About+the+Presenters

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Nieves Knapp
Brigham Young University

Con un nombre tan largo con María de las Nieves Pérez y Bazán de Knapp, podría parecer una persona muy complicada (M.A., Brigham Young University, Ph.D., Universidad de Oviedo). Pero, al contrario, Nieves Knapp es una profesora sencilla que combina sus intereses profesionales con ser madre de tres niños preciosos (o cuatro, si se cuenta a su esposo). Creció en Asturias (una bonita región del norte de España) y allí descubrió su pasión por la enseñanza de idiomas. Aunque sus primeros pasos como profesora fueron con niños y jóvenes, enseñando francés e inglés, ahora se dedica a supervisar y preparar profesores de español en la universidad de Brigham Young y le interesa mucho todo lo relacionado con la lengua española, el estudio de la cultura y el desarrollo de materiales divertidos (como chistes, música, juegos, etc.) para complementar la enseñanza de idiomas y, en especial, de español.

Cherice Montgomery
Brigham Young University

Cherice Montgomery holds a B.A. in Spanish, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in [|Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy] with an emphasis in Learning, Technology, & Culture from [|Michigan State University]. She spent most of her career teaching high school Spanish, but also taught an elementary Spanish immersion class for homeschooled students, facilitated a middle school Spanish immersion camp, and worked as an adjunct Spanish instructor at [|Butler County Community College]. She has also served as a full time Instructional Facilitator, supporting faculty in a large, urban, public high school with cross-curricular professional development and technology integration. She currently teaches methods courses and supervises student teachers at Brigham Young University.

Cherice's professional activities include frequent presentations, various publications, and contract work for a variety of publishers, universities, and school districts. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the [|National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center], served on the [|New Visions in Foreign Language Education Task Force], and has received several awards for excellence in teaching, including the Kansas Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award. Her hobbies include blogging, cooking, games, reading, photography, playing with new technologies, scrapbooking, traveling, and waterskiing. [|Cherice's Blog]