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Chris Faltis, Faculty Lead BETA Partnership
Chrisitan Jan Faltis |
Multilingual Multicultural Education EDUCATION Ph.D. Stanford University, School of Education, Curriculum and Teacher Education. Emphasis: Bilingual Cross-Cultural Education. June, 1983. M.A. Stanford University, School of Education, Curriculum and Teacher Education. Emphasis: Second Language Education. June, 1981. M.A. San José State University, Department of Mexican American Graduate Studies. Emphasis: Bilingual Studies. July, 1976. B.A. San Francisco State University, School of Humanities. Major: Spanish Language and Literature. January, 1973. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 8-94 to present Professor. Language and Literacy Education – Curriculum Studies. Division of Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University, Tempe (tenured). 8-99 to 1-2000 Visiting Professor. Language, Literacy and Culture. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. 9-94 to present Professor. Linguistics affiliate in MTESL Program. Linguistics Department, 8-98 to 8-01 Editor. Educational Researcher, Research News & Comments. 9-94 to 8-98 Editor. TESOL Journal. 6-93 to 12-95 Program Director. Teaching for a Diverse Future - Teacher Education Program. Arizona State University, Tempe. 8-91 to 7-94 Associate Professor. Bilingual Education. Division of Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University, Tempe. (Tenured) 1-87 to 7-91 Associate Professor. Second Language and Bilingual Education. Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Nevada, Reno. (Tenured) 1-86 to 12-86 Senior Fulbright Scholar. Department of Foreign Languages, The Autonomous National University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 7-83 to 12-85 Assistant Professor. Second Language and Bilingual Education. Area of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Alabama. 12-81 to 6-83 Bilingual Teacher. Redwood City School District-Title VII Program. Redwood City, California. 9-80 to 6-81 Spanish Teacher. Milpitas Unified School District. Milpitas, California. 7-78 to 3-79 English as a Second Language Teacher. Centro Colombo-Americano, Medellín, Colombia, South America. 8-76 to 7-78 English as a Second Language Teacher, SER Jobs for Progress Day School. San José, California. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE Have taught and lived in Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Spain, Tunisia, and Venezuela. SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Speak, understand, read, and write local and international Spanish with superior proficiency. Attended Spanish-only elementary schools for 3 years in Mexico; have taught college level courses on language and literacy and participated in seminars in Spanish. |
