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The US Is the Fifth-Largest Spanish-Speaking Country. Where Are Our Bilingual Teachers?

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In the paper , Gauna and her fellow researchers identified major life experiences that bilingual Latino teachers said made their paths to becoming educators all the more difficult. Gauna is an associate professor of bilingual/ESL and multicultural education at the University of Houston-Clear Lake’s College of Education. “A

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Religion Is a Taboo Topic. I Discuss It in My Classroom Anyway.

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This approach hindered my ability to connect with students; it felt like I was suppressing parts of my identity as an Arab and Muslim educator. Discovering a New Perspective Everything changed during my second year of teaching when I enrolled in a multicultural education course as part of my M.Ed.