Margo Glew Joins Department of Teacher Education as Academic Specialist for Internationalization of the Department’s Programs

Margo Glew (Ph.D Michigan State University, Second Language Acquisition) has become the coordinator of international initiatives for the Department of Teacher Education where her responsibilities are to develop a diverse set of curricular and programmatic activities that will provide students with an international focus to their teacher education program so that more Michigan teachers are prepared to educate students for success in a global society.

A former high-school social studies teacher, Margo has experience teaching both in the United States and abroad, spending two years teaching English as a Foreign language in a high school in Niger, West Africa. She has extensive experience as a language teacher and teacher trainer and has worked on materials development projects as well as directed and co-directed numerous training workshops and seminars for teachers. Her academic work focuses on alternative modes of language instruction, particularly distance learning, and language program development.