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Elizabeth Skinner

Associate Professor
Teaching and Learning
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  • Awards & Honors
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Current Courses

248.092Foundations For Effective Practice With English Learners

258.001Social Studies Methods

258.002Social Studies Methods

319.092Study Of Bilingual/Bicultural Education

391.002Tchng For Equity In Elem Classrooms Thr Assessmt,Collab,Comm

265.099Curriculum And Pedagogical Issues In A Global Society

318.001Effective Strategies For Teach English Learners In The Gen Ed Classroom

248.001Foundations For Effective Practice With English Learners

248.099Foundations For Effective Practice With English Learners

447.093Teaching Early Childhood Multilingual Learners

Teaching Interests & Areas

Bilingual Education, Social Studies Methods, Anti-racist Teaching, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

Research Interests & Areas

Bilingual teacher preparation, GYO teachers

Ph D

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago

MA

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago

BA

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

One Million Dollar Club

Illinois State University
2015

Book, Chapter

Skinner, E. Teacher preparation with/in an urban community. Moving teacher education into urban schools and communities. Routledge (2013): 203--216.
Skinner, E. Amalia's quest: From parent volunteer to public school teacher. Grow your own teachers: Grassroots change for teacher education (2011)
Skinner, E. Rethinking teacher preparation. Grow your own teachers: Grassroots change for teacher education (2011)

Book, Edited

Skinner, E., Garreton, M., & Schultz, B. Grow your own teachers: Grassroots change for teacher education. Teachers College Press (2011)

Journal Article

Skinner, E., & Williams, P. Friends with Benefits: Collaboration Between a State University and a School District Designed to Improve Teaching and Learning for Bilingual Students. Journal of Multilingual Education Research 8.1 (2018): 1.
Madda, C., Skinner, E., & Schultz, B. Community insiders as justice-oriented teachers: Creating new educators through a collaborative approach to teacher preparation. The New Educator 8.4 (2012): 361--379.
Clardy, P., & Skinner, E. Critical Field and Life Experience for Preservice Bilingual Educators at a Primarily White Institution. The Journal of Multiculturalism in Education 7.December (2011): 1--19.
Skinner, E. Project Nueva Generacion and grow your own teachers: Transforming schools and teacher education from the inside out. Teacher Education Quarterly 37.3 (2010): 155--167.

Other

Skinner, E. Grow your own teachers: community-based change in teacher education. Breaking the mold of preservice and inservice teacher education: Innovative and successful practices for the 21st century (2011): 35--54.

Grants & Contracts

Training of Pre-service and In-Service Teachers of ELs in School District U-46. DOE Office of English Language Acquisition. Federal. (2012)