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CURRENTLY:
Dr. Martinez is a faculty member in the Department of Educational Technology and Literacy in the Graduate Reading Program at Towson University.
Her work involves:
- teaching graduate reading courses,
- researching pre-kindergarten English
for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students' literacy progress in south
Florida,
- researching the successes of college
students from urban areas throughout the United States that received a
scholarship through the Ron Brown Scholar Program,
- developing an English for Speakers of
Other Languages (ESOL) special topics course for teachers working on their
Master's in Education-Reading who wish to attain ESOL certification.
- and serving on various university,
state, and national organizations.
- The ESOL course
will be offered this summer abroad in
Costa Rica! Click on the following link to get more information:
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Graduate
Reading in Costa Rica - Study Abroad - Towson University
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES:
As a reading specialist, she has taught
several graduate level reading courses at the Johns Hopkins University, Loyola
College in Maryland, and Towson University. She created and advised for
the ESOL graduate programs at JHU. She also provided technical assistance
(i.e.; assistance with curriculum development, program evaluation, grant
writing) and professional development to administrators, teachers, childcare
providers, parents, and librarians throughout the nation.
Dr. Martinez has presented at various state
and national conferences on topics such as best practices in early literacy
instruction, ESOL reading and writing strategies, mentoring beginning teachers,
team building, and creating home-school connections. She is fluent in Spanish,
and enjoys providing workshops to parents in her native language.
EDUCATION:
She has an
undergraduate degree in Elementary Education-Science from the University of
Maryland, a M.S. in Education-Reading from the Johns Hopkins University, and an
Ed.D. in Teacher Development and Leadership, also from the Johns Hopkins
University.
Her dissertation was a multiple-case study of
26 Maryland public librarians from ten libraries in urban, suburban, and rural
areas. By interviewing and observing librarians, she investigated how they were
implementing information from an emergent literacy training they attended (that
she and Elaine Czarnecki provided) into their daily practices. She also
reviewed the librarians' outreach documents. Her goal was to unveil how
the training was being used, what librarians were doing during their story times
to promote school reading readiness skills, and what types of outreach they
provided. The results were positive.

Poster Session: ESOL 101
(to access the PowerPoint, click on
the tab located
on the upper left-hand side of this page)
Presented March 31, 2008 at the National Family
Literacy Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
Last Updated: 4/10/2008 7:26:07 AM
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