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, junior, high school and university-level instruction, and has been teaching within both physical classroom settings and with online tutoring platforms for more than 36 years (he also possesses two TEFL certificates: one for 40 hours of online instruction and the other for 120 hours, not to mention a University of Cambridge, Cambridge English Level 7 Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA) (QCF): Modules One, Two and Three.
Before serving as an educator, Eric also spent seven years in television news, serving as both an anchor and field reporter in northern and southeastern Florida. In 1990, his wife Carla became pregnant with their daughter Gina, and that's when he decided to leave behind the hectic, on-the-road life of TV news and become a teacher. 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. 
From 2016 to 2022, he worked as an online tutor for a Taiwanese-based language school and taught more than 18,000 classes consisting of more than 12,000 students. He also works online with gifted Asian 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 and forge their dreams and strengths.
P.S.: Jump ahead 36 years from 1990, and making the change from the news media to teaching was one of the best decisions he ever made. Gina is a graduate of Stanford University's Medical School (having also received her BS in Biology there) and finished her seventh year of residency in 2023, becoming a state-licensed neurosurgeon. She works at a large hospital in neighboring Pembroke Pines, Florida (a suburb of Fort Lauderdale) in their highly recognized neurosurgery department. She was married in 2020 to an amazing man by the name of Mike, who works for the South Florida branch of the FBI.
Now, would all of this have happened had I stayed in the news media? Undoubtedly. Of course. But as a teacher, I had (and has!) MUCH more time to spend with those he cares about as opposed to being out on the road, traveling the news circuit and just... not being home a lot. In short, don't miss your kid(s) growing up. I didn't... and I have no regrets of any kind in changing careers. In short, I wouldn’t change things for the world.