Teaching and Curriculum
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Teaching and Curriculum

LCS Faculty Interests in Teaching and Curriculum

Faculty in LCS engage a broad range of interests in teaching, learning, curriculum, and cultural studies. These include the preparation of teachers in English language arts, reading, world languages, ESL, history and the social studies, and the arts in education. They also include research in professional development, critical consciousness and political engagement of both new and experienced teachers, in addition to policy environments for teaching and teacher education, particularly as they intersect with questions of language, society, and culture. Curriculum theory, work on assessment, and questions about cross-disciplinary curricula -- within school settings as well as other educational settings such as cultural institutions and community centers --  also also permeate our work.

Doctoral students in LCS join our efforts in teaching and curriculum in a variety of ways--as fieldworkers on faculty research projects, conducting their own research with teachers or in schools, and/or working as graduate assistants who teach undergraduate methods courses or supervise preservice teachers in their field placements. The faculty of LCS value a comprehensive view of the allows graduate students to work both within school and community contexts. The Department of Curriculum and Instruction provides a unique and rich context for this work, being home to a range of programs such as award-winning Professional Development Schools in Pre-K to 8 education and secondary English, large undergraduate certification programs in all elementary and secondary subject areas which place students in a wide range of urban, rural, and suburban settings, a summer Reading Camp for elementary and middle school-aged children, a lively professional writing group comprising local teachers at all grade levels who write for the local newspaper, international field teaching experiences, and a variety of other special programs focused on recruiting and preparing teachers.

Faculty working in this area includes:

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