Huber, Tonya
ACADEMIC TITLE
ProfessorCONTACT INFO
(956) 326-2678
tonya.huber@tamiu.edu
PLG-312E
COURSES TAUGHT
- Foundatns of Ed Research (EDGR 5320)
- Social&Cultural Studies of Ed (EDCI 5316)
RESEARCH
EDUCATION
- Pennsylvania State University (Master of Education)
- Pennsylvania State University (Doctor of Philosophy)
- Pennsylvania State University (Bachelor of Science)
PUBLICATIONS
Inquiries into literacy learning and cultural competencies in a world of borders - Information Age Publishing 2018
Storied inquiries in international landscapes: An anthology of educational research. - Information Age 2010
Growing a soul for social change: Building the knowledge base for social justice. - Information Age 2008
Teaching <-> Learning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews: International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights - Information Age 2007
Creating a critical consciousness to develop intercultural competence in teacher candidates - Information Age Publishing 0000
Globalism and its challenges to community: Moral and ethical dimensions of the new world community in education through literature and film - 2007
Guys - 2007
Individuals in a collectivist world: Born in the U.S.A., teaching in Caracas, Venezuela - 2007
Lingering issues concerning ethnogenetic experiences of all peoples: A call to culturally sensitive consciousness - 2007
Positionality - 2007
Post-colonial dimensions and Tharp’s funnel: The conceptual framework - 2007
Steps guidelines - 2007
The impact of Sinclair Lewis—An application of curriculum platforms and moral stories from the curriculum work of Thomas Barone and Donald S. Blumenfield-Jones - 2007
Why do we need quality learning experiences for all learners (QLEs)? - 2007
Intercultural competency: Crossing borders between Laredo, Texas, USA, and Ahmednagar, India - 2018
Part II Introduction: Voices of border crossers - 2017
Part III Introduction: Historical, national, theoretical, and emerging paradigms of English language learning, bilingualism, and culturally responsive practice - 2017
Preface: Literacy learning and cultural competence: Shifting from dominant culture to multi-cultural to globally inter-cultural - 2017
Are you teaching for democracy? Developing dispositions - 2011
Assessing culturally responsible pedagogy - 2011
Bibliography: Building a culturally responsible knowledge base and curriculum platform: Perspectives for global social justice - 2011
Culture Clips and Captions - 2011
Excerpt from "An angel behind the camera, fliming Angels in the Dust--An interview with activist filmmaker Louise Hogarth - 2008
Globalism and its challenges to community: Moral and ethical dimensions of the new world community in education through literature and film - 2011
Preparing globally competent educators through international service learning - 2018
Guys - 2011
Individuals in a collectivist world: Born in the U.S.A., teaching in Caracas, Venezuela - 2011
Positionality - 2011
STEPS to Critical Consciousness - 2011
Preface: Growing a soul for social change—The trees we have planted - 2008
Are you teaching for democracy? Developing dispositions - 2007
Assessing culturally responsible pedagogy - 2007
Assessing culturally responsible pedagogy in student reflections, rubrics, and writing: A global worldview in the teaching/learning process - 2007
Culture clips and captions - 2007
The role of teacher educators in developing and disseminating global citizenship education strategies in and beyond US communities
Dispositions for social responsibility: Teaching and assessing for democratic practice and social justice in diverse contexts.
Tharp’s funnel: A conceptual framework for teaching about religious pluralism in Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev and Zakiyyah’s If I Should Speak
Are you teaching for democracy? Developing dispositions, promoting democratic practice, and embracing social justice and diversity.
Assessing culturally responsible pedagogy in student work: Reflections, rubrics, and writing
Developing critical self-reflection in teachers: Understanding our own culture in international contexts.
International service learning with Haitian-heritage children in the bateys of the Dominican Republic--a big truck did go by
Packing locally, feeding globally: Developing global citizenship at one international university
Race and gender at the crossroads: Black men and white women in cross-racial relationships--an update
Educational quality and dispositions: Who decides?
How courses influence dispositions regarding equity and social justice
Multicultural/Diversity outcomes: Assessing students’ knowledge bases across programs in one college of education
Race and Gender at the crossroads: Black men and White women in cross-racial relationships
An Angel behind the camera, filming Angels in the Dust: An interview with activist filmmaker Louise Hogarth.
Individuals in a collectivist world: Born in the U.S.A., teaching in Caracas, Venezuela
Mission Possible - Ruidoso News 2016
World Council for Curriculum and Instruction - Sage 2010
Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction - Sage 2010
Journal of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction - Sage 2010
GRANTS
Global Dispositions in China
ADVancing the Instruction of Science Educators (ADVISE) Texas A&M International University
Service-Learning Foss Grant for International Service-Learning to Teach Literacy in the Local Laredo Community as well as to girls and young women and their children in the Dominican Republic
Service-Learning Foss Grant for International Service-Learning to Teach Haitian-heritage Children in Sugar Cane Bateyes in the Dominican Republic
Course development of service-learning as a component of human relations and race coursework
EXHIBITS
AWARDS
International Professional of the Year - International Biographical Centre - 01-01-2008
Leading Professional of the Year - International Biographical Centre - 01-01-2008
Who's Who in the World - Marquis - 01-01-2008
Who's Who in American Education - Marquis - 01-01-2007
Who's Who in the World - Marquis - 01-01-2007
Who's Who of American Women - Marquis - 01-01-2007
Who's Who in the World - Marquis - 01-01-2006
TAMIU's Exception Women 2017 - Texas A&M International University - 01-01-2017
Service-Learning Expo 1st Place Overall - Texas A&M International University - 04-01-2017
Service-Learning Expo 2nd Place Overall - Texas A&M International University - 04-01-2017
Service-Learning Expo 3rd Place Overall - Texas A&M International University - 04-01-2017
TAMIU's Exceptional Women 2017: Education - Texas A&M International University - 03-31-2017
LBV Academic Conference 1st Place Education - Texas A&M International University - 03-01-2017
LBV Academic Conference 3rd Place Education - Texas A&M International University - 03-01-2017
LBV Academic Conference Grand Prize - Texas A&M International University - 03-01-2017
Heroes with Heart Award - New Mexico - 10-23-2014
Who's Who of American Women - Marquis - 01-01-2011
St. Joseph's Indian School (Chamberlain, South Dakota) Certificate of Appreciation - St. Joseph's Indian School - 03-01-2010
21st Century Award for Achievement in the Field of Education - International Biographical Centre - 01-01-2009
Who's Who in America - Marquis - 01-01-2009
Who's Who in the World - Marquis - 01-01-2009
Who's Who of American Women - Marquis - 01-01-2009
St. Joseph's Indian School (Chamberlain, South Dakota) Certificate of Appreciation - St. Joseph's Indian School - 03-01-2009
21st Century Award for Achievement, Decree of Excellence - International Biographical Centre - 12-01-2008
Dictionary of International Biography - International Biographical Centre - 01-01-2008
PUBLIC SERVICE
Feed My Starving Children MobilePack Core Team Host Leader & Event Planner, coordinating a core team of 20-230 people and the national contract to engage 500-plus volunteers packing at least 108,864 disaster-relief meals at each event at a cost of at least $23,950.00 for each event.
Team Leader for church-sponsored short-term mission with 6 months of weekly mission development. Part of a small team who built a feeding station la Chureca; provided teaching outlines for topics of bullying and violence for curriculum coordinators with Orphanetwork and the Casa orphanage; visited primary schools in Managua to practice English and read stories with children.
Toured a reconstructed village of the Taino Indian people, Indigenous inhabitants of the island at the time of contact with Columbus’s expedition, 15 December 1492
Toured (a) national historic site Fort Whoop-up, infamous for its role in whiskey trade with Blackfoot Confederacy and other First Nations people; (b) Galt Museum and Archives regarding history of Kainai people, as well as exhibits concerning the forced evacuation of Japanese heritage Canadians during WWII; (c) Galt Hospital, 1891-1955; (d) Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, UNESCO World Heritage Site, with exhibits, artifacts, and archaeological and historical film documentaries (e.g., Piskun—The Buffalo Jump)
Mindoro High School teaching demonstration; Mangyan tribal school tour and 2008 Spring ation of school supplies to administrators; and Mercy Link/Ruel Foundation medical outreach support
World Council for Curriculum & Instruction conference presentation and Executive Board Recorder
President’s Delegation, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota Presented on and invited participation in disposition assessment.
International Society for Teacher Education conference presentations (2) District Six and Kailetschi Roots of Africa individual guided tours; Holocaust Museum tour Presented: Warring, D. F., & Huber-Warring, T. Capturing dispositions for social justice in clips and captions. Paper presented at the International Society for Teacher Education (ISTE) conference, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
Invited Podium Speaker; hosted by Person, Whitworth, Borchers, & Morales Attorneys at Law; held at Laredo Country Club
Facilitated team participation and preparation to serve with Praying Pelican Missions in several sugar cane bateys providing Feed My Starving Children MannaPack meals and nourishment instruction, as well as assist in weighing and measuring children in the feeding program
Feed My Starving Children MobilePack Core Team Host Leader & Event Planner, coordinating a core team of 20-230 people and the national contract to engage 500-plus volunteers packing at least 108,864 disaster-relief meals at each event at a cost of at least $23,950.00 for each event.