E-mail this pageAbout Literacy Education
Regardless of their particular ages, learners are always in the process of developing their abilities to use the language arts - the arts of "reading, writing, listening, and speaking" along with the recent addition of "viewing and representing visually." Due to this, every teacher is, in effect, a literacy educator. Across all subject areas and grade levels, teachers help students use skills and strategies to make sense of the world.
Through our Writing Program (in which teacher candidates explore educational issues while honing their own writing abilities), our undergraduate courses, and our specialized graduate courses, Literacy Education faculty members seek to prepare teachers for the challenges of the new century.
Mission Statement
The mission of Literacy Education at SUNY Plattsburgh is to nurture and guide reflective literacy practitioners. The faculty is committed to the development of literacy teachers who are compassionate, knowledgeable, mindful, metacognitively aware, and morally intuitive decision makers who model a commitment to lifelong learning. Reflective literacy teachers provide multiple, integrated, practical, problem-solving instructional strategies adapted to the specific needs and interests of individuals in all areas of the language arts: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing visually. We seek to cultivate the scholar, teacher, and colleague within.
Contact Information
If you would like more information about Literacy Education Programs at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact:
Aline Bobys, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Teacher Education Unit
Program Leader, M.S.Ed. Literacy Programs
Office Location: Sibley 200A
Phone: (518) 564-5147
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: Aline.Bobys@plattsburgh.edu
Heidi Schnackenberg, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Teacher Education Unit
Program Area Coordinator, M.S.Ed. Graduate Programs
Office Location: Sibley 309
Phone: (518) 564-5143
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: Heidi.Schnackenberg@plattsburgh.edu
Bethanne DelGaudio, M.A.
Director of Graduate Advising and Teacher Certification
Office Location: Sibley 302A
Phone: (518) 564-2124
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: bethanne.delgaudio@plattsburgh.edu
Jessica Chase
Secretary
Office: Sibley Hall 302
Phone: (518) 564-2125
E-mail: chaseja@plattsburgh.edu
Fax: (518) 564-2149