Research Interests Department of Teaching and Learning

• Mark M. Alter - Professor of Educational Psychology
  • Special Education: Instructional programming
  • Integration of general and special education practices
  • Shaping special education policy
  • Traditional and alternative factors affecting preparation of teachers
  • Integration of teachers, related disciplines, students and curriculum
• Sarah W. Beck - Associate Professor of English Education
  • adolescent literacy
  • urban education
  • field-based research methods
  • equity issues in education
  • cultural contexts for literacy learning
  • academic discourse
• Suzanne C. Carothers - Professor of Early Childhood Education
  • Curriculum
  • Teacher development
• Robert Cohen - Professor of Social Studies Education: Department Chair
  • Cohen is involved in research projects in history and history education. He is currently working on a political biography of Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964. His other historical projects include a study of desegregation
• Patricia (Patsy) M. Cooper - Assistant Professor
  • Teacher education
  • Effective pedagogy and curriculum
  • Social contexts of education
  • Impact of culture and race on teaching and school schooling
  • Early literacy development  and instruction
  • Language development
  • The uses of storytelling in the early childhood classroom
    
  • The influence of early childhood educator Vivian Paley
  • Children's  literature
• Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth - Associate Professor of English Education
  • Second language acquisition
  • language variation
  • interlanguage pragmatics
  • crosscultural communication
  • second language grammar development
  • TELL(technology enhanced language learning)
• Lisa S. Fleisher - Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
  • literacy acquisition for students at risk for school failure because of disability or environmental factors
  • models of effective instruction
  • models promoting self-determination for adults with developmental disabilities
  • positive behavior supports; functional behavior analysis
• Pamela Fraser-Abder - Associate Professor of Science Education
  • Gender and Cultural issues in Science Education
  • Professional Development of Science Teachers
  • Scientific Literacy

   

• Jay Gottlieb - Professor of Educational Psychology
  • Mainstream of disabled children
  • Attitudes toward special education
  • Children with disabilities
  • Referral and identification
• Karen D. King - Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
  • Mathematics Education
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development
  • Federal Education Policy
• Maris H. Krasnow - Clinical Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education
  • Teacher Development (pre-servive and inservice)
  • Urban education
  • School reform
  • Special Education
  • Crisis in Early Childhood
• Joanna Labov - Clinical Assistant Professor of TESOL
  • The Retention and Job Satisfaction of ESL Teachers in NYC
  • The Preparation of Student Teachers to Teach ESL
  • The Preparation of Math and Science Teachers to Teach ELLs 
    
  • The Effectiveness of Methods to Improve L2 Pronunciation
  • The Development of Teachers' Cultural Awareness
• Mary Leou - Clinical Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning
  • Teacher Development (pre-service and inservice)
  • Urban environmental education
  • School reform
  • Experiential Learning
• Lorena Llosa - Assistant Professor of Education
  • Language testing
  • Second and foreign language teaching and learning
  • Program evaluation
• Cynthia McCallister - Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education
  • Curriculum
  • Teacher development
  • School reform
  • Literacy assessment and instruction
  • Culture and education
  • Literacy assessment and instruction
• Sandee McClowry - Professor of Applied Psychology
  • Temperament-based intervention for elementary school children and their parents and teachers
  • School-based interventions for inner city children
• Joseph McDonald - Professor of Teaching and Learning
  • School reform
  • Teacher education
  • Educational policy
  • Study of teaching
• Catherine Milne - Associate Professor of Science Education
  • Coteaching and cogenerative dialogues
  • Teaching and teacher education especially issues of teacher agency and school structures
    
  • Learning science in urban schools
  • The role of history and philosophy of science in school science
  • Self-assessment and self-evaluation
    
• Shondel Nero - Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning
  • Teaching English as a Second Language
  • Teaching Standard English as a Second Dialect
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language and Identity
  • Creole Linguistics
  • Anglophone Caribbean Language and Culture
    
• Pedro Noguera - Professor of Teaching and Learning
  • Schools and the urban environment
  • Education and economic and social development
  • Education in other countries
  • Race and schooling
  • Immigration/Migration
  • Parents and schools
  • Leadership and school reform
  • Student achievement
• Bree Picower - Assistant Professor/ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Social Justice Education
  • Race and Racism in Education
  • Teacher Activism
  • Teacher Education
  • New Teacher Support
  • Antiracist, Multicultural Education
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Whiteness Theory
  • Youth and Community Organizing
• Gordon M. Pradl - Professor of English Education
  • literacy
  • school reform
  • reader response theory
  • composition studies
  • Teacher development
• Joseph Patrick Rafter - Clinical Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning
  • Teacher Development (pre-servive and inservice)
• Barbara Schwartz - Clinical Associate Professor of Special Education
  • Social Skills of Preschool Children with Disabilities
  • Head Start Services to Children with Disabilities
  • Friendship Development in Inclusive Settings
• Brenda Strassfeld - Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
  • How teachers learn and teach geometry
  • After School Mathematics Education
  • Secondary school teachers beliefs about teaching and learning geometry
• Lixing (Frank) Tang - Clinical Professor of Foreign Language Education
  • Foreign/second language teacher education
  • Foreign/second laguage teacher professional development
  • Learning styles and learning strategies
  • Teaching Chinese as a foreign language
  • Action research in second/foreign language classrooms
  • Second language reading research

   

• Robert Tobias - Clinical Professor of Teaching and Learning: Director, Center for Research on Teaching and Learning
  • Assessment
  • Accountability in Education
  • Teacher Education
• Diana Turk - Associate Professor and Director of Social Studies Education
  • teaching history for democratic change
  • civic education
  • 19th and 20th Century U. S. History
  • social studies curriculum and instruction
  • women's history
  • ethnography & oral history
  • material culture
  • technology in social studies classrooms

   

• Rose Vukovic - Assistant Professor of Special Education
  • Learning Disorders
  • Academic Achievement
  • Cognitive Development
  • Child Development
  • Cognitive and Academic Assessment
  • Early Identification, Intervention, Prevention
  • At-Risk Learners
• Sheila Weiss - Urban Master Teacher in Special Education
  • Special Education pre-K - 12
  • School reform initiatives
  • Models using best practices research and ongoing data analysis