Contact Information

Office: 3177 JFSB

Phone: 801-422-3465

Email: cherice_montgomery@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Span 378 – Spanish Teaching Methods 2
Span 380 – Practicum in Teaching Spanish
SecEd 476R/496R – Secondary Student Teaching/Internship
Span 477 – Techniques of Spanish Instruction
Span 672 - Media & Tech in Foreign Language Instruction

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013 Office Hours:

T/Th 3-4:00

Website: http://chericem.wikispaces.com/home

Biography:

Cherice Montgomery holds a B.A. in Spanish, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (both from Wichita State University), and a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy with an emphasis in Learning, Technology, & Culture from Michigan State University. She currently teaches courses in Spanish pedagogy and supervises student teachers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She also serves as an independent consultant for a variety of publishers, universities, and school districts. Cherice's work is informed by a wide array of teaching experiences. She has worked as an elementary Spanish immersion instructor for homeschooled children, a middle school Spanish immersion camp director, a high school teacher, and a community college instructor. She has also served as a full-time instructional facilitator, coordinating cross-curricular professional development and providing both pedagogical and technological support for faculty in a large, urban, public high school. Cherice has been honored with several awards for excellence in teaching, including the Kansas Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award. Cherice's research interests focus on the intersections of: Arts-informed education, creativity, and visual cognition Design-based pedagogies and experiential learning Mentoring, leadership, and change Pedagogy of professional development Social technologies as pedagogical tools World language education, transliteracy, and 21st Century learners Her professional endeavors have included service as a member of the Advisory Board for the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum & Instruction, and as a member of the New Visions in Foreign Language Education Task Force. While at Michigan State, she worked with the Literacy Acquisition Research Center, served as a technical consultant to the Top-of-the-Mitt satellite of the Red Cedar Writing Project, was a writing consultant for the MSU Writing Center, and coordinated the Innovation with Technology in Education Consultants (iTecs) for MSU’s College of Education. She has also designed and facilitated a variety of grant-funded, summer institutes with the purpose of helping teachers to develop skills in mentoring, leadership, pedagogy, and technology (including several for teachers of Arabic, Chinese, and Hebrew). Cherice's hobbies include dancing, reading, cooking, photography, camping, hiking, scrapbooking, and waterskiing.

Degrees: Ph.D. - Curriculum, Teaching, & Educational Policy with an emphasis in Learning, Technology, & Culture
M.Ed. - Curriculum & Instruction
B.A. - Spanish

Interests:

* Arts-informed education, creativity, and visual cognition * Design-based pedagogies and experiential learning * Mentoring, leadership, and change * Pedagogy of professional development * Social technologies * World language education, transliteracy, and 21st Century learners

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