Patricia A. Watson, PhD

( University of Missouri - Columbia, 2000)

Research Area
Adolescent Literacy and Literature
Effective Teacher Preparation

Short Biography
Patricia Watson's areas of specialization focus on young adolescent and adolescent literacy and literature and middle level education. Her career in education began in Missouri where she was a high school and junior high language arts and reading teacher and a reading specialist for fifteen years before moving to higher education. Dr. Watson's professional interests include the development of public school - university partnerships that benefit K-12 students and teachers while providing mentoring relationships for preservice teachers. Dr. Watson has been published in Voices from the Middle, Language Arts, Childhood Education, and the Middle School Journal. She is co-editor of a book soon to be published by the Association of Childhood Education International. Each chapter of the volume will present an exemplary middle level teacher integrating literacy into the content areas.

Projects
Project LEAD

Classes Taught
EDLL 6350  Studies in Language Arts
EDLL 6349 Adolescent Literature
EDLL 6353 Investigations in Literacy
EDLL 5356 Problems, Trends, and Issues in Adolescent Reading Instruction
EDLL 5353 Reading and the Middle Level Student
EDLL 5351 Reading Processes and Practices for the Middle Level
EDLL 5341 Literacy in Secondary Content Area Classrooms
EDLL 4349 Adolescent Literature
EDLL 4382 Reading and Writing in the Secondary Classroom
EDCI 4362 Interdisciplinary Language Arts and Social Studies Methods for the Middle Level
EDLL 3353 Reading at the Middle Level

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