Faculty Interest Groups
FITR: Increasing Literacy at The College Level (Faculty Learning Community)
Are you seeking new strategies for cultivating or supporting literacy in your students?
Delia Hernandez: After a career in K-12 education as a classroom teacher, reading specialist and Assistant Principal, Delia Hernandez, PhD, Assistant Professor, joined the Education Program as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2008. In 2021, she was reclassified to an Assistant Professor tenure-track line. Delia has benefitted from many KCC and CUNY resources and supports in pedagogy and for advancing her career and scholarship. Her areas of interest include: Mentoring, reflective teaching, teacher education, community college pedagogy, professional identity, civic engagement and social justice. She has published in the areas of college pedagogy and social justice and is currently developing two manuscripts - one on a scaffolded writing process for the development of a teaching philosophy statement and another on evidence-based interventions in teacher education.
Organized by the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR) and facilitated by Delia Hernandez (Behavioral Sciences), this FDG will explore the role and application of active learning strategies in cultivating literacy across our college curricula. We will discuss process pedagogy and scaffolding, amongst other approaches for engaging students and deepening their learning.
Come join us, tell us about which strategies and methods you have tried and/or get new ideas from colleagues.
For more information or to join, please contact Delia ([email protected])