Erlyn Baack
 | Hi! I've lived in Querétaro, Mexico, and taught at ITESM beginning in 1995. For fourteen years, I taught English, Computer Systems, and Multimedia at the high school level and Advanced Composition almost exclusively at the university level. Also during that time, for two and one-half years I served as a consultant to COBAQ, a system of high schools in the state of Querétaro, Mexico. Through working with COBAQ English teachers throughout the state, our goal was a common curriculum to lift the level of English among all COBAQ high school graduates. Part of my work on this project involved writing all the monthly and final exams for all 17,000 students in the state! After fifteen years in Querétaro, I've grown to like it very much! Querétaro is a beautiful Mexican colonial city, about 1.5 million, and I hardly ever drive my car. Instead, on most days I walk to the school and the markets, and I put photos of one beautiful walk to the market here: http://eslbee.com/calendar/photos/walk/walk.htm. Also, I recently took some photos of Queretaro's traditional downtown Christmas nativity scene at http://www.eslbee.com/calendar/Queretaro_Nativity/index.html. Finally, I retired in January 2009, and my goal now is to add more interactive parts to my website and teach online classes for international students.
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