Curriculum Vitae
In the past years (2020 - 2023), I have delivered over 50 webinars, workshops, invited presentations and keynotes on the subject of TESOL career path development (both general and specific subtopics).
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Employment, (including dates and a brief description of duties)
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International experience
My professional interests: How teachers manage change; English language teachers’ career path development includes emphasis on five factors shown by research to impact how teachers evolve as they progress through their careers: education, motivation, leadership, organizational issues (language teacher associations and employers), and life balance. Managed as either a broad overview or one or more (up to these five individual ones), this topic will be of interest and value to teachers worldwide in these changing times.
I lead human resource development and capacity building projects. With training, support and guidance for international teams, projects are created to increase institutional capacity, including design, implementation and evaluation of in-classroom courses and assessment, online instructional programs, extra-curricular activities and job training. I have managed programs in 20 countries, including a wide range of professional development and youth programs. Her record of results includes compliance with accreditation, financial and reporting requirements, all of which involve crossing national borders and leading a wide range of program types and stakeholder needs.
Carefully designed assessment of needs often makes the difference between actual change in the way teachers instruct learners and simply seat-time in a teacher training workshop. Impact is the focus of teacher education. Creating a teaching culture in which teachers themselves engage first in deep identification and analyses of their needs, it is possible to transmit that culture into a classroom setting – online, face-to-face or hybrid.
Online language teacher education is an essential component in today’s world and one that requires depth and breadth of analysis and understanding in order to deliver high-quality teacher education and English language instruction. With emphasis on research and practice in online learning, teaching and program administration, this topic has a direct impact on how well learners – all ages and all levels of proficiency - acquire English in classrooms, online or in hybrid settings.
English Language Specialist Programs - Afghanistan, Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.