1. Official Journal of the El Paso Community College Teachership Academy Volume 1,Issue 1, April 2016

2. Teachership Academy Journal of Action Research Chief Editor TAJAR Committee Oscar Baeza Dr. Audrey Hernando Alvino Hernandez Dr. Miguel Vasquez Tracy VonMaluski Printing Company Airport Printing Services _______________________________________________________ Teachership Academy El Paso Community College 9050 Viscount Drive El Paso, Texas, 79932 (915) 831-8859 www.epcc.edu/TeachershipAcademy

3. Teachership Academy Journal of Action Research El Paso Community College's Teachership Academy is a ten-month professional developmental program designed to provide faculty a cohort experience while focusing on pedagogy of education and providing them the opportunity to implement what they have learned through an Action Research Project. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2016 ISSN ######### All works are property of the writer/author. For more information or to request a copy please contact El Paso Community College Teachership Academy at (915) 831-8859. Electronic version of this publication is also available at www.epcc.edu/TeachershipAcademywww.epcc.edu/TeachershipAcademy ____________________________________________________________________________________________ The Teachership Academy Journal of Action Research (TAJAR) is a yearly publication that showcases the work of Teachership Academy (TA) graduates. The scope of the journal is applying action research to the collegiate level. Articles are submitted by El Paso Community College (EPCC) faculty Teachership Academy (TA) graduates. The Teachership Academy Journal of Action Research (TAJAR) is an exclusive publication by the Teachership Academy and all work submitted is peer reviewed independently by non-EPCC faculty. TAJAR is published once a year by the Teachership Academy at El Paso Community College. For more information about TAJAR please visit www.epcc.edu/TeachershipAcademy. www.epcc.edu/TeachershipAcademy To become part of the TA family, please visit our web page! www.epcc.edu/TeachershipAcademy The El Paso County Community College District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

4. Table of Contents Teachership Academy Journal of Action Research

5. Teachership Academy Administrative Liaison Dr. Lydia Tena Teachership Academy Steering Committee Oscar Baeza Pat Duran Mary Ervin Dr. Rebecca Escamilla Alvino Hernandez Rudy Hernandez Dr. Audrey Hernando Paul Hotchkin Ivan Iniguez Dr. Jose Pacheco-Lucero Dr. Hilda Taylor Eddie Urquidi Dr. Miguel Vasquez Tracy VonMaluski Dr. Barbara Yancy-Tooks Special Thank You El Paso Community College President: Dr. William Serrata Vice President of Instruction and Workforce Education: Mr. Steven Smith Board of Trustees: Mr. Art Fierro, Mr. Brian Haggerty, Ms. Selena N. Solis, Mr. John E. Uxer, Jr., Ms. Gracie Quintanilla, Ms. Belen Robles and Dr. Carmen Olivas Graham.

6. For more information about the Teachership Academy at El Paso Community College, please visit us at www.epcc.edu/teachershipacademy.www.epcc.edu/teachershipacademy