Chris has garnered over 20,000 professional hours of teaching experience, gained a CELTA certification in Oxford, UK, a TKT certificate administered by the University of Cambridge, and has written a digital book to empower substitute teachers.

He is currently remotely pursuing a Master's in Creativity and Change Leadership at Buffalo State University's Center for Applied Imagination, the first graduate program in the world to study creativity as a science. One of the co-founders, Dr. Alex Osborn, coined the term "brainstorm."

​He is also pursuing a second master's degree in person at Arizona State University in Media Arts and Sciences (Extended Reality Technologies). 

In addition, he gained a certificate in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
​within MIT's xPro program.

He has had the unique privilege of teaching thousands of incredible students from all over the world, including: Italy, Japan, France, Switzerland, Peru, Hungary, Paraguay, China, Russia, Colombia, Iran, South Korea, Azerbaijan, Algeria, Macau, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Belgium, Luxembourg, Libya, Turkey, Taiwan, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Mongolia, Denmark, Netherlands, and USA.

You can find out more about him here:  
​www.christophervonspitzer.com or his LinkedIn here

​He is based in Mesa, AZ.
"​I am deeply grateful to my beautiful students and colleagues for the immensely kind and generous words below.
Thank you for inspiring me (I truly mean it!) and for the extraordinary memories!
​I’ve learned far more from you than you could ever imagine!"
-Chris

​"I've worked for EF for almost five years and in this whole time have only seen very few teachers as positive, passionate, and committed to their work as Christopher."
Jan Raddatz,
Former Regional Production Manager for EF English First Beijing, China


"...Hope you can inspire more people or even inspire the world."
Andrew,
A student from Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College in Hong Kong who took my 5-day course. "English Enhance Program."

"Chris has changed my own way of thinking and acting, and I cannot state highly enough what positive influence he has been on my life. He is truly unique."

Rob Hatt,
Director of Studies for EF English First Haidian School. Beijing, China


"Extraordinary!"
Billy,
A student of mine from the EF English First Haidian School, Beijing, China

"I will miss and remember you always...You really help me to improve my public speaking skills. All I can say is thank you. You are the special one."
Henry,
A student from Salesian School in Hong Kong who took my two-week public speaking course

"I heard about your excellent teaching from my colleagues who told me you are so welcome by all the staff and especially the kids! All of them are flushed with excitement when talking about you."
Sophia Chan,
Chief Principal of Four Ling Lang Church Schools in Hong Kong

"No matter what kinds of situation he is in or how uncooperated the students are, Chris never complains and loses his faith, instead he always tries his best."
Cathy Zhang,
Former Center Director, EF English First. Beijing, China

"I really like your class, every game we played has a purpose."-Sandy from Taiwan

"YOU ARE CRAZY AND BEST TEACHER. 
THANK YOU FOR ENERGETIC 
CLASSES EVERYDAY! 
-ANONYMOUS STUDENT FEEDBACK

"Chris is the best teacher"-
An Anonymous Student from the feedback of 200+ students from S.C. Gaw Memorial College in Hong Kong from my elective course: "Life-Wide English."

"I benefited from his creativity, initiative, reliability, and flexibility."
-Lee Russler
Regional Production Manager for EF English First Beijing, China

In March 2009, there were two people who have changed how I see and live my life...now I have a third person to add to this exclusive list, Chris Spitzer."

-Alejandro Orozco
Former Physical Education Teacher at John Liechty Middle School, Los Angeles, CA

"I'm really grateful for having an extraordinary teacher who helped me to improve my English and improve myself and I'll never forget you!" -Clara from France

One of the most things that I learned was your vision & mission. Every detail was artisticamente incredible!
-Cristina from Peru

"I feel confident and not shy as I always thought I was. I can't really imagine myself now if I had never had a class with you man."
-Miguel From Venezuela

"Your teaching style is so unique that I sometimes think you are too good..."
-Amanda from Denmark


"When I arrived to Boston, I was really motivated to learn English but with you, I'm still more motivated to become a better person."

​-Mathieu from France

​"Friendly note to my former students and colleagues: I would love to continue celebrating your beautiful words on this testimonial page. However, if at any point you would like to opt out, please let me know by messaging me here, and I will respectfully remove your message from the page. Thank you for reading!"
-Chris