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Gretchen Bitterlin

Gretchen Bitterlin

gbitterl@sdccd.edu
Phone: 619-388-4946

Educational Cultural Complex – ESL Resource Office
4343 Ocean View Boulevard
San Diego, Ca 92113

Background

  1. B.A. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
  2. M.A. in Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages, University of Arizona

Biography:
Gretchen Bitterlin has 36 years experience in the field of adult level English as a Second Language. Since 1996, she has been the coordinator of the non-credit Continuing Education ESL program in addition to her teaching assignment.

From 1981 – 1997, she was a certified trainer for the ESL Teacher Institute which involved training and mentoring ESL teachers throughout the state of California. From 1997 – 2001, she chaired the TESOL task force on Adult Education ESL Program Standards. The outcome of this project was the publication of Standards for Adult Education ESL programs by TESOL in 2003. She is also the co-author of English for Adult Competency, published by Prentice Hall in 1981 and an author of Ventures, a new adult ESL series published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.