Office: WSTC 227E | Phone: (308) 865-8246 | Email: rodgersb@unk.edu
Barbara Rodgers is an English Language Educator with an M.Ed. in Teaching English Learners from the American College of Education. She specializes in academic English and also has experience in standardized test preparation, grammar, pronunciation, and conversational English. She has taught university students, professionals, adult learners, and children in elementary and junior high schools in Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Japan, and online classrooms around the world.
Her experience includes serving as a professor of English at the University of Papaloapan in Mexico, training future teachers at Costa Rica TEFL, and teaching elementary students in Madrid, Spain. She has also led community English classes, supported adult learners online, and, while in Japan, taught in public schools and organized professional development workshops for teachers.
Barbara is passionate about helping students build confidence and creating interactive, student-centered lessons that make language learning practical, engaging, and cross-cultural.