Martha Allexsaht-Snider
Educational Theory and Practice (Faculty)
Associate Professor
614B Aderhold
Phone: 706.542.4318
Email: marthaas@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
She received her Ph.D. from The University of California, Santa Barbara in Crosscultural Education and is a former bilingual teacher and teacher of English as a second language. She teaches courses on families, schools, and communities; research on teaching and classroom culture; anthropology and education; multicultural teacher education, and teacher action research. Her research interests include family-school linkages in diverse contexts, mathematics teaching and learning, and professional development and teacher education in multicultural and multilingual settings. She is participating in the development of alternative approaches to teacher education and the integration of multicultural perspectives in programs in the College of Education. She has evaluated and conducted research with a number of National Science Foundation projects designed to improve mathematics teaching and learning such as MAPPS (Math and Parent Partnerships in the Southwest), PRIME (Program for [Systemic] Reform in Mathematics Education, and IMEDC (Improving Mathematics Education in Diverse Classrooms.