Benjamin Wellenreiter

Assistant Professor

Teaching and Learning

Office

Degarmo Hall - DEG 226

Office Phone

(309) 438-7532office
phone

brwelle@ilstu.eduemail

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Ben teaches courses in middle-level social studies pedagogy, content-area literacy, middle school teaching methods, and classroom management. He is active in the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, serving as its President in 2019. He is the co-editor for the practitioner- based ICSS Quarterly. He has publications in The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, Teaching Social Studies, Middle School Journal, Middle Level Learner, and has numerous edited book chapters.

Current Courses

233.001Teaching And Learning in Middle Level Education

233.002Teaching And Learning in Middle Level Education

EDD Teacher Education

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois

MA School Counseling

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois

BS History-Social Science Education, Secondary and Middle Level

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois

Master Potter Excellence in Education Award

Morton Community Unit School District 709

2017

College of Education and Health Sciences Exemplary Alumni Award for Scholarship

Bradley University, Peoria, IL

2011

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Wellenreiter, B. No perfect patriotism: Encouraging students to view patriotic processes from multiple perspectives. Teaching Social Studies 19.2 (2019): 59-65.

Wellenreiter, B. R. (2020). When students refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance: Preservice teachers’ responses. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 93(1), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/00098655.2019.1690418

Wellenreiter, B. Hallways paved with good intentions: Analyzing rules and procedures in non-classroom middle school spaces. Middle School Journal 49.2 (2018): 10-15.

Wellenreiter, B. R. (2018). Within these halls: In situ primary sources in your own school. Middle Level Learning, 61, 18-22.

Wellenreiter, B. R., Lucey, T. A., & Hatch, D. D. (2010). Looking back at their futures: Preservice middle level teachers’ examination of past educational experiences. RMLE Online, 34(1) 1-11.