While my husband and I pursued our earlier academic and professional
lives and parented young children, my teaching was in a variety
of settings at all levels from elementary foreign languages through
adult ESL:
--university French at Michigan State University as a grad assistant,
--high school French for two years in Kenya,
--public high school French in Michigan,
--ESL to adults in a university program in Beirut, Lebanon,
--Spanish at Shattuck Middle School in Neenah,
--ESL to adults at Fox Valley Tech,
--French and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin Fox Valley
As my career became more full time, I began at UW Oshkosh in fall
of '84 and have since taught French and Spanish for the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the methods courses mentioned
above, along with the supervision of all COEHS foreign languages
student teachers and clinical students.
Other professional activities include an orientation to Saudi Arabia
publication for business travelers, a competency-based career education
curriculum for ESL at Fox Valley Tech, Spanish for business people
at Kimberly Clark, a multimedia Hmong/English orientation to Fox
Valley Tech, translating and interpreting, and numerous presentations
for area public school students and professional groups. Besides
French and Spanish fluency, I have U.S. Foreign Service ratings
(with considerably less fluency, however) in Swahili and Arabic.
