"...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
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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)

For complete evidence of qualifications and achievements, please request access to my private online portfolio at www.evelynhargett.com 
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Holding my certificate with Dr. Lois Lanning on the left and Dr. Lynn Erickson on the right.
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With Rachel French of Professional Learning International and co-author of Concept-Based Inquiry in Action.
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Parent Workshops
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K-12 Staff Professional Development