Currently Dr. Shin is the Director of TESOL Professional Training Programs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). In this position she administers the U.S. Department of State's E-Teacher Scholarship Program, a fully online teacher training program for EFL teachers in over 100 countries. In addition, she is an English Language Specialist for the Office of English Language Programs in the U.S. Department of State, conducting numerous face-to-face EFL teacher training programs every year in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as large scale online teacher training events through webinars and digital videoconferencing to hundreds of English teaching professionals worldwide. |
Joan Kang Shin is a teacher, teacher trainer, professor, and researcher in the field of TESOL. She specializes in professional development programs for teaching English as an international language to young learners and teenagers. She is also an expert in online TESOL education and is currently conducting research on building international virtual communities of practice for English teachers. Dr. Shin is Series Editor for a ground breaking six-level primary series for National Geographic Learning called Our World and co-author of a professional development textbook about teaching young learners English as an international language.|
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Lin Kobayashi is the co-founder and Chair of the Board at International School of Asia, Karuizawa (ISAK). Before returning to Tokyo in 2008 to launch the ISAK project, she worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the Philippines, where she programmed non-formal education projects for street children. Prior to UNICEF, Ms. Kobayashi worked at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
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Aziz Abu Sarah, named a 2011 National Geographic Emerging Explorer for his groundbreaking work as a cultural educator, Aziz Abu Sarah has dedicated his life to bringing Israelis and Palestinians together to find common ground, build mutual understanding, and forge lasting relationships. He has spoken in hundreds of churches, synagogues, and mosques, before both the European Parliament and the United Nations, and at many universities on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace, reconciliation, and interfaith dialogue. He is co-executive director of George Mason University’s Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution.
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Donald Freeman is a professor at the School of Education, University of Michigan, where he works with undergraduate and post-graduate teacher preparation in all subjects K-12. For 25 years, he was on the graduate faculty at the School of International Training, where he chaired the Department of Language Teacher Education and founded and directed the Center for Teacher Education, Training, and Research, a unit that designed and implemented teacher education projects around the world. He is editor of the professional development series, TeacherSource (Heinle-Cengage), and his books include Teacher Learning in Language Teaching (with Jack C. Richards; Cambridge), Doing Teacher-Research (Heinle-Cengage). Dr Freeman is a past president of TESOL, a past member the International Advisory Council for Cambridge University ESOL Examinations (formerly UCLES), and immediate past chair of the International Research Foundation for English Language Teaching (TIRF).
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