Teacher Training

I base teacher training on adult learning principles and experiential learning.

At World Learning (2016-now)

• Developing teacher training materials and teachers' guides for all primary school English teachers (g 1-6) in public schools in Lebanon: literacy, social and emotional learning, distance learning, and UDL. Overseeing work of three other content developers

• Developing training materials for USAID project Uzbekistan Youth Employment Skills (YES) on Universal Design for Learning and Experiential Learning

• Training, coaching, and reviewing with ministry staff and other experts to create online teacher training courses for primary school Arabic teachers (g 1-4) in Morocco

• Trainer of trainers in establishing the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo

• One of the three trainers for an 11-day training on Best Practices in TESOL in the Dominican Republic

• Training and coaching of the founders of the Palestinian English Language Teachers' Association

• Teaching strategies and use of technology (Delivered in Spanish as ‘Estrategias didácticas y uso de herramientas tecnológicas’), University of Costa Rica. Week-long training for 15 grade school teachers of multiple indigenous languages and cultures, Costa Rica

• Online: Through the Department of State/ECA OPEN program, I led the design of two online teacher training courses that have had more than 30,000 graduates: Integrating Critical Thinking into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting and Content-Based Instruction

At Saint Louis University

• Chief organizer of teacher orientation week in August 2008- 2010, 2013, 2014

• Conducted the monthly In-Service Seminars for all (approx. 16) foreign language teaching assistants in the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Fall 2007 – Spring 2013.

• Mentor for 1 or 2 teachers-in-training per semester, Fall 2007 – Fall 2011 (except Fall 2010); 4 in Fall 2012. Supervised 10 hours of activities per week per mentee.

• Coordinator and supervisor of first-year Spanish classes

International Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI

ESL Teacher, Supervisor and Teacher Trainer

Intensive English classes for Tsuda College students Summers 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005

• Planned curriculum

• Taught written and oral English courses

• Planned and participated in cultural events, field trips, and weekend trips

• Supervised student teachers.

Workshops and Related Presentation

• Harvesting online material for EFL instruction, teacher-training workshop at the Academia Cultura Inglesa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb., 2015.

• Learner strategies in the classroom, professional development workshop for the foreign language instructors at the University of Talca in Talca, Chile, April 2014.

• Second language acquisition theories and learner strategies professional development workshop for area for English as a foreign language teachers, Linares, Chile, April 2014.

• Second language acquisition theories professional development workshop for the foreign language instructors at the University of Talca in Talca, Chile, April 10, 2014.

• McBride, K. & López, M. When the textbook that they give you doesn’t reflect your teaching philosophy (Presented in Spanish as Cuando el libro de texto que te dan no refleja tu filosofía de enseñanza). Workshop at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, October 2013.

• McBride, K. & Barcroft, J. Teaching and learning vocabulary: What recent research tells us. Workshop at the MidTESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference, Saint Louis, MO, October 2011.

• Theories about SLA: Yours and theirs, for the English as a Second Language teachers at Saint Louis University, May 2011.

• Presented The role of explicit grammar instruction in a communicative context, for Saint Louis University’s English as a Second Language Division’s professional development seminar, May 2010.

• Comprehension, production and culture: Harvesting materials for oral language development, workshop, University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico, November 2009.

• Interactivity: Lessening the teacher’s burden and heightening student interest, workshop for language teachers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, June 2008.

• Testing: Revisiting the why and the how, workshop for language teachers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, June 2008.

• The role of grammar instruction in communicative language teaching, workshop for language teachers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, May 2008.

• Using technology in foreign language instruction, a three-hour workshop on using technology in foreign language education, October 2007, at Priory High School in St. Louis.

• Lesson planning, a three-hour teacher training workshop for Literacy Volunteers of Tucson, February 2007.