Anne Walker, Ph.D.

 

Elementary Education Program
Department of Teaching and Learning
University of North Dakota
Education Building, Rm 272 
231 Centennial Dr. Stop 7189
Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202
(701) 777-3162
anne.walker@email.und.edu

 

Dr. Walker received her M.Ed. in TESOL from Boston University and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specialized in Literacy Education for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students and Educational Policy Studies. She has taught ESL/ELL overseas as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Marshall Islands, in a K-8 Navajo bilingual school, and at the community college level. Dr. Walker has extensive experience helping schools establish and improve ELL programs and works with the North Dakota state government in developing appropriate standards, assessments and policies for K-12 ELL education. In recent years she has been training international EFL teachers, primarily in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Her current research includes international professional development in TESOL and rural ELL education.