Andrii Smytsniuk holds a degree in pedagogical methodology in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language from Lviv National University of Ivan Franko and is an experienced language teacher. He has taught Ukrainian at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. He was a part of the Reform Support Team of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and  was consulting the Ukrainian government on questions of education reform and on the development of teaching standards, specifically in the area of ​​language instruction.