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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board

Faculty Vita

Anna Jacobson, M.A.T

Title: University Advisor, Interdisciplinary Collaborative Project
Office: Ashton Aydelott 102
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 2002


Academic Degrees

M.A.T. University of New Hampshire 1995 Secondary Education, Specializing in Russian
B.A. University of New Hampshire 1988 Russian & History (Double Major)

Professional Experience

2002-Present CALL Specialist, Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region, Indiana University
2002-Present University Liaison, Interdisciplinary Collaborative Program, Indiana University
1999-Present Associate Instructor, Department of Language Education
1995-1999 Teacher of Russian & Spanish, Exeter High School and Cooperative Middle School
1992-1995 Teacher of Russian & Spanish, Littleton Junior-Senior High School

Faculty Teaching

Instructional Issues in Language Education
Methods of Teaching Content Area Reading
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Critical Reading and Thinking in the Content Areas
Providing Academic Support to Post-Secondary Learners
Methods of Teaching Foreign Language and Second Languages
Current Approaches to Instruction and Assessment in EFL/ENL Classrooms

Selected Publications

    “Where and How Do You Live”, exercise created for Recipes for Wired Teachers, JALT Press, Tokyo, Japan, 2000

    “Co-Constructing Meaning While Co-Constructing A Sweater: An Ethnography of Communication in a Knitting Circle”, ERIC, 2001

    “Developing a voice: Teacher empowerment and second language teacher education”, ERIC, 2001

    “Growing with the flow: Sustaining professionalism by becoming online language teacher-educators”, chapter of TESOL volume on Sustaining Professionalism written with Dr. Faridah Pawan (in press, 2002

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

    American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
    American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)
    Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
    American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
    Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL)
    International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
    National Association for Bilingual and Multicultural Education (NABE)

Conference Presentations

    “The Multimedia ESL/EFL Songbook: Using Hyperstudio and Music in an ESL/EFL Classroom”, presented at INTESOL, Indianapolis, IN October 14, 2000

    “Multisensory Approaches to the Multiple Intelligences in Foreign Language Classrooms”, presented at annual ACTFL Conference, Boston, MA November 18, 2000

    “The Multimedia ESL/EFL Songbook: Using Hyperstudio and Music in an ESL/EFL Classroom”, presented in poster format at AAAL Conference, St. Louis, MO, February 26, 2001

    “Homogeneous Needs in Heterogeneous ESL/EFL TESOL Programs”, presented at annual TESOL Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 2, 2001

    “Taking Classes Online”, presented at INTESOL, Indianapolis, IN November 10, 2001

Research Areas

    September 1999 – May 2000. Member of research team headed by Dr. Sharon Pugh. Research identified variables affecting the success or failure of high school students transitioning into their first year at Indiana University.

    Summer 2000. Assisted Dr. Larry Mikulecky. Research identified perceived effectiveness of whole language training by first year teachers in the state of Indiana.

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