CLAD stands for Cross-Cultural Language Academic Development, and a B in front signifies Bilingual . If you want to know about my teaching ideology, please read on. I feel fortunate that I can integrate my ideology with my participation in university and community groups, my teaching, and my research. Each involvement generates rich cross-fertilization and affirmation of the other. Through teaching and research, the themes of social justice and educational equity manifest themselves most clearly through the content and instruction of the courses I teach.
Critical pedagogy proposes an educational paradigm that differs from current practice.
I believe that critical literacy is the means we can use to create a more just, democratic society in which all people can fully participate. My course objectives are intended to operationalize critical literacy as well as student and teacher empowerment, creating leadership skills in both teacher and learner. It is important to me that my students begin their teaching careers equipped with strong instructional skills, creativity, critical awareness of the role that school plays in the lives of their students, and the vision that they have the power to create empowering learning environments for their bilingual students. My teaching goals are the result of the compelling connection between my life as a public school teacher and the world of educational research. In addition to an experiential approach to specific learning tasks in my classroom, I use the research-based journal articles and books that have informed my own research for class readings and as background sources for class products.