TIES Phase II Project at UGA
Teachers Training Teachers: A Mexico-U.S. Higher Education Partnership to Improve Science, English and Mathematics Pedagogy

On May 9, 2009, Cintia Ortiz Blanco, Bertha Maria Rodriguez, and Max Vazquez Dominguez graduated with a Master's degree in Early Childhood Education and Alejandro Asvin Arrington graduated with a Master's degree in Middle School Education. Cintia, Bertha, Max and Alex are the first scholarship recipients to graduate under the Training Internships Exchanges and Scholarships (TIES) project entitled Teachers Training Teachers: A Mexico-US Higher Education Partnership to Improve Science, English and Mathematics Pedagogy in partnership with Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana (UPV) & Benemérita Escuela Normal Veracruzana (BENV) "Enrique C. Rébsamen."

TIES students celebrate at the conclusion of the College of Education's Spring 2009 Convocation. Left to right are Max Vazquez, Alex Arrington, Cintia Ortiz, Dr. Martha Allexsaht-Snider, friend, Bertha Rodriguez, and Martha Selene Cabrera.

Max Vazquez, center, celebrates the conclusion of the College of Education's Spring 2009 Convocation with friends.

In addition to their coursework and research at the University of Georgia, TIES graduate students were continuously committed to serve the local Athens Latino community. They translated for parent teacher conferences at local public schools, assisted Chase Street Elementary School teachers with a family literacy workshop, and observed ESOL students and teacher pedagogy at local schools. They also translated for health care outreach providers at the Feria Latina de Salud. In the spring semester 2009, they assisted Dr. Martha Allexsaht-Snider, co-project director of TIES, with her "Burney Harris Lyons to UGA through Science" project to familiarize Latino parents and students with opportunities for post-secondary education at Georgia's colleges and universities. The TIES students also brought their experience and education back to Mexico by conducting mathematics workshops in Mexico with Dr. Allexsaht-Snider, by presenting their research at the Conference on the Americas in February 2009, and by submitting articles on pedagogy for publication.

The TIES project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development and is coordinated by Higher Education for Development.

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TIES students celebrate their graduation.		Left to right are pictured Max Vazquez, Cintia Ortiz, Diana Iris Santiago, Dr. Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Bertha Rodriguez, and Alex Arrington.
At the graduation party for TIES students, left to right are Bertha Rodriguez, Alex Arrington, Sarah Stack, Administrative Associate, and Deborah Gonzalez, Assistant Director, IPSO.		Left to right are pictured Jackie Roberts, Sarah Stack, Glenn Ames, Alex Arrington, and Martha Allexsaht-Snider

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds over 60 TIES partnerships linking universities and institutions of higher education in the U.S. and Mexico. Higher Education for Development (HED) in Washington DC administers the TIES program for USAID. The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years. For more information on USAID, visit www.usaid.gov.

HED engages the resources of higher education institutions in the United States and abroad for global social and economic development through human and institutional capacity building. HED assists the nation's six major higher education associations and their members in partnering with USAID, as well as other development agencies and donor organizations. For more information about HED, please visit www.HEDprogram.org.