Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2020-034
Peggy Walton served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine from 1994 to 1996 as an English teacher trainer. She later also served as a Peace Corps Response volunteer there from 2013 to 2016. She joined the Peace Corps having worked as an English teacher at a community college. Her pre-service training was in Kyiv (Kiev) at the Labor Institute. Walton worked as a teacher trainer at the recertification institute in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), specifically with the Ukrainian English teachers. She found that their greatest need was speaking instruction, as they could teach grammar but many did not have practice speaking. In 2013, Walton returned to Ukraine with PC Response and was assigned to Lutsk. In 2014, she and all other volunteers in Ukraine were evacuated because of the revolution. She returned in 2015 to work at the teacher recertification institute in Uzhhorod for a year. Interviewed and recorded by Elaine Staab, November 2, 2019. 1 digital audio file.