McAllister is the new Director of the TESL Certificate program

Kay McAllister, the new Director of the TESL Certificate program, is excited to build on the solid foundation and reputation of the TESL Certificate. 
 
Kay began teaching in the TESL Certificate program at TWU in the spring of 2003. She added the TESL practicum to her teaching responsibilities in 2004, and that particular course is a highlight for her. She says, “I love seeing our TESL students in the classroom; it’s a delight to observe how they apply course work to actual teaching.” 
 
Prior to coming to TWU, Kay worked in a variety of settings. For twelve years, she and her husband, Lawrence, worked with a mission organization in the jungles of West Papua, Indonesia, developing an orthography and literacy program for a tribal group. Then they moved into the field of TESOL. From 1993 to 1997, Kay taught in a government university in Central Java, and then from 2001 to 2002, she taught in Beijing, China. In between those overseas teaching assignments, she completed her MA-TESOL from Seattle Pacific University and taught at ESLI on TWU campus.
 
Of her appointment to Director of the TESL Certificate, Kay states, “I look forward to this new role, especially connecting with those who wish to become part of the exciting world of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages – whether that is in North America or overseas." She welcomes emails as well as visits to her office on the first floor of CanIL.