Martha Barragan

Martha is a passionate, versatile, reflective, and lifelong learner teaching professional eager to seek and implement the best blend of research-based instructional techniques to better suit students’ knowledge assets, learning styles, and interest to enable high achievement and attainment of their fullest potential. Teaching students from a wide range of grade levels, backgrounds and learning styles, she honed her communication, creativity, and motivational skills. Additionally, her inherent passion for teaching foreign languages, the cultures related to it, multicultural awareness, and her ability to build rapport with students have fostered exciting and engaging classes, which have successfully encouraged and developed thoughtful and enthusiastic students equipped to take their learning beyond the classroom’s walls. 

Spanish Teacher | Hommocks Middle School, NY, USA| 4.5 years

Spanish Teacher | School 23 & Scholastic Academy, NY, USA | 1 year

BA Adolescent Education and Spanish Iona College 2015

MSEd Literacy Birth to grade 12 College of New Rochelle 2018

Advanced Certificate ESOL Mercy College 2021