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| Theodora J. Maestre, Ed.D. |
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Contact Info
Telephone (510) 436-1288
Fax (510) 436-1199
E-Mail maestre@hnu.edu
Office Hours By appointment
Office Address Heafey 613 |
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Degrees
Associate Professor of Education
Coordinator: Multiple Subjects Credential
Ed.D. University of California at Berkeley
M. A. Mills College
B.A. Rutgers University |
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Courses Taught
Curriculum and Instruction: Social Studies, Student Teaching in the Elementary School, Internship Teaching, Curriculum Development |
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Research and/or Scholarly Activity
Coauthor: "Through Other Eyes: Developing Empathy and Multiple Perspectives in the Social Studies", with Skolnick, Joan and Dulberg, Nancy, Pippin Press, 1999.
Dr. Maestre received her teaching credential at Holy Names University in 1971. She taught grades one through six in the Oakland Unified School District until 1995. In addition, from 1985 through 1992 she served as a consultant for Bernice McCarthy's 4MAT System, a curriculum development system designed to meet the needs
of learners of varying learning styles.
Currently, Dr. Maestre is co-leader, with Dr. Kimberly Mayfield, in a faculty development program that is in its third year. The focus of the work is designing curriculum to meet the needs of a multicultural undergraduate student population. They have worked with nineteen faculty members from a variety of disciplines including Science, Sociology, Psychology, Religious Studies, English, Linguistics, Art and Spanish. |
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Bio
Her current interests include a focus on social studies
education, both in developing materials for elementary students and also for thinking
about how student teachers and interns can develop the habits of mind and heart for
effective teaching in multicultural communities. She has presented her work in
conferences over the last decade. These include the following:
Using Cycles of Learning to Differentiate Instruction for Culturally Diverse
Classrooms
Presented with Kimberly Mayfield at the James Irvine Foundation Campus Diversity
Initiative Evaluation Seminar, Pomona, CA, 2004.
Self, History and Dissonance: Parallel Processes in a Social Studies Curriculum Class.
Presented with Nancy Dulberg at the International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice, San Francisco, CA, 2003.
Content Development in Lesson Planning
Presented with Casey Landry, Linda Smetana and Ann Tierney at the Spring 2003 Conference of the California Council on Teacher Education , San Jose, CA, 2003
Social Justice, Economics and Hidden Histories
Presented with intern teachers heather dobbins, Karen Monroe, Jessica Probst, Dante Ruiz and Tanya Wax at the California Council for the Social Studies, Sacramento, CA 2003.
But What Was It Like? Fourth and Fifth Graders Develop Empathy and Multiple Perspectives in Standards-Based Social Studies Units
Presented with intern teachers Clare Pinchin and Lorrie Soria at the Annual Conference of the California Council of Social Studies Conference, Riverside, CA, 2002
Uncovering Hidden Histories: Teaching Multicultural History in a Standards-Based Social Studies Curriculum
Paper presented with Nancy Dulberg at the Annual Conference of the California Council for the Social Studies, Riverside, CA, 2002.
Parallel Processes in Teacher Education: Constructivist Social Studies Curriculum Development
Paper presented with Nancy Dulberg, Annual Meeting of the Association for Constructivist Teaching, Atlanta, GA, 2000.
Dr. Maestre is a member of the Board of Trustees at Saint Elizabeth High School, a "co-educational Catholic diocesan high school founded in the spirit of St. Francis and St. Dominic, serving a diverse student population from Oakland and the surrounding communities." |
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