Nycki Cuddie

Educator/Teacher

Nycki has been teaching and learning languages for years. She spent 2 years teaching Spanish to undergraduate students and 2 years teaching ESL to students from around the world at Michigan State University. She also spent two years there developing meaningful communicative language activities that could be automatically graded and used across multiple languages for the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program. She speaks fluent Spanish and elementary Hindi, and a few phrases of many other languages. This is her third year teaching at the CCQ English Language Center. She is a student-centered teacher with strong background in phonetics, phonology, and speech perception and absolutely loves teaching Listening and Speaking classes.

International Education, Minimalism, World Travel, Language Learning, Intercultural Communication

The human race is a global village.

Classroom Communities, Educational Technology, ESL, Phonetics, Phonology

I've watched TED talks for years and years. I've used them in classes. I've watched them on airplanes during extremely long flights. I was inspired to organize a TED event at my current institution by an international undergraduate student at my alma mater. I am excited and nervous and experiencing many other emotions as we get things underway.

Connecting learning to life, Financial Planning, time management