I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in language education.

As a reflective practitioner, I approach teaching as an opportunity to cultivate practitioner practices that contribute to improved educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in a variety of language, general, formal, and informal education contexts. In my teaching—interconnected with my research—educational opportunities are understood in relation to heteroglossia language theories, funds of knowledge learning theories, and decolonial collaborative practices. Example multilingual pedagogical approaches that embody these three areas are listed below.

My classes position student-generated knowledge as essential for understanding key concepts. We also collaborate with teachers in other regions of the world to understand how connected our practices in language education are. The emphasis on relationships aims to develop pedagogical practices in our courses that can be transferred in a variety of contexts.

Example Courses

Language Foundations for Teachers

Cultural, Legal, and Historical Issues in Teaching English as a Second Language

Community Language Teaching

Classroom Language Assessment

Literacy in the Content Area

Research in Teaching and Teacher Education

Academic Discourse Communities in Graduate Studies

Recognition

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, School of Education Mentoring, Advising, and Supervising Award in 2017