July 2010 I was invited to present to Spanish high school AP teachers on the use of Technology in language teaching at the AP Summer Institute at Rice University. ppt for presentation
February 2010 and February and March 2011 and February 2012 Language Teaching Methodology workshop/course: I developed a Language Teaching Methodology and Pedagogy 2-week course for English teachers from the Heilongjiang province of China and taught the course/workshop at Rice University for three different groups from China. In February of 2010 I taught the course for 28 high school English teachers from Harbin and surrounding towns of the Heilongjiang province in China and in February of 2011 I taught a shorter 5-day course to a group of 50 high school English teachers from Heilongjiang. In March of 2011 I taught an 8-day course to 25 University English professors from various universities in China. In February 2012 I taught two groups: 1 week workshop for high school English teachers and a 1 week workshop for university English professors from China. I researched textbooks and chose one for the course. I wrote a syllabus and created powerpoints for the lectures that I presented. The powerpoints are linked to my webpage at lang.rice.edu/ppatters. (ppts for university professors and ppts for high school teachers). For each of the four courses I have revised the syllabus and materials to fit the attendees’ needs and the time period of the course. I also revised and made changes to the course based on feedback from participants.