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Gretchen Patricia Oliver

Gretchen Oliver, Assistant Professor / Assistant Director of TESOL Programs

Gretchen Oliver

Assistant Professor / Co-Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language Program
Education Program - CRC

Email: goliver@clarkson.edu
Phone: 518/631-9873
Office: 315 Capital Region Campus
Mailbox: Capital Region Campus

Department(s): Department of Education
School(s): Institute for STEM Education
Education
French and International Studies B.A. - 1996
Niagara University
French Studies M.A. - 1999
University at Albany (SUNY)
Curriculum and Instruction Ph.D. - 2017
University at Albany (SUNY)
Courses Taught
TE 513: Curriculum and Methods of TESOL
TE 517: TESOL Teaching and Assessment Methods
TE 580: Action Research in TESOL
FRN: 989 French Independent Study
Biography

Gretchen Oliver is an Assistant Professor of Education and Assistant Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Clarkson University, Capital Region Campus.  Prior to this, Dr. Oliver was a Visiting Assistant Professor (2018-2019) and the Project Coordinator and Lead Field Researcher (2013-2017) for a U.S. Department of Education grant-funded research and professional development project at the University at Albany.  She also worked for many years as a K-12 French teacher (1999-2011) and a French Lecturer and University in the High School Liaison (2011-2013) at the University at Albany.  

Dr. Oliver's research interests focus on the ways in which secondary mathematics and science teachers and English as a New Language (ENL) specialists engage English language learners (ELLs) in meaningful learning experiences, while attending to the linguistic demands of these content areas, and how they use culturally responsive teaching practices in the process.  She studies the collaboration between these general education teachers and ENL specialists, and how they use co-teaching to support ELLs in the mainstream classroom. She has also researched the ways English to speakers of other languages (ESOL)-focused leadership practices support ELLs and their teachers.

Dr. Oliver has authored and co-authored several chapters in works such as The Handbook of TESOL in K-12 and the TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching.

New York State Certified Pre K-12 French

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  • Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries

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