Biography
Clara Jean Howard instructs for the Education Division and Graduate Certificate in ESOL at UMaine Farmington. After teaching for 20 years in K-12 multilingual settings both in Maine and abroad in India and Japan, she completed her doctorate in which she focused on critical instruction for multilingual learners from the perspectives of students themselves. Outside of work she returns home to Prince Edward Island where she and her husband have been renovating a 150-year-old church.
Degrees
1991 BA History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
2020 PhD University of Southern Maine
1993 MSc Literacy Education, University of Southern Maine