School of Education, Indiana University  
  Bloomington Campus Indianapolis Campus IU NCATE Home IU NCATE Site Map IU NCATE Search  
     

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

Rebecca Skulnick, M. A.

Title: Associate Instructor for the School of Education
Office: W. W. Wright Education Building, room 3270
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: Fall 2000


Academic Degrees

M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1997 Education
B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1995 English, Language and Literature

Certification/Licenses

Licensed in Michigan to teach middle and high school students in English and Social Studies.

Professional Experience

Winter 2002-present Co-teach a student directed student teaching program (S400), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Fall 2000-Fall 2001 Associate Instructor for a general education methods course to pre-service student teachers, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Winter 1998-Winter 2000 Head Director of E.G.R.H.S. Forensics program, East Grand Rapids High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Fall 1998-Winter 2000 Created, proposed, and team-teaching Elective Contemporary World Literature, East Grand Rapids High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Winter 1997- Assisted the head coach teach and judge forensic competition on the local and state level, Wayne Memorial High School, Westland, Michigan
Fall 1997-Winter 2000 Required Tenth Grade Literature, East Grand Rapids High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Fall 1997-Winter 2000 Required Twelfth Grade English Literature, East Grand Rapids High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Fall 1996-Summer 1997 Ninth Grade Literature and Twelfth Grade American Themes, observed different teachers during the first semester and taught the entire second semester, Wayne Memorial High School, Westland, Michigan

Faculty Teaching

Fall, 2001 M314 General Methods for Senior High/Junior High/Middle School Teachers
Fall, 2001 M303 Laboratory/Field Experiences: Junior High/Middle School Teachers

Selected Publications

    Skulnick, R. and J. Goodman.(2002) Harry Potter: A lesson in civic leadership. Deconstructing Harry. New York: Routledge.

    Skulnick, R. (August 2001) Senior english, a story. English journal, 90 (6), pp. 92-97.

    Master Thesis, Winter 1997: Teaching American Literature through the Historical, Political, and Experiential Art of Quilting.

    Undergraduate Senior Thesis, Winter 1995: Metaphor and Testimony in Holocaust Art and Primo Levi’s Novels

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

    National Counsel for Teachers of English
    College English Association
    American Association of University Women

Conference Presentations

    Presented “Harry Potter, a lesson in civic leadership” at the 2001 Bergamo Conference for the Journal of Critical Theory, Bergamo, OH

Research Areas

    Adolescent identity, curriculum development, semiotics, and rhetoric.

Service/Outreach Projects

    President of the Graduate Women’s Education Network at Indiana University

    Created curricular materials for Quest Atlantis, I.S.T. web-quest at Indiana University

    Research material on Adolescent Identity for Prof. Jesse Goodman’s future graduate seminar

    Creator/Mentor of E.G.R.H.S. Creative Writing Saturday Seminars

    Member of the East Grand Rapids High School Block Scheduling Committee Chairperson of Reading Month at E.G.R.H.S.

    Member of the E.G.R.H.S. N.C.O.A. Reading Committee and Reading Class subcommittee

    Teacher-mentor of E.G.R.H.S. freshman inclusion/adaptation program

    Founder of “The Shakespeare Society” at Wayne Memorial High School: a peer acting troupe

Honors/Awards

    Dean’s Fellowship, Indiana University

    Achasa Beechler Scholarship, Indiana University

    Curriculum Studies Fellowship, Indiana University

    Dartmouth College Scholarship

    William O. Vandenberg, M.D. Scholarship reserved for one teacher in E.G.R. Public Schools

    University of Michigan School of Education Scholarship

    University of Michigan Class Honors

    Kappa Kappa Gamma Academic Achievement Award

    Jerold M. Raffel Memorial Fund Scholarship

    Nominated to receive the University of Michigan’s Hopwood award for short fiction

Return to top | Home: Accreditation Report 2002

Indiana University
School of Education
201 North Rose Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-1006
812-856-8501

Comments: iuncate@indiana.edu
This file was last updated on May 11, 2005 by
Copyright 2005, Trustees of Indiana University