Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

NEWS
Dr. Susan Keehn, Associate Professor for the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching has been awarded the 2008 recipient of the Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award . This award is presented by the International Reading Association (IRA) and given annually to an outstanding college or university teacher of reading methods or reading-related courses. Awardees must be Association members, affiliated with a college or a university, and engaged in teacher preparation in reading at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels. The award presentation will be made at the IRA Conference in Atlanta in May.

Dr. Roxanne Henkin, Professor for the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching has been awarded a $45,000 grant for the National Writing Project 2007-2008. The grant will be used to developed workshops for high school seniors introducing them to college writing, youth writing camps, and a winter writing conference just to name a few. The goal of the San Antonio Writing Project is also to inspire and motivate teachers to become highly skilled teachers of writing for all their current and future students.

Dr. Mari Cortez, ILT Associate Professor, was featured this past Tuesday on our local public televison station KLRN discussing Family Literacy. She was recently interviewed about her research on Family Literacy and Cuentos (storytelling) by Mario Bosquez. She is featured on the show titled ("Ninos en su casa"--Spanish version) or ("A Place of Our Own" English version) discussing the importance of storytelling as a tool to prepare young children for school. Watch Dr. Cortez by clicking on the link and scrolling down to Feb.27 Episode date: http://www.klrn.org/Earlyon/EarlyOnParents/local.html

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