The Institute
Teaching Identities Institute
This institute offers an ongoing professional development and self-reflection environment to in-service and pre-service teachers in Southern Arizona and abroad. During their participation, teachers, researchers and educators from the US will have the opportunity to meet teachers and other educators from Mexico and conduct different joint activities to explore and shape their identity as educators of young children, adolescents, adults, who are often first generation low-income, immigrants from diverse communities. Teachers’ reflections, as part of this institute, include aspects of ethnicity, race, sexual preference, first language, etc. Identity and its multiple definitions, along with discussion and comprehension about these, will assist in-service and pre-service teachers from different borderlands regions, to conduct effective teaching and learning practices for Latinx and Latin American students in Southern Arizona and across the borderlands.
Institute’s guiding activities:
- Panel discussion - lead by Professors and Field Educators from University of Arizona, Center of Teaching and Teacher Education (CRESON-Sonora) and University of Sonora (UNISON-Mexico)
- Individual Presentations
- Collective work
- Workshops
- Conclusions and next steps
- Tutorial sessions
- Final Project
