An international UNM student-learning opportunity
We invite you to support UNM Secondary Education Licensure students dedicated to becoming teachers in New Mexico with an interest in Special Education and/or Bilingual Education to travel to Spain. <br><br>This is a faculty-led trip that brings UNM students, many of whom have never been out of New Mexico, on an international, month-long learning intensive in collaboration with the University of Córdoba.
This program works to strengthen cohorts of bilingual educators who are equipped to more equitably educate all New Mexican children including those who are language learners, low-income students as well as those with differing abilities.
Through a hands-on classroom setting, students will learn about and practice interdisciplinary, place-based, student-centered strategies and inclusive settings for diverse learners.
**Our goal with this campaign is to fully support students who would not otherwise have the financial means to participate in an international experience such as this.
Highlights:
- Designed in line with the recent Yazzie/Martinez 2018 ruling, the New Mexico Public Education Department’s response to the lawsuit, and our New Mexico Constitution Article XII.
- Prepares secondary educators in an interdisciplinary manner across Bilingual Education, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Special Education,
- Deepens understandings of the Peoples, cultures, and histories of Southern Spain through a UNM Independent Study course taught on site and excursions to important cultural sites,
- Contributes to a larger project of education at UNM as a driver of curiosity, innovation, community-engaged scholarship, and democratic global citizenry
$1,200 pays for one student’s flight to Spain.
$1,000 provides one UNM student room and board for the month.
$400 pays for us to host our UNM students to one welcome dinner and one farewell dinner in Spain in order to acquaint them with the cuisine of the Adaluz region.
$75 offers one student a two-way train ticket to travel from Cordova to Granada and back.
$50 buys a two-way train ticket from the airport in Madrid to the town of Cordova in Southern Spain.
$35 is the price of one entry ticket and guided tour into the spectacular and historic El Alhambra of Granada, which is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
$25 purchases a two-way bus ticket from Madrid to the historic city of Toledo in order to better understand the contributions of the Visigoth, Roman, Arabic, Jewish, Roma, and Catholic Peoples of Southern Spain.