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Teacher Education Program
Teacher Education Program Faculty
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Joe Bruzzese is a graduate of UCSB and the Teacher Education Program and returns as both a site supervisor and course instructor in MST. Now in his fourth year in both positions, Joe has focused his work on building connections between children, families, and communities in the Goleta area. Prior to returning to UCSB, Joe worked as an upper elementary school teacher in Ojai Unified, Ventura Unified, and the Goleta Union School District.
Ann Carlyle teaches Ed 391A (Math Methods) for MST. She also is a MST supervisor and academic coordinator, currently at El Camino and Harding Schools. Ann was an elementary teacher in Goleta for more than 37 years. She was appointed by the California State Board of Education to the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission from 1989-1993 where she chaired the Mathematics Subject Matter Committee. She is the 1993 California recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching and the 2000 recipient of the George Polya Memorial Award from the California Mathematics Council. Ann was elected to the National Council Teachers of Mathematics Board of Directors for 1997-2000. She has chaired the Editorial Panel for Teaching Children Mathematics and served on the OnMath Editorial Panel for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Willis Copeland My research is aimed at discovering how teachers understand their work, how and why they come to teach as they do, and how they can be helped to improve their own teaching. I am convinced of the importance of carefully considering the context within which teachers work before any effort is made to improve that work. I believe that teachers’ own thoughts about their work – how they make meaning of that they do – offer potentially fruitful insights into the nature of the classroom context. I am working to uncover the implicit but important understandings that good teachers depend upon and also to discern the processes of professional development by which good teachers develop these understandings. My coming to this present research focus has, itself, been an evolution, from my time as a junior high school history teacher and coach, through my graduate studies at The University of Notre Dame and my work as a young professor in the Teacher Education Program here at UCSB, to my work in recent years on understanding the workings of classrooms and on applications of technology to educational purposes. This evolution is continuing, influenced greatly by the students with whom I work. I hope it will contribute to a genuine improvement in teaching based on a clearer understanding of the tasks teachers face, the ways they think about them and how they strive to improve their own work.
Jana Garnett has been a lecturer for the Teacher Education Program at UCSB since 2005. Jana was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii right on the sand of Kahala Beach. She has lived in Santa Barbara, on and off, for a total of sixteen years. She fell in love with Santa Barbara when she moved to California to attend UCSB. In addition to UCSB, Jana works at Laguna Blanca School as a learning specialist and Academic Services Coordinator. Prior to her employment at Laguna Blanca School, Jana worked for the Santa Barbara School District(s), both in the classroom and in administration. She currently holds a Single Subject Teaching Credential, a Specialist Credential, and an Administrative Services Credential. In addition, she has a Master’s Degree in Education. She is a member of two professional organizations Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) and California Association or Resource Specialists Plus (CARS+).
Maryanna Gray serves as University supervisor at La Colina Junior High School. Earning her B.A. in both English and History at UCSB, she went on to complete her teaching credential and additional graduate work here. After teaching in both Long Beach and in Japan, she taught English and history at La
Colina Junior High School for thirty-five years, retiring in 2003. In addition, she served as the Santa Barbara High School District coordinator of the Gifted Education Program from 1989 – 2003. She continues to serve Gifted Education in California by serving in a variety of leadership capacities.
During her teaching career she served as a cooperating teacher for thirty-two years and as site supervisor at La Colina both before the Partnership Program began and in the years following its introduction. In her work with TEP, she has also been a presenter and an advisor for a M.Ed group. Following her retirement, in addition to working for TEP, she has served as an educational consultant in differentiated instruction, gifted education and collaborative learning communities. Maryanna Gray has received numerous local and state educational awards including Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year.
Danielle Harlow teaches elementary science methods in TEP. She has a Ph.D. in science education from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Danielle completed a M.S. in geophysics at Stanford and taught physics in Tanzania, East Africa for two years. Her primary research interest is on how elementary teachers learn science content and how they use their understanding of science and inquiry when teaching science.
Claudia Hardy is currently the Site Supervisor at Dos Pueblos High School, where she had taught German for over 30 years. She is a graduate of the University of Denver with a B.A. in German and Education and received her M.A. from Middlebury College in German Literature.
Judy Headley holds an M.A. in Education Administration from Cal State Northridge, and a Professional credential in Education Administration from UCSB. Judy was Director of Instructional Media for the Santa Barbara County Office of Education for six years, and worked closely with Professor Willis Copeland in the technology for Tomorrow’s Teachers (PT3) program. Judy has served on the Board for the California Technology Assistance Project for the past seven years and is the Vice President of the GGSE Alumni Association Board. She also is a presenter for the Beginning Teacher Support Agency (BTSA) Project for Santa Barbara County. She has directed the Preprofessional Program since 2003.
Laura Hill-Bonnet is an instructor for Language and Culture and Learning, ELD-SDAIE methods and procedures for MST credential candidates, and is a content supervisor for the foreign language SST credential candidates. Laura earned her B.F.A. in modern dance and French from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a K-12 teaching credential in foreign language from North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC, and a K-12 teaching credential in English as a Second Language from UNC-Chapel Hill. Over a period of seven years she has taught both French and ELD at various levels from kindergarten to adult education. After moving to Santa Barbara in 2002, Laura earned her M.A. in Education from UCSB in 2005 and anticipates earning her Ph.D. in 2008. Her teaching/research interests include language, interaction and social organization of classrooms, second language acquisition, bilingual education, dual immersion programs, second and foreign language pedagogy, and content-based second language teaching/learning.
Susan Hoag earned her teaching credential at UCSB and taught in the Goleta Union School District for 25 years. As an Academic Coordinator, Lecturer, and Student Teacher Supervisor, Sue came to UCSB for the multiple subject program in 1996. This was the completion of her educational circle…first being a student, then a teacher, having student teachers in her class, and now the job of facilitating students to become professions educators. Sue has been instrumental in bringing the topics of life skills and character education to the Friday seminars for the students. She has attended and been a speaker at four national character education conventions. Sue has co-coordinated the M.Ed program and has been a facilitator of many groups of students earning their Masters of Education from 1997 to the present.
Linda Hollingsworth received her bilingual cross cultural teaching credential from UCSB in 1992. She then taught at Peabody Charter School and was part of the staff who wrote the original charter. She has been working as MST supervisor since the fall of 2006.
Marsha Honnold graduated in 1964 from the then Western Washington State College (now WWSU) with a B. of Ed. In History and minor in Library Science. She has worked with educators and children as a teacher/or librarian in Washington, California, Colorado, Texas, Nevada and at Ramstein AFB, Ramstein, Germany (as a school librarian for K-6). Marsha has been with the TEP program since 2004 and is honored to be able to share with teacher candidates what other mentor teachers have taught her all these years.
Sarah Jacobs is an Academic Coordinator for MST. Sarah earned her B.A. and teaching credential at UC Berkeley. She has been with TEP since 1991.
Susan Johnson is a Lecturer in the Teacher Education Program and Academic Coordinator of the Science and Mathematics Initiative. She received a M.A. in Science Education and a Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prior to coming to UCSB she taught middle and high school science for over 30 years, worked as the instructional resource teacher for 6-12 science teachers, and was a researcher at the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her classroom is described in the book How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom. In 1995 she was received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. Her research interests include teacher education, conceptual models, and nature of science.
Emily Kang is the Secondary Science supervisor at TEP. She also teaches the Elementary Science methods course at TEP and the California Teach course for the Science Math Initiative. She is a Ph.D. student in Teaching and Learning with an emphasis in Science Education and Teacher Education and Professional Development. She taught 2nd grade as well as middle school Earth Science for eight years prior to coming to UCSB. Her research interests include teacher professional development, the development of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge as tied to student learning.
Ron Kok is an Academic Coordinator for SST (social studies). Ron earned his B.A. and M.A. in History at Cal State Fullerton. He has served as a UNESCO consultant in Indonesia, developing a social studies curriculum for Indonesian schools, and training educators and professors for Indonesian teacher training schools. He has been a TEP lecturer/supervisor since 1981.
Christine Kovell came to UCSB in 2001 as a lecturer in the Gevirtz School and also at the California State University Northridge School of Secondary Education. She has her B.A. from Western Michigan University in art education, her MACT from Michigan State University, and an English minor through the University of London, England. Before relocating to California, she had been actively involved with student exchange programs and World Affairs Council of America in Washington, D.C. She has over 30 years teaching experience: 6-12 grade art, language arts, and social studies in Michigan and overseas. She has taught and supervised at WMU, Aquinas College, and CSUN.
Carl Lager teaches Secondary Mathematics Methods and Nature of Mathematics Learning for TEP. He earned his B.S. in Applied Mathematics, M.Ed., and Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. Taught mathematics, in English and Spanish, to middle and high school students, helped develop large-scale mathematics items, grades 3 – 8, for 3 states, and creates and facilitates professional development for pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers. Current research interests include reading comprehension for algebra learning and performance and STEM undergraduate PCK for mathematics teaching.
Catherine Leffler is a Lecturer/Secondary Level Art-Methods and Procedures teacher. Prior to her current involvement with UCSB, Leffler worked with Dr. Janet Chrispeels as an advisor with the EFFECTIVE SCHOOL reform movement. Prior to becoming part of the UCSB community, Catherine taught all grade levels in public education (K through Middle School) in Pennsylvania and Southern California. Most recently she worked for 15 years with the Getty Institute for Education in the Visual Arts. This work involved training educators, developing curriculum, presenting at national conferences, coordinating training sites for school districts, and presenting demonstration lessons for national and international media. Leffler did her undergraduate studies at Chatham University (Pittsburgh, PA) and received her M.S. and Administrative credential from UCLA.
Jason Levin is a UCSB graduate and proud to be back pursuing his Ph.D. at the Gevirtz School. He was the Director of Education for the Institute of Reading Development for five years and has also been a professional writer for almost twenty years. His first book, From the Desert to the Derby, was published in 2002. He co-taught the Literacy and Differentiation classes in the TEP program last year and is a Literacy Supervisor this year, studying the SST side of the current TEP cohort for his dissertation.
Ann Lippincott is Associate Director of the Teacher Education Program. In this capacity, she directs the M.Ed. program for the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. She received a BA in Comparative Literature and an elementary life credential from the University of Southern California. She received an M.A. in Education: Second Language Acquisitions and a Ph.D. in Education: Language/Culture/Literacy from UCSB. She has been with TEP since 1982. Her teaching focus is in the area of the special needs of English Language Learners. Her research interests include professional development among new and experienced teachers, focusing especially on contexts in which teachers engage collegially in problem solving in order to understand their work in schools. In addition to her professional activities in the United States, Ann has earned an international reputation for her work with teachers in Micronesia, Argentina, Chile, Perú, and Uruguay. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Agency.
Nicole Merino has been a faculty member in TEP since 2004, and teaches Technology for Teachers (ED103), Psychological Foundations (ED211F), and Curriculum Design and Implementation (ED395). She is part of the Masters in Education (M.Ed.) faculty, and acting Coordinator for the Performance Assessment of California Teachers (PACT). Nicole’s teaching experience spans preschool to middle school, and her research focuses on the relation of play to social-cognition in early childhood education. She received her B.S. in Child and Adolescent Studies from Cal State Fullerton, and her M.A. in Education from UCSB. She is currently in the final stages of her Ph.D. in Education at UCSB.
Rob Montgomery instructs and supervises the single-subject credential candidates in English/Language Arts. Rob earned his B.S (and teacher certification) from Miami University in Oxford, OH, and his M.A. from UCSB. He taught high school English and theatre for ten years, and is now a doctoral student in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, with an emphasis in language, literacy, and composition studies. He has presented at conferences sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE). He also teaches undergraduate composition courses in UCSB’s Writing Program.
Dennis Naiman, a UCSB Graduate (Class of 1960), is married with 2 sons and 4 grandchildren. Dennis worked for Goleta Union School District for 37 years (1960-1997) as a teacher, elementary school counselor, Miller-Unruh Reading Specialist, District Curriculum Consultant, principal. He created the “America Reads Program” for UCSB and coordinated it for five years. He has supervised Administrative Credential Candidates from 1997 to the present for UCSB, Fielding Institute, and Santa Barbara County Office of Educatio, while also working as a field supervisor in the multiple subject teaching credential program for five years. Dennis is also a UCSB Extension advisor for educational programming and a “coach” for administrators new to the profession in the SB School District.
Eva Oxelson has been involved in TEP since 2004, teaching the Social Foundations course and working with M.Ed. candidates. She was a bilingual classroom teacher in the central San Joaquin Valley for seven years before returning to school for graduate work. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Cultural Perspectives emphasis and is part of a research team involved in an ongoing ethnographic study of a school. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of San Francisco, her teaching credential from California State University at Fresno, and her M.A. in Education from UC Santa Barbara.
Jack Phreaner, after a 43 year career, is a retired teacher of English in junior and senior high schools in Santa Barbara. For the last 28 years, he co-directed the UCSB-based South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) as well as co-directed Literature for Teachers Program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 1996 he has taught in the summer student teacher mini-SCWriP project in reading and writing. Jack has presented at conferences for the National Council of Teachers of English, 1990-2004 on portfolios, writing, reading across the curriculum, and classroom research projects; presented at tri-county in-services on writing/reading process and on CLAS (previous state assessment); presented at the 1999 & 2003 California Teachers of English Conferences. Jack has supervised and instructed student teachers in the UCSB Teacher Education Program since 1998. He has scored the National Boards of Professional Teacher Standards and UC Subject A essay project. Jack has been the recipient of Santa Barbara Impact grants in1991 and 1993 and the Santa Barbara County Teachers of Excellence Award in1988. At San Marcos High School he chaired the English Department and the San Marcos GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program, while organizing the San Marcos High School Advanced Placement program in conjunction with SBCC.
Elissa Goer Ross has been an Instructor and Supervisor for Secondary Mathematics at TEP for seven years as well as the Site Coordinator for Goleta Valley Junior High. Elissa is also an instructor for the Science and Math Initiative (SMI) Program at UCSB and is a founding member of the UCSB team for the American Statistical Association. Her involvement in the Performance Assessment of California Teachers (PACT) began years ago when it was in the piloting stage. Currently she is a PACT scorer and trainer of scorers and was a presenter at a PACT Conference in the fall of 2007 where there were 30 universities in attendance. She received her Teaching Credential and Masters in Educational Administration from California Lutheran University. Prior to coming to UCSB, Elissa was a teacher in the Santa Barbara High School District for eight years and in the Ojai Unified School District for five years.
Ingrid Salamanca is a doctoral student in the Special Education Disabilities and Risk Studies emphasis in the Department of Education. She received a Master of Science in Education, emphasis Special Education, from California State University Fullerton in 2000. School-based teaching experiences include serving as an elementary resource specialist. Professional teaching experiences include serving as a teaching assistant for two CLAD (Cultural Linguistic Academic Development) courses for inservice teachers; and serving as a co-instructor for ED 270H Language, Culture, and Learning in the UCSB Teacher Education Program. Research interests include teacher professional development, problem-based learning, and bilingual special education.
Jennifer Scalzo currently teaches Foundations of Education, ELD/SDAIE methodology (English Language Development and Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English), and M.Ed. courses for Single Subject and Multiple Subject teacher candidates. She began her teaching career in Goleta, California working with students who were transitioning from bilingual classes into “English only.” She developed a passion and appreciation for the complexity involved in teaching English language learners whereby students acquire both content knowledge and English simultaneously. She has taught sixth grade for the majority of her teaching career. In 2001, she went to Sao Paulo, Brazil where she taught English for international business. Since returning from Brazil in 2003 she has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Cultural Perspectives. She received her B.A. in Psychology, MST credential, and Master’s degree in Education from UCSB.
Anne Shoemaker was selected by a panel of teacher educators and teachers from among several qualified applicants to supervise student teachers in the Teacher Education Program. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in K-12 schools. During her teaching tenure she has served as a mentor teaching for many student teachers. She has also conducted much training and professional development for adults in a variety of capacities. Of particular note is her work as a Language Arts Consultant and as a Sales Consultant with Harcourt Brace Publishers. Both positions required Anne to teach model lessons, provide supports for teachers teaching new curriculums, work with district Language Arts Mentors, and plan and revise in-service activities. She is highly qualified in the area of literacy and language arts, one of the most critical areas for new elementary school teachers to master. Anne should prove an invaluable resource for student teachers and teacher ed faculty in this regard. Additionally, she has significant experience and credentials in Special Education. This perspective and expertise should also prove invaluable in the mentoring and supervision of pre-service teachers.
Joanne Singer coordinates the moderate/severe educational specialist credential. She received her B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. She was a special educator in Oregon, receiving the Teacher of the Year Award for Lane County in 1988. Joanne spent many years providing consultation to schools, agencies, and parents to support students with disabilities in inclusive education and community life in Oregon, Vermont, New Hampshire, and southern California. Before coming to UCSB, Joanne was an assistant professor at Dartmouth Medical School and conducted research to support families having a child with special caregiving needs through the Department of Pediatrics. She co-directed a five year federal grant to implement family-centered developmental practices in three newborn intensive care units in Santa Barbara County. She helped create the educational specialist credential Level I program seven years ago, and has this year started to implement the Level II ESC program.
Tine Sloan is the Director of the Teacher Education Program. She has taught courses in the Early Childhood and Adolescent Developmental program, in the Teacher Education Program, and in the Teacher Education and Professional Development specialization of the Teaching and Learning emphasis. Her courses focus on issues in human development, educational psychology, teacher education, and assessment. Tine’s primary research interests revolve around teacher education, particularly with respect to teacher and teacher educator learning, as well as to the role that policy and context play in this learning and in program development. Related to this is her interest in understanding, developing, and using valid and reliable assessments of teacher and student learning. All of her work is framed by her primary interest in understanding and advocating for the well being of children in educational contexts. Prior to coming to UCSB, she spent three years in Singapore as a member of the faculty at the National Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University. She taught graduate seminars and teacher education courses in the Psychological Studies Division, supervised student teachers, and directed two research projects focused on children’s mathematical problem solving. Tine completed her teacher certification at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1988, and her master’s and doctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.
Cristina Toharia instructs the “Foreign Language Methods and Procedures” course in the SST Program. She has an M.A. in French literature from UCSB, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in French with an emphasis in Applied Linguistics. Cristina earned her secondary teaching credential in Spain, and has taught French and Spanish languages for 10 years in Spain, France, and United States, in elementary, high school, and university levels. She created the Spanish language program in Cold Spring Elementary School of Montecito, California. Her research interests include bilingual identities in literature and second language acquisition theories and their application in secondary classrooms.
Pamela VanderHeide, nominated for Who’s Who in America’s Teachers over twenty times, taught at Dos Pueblos High School for 34 years. Her specialty was Advanced Placement English, which she offered for the first time in Santa Barbara in 1980. Additionally, Pam is an attorney who specialized in Education Law for several years before deciding teaching was her real passion and the classroom her home.
Mian Wang received his first Ph.D. from the University of Patras, Greece, in Developmental Psychology with an emphasis on Cognitive Development of Children with Intellectual Disabilities and his second Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Kansas with a focus on Family and Disability Policy. Prior to Mian’s experience of working in the field of disability and special education in several countries such as Canada, Greece, and USA, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology in China and worked as an instructor and lecturer in a Chinese university for 9 years. His research interests include: child and family outcomes of early childhood services, family-professional partnership, atypical child development, positive behavioral support in cultural context, and disability policy. In recent years, his research has primarily been focused on examining family outcomes of early childhood services (e.g., early intervention programs and early childhood special education programs), particularly in the areas of family quality of life and family-professional partnership. As a primary researcher of the research team at the Beach Center on Disability of the University of Kansas, Mian participated in two federal funded research projects by National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education that have led to the development and validation of two family outcome measures: Family Quality of Life Survey and Family-Professional Partnership Scale.
Sabina White has been the Director of Health Education at UCSB for 30years and still comes to work excited about her job. She currently teaches a series of courses on “life skills” and how to apply them in a college setting. In addition, she teaches Ed 109, Health Education and ED 332 B, Child, Family & Community. She has written several articles on college health and presents regularly at national and international health conferences. She was recently honored to receive the Margaret Getman Award for outstanding service to students. She was an undergrad and grad student here at UCSB and spends her personal time hanging out with her 17-year-old daughter, swimming, going to the theater, reading, or gardening.