Graduate Teaching Experience
Literacy Across the Curriculum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Summer 2010 and Spring 2011
This course explores how reading specialists, literacy coaches, and other educators can support literacy across the curriculum in secondary schools. Students will focus on how to make connections between students’ culturally valuable ways of knowing and communicating and the discipline-specific Discourses. This will include discussions of how to meet the needs of English language learners.
Literature and Literacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2009
This course investigates how literature across the curriculum can facilitate hands-on learning, critical thinking, and classroom discussion. Students will learn how to select and implement print and digital texts into the secondary classroom that are culturally informed, sensitive, and relevant to children’s interest in and interpretation of literature.
Literacy and Language Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2008 and Fall 2010
This course examines balanced approaches to the teaching of literacy at the elementary level, sociocultural aspects of literacy learning, and new literacies engendered by a digital age. Included in this course is a project that asks students to conduct action research within the context of their own classroom.
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Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Experience
The Teaching of Children’s Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 2010
This course is part of the literacy semester and is designed to help pre-service elementary teachers plan ways of sharing, discussing, and using literature that are culturally informed, sensitive, and relevant to children’s interests in and interpretations of literature. The course is designed to foster social justice education and propels pre-service teachers toward developing strategies to address issues of equity through literacy.
Language and Literacy Across the Secondary Curriculum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 2010
This course explores how content area teachers can foster middle school and high school students’ reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. There is a focus on process approaches to learning, classroom discourse, and the use of digital tools. As part of this course, pre-service teachers engage in action research at their practicum site.
Young Adult Literature for Schools, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 2009
This course examines the theory and practice of teaching young adult literature and other media in secondary schools. In addition, issues of selection, censorship, and publishing trends are addressed.
Language Arts Development and Strategies, Concordia University Wisconsin
Spring 2009
This course offers pre-service elementary teachers a comprehensive perspective on language arts development, including phonemic awareness and phonics methodology, strategies for classroom instruction, and accommodations for a wide range of learners. This is a required course for the accelerated elementary teacher certification program.
Teaching Writing, Concordia University Wisconsin
Spring 2009
This course examines both the theory and practice of teaching writing in schools, with a focus on the middle grades. Pertinent units of study include research writing, expository writing, narrative writing, state standards and assessment, instructional strategies for use with writing, the writing conference, and working with exceptional writers.
Elementary Teaching Practicum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2008, Fall 2009, and Fall 2010
This course involves the supervision of practicum students enrolled in the elementary education program at several field sites. In addition, weekly seminars provided a space for practicum students to discuss issues related to elementary education.