Teresa Roebuck

Founder of The REAL Learning Center and the Global Association for Teaching Excellence, a professional development association.
Adjunct Graduate Faculty- Wilkes University, University of St. Francis and Ozarks Technical Community College Former Online Professional Development Coordinator for Arkansas Department of Education

Teresa is the Founder and Educational Director of The REAL Learning Center, an educational instruction and consulting company. She consults and trains on classroom educational technologies, distance learning and Spanish for the workplace, among other professional development offerings. The REAL Learning Center also manages the Global Association for Teaching Excellence, a national association to provide support and professional development opportunities for teachers, especially targeted to novice teachers and those in the first five years of the profession.  She also serves as an adjunct graduate faculty member for Wilkes University and the University of St. Francis and an online instructor for Ozarks Techical Community College.

Teresa Roebuck has just over 12 years of experience as an Arkansas educator. She previously served as the Arkansas Department of Education Online Professional Development Coordinator working with the ArkansasIDEAS professional development Portal. In this position she served as a liaison between the ADE, the AETN Education group, Arkansas Educational Coops, Higher Education, Work Force Ed, Arkansas educational professional organizations and State agencies to acquire, review and approve professional development to be offered to licensed teachers in the state.

She has worked with the Arkansas Educational Coops to deliver technology professional development and was trained by Texas A & M University’s Center for Distance Learning Research as a Certified Collaborative Video Presenter. She worked in retail management within the private sector for many years prior to entering the education field. She has also owned her own business as a Spanish language consultant to such firms as Nabholz Construction, First Security Bank and International Paper.
Teresa has worked as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher for adults, an ESL teacher for Pre-K – 6 classrooms and a 7-12 Spanish teacher, not only in regular classrooms, but also for the Arkansas Virtual High School and for the ADE Distance Learning Center, where she also served as the Assistant Instructional Coordinator. She teaches adult beginning Spanish classes for the Faulkner County Library, in Conway.
A native of Conway, Arkansas, Teresa received a special certification in Spanish pedagogy from the University of Chile, in Santiago, Chile; her B.A. from Hendrix College and her M.S. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Central Arkansas.