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College of Education and Human Services

CEHS Faculty Profile

Faculty Profile
Name Department
Monica Taylor Curriculum & Teaching

Scholarly Interests and Specialties
  • Teaching for Social Justice
  • Inquiry
  • PDS Partnerships
  • Middle School
  • Critical Literacy
  • Whole Language
  • Self-Study

Professional Association Memberships
  • National Council for Teachers of English
  • AERA
  • AERA Self Study SIG
  • Phi Delta Kappa
  • National Reading Conference
  • Kappa Delta Pi

Reviewer for the following professional journals
  • English Education

Other Types of Reviews
  • Wadsworth Publishing, Text Reviews
  • Conference Proposals, AERA
  • Conference Proposals, AERA Self Study SIG

Work With Schools and Other Agencies
  • Grover Cleveland Middle School - As PDS partnership liaison, some of the activities in which I am involved include:
    -Teaching courses such as ET/PL and Intermediate Field onsite
    -Organizing professional development opportunities for teachers
    -Teaching grad courses on site for teachers
    -Working on collaborative inquiry projects with MSU and GCMS students to explore issues of social justice such as racism and authority
    -Developing social justice interdisciplinary (art, language arts, social studies) curriculum