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DSU faculty members chosen as a model university teaching team

Dakota State University instructor of Education, Crystal Pauli and associate professor of Education Marva Gellhaus have been selected by The Learning Disabilities Association of America as one of ten model university teaching teams across the country. They were selected based on their efforts to model collaboration for general education and special education students and to give these university students the opportunity to practice collaboration.

Students from Pauli’s Classroom Diversity Class for general education students and Gellhaus’ Learning Disabilities Class for special education students are given the opportunity to support and practice collaboration as part of their undergraduate experience. Pauli and Gellhaus model collaborative strategies for pre-service teachers at the university level and give university students from general education and special education the opportunity to work jointly on projects. Joint projects include class scheduling, writing IEP objectives, creating modified lesson plans, evaluating case studies, and identifying professional roles and responsibilities to produce productive environments in the inclusive classroom.

For their efforts Pauli and Gellhaus received a $1,000 stipend to cover expenses for the International Learning Disabilities Conference in Denver, CO February 13-16, 2002.

“This conference will give Dr. Gellhaus and Ms. Pauli the opportunity to enhance their knowledge in learning disabilities and to integrate current theory and practices into their undergraduate courses,” stated Dr. Tom Hawley, Dean of the College of Education at Dakota State.