Dina Zavala-Petherbridge is a former UPNFM student, and today , she is the Director of the Spanish Program at Valley City State University in North Dakota. She currently holds a Masters Degree in World Languages Instruction, and is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Education from North Dakota State University. Some of her teaching experiences are in elementary language immersion, high school Spanish, and college beginning and advanced language courses. Ms. Zavala-Petherbridge also teaches Latin American history, geography, culture, and civilization courses. She holds a certification of Primary Years Programme and International Baccalaureate Program where she obtained training in PYP curriculum development. She uses her teaching experience to train future language teachers in her methods class. In addition, she has been a panel representative for the State of North Dakota for world language assessment at Educational Testing Services (ETS). Dina Zavala-Petherbridge will give two presentations entitled: "The classroom that works: Activities that will motivate your students to use their foreign language" and "Responsive Classroom: Creating a safe environment for elementary school age children." The Organizing Committee of the VI National Conference for Teachers of English welcomes Dina and wishes her a plesant return to our country.
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