Yazar: Cecilia Silva

Molly Weinburgh is the Andrew Chair of Mathematics & Science Education and Director of the Andrews Institute of Mathematics & Science Education at Texas Christian University. She taught high school biology for 19 years prior to earning her doctorate. She currently teaches in the College of Education, Honors College, and College of Science and Engineering. Her scholarship focuses on academic language acquisition and conceptual understanding in science by emerging multilingual students. Weinburgh is the co-author of Supporting Emergent Multilingual Students using the 5R Instructional Model: The Hybrid Language of Inquiry-based Science (NSTA Press) and co-author on a chapter outlining the 5R Instructional Model in the Handbook of Educational Theories (IAP, 2013). She is also co-editor of Science Teacher Preparation in Content-Based Second Language Acquisition and Becoming and Being: Women’s Experience in Leadership in K-16 Science Education Communities. Her honors include the Chancellor’s Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teachers and Scholar, Piper Professorship, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.