William Gisler:  

See final paragraph for recent update! After thirty-nine years in the classroom--twenty-seven teaching ESOL--I retired from full-time teaching. My wife & I have been to Germany a fourteen times; I'm fairly fluent and my wife, having taught German for 35 years, is usually taken for a native in Deutschland. We led five groups of exchange students for one-month each at the Geschwister-Scholl Schule in Tuebingen (just south of Stuttgart). The faculty there helped us wrestle many of the same education issues that we face in the U.S. I taught ESOL part-time to Spanish-speaking ESOL instructors at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico's language branch in downtown San Antonio, TX. (My novel about an exchange student continues to languish in a zip drive.) But, having worked three years at a local credit union, I found that really enjoyed the teaching much more. From 2009-11, I worked with retired Army colonel, John Eric Olsen, a WWII veteran who privately published his book about the Philippine Army on Bataan. I edited a new edition, preparing it for publication by Indiana University Press (verifiying quotes, adding footnotes, and clarifying some of the military jargon so that it will be more useful to historians in future). The colonel died before authorizing money for an index, so it too sits in a zip drive. I also taught ESOL and proclamation to seminarians at the Mexican American Catholic College. After more study, they will become bilingual priests. Got re-acquainted with the TOEFL--a most challe...Expand for more