Faculty/Staff Bios
Dr. Joan Kang Shin is the Director of TESOL Professional Training Programs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). In this position she administers numerous online professional development programs for EFL teachers in over 100 countries, including her own courses Teaching English to Young Learners and Teaching English to Teens.
Dr. Shin is Series Editor for a ground breaking 6-level primary English series for National Geographic Learning called Our World. She has also designed a professional development video series for Our World. Her most recent book co-authored with Jodi Crandall is called Teaching Young Learners English.
In addition, she keeps herself busy as an English Language Specialist for the Office of English Language Programs (OELP) in the U.S. Department of State and has conducted EFL teacher training programs with hundreds of teachers in Brazil, Cambodia, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Korea, Laos, Libya, Morocco, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sudan, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela, Vietnam, and U.A.E. She has reached audiences worldwide of up to 2,000 people through online webinars and large-scale digital videoconferences.
 Heidi Faust, M.Ed., TESOL
Faculty Research Assistant, Education Department
Associate Director, TESOL Professional Training Programs
Ph.D., Language, Literacy & Culture, UMBC, Expected 2015
M.Ed., TESOL, University of Turabo /Penn State University, 2003
B.S., Special Education, Elementary Education, Kutztown University, 1996
Heidi Faust is the Associate Director of TESOL Professional Training Programs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). In this position she administers and teaches numerous online and face-to-face professional development programs for EFL teachers and English Learners in over 100 countries, including the Youth Community Leadership Challenge, and Teaching English to Teens.
Additionally, Heidi works as an English Language Specialist for the US Department of State, and is an adjunct instructor in the UMBC TESOL Masters/Certificate Program and other graduate education programs, where she teaches courses in Educational Leadership, Intercultural Communication, and TESOL Methods. Heidi provides consultation, training and ESL technical assistance for the PA Department of Education, where she has worked closely with the WIDA framework, and has provided Title III and Core program training, compliance monitoring, and program assistance for K-12 public schools. She is also a consultant and facilitator for the West Ed Reading Apprenticeship Literacy Framework.
Heidi has facilitated customized trainings and courses for both content teachers of English Learners and ESL/EFL teachers in both online and face-to-face programs throughout the US and globally in public schools, international schools, bi-national centers and institutions of higher education in the US, Nigeria, Brazil, Turkmenistan, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Venezuela, Mexico, and Kuwait.
Adriana Val is the Online Program Coordinator of TESOL Professional Training Program, a full online teacher training program for EFL teachers. Ms. Val is also a Spanish instructor for the Modern Languages Linguistics and Intercultural Communications Department at UMBC. In addition to an M.A. in Intercultural Communication and Instructional Design from UMBC, Ms. Val is working on a PhD. She is currently studying at UMBC Language Literacy and Culture PhD Program. Originally from Argentina, where she obtained her fist degree as Profesora de Historia, Ms. Val has been involved in education since 1975. Her research interests are technology applied to education and bilingualism-language identity of heritage Spanish speakers in Higher Education. She is also a member of the Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages in America at the Center for Applied Linguistics.
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