About

"...As a workshop leader, she always prepares interactive tasks and she gives importance to partner work, group work and reflection."

Pelin Uster
CBCI Training participant
MEF International School 2017-2019

“Evelyn could read the mood of participants well and adjust teaching accordingly. She put thought into creative grouping arrangements and activities pace was perfect.”

Hannah Moorhouse
ESL in the Mainstream participant
IDBEC, 2016

"The way Evelyn talked about her passionate joy for teaching young learners to be future leaders and peacemakers gave me a whole new perspective of how learning could be achieved."

Rawa Zana
ESL in the Mainstream participant
IDBEC, 2017
Strategies for EFL Development in the Multilingual Classroom
IDBEC, 2016

Biography

Evelyn Hargett Galán is an independent consultant for international education based in Erbil, Iraq. She has spent the last 19 years in education, the majority of those years in international education. As a lifelong learner, Evelyn strives to continually improve her knowledge of best practice through hands-on experience. Working with language learners has taught her to seek out strategies that led to continuous improvement of her practice as a lifelong learner in order to meet the learning needs of her students. She is passionate about concept-based inquiry for thinking classrooms for all learners. All students can inquire to build conceptual understandings even as they simultaneously develop the language to express them.

Evelyn is happily married and living with her husband in Erbil, Iraq. She had the pleasure of raising her two children to adulthood who are now living independently; her son lives in Mexico and her daughter in the USA. Evelyn dreams of traveling the world to grow her conceptual understandings of the diverse cultures and historical stories found in our beautiful world.

Curriculum Vitae Overview

Master of Arts in Education, George Mason University, 2016
Master of Arts in Teaching, University of St. Mary, 2008
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, California Lutheran University, 1993
Licensed PK-6 educator through the Commonwealth of the State of Virginia, USA
Qualified Teacher Status K-12 with the UK
Certified IB Teaching and Learning Educator
Certified CBCI Consultant/Trainer by Dr. Lynn Erickson and Dr. Lois Lanning
Licensed ESL in the Mainstream Tutor, NSW, Australia
Council of International Schools Evaluator (pending school visit)
19 years' experience in education; 16 years' experience in international teaching and administration working with language learners
Presented research at...
- ECIS Educators Conference Copenhagen, November 2016
- IB Global Educators Conference Vienna, October 2018
Conducted workshops at...
- MEF International School Istanbul, Turkey, PYP Staff
  - Concept-based Curriculum and Development (15 hour workshop)
  - Picture-Word Inductive Method
  - Language Learners and Inquiry
  - Parent Workshop Series (organized and implemented 12 different sessions)
- MEF International School Izmir, Turkey K-12 Whole Staff
  - Concept-Based Inquiry (9 hour workshop)
- IDBEC, Erbil, Iraq
  - Teaching ESL Students in the Mainstream Classroom (3 cohorts)
  - Strategies for EFL Development in the Multilingual Classroom (8 hours)