching career he has worked broadly in the humanities and social sciences enthusiastic about equipping young minds with the critical thinking required in times of rapid transformation.
 
In private professional work Ray has extensive experience as a translator from Spanish to English and as a project manager working with a variety of languages. He has translated for news media, public relations officers, conference organisers and presenters in diverse educational and corporate contexts. He was the principal translator of Tenaris-Argentina for a project requiring the translation of their entire LMS global content, and led a hand-picked team working with a variety of European and Asian languages. In 2012 he founded his own company Clio Language Services SRL in Argentina which, while maintaining its core translation and localization business, has developed consultancy roles in language education. Clio has designed language curricula for national and provincial government ministries and departments, with a direct focus on language learning platforms. Ray embraces technological change and the challenges it brings and has led his company to enable educational providers to transition from in-person to online environments in the context of the 2020 Covid pandemic. Ray keeps on learning.


University of Cambridge .

University of St Andrews .

IBDP Educator

Ray Day

International School of Dongguan

IBDP Economics and History Teacher

ISD is a young, ambitious, and rapidly growing K-12 international school in the city of Dongguan in southern China. Founded in 2012 it is an IB school teaching the diploma programme in Grades 11 and 12. Most of its graduating students continue their education in US and UK colleges and universities. Ray joined the team at ISD, returning to the IB classroom to teach Economics and History in 2021, enthusiastic about the challenges and opportunities China offers. His graduating students performed significantly higher than the global IBDP average in all subject areas. 

The IB has a presence in over 150 countries throughout the world. There are IB World Schools across the globe, and universities worldwide recognize the strength of the various IB programmes.
Ray has served as a senior examiner for the IB Diploma Programme since 2004. He works closely with his teams to provide effective, reliable and continuous leadership of assessment activities within History of the Americas subject area.

International Baccalaureate Organisation

Senior Examiner and Team Leader

The Liceo Cultural Británico, founded in 1935, comprises sixteen schools throughout the city and province of Buenos Aires. Ray’s role was to enable the organization to transition from in-person to online environments in the context of the 2020 Covid pandemic. He ensured the teachers developed the ability to integrate the technology required for online learning into their professional skills portfolios. He was responsible for observing teachers in virtual environments and giving constructive feedback as well as modeling classes and strategies. He aided the teachers in their schemes of work and lesson planning for online contexts and held workshops for the teachers periodically complementing them with one-on-one direct coaching techniques.

Liceo Cultural Británico

Development Director - Instructional Design

Clio is an Argentine company founded by Ray in 2012. It currently enables educational providers to transition from in-person to online environments in the context of the 2020 Covid pandemic.
Clio has designed language curricula for national and provincial government ministries and departments, with a direct focus on language learning platforms which reach throughout Argentina.
Clio developed its current consultancy roles in language education, while maintaining its original translation and localization services. 

Clio Language Services SRL

Owner and Director

The UB is a private university established in 1964 and located in the Belgrano district of the city of Buenos Aires. Ray was a tenured professor in the Language and Foreign Studies department where he delivered lectures, seminars and tutorials, designed, prepared and developed courses and teaching materials, developed and implemented new methods of teaching to reflect changes in research and supervised students' research activities, including final year undergraduate projects and Masters dissertations.

Universidad de Belgrano

Full professor

The "Lenguas Vivas" is a nationally renowned state teacher training college in the prosperous neighborhood of Recoleta in Buenos Aires city. Founded in 1912 it offers four-year degree programmes which officially qualify language teachers of English, French, German, Portuguese to work in the state education sector in Argentina. Ray taught Cultural Studies and American History in the English department since relocating from the UK in 1998.

Instituto De Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández"

Ray joined St Hilda's as Director of Studies in 2004 took on the AS/A Level History course switching the IBDP curriculum to the Cambridge International curriculum for the duration of his contract. As an enthusiastic history teacher Ray enjoyed the opportunity to familiarise himself with the IB alternative from the classroom perspective. An experience which enhanced his practice as DoS in a Cambridge exams school.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

St Hilda's College

AS/A Level History Teacher

St Hilda's is an English/Spanish bilingual Anglican school located in the province of Hurlingham in Buenos Aires renowned for a thriving music department, rugby and hockey team, and outstanding Cambridge examinations performances. Ray's role was to ensure that students were classed appropriately, and placed in the right levels related to language and academic abilities. He ensured the teachers prepared for their lessons to a high standard. He was responsible for walk-through observations and professional development guidance. He aided the teachers in their schemes of work and lesson planning and held workshops for the teachers periodically.  As a DOS Ray was highly energetic, personable, well organised, multi-tasking and resilient under pressure.

Director of Studies

Essarp is an association of Argentine schools founded in 1926 to promote British-style education. While maintaining cultural connections to the UK the body has become the leading international examinations administrator and teacher-training centre in the region. Ray has coached teachers and other staff through leading a classroom properly. This has included planning classroom curriculum and delivering training courses for teachers of various backgrounds specifically related to Cambridge international examinations preparation.

ESSARP

In-Service Teacher Trainer

Northlands School is a co-educational, non-denominational bilingual school with campuses in Olivos and Nordelta, founded in 1920. It is among the largest and most successful IB schools in the region with a student enrollment of 2000+. Ray was contracted as an IB diploma History and Economics teacher on arriving in Argentina in 1998. After being promoted to head of Economics and Business Studies during his first years of service in the context of a national economic crisis that engulfed Argentina, within four years he headed the entire social studies area of the secondary school, leading a diverse multilingual staff responsible for the portfolio of social studies and humanities subjects of the IB.

Northlands School

Head of Social Studies

As Ray's role at Northlands moved into management he reduced his teaching load to IBDP History (smaller numbers and one grade level only). Ray continued teaching the IB History programme until leaving the school in 2004 and also became an IB examiner in history during this period. A development which complemented his professional development and efficacy in the classroom.

IBDP History Teacher HL/SL

Recruited from the UK. Ray joined Northlands with a contract to teach IBDP Economics in 1998. His introduction to the IBDP program was fast and exciting. As Ray's role at Northlands expanded he continued and enjoyed teaching Economics until 2001.

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