Ms Keffeler
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Kathy M. Keffeler graduated from the University of South Dakota with a Bachelor of Science in Education in English, Mass Communications and Spanish. She studied at the University of Madrid and received her DELE (Certificate of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language) from the Department of Education of the government of Spain. She received her Master's in Curriculum and Instruction from Black Hills State University and endorsement as a teacher of English as a Second Language from South Dakota State University.
She taught English and Spanish in New Underwood, South Dakota, at Rapid City Central High School, and most recently at Douglas High School, Box Elder, South Dakota. She serves as a clinical faculty member for Black Hills State University’s Department of Education. She has been teaching for thirty years.
She assisted at DLI, the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. She has worked as an interpreter for several books and worked as a translator for Doctors Without Borders in Perú. She has received teaching awards several times at the local, regional and national level. She traveled to China last summer with Fulbright-Hayes and last fall to Mexico as the 2009 recipient of the Central States Conference Scholarship. Besides Costa Rica, she will also be traveling to Turkey this summer with the Turkish World Affairs Council. In addition to teaching, she is a part time reader for the national SAT exam. During the summers, she is a tour guide for the Black Hills and Badlands in the American West. She lives in Rapid City, South Dakota and is the mother of two grown daughters, both studying medicine.