MA, Education, University of Bath (UK); doctoral studies in education, University of Bath

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Teacher education, teacher development, linguistic policy, educational innovation, teaching foreign languages

Gabriel Diaz Maggioli comes to The New School from Montevideo, Uruguay, where he served, most recently, as national coordinator for the Modern Foreign Languages Department of the National Teacher Education College. Mr. Diaz Maggioli’s research focuses on teacher education, pedagogy, and professional development. He has written numerous articles, book chapters, and curriculum guides for teachers in Latin America and the United States, including Managing Learning Styles in the Classroom (TESOL Publications, 1996) and Teacher-Centered Professional Development (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004). He has been a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Education, a visiting scholar at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC, and a consultant to many educational institutions in Latin America and the United States. He is a frequent presenter at professional development events in Argentina, Brazil, Belize, Paraguay, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, the continental United States, Canada, and Israel. He has also led nationwide educational innovations for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Union.

Served as consultant to the Ecuadoran Ministry of Education on curriculum reform for English as a foreign language

Developed a training program for teacher educators creating a competency-based curriculum at the University of Belize

Advised on Uruguay’s Plan Ceibla (the local version of One Laptop per Child) on alternative curriculum models for teacher education and the delivery of English language courses