Meet Ryan
Ryan is currently an associate professor of English Language Acquisition at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wyoming, The University of Iowa, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Heredia, Costa Rica and holds an M.A. in Foreign Language Education, a B.A. in Spanish, and a B.A. in Secondary Education/Spanish.
He has experience teaching world languages at the K-12, community college, university, and federal government levels. Before Kirkwood, he taught Spanish at Laramie High School, at The University of Iowa, and at the Defense Language Institute in the Instructor Development Branch.
He has explored many parts of Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East, South-Central Asia, Africa, and Australia and has resided in England and Nicaragua.
His professional interests involve teacher mentoring, building cross-cultural understanding, working with refugee populations, L2 curriculum design, L2 methodologies, language for specific purposes, distance learning, and oral proficiency assessment.