30@30 Bio
Ann McAllen has been working in international education programs since 1988. She has been an EFL/ESL teacher with a broad range of levels in a variety of settings (universities, community colleges, refugee/immigrant programs). Since 1995, she has been involved in developing and implementing teacher-training programs. She has worked with local teachers in Burma, India, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Moldova, Portugal, Russia,Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Other teacher-training projects include numerous in-country programs with the Peace Corps. Additionally she developed specific Training of Trainer (TOT) courses. For two years in Ukraine she implemented a TOT course in which the trainers are still delivering workshops throughout the country. In Thailand and Vietnam she worked with the TOT Network Training project which has trained 300+ trainers to date.