Office: LD 208

Phone: 832 2880

email: caliendo@ccsu.edu

 

 

Gloria Marie CALIENDO, Associate Prof. of Spanish / Teacher Education.

 

Holds B.A. in Spanish / Secondary Certification (Eastern CT State University); M.A., in Spanish (Middlebury College): Ph.D. in Bilingual / Bicultural Education with areas in Curriculum & Instruction (Second Language Acquisition) and Educational Administration (Univ. of CT).

 

Coordinates the Teacher Education for MLD, teaches all levels of Spanish, teaches Methods courses for teachers, and supervises student teachers. She has also been a State Assessor for the CSDE in the Beginning Educator Support Training Program (BEST) (4 years).

 

Has traveled and lived in Central and South America. In the summer of 1997 she brought a group of students to Guatemala for a Field School Experience (with Abagail Adams, Anthropology).

 

She has presented at local, regional, national & international professional conferences and is presently preparing a series of booklets on themes in Teacher Education (some related to Foreign Language specifically).

 

Other interests: Has studied / taught dance (ballet / jazz) for many years and formerly performed; enjoys the Arts. Participated in the Teacher Education Redesign Project scheduled that took effect in 1999.

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