Instructors
The instructors of
the English Language Programme are native speakers. They
are all university trained and have at least a Masters
degree in linguistics or language education and a minimum
of five years experience teaching adults.
 Kirsten Duckett has
been an instructor in the United Nations Language and
Communications Programme since 2008. She has worked as an
educator in Belgium, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Korea, the
United States and Venezuela, including work as an instructor of
language, teaching methodology, linguistics and intercultural skills.
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 Patricia
Duffy
has been an instructor in the United Nations Language and
Communications Programme since 1985. She has also taught English as a
Second Language (ESL) at New York University and the City University of
New York. Her overseas teaching experience includes stints at Jiangsu
Television University and Suzhou University in the People's Republic of
China.
In addition to teaching, Ms Duffy is the creator of the instructional
website... read
more...
 Jodi
Nooyen began her career at the United Nations in 2001 as an English Instructor.
Her English teaching career
began in her
home state of Wisconsin, where she taught Hmong refugees in 1991.
Since then, she has taught English, communication skills (e.g.
writing) and teacher training courses in Puerto Rico, Japan, Los
Angeles, Venezuela, Ethiopia, and
Timor Leste.
She has a special interest in teaching with technology. In addition to
writing several articles and making... read more...
 Mary
Regan
came to the United Nations Language and Communications Programme in
1998 as a part-time English teacher. She became a full-time instructor
in 2003.
Mary has been teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) since 1984.
Before returning “home” to New York, where she was
born,
Mary lived in Washington, D.C. for 13 years. She taught ESL at many
schools, including 10 years at Northern Virginia Community College. read more...
 Raymonde
Burke
has been a part-time instructor in the United Nations English Language
Programme, New York since 1991.
Born in Ireland, Raymonde globe trotted with her husband and children
for a number of years. Thus, she has had a very varied and
international teaching career. In the Middle East (Bahrain), she was an
Elementary school teacher for three years. When she and her family
moved to Switzerland, she taught ESL at the European Centre for... read more...
 Heidi Jensen has been a part-time instructor in the United Nations English Language Programme, New York since 2007.
A native New Yorker, Heidi grew up surrounded by the various cultures
and peoples of this great city. Always interested in teaching and
wanting to travel, Heidi first taught English professionally in Sendai,
Japan, where she lived for three years. Upon returning to New York, she
continued to teach immigrants in Brooklyn, until she was invited in 1997 to
teach a Conversational English class to diplomat wives at Christian
Embassy...read more...
Dilek Hancioglu has been a part-time instructor in the United Nations English Language Programme since 2004.
Jason Mount has been a part-time instructor in the United Nations English Language Programme since 2007.
Jill Kalotay has been a part-time instructor in the United Nations English Language Programme since 2004.
Richard Humphreys has been a part-time instructor in the United Nations English Language Programme since 2004.
Programme Coordinator
Kathryn Good has been serving as the Coordinator of the United Nations English Language Programme since 2010.
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