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He Professor, Education & Leadership 89285 | schulzejm@wou.edu Dr. Joshua Schulze serves as a Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Leadership. In this role, he helps prepare effective teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K-12 contexts through teaching, research, and service. He is the former coordinator of the MSED program and a former seminar leader for MAT. In this capacity, he has successfully chaired over one hundred master's theses, professional projects, and action research projects. In addition to teaching courses in educational linguistics and language acquisition, Dr. Schulze is the COE contract person for international teaching. If you have an interest in pursuing a career in international education, contact Dr. Schulze. Ed.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst Concentration: Language, Literacy, & Culture MAT- University of Southern Mississippi Major: Teaching Language-TESOL BA- University of Richmond Major: English Minor: Education Dr. Schulze brings extensive experience in teaching emergent bilingual students in a variety of instructional contexts in both the US and abroad. In addition to his work as a classroom teacher in elementary settings in Boston and Kissimmee, Florida, he has also taught EFL in Warsaw, Poland. He recently has taught teacher candiates in Shanghai, China. ORTESOL BOARD MEMBER, Higher Ed SIG Scholarly Reviewer TESOL JOURNAL NCTE's Talking Points TESOL QUARTERLY LINGUISTICS in EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEARNING, RESEARCH, and TEACHING ORTESOL JOURNAL Editorial Board Membership International Joural of Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2020-2022 NATIONAL BOARD TEACHER CERTIFICATION-MIDDLE CHILDHOOD LITERACY (2004-2014) Nominee, Pastega Award for Scholarship 2023 TESOL AAAL Oregon Teachers of English as a Second Language (ORTESOL)-Board Member, Higher Ed SIG ORATE (Oregon Association of Teacher Educators) Washington Affiliate of English as a Second Language (WAESOL) North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association International Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics In Dr. Schulze's classes students develop a deeper understanding of language and the language learning/acquisiton process. By developing their knowlege of language, future teachers will take a language lens to their work with emergent bilinguals. This language lens will inform your instructional design and pedagogy in ways that will enhance the learning of your emergent bilingual/English learner students. Applied Linguistics ESOL Second Language Writing New Teacher Preparation (MAT) Dr. Schulze’s scholarship explores ways to support the academic literacy development of emergent bilinguals in K-12 instructional settings. In particular, he examines ways systemic functional linguistics can inform our understandings of how discpline specific language works and how that knowledge can strengthen academic writing instruction to emergent bilngual learners in school settings. 2022. Faculty Development Travel Grant, Thailand 2021. Faculty Development: Research Grant-Mexico 2020. Faculty Development Award Innovative Teaching 2019 $2000 Western Oregon University Provost PD Award International Travel 2018 $1200 Western Oregon University Provost PD Award 2017 $1200 Western Oregon University Provost PD Award 2016 $1250 Western Oregon University Provost PD Award ED 581: Intro to ESOL and Bilingual Education ED 604: Professional Project Planning ED 617: Professional Inquiry ED 633: Educational Research ED 636: Leadership and Policy in Diverse Society ED 651: Content Literacy ED 656: Profesional Seminar MAT ED 657: Professional Seminar II MAT ED 658: Professional Seminar III MAT ED 659 Professional Seminar IV MAT ED 681: Principles and Practices of ESOL/Biligual Education ED 683: Fostering Cultural Connections in the ESOL and Bilingual Classroom ED 684: Language Acquisiton and Educational Linguistics ED 685: The Word and The World: Supporting Learners through Lang and Literacy ED 691: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Strategies in ESOL ED 692: English Language Development for ESOL/Bilingual Settings ED 349: Language Knowledge for the Critical Elementar Practitioner ED 374: Writing in the Elementary Classroom ED 481: Into to ESOL and Bilingual Education ED 484: First and Second Language Acquisition and Educational Linguistics Currently, I am exploring the academic writing practices of Mandarin speaking students who are learning to write the academic genres of teacher education programs. Specifically, I am analyzing the ways a systemic functional linguistic approach to genre pedagogy supports the appropriation of written academic genres in an Introduction to ESOL/Bilingual Education class in China. Dr. Schulze has presented his research in Cambodia, China, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Rwanda, Singapore and throughout the US at international and regional conferences. He has also studied language and education in Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Venezuela. His research has been published in a number of national and international journals. Did this faculty or staff member support your efforts to succeed? Give them a Student success shout-out.
Joshua Schulze
RWEC 221Why I chose WOU
WOU has a great environment that recognizes excellent teaching and encourages scholarly pursuits.
At WOU since
09/16/2016
Hobbies
Traveling to foreign locales and learning about cultural differences and similarities, reading, genealogy, hiking, and gardening.
Fun fact
Saw one of Sinatra's last concerts and witnessed him pass out during the performance.
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Peabody, Massachusetts
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Before Sunrise/East of Eden/Good Will Hunting/Network
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