Jeff Jenkins
IPP
Title: Director, the Mader Learning Center
Jeff Jenkins is the director of The Mader Learning Center at
Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, which assists
students in mastering fundamental and advanced reading and writing
skills, and provides special programs for students whose second
language is English.
Jeff earned a BA from Murray State University, in organizational
communication, an MA from Murray State University in TESOL
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, an MA from
Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Catholic
Thought and Life, and a Certificate in Catholic Social Teaching
from the Catholic University of America.
Jeff is a certified trainer in the Compton method of
Pronouncing English as a Second Language and a certified
facilitator of Cultural Detective®, a dynamic series of tools for
building cross-cultural competence.
In addition to his work in The Mader Learning Center, where he
developed the curriculum for English as a Second Language (ESL) for
international seminarians, he has extensive experience teaching
ESL, having held various positions at Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, as well as at privately owned companies in Louisville,
KY; Nashville, TN; and Toyota, Japan. He has also worked in various
Catholic ministry settings, including youth and college campus
ministry.
Jeff provides accent acquisition training within the Institute
for Priests and Presbyterates' World Priest Program, as well as
individualized accent acquisition training online. He has developed
and delivered workshop presentations for dioceses on the topic of
culture, language and ministry. He is a member of TESOL, Inc., and
the National Association of Lay Ministers. He is conversant in
Spanish and basic Japanese.
Topic of Presentation: Standardized North American Accent
Acquisition; Improving the Effectiveness of Your Parish
Communication; American Language and Culture for Ministry
Programs:
World Priest Program;
Accent Acquisition Training;
Diocesan Workshops: American Language and Culture for Priestly
Ministry;
New Pastors: Part II
