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Those are things we believe indigenous teachers bring to the classroom. The two other grants will help the College of Education to enhance its collaboration with community schools in Albuquerque and support a language diversity and arts integration initiative in an Albuquerque high need elementary school.

For general inquiries, please email us at coeresearch unm. Denise Wallen, Ph. For more information about the center, click here.

Co-Directors: Dr. Glenabah Martinez and Dr. Since its inception in , more than 80 American Indian students have graduated or are on track to graduate with degrees in education.

This one-week institute is restricted to speakers of Native languages who are preparing to teach or are responsible for teaching language in tribal language programs or in school settings. The course is especially recommended for native speakers who are interested in teaching language in an immersion setting.

This course will focus on methodologies and strategies that support effective oral language teaching, principles of second language development for Native language learners, with a special emphasis on planning and applying principles to appropriate oral language teaching activities.

There will be ample opportunities for discussion and sharing or creative ideas for language teaching. The aim of the Institute is to provide teachers with the opportunity to use their Spanish in an academic setting while learning necessary instructional, historical, linguistic, and cultural information. Her teaching career has included middle school, high school, and higher education in public, private, charter, and tribal schools in New Mexico.

Martinez has also recently published a chapter on critical literacy and the Yazzie-Martinez case in Luminous Literacies: Advances in Research on Teaching Dr. Her research focus is education for Indigenous youth, professional curriculum development, and education policy. She is interested in creating pathways for Indigenous students to successfully transition to post-secondary education, and much of her work focuses on mentoring graduate students as they prepare to assume roles in institutions of higher education.

Publications include:. Affordances and Attention: Learning and Culture. Hidi Eds. Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and learning.

Contemporary Educational Psychology. DeFrates-Densch Eds. A multicultural perspective on play and learning in primary school. International Journal of Early Childhood. His past research focuse d on the experiences of Indigenous youth in education and identifying exemplary practices in the education of Indigenous youth.

His latest research projects examine community engaged research partnerships, community defined understandings of wellbeing, and successful aging with a health research focus.

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