Date: January 6
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Room 410, Harker ISE Lab

Description: How can we create inclusive classrooms, where all our students are active learners? Are there certain pedagogies that some students respond to better than others? What sorts of social environments and collaborative activities will engage diverse students? How can we make classroom diversity a strength of our educational settings? This faculty panel will lead discussion, question and answer, and activities to encourage participants to plan for their own diverse classrooms.

 

Jill Flynn

Jill Flynn

Jill Flynn, English

A former high school English teacher, Jill Ewing Flynn is currently Associate Professor of English and the Student Teaching Coordinator for the English Education program at UD. Her research and teaching interests include teacher preparation and critical multicultural education, including how issues of race and culture can be productively taken up in middle school, high school, and university classrooms.

 

Stephanie Hansen

Stephanie Hansen

Stefanie Hansen, Theatre

Stefanie Hansen has been a faculty member at UD since 2004. Currently an Associate Professor in the Theatre department, she also serves as the Properties Director for the Resident Ensemble Players (UD’s professional theatre company) and routinely designs scenery for the REP. In service to the university, Stefanie is Co-Chair of the LGBTQ Caucus, member of the University Promotion and Tenure Committee and routinely assists university departments and organizations by providing props for various events.  She has worked extensively as a scenic designer and assistant scenic designer at numerous regional and summer stock theatres as well as on several national tours, Broadway, and Off-Broadway.


Lindsay Hoffman

Lindsay Hoffman

Lindsay Hoffman, Communication

Lindsay H. Hoffman, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University, 2007) is Associate Professor of Communication with a joint appointment in Political Science & International Relations. She also serves as Associate Director of the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication, and is the Director of that Center’s annual National Agenda speaker series. In Fall of 2015, National Agenda took on the theme of “Race in America: Conversations about Identity and Equality.” The combined speaker and film series featured eight conversations and four films about a variety of topics surrounding race in America and at UD. Included were two prominent Black Lives Matter activists (Netta Elzie and DeRay Mckesson), a CBS correspondent who covered the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 (Bill Plante); an Iranian-American comedian whose just-published memoir is titled “I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One on TV” (Maz Jobrani); and many others. To view all the conversations, go to www.del.edu/nationalagenda.

Claire McCabe, English

Claire McCabe has been teaching writing full-time in the University of Delaware’s English Department since 2004. She regularly incorporates experiential learning, service learning, and problem-based learning into her first-year composition courses as well as her advanced writing courses. Prior to teaching, she was a public information writer and editor at the University for 13 years.

Nike Olabisi

Nike Olabisi

Nike Olabisi, Biological Sciences

Nike is an Assistant Professor whose primarily teaches freshman introductory biology courses at the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratory.  She obtained her doctorate degree from Rutgers Medical School in Microbiology and Molecular genetics with a focus on Cancer research.  As an NIH postdoctoral fellow in teaching and cancer research she had hands on experiences in the classroom and creates avenues to bring her knowledge of cancer research and molecular biology into her teaching.  She has also been a participant and facilitator at the National academies summer teaching institute and consistently engages active learning strategies and evidence based learning methodologies to get students interested in Science careers.

Rosalie Rolón Dow

Rosalie Rolón Dow

Rosalie Rolón Dow, Education

Rosalie Rolón Dow is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Diversity at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on the intersections of sociocultural identities and educational equity and opportunity and on the application of Latino/a critical race theory (Lat/Crit) to educational problems. In 2008, she received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support a research project at the University of Puerto Rico. Her most recent publication, Diaspora Studies in Education: Toward a Framework for Understanding the Experiences of Transnational Communities, is an edited book focused on the educational experiences of Puerto Rican students. Current research projects include a study on the educational experiences of Latino/a students in higher education, a study on promoting racial literacy among pre-service teachers and a cultural mapping initiative with the Ese’eja Indigenous Nation in Peru. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Latino/Hispanic Faculty and Staff Caucus at the University of Delaware.

Elizabeth Soslau

Elizabeth Soslau

Elizabeth Soslau, Education

Dr. Elizabeth Soslau is an assistant professor in the School of Education. Dr. Soslau’s research focuses broadly on teacher education and more specifically on experiential learning. The participants of her research are usually student teachers who are working full-time in field placements. Elizabeth’s research explores questions such as: How do student teachers’ social-emotional needs interrupt their ability to process their learning experiences? What opportunities do student teachers have to develop adaptive teaching expertise during field experiences and supervisor-led conferences? In what ways can teacher educators promote student teachers’ agency?  Her previous work in urban contexts centers on experiential learning and teaching for social justice through service learning pedagogy. Her clinical work includes coordinating the student teaching practicum and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in social emotional growth and diversity.

Délice Williams

Délice Williams

Délice Williams, Postdoctoral Researcher

Délice Williams is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Delaware, where she teaches 1st-year writing. Her other teaching and research interests include South Asian fiction, 19th-century British literature, environmental justice, and postcolonial literature. Her current research focuses on environmental justice and representations of the body in contemporary South Asian fiction.  Before coming to UD she taught writing and literature at an independent K-12 school.

 

Lynn Worden

Lynn Worden

Lynn Worden, Human Development & Family Studies

Lynn Jensen Worden, Assistant Professor, has been a member of the faculty of the department of Human Development and Family Studies since 2003. She serves as the department’s Undergraduate Coordinator and, in her role as the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Coordinator, teaches and mentors teacher candidates in the ECE major. She is honored to be a part of the Collaborative to Diversify Teacher Education at UD. This semester, she joined two of her colleagues in piloting learning experiences about Racial Literacy specifically for teacher candidates. 

Cheryl Richardson

Cheryl Richardson

Moderator: Cheryl Richardson, Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning

Cheryl R. Richardson, Assistant Director of the UD Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning, works with faculty on exploring new pedagogies and improving existing teaching practices in order to enhance student learning. She brings to this session research, experience working with individual faculty on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects at other institutions as well as her own university teaching experiences.