Farrah Taylor Giroux
Part-time Literacy Instructor
Education
- MSEd in Applied Literacy, University of Southern Maine
- CAS in ELL Literacy, University of Southern Maine
- BA in English and French, Wellesley College
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Westbrook Middle School Teacher of the Year 2018
- Nominee Maine ESOL Teacher of the Year 2020-2021
Research Interests
- Content-based instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students
- Co-teaching in secondary education
- Inclusive education in secondary schools for culturally and linguistically diverse students
- Trauma and it's effects on children in schools
- Rigor in sheltered-educational programming
Farrah Giroux is a teacher of ELs at Westbrook Middle School. Currently, she teaches sheltered-instructional language arts and math classes as well as co-teaching social studies and science classes as the need demands. Her areas of expertise are designing high-impact literacy instruction, and developing math strategies for high stakes EL learners. Farrah has experience teaching both adolescents and adults having gotten her feet wet by teaching adult English learners for several years. Farrah has had the opportunity to teach the Content-Based Curriculum course at the University of Southern Maine for several years which has afforded her the opportunity to share her passion for teaching and learning.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- 2013-present Teacher of English learners Westbrook Middle School
- 2014-present part-time faculty/lecturer for Department of Literacy, Language, and Culture
- 2011-2014 part-time ESOL instructor for Portland Adult Education and South Portland Adult Education.
Expertise
- ESOL Literacy
- ESOL planning and programming
- ESOL content-based instruction
- ESOL sheltered-instruction science programming for grades 6-8
- ESOL sheltered-instruction English/language arts programming for grades 7 & 8
- ESOL teacher preparation and mentoring, standards based education in the sheltered-instructional ESOL classroom
Education
- MSEd in Applied Literacy, University of Southern Maine
- CAS in ELL Literacy, University of Southern Maine
- BA in English and French, Wellesley College
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Westbrook Middle School Teacher of the Year 2018
- Nominee Maine ESOL Teacher of the Year 2020-2021
Research Interests
- Content-based instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students
- Co-teaching in secondary education
- Inclusive education in secondary schools for culturally and linguistically diverse students
- Trauma and it's effects on children in schools
- Rigor in sheltered-educational programming