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Rachel Rivers Parroquín has a joint appointment with the Center for Social Concerns (CSC) and Romance Languages and Literatures (ROLL). She is an Assistant Professional Specialist with ROLL and is the Director of Spanish Service-Learning. In her position, she is working with both ROLL faculty and CSC staff to develop a new program in community based learning for Spanish students.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Parroquín taught Spanish at Valparaiso University where she developed the Spanish for Service Professionals course, as well as worked with the Hispanic community in local parishes. Her experience includes teaching from first grade through university levels, including in ESL, Spanish, and consulting in special education for Spanish speaking families.
She holds degrees from Valparaiso University in Spanish (B.A.) and Education (B.S., M.Ed.) and Loyola University Chicago (Ed.D.). Her dissertation, Integrated Curriculum and Urban Service Learning: Impacting Pre-service Teachers’ Attitudes About Multiculturalism, focused on working with undergraduates in a service learning setting and studied how the selection of materials used in classroom instruction can impact students’ ability to more deeply interact with the community and reflect upon and understand that interaction.
In addition to community based learning and second language for specific purposes, her interests include technology enhanced instruction (essay review on Didáctica para e-learning: métodos e instrumentos para la innovación de la enseñanza universitaria, published 2007), the use of portfolios in assessment, and integrated curriculum. Parroquín has also traveled to Costa Rica and Nicaragua where she interpreted in urban and rural clinics for a health care service learning course.
Email: Parroquin.1@nd.edu
574-631-2713
Center for Social Concerns
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Notre Dame, IN 46556
