Eva Midobuche, Ed.D.

short biography

Dr. Eva Midobuche is Professor of Bilingual Education and Diversity Studies in the College of Education at Texas Tech University. She has been in the field of bilingual education since 1976.  She was a Title VII Fellow and began her career teaching in a bilingual classroom in south Texas. Dr. Midobuche has held faculty and/or administrative appointments in Elementary and Bilingual Education/ESL teacher preparation programs (graduate and undergraduate), at Texas A&M University Kingsville, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Oklahoma, Arizona State University, and Texas Tech University. Her experiences also include being a Title VII Evaluator for school districts in South Texas, a resource teacher, an ESL curriculum writer, and a bilingual program administrator in a large urban district where she evaluated program faculty and staff.

She later served as the Associate Director of a federally funded Bilingual Education Multifunctional Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma. The center served 13 states by assisting their SEAs, IHEs, and LEAs in meeting the educational needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations through professional development activities as well as developing a masters degree in Bilingual Education. Dr. Midobuche has developed curriculum materials and has served as a consulting author to bilingual education textbook publishing companies. She has presented at national and international conferences and her work has been published in journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, Educational Leadership, the Bilingual Research Journal, and Teaching Children Mathematics.

professional interests

Dr. Midobuche’s career has been primarily in the field of Bilingual Education and the education of language minority children. Having been a child who only spoke Spanish when she started elementary school and later becoming a bilingual education teacher, Dr. Midobuche understands the issues facing English language learners and their teachers. Throughout her career, her teaching, service, and research activities have focused on one basic area--creating culturally responsive learning environments in language minority education by preparing ESL and bilingual education teachers. Dr. Midobuche has taught over 28 different courses in Bilingual and ESL education. In addition to the course content the issues of respect and the validation of heritage language and culture are often the focus of many of her publications. In the spring of 2008 Dr. Midobuche was selected to represent the College of Education for the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award at the university level.

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