Claudia Treviño García

Affiliation

University of Texas at San Antonio

Biography

Claudia Treviño Garcia, Ph. D. is an Associate Professor of Instruction. She received her Ph. D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her career spans a combined 30 years in the field of bilingual education. Her experience includes 13 years as a dual language teacher, Title VII Grant Coordinator, and Administrator, PK-12 Bilingual Education/ESL Curriculum Specialist, and District Dual Language Coordinator. She is the current lead for the Bilingual Education Teacher Residency Program where she supervises bilingual education clinical teachers. Her research focuses on educator cultural efficacy development, dual language education programs, teacher recruitment, and retention, coaching and mentoring, and teacher residency programming. Dr. Garcia currently teaches courses in language arts and biliteracy development, assessment of language proficiency, and language usage in bilingual classrooms, focusing on the different content areas for native language instruction. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences.