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A page within Secondary Teacher Education Preparation (STEP)
STEP Program Director
- Associate Professor
- 1003 Cowley Hall
- mchedister@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6609
Specialty areas:
Mathematics Education and Geometry
English Education
- Associate Professor
- 425K Wimberly Hall
- mgarcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6927
Specialty areas:
Digital Literacies, Fan Studies, English Teaching Methods, Young Adult Literature, Qualitative Research, Rhetoric & Composition
- Associate Professor
- 425M Wimberly Hall
- tjesse@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6934
Specialty areas:
20 & 21c American Literature, Secondary English Education, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
History Education
- Assistant Professor
- 403C Wimberly Hall
- thamblin@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8360
Specialty areas:
Social studies educator specializing in grades 6-12, focusing on inquiry-based instruction, historical thinking, and civic engagement.
- Assistant Professor
- 403M Wimberly Hall
- dvesperman@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8359
Specialty areas:
Citizenship and democracy education
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Education Policy
Mathematics Education
- Associate Professor
- 1003 Cowley Hall
- mchedister@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6609
Specialty areas:
Mathematics Education and Geometry
- Professor
- 1001A Cowley Hall
- jhertel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8668
Specialty areas:
Teaching mathematics with technology, alternative forms of assessment and ungrading, mathematics education history, teaching and learning of trigonometry, and the development of probabilistic reasoning.
- Professor
- 1015 Cowley Hall
- jkosiak@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8385
Specialty areas:
Mathematics Education
- Professor
- 1005 Cowley Hall
- jmccool@uwlax.edu
- 507.905.2234
Specialty areas:
Mathematics Education
Science Education
- Professor
- 2015 Cowley Hall
- jdocktor@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8485
Specialty areas:
Physics Education