Education Specialist

• Campus Phone: 612-625-3396
• E-mail: marti157@umn.edu
• Office: University Office Plaza Suite 400, Room 408

Education

• BA Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA
• Certification in administration and interpretation of the Intercultural Development Inventory

As the Assistant Program Director for Initiatives for Nonnative Speakers of English in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), I serve as a program coordinator, instructor and teaching consultant. Additionally, I participate in the administration of the International Teaching Assistant Program, and co-coordinate the IT: TALK Program (a teaching and cultural orientation for newly-arrived international graduate students in the Institute of Technology).

In my instructional role, I teach courses in the International TA Program, and consult with nonnative English speaking instructional staff, visiting scholars and post-docs. Often, these meetings focus on enhancing discipline-specific English proficiency, as well as exploring approaches to teaching in cross-cultural context.

Recent initiatives include serving on the Editorial Board of Transform, a newsletter that explores the culture and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at the local and national levels, and developing an online tutorial for preparing international graduate students for teaching assistant positions.

My overseas work includes 2 years teaching English in Sevilla, Spain and 1 year developing an English language training program at a U.S. company in Bangalore, India.