Wendy Glenn is Professor of Literacy Studies and Chair of Secondary Humanities Teacher Licensure in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research centers on young adult literature and how story can foster connection and invite disruption. She served as President of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English and Senior Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, The ALAN Review.
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Young adult literature, Critical pedagogy, Censorship
Teaching
courses taught
EDUC 1001 - Humanities Teaching for Equity: Naming
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Critically frames learning to teach for equity and justice. Focuses on naming and examining students' identities and positionalities. Orients students to the School of Education's mission and guiding principles of the Secondary Humanities program. Meets weekly on CU campus.
EDUC 2001 - Humanities Teaching for Equity: Noticing
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Critically frames learning to teach for equity and justice. Focuses on noticing classroom and school spaces. Orients students to the School of Education's mission and guiding principles of the Secondary Humanities program. Meets weekly on CU campus. Includes 4 hours of middle school practicum each week.
EDUC 2311 - Children's Literature and Literacy Engagement in Elementary Schools
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Spring 2021
Focuses on teaching children's literature in elementary schools & youth organizations. Participants will understand theoretical and developmental processes associated with literary learning, methods for teaching literature in a diverse society, and the integration of classroom instruction with the Colorado Academic Content Standards that foster such processes.
EDUC 2800 - Special Topics
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Fall 2020
Designed to meet needs of students with topics of interest. May be repeated up to 12 credit hours.
EDUC 3030 - Race, Class, and Gender in Young Adult Literature
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
This course is designed for students who are interested in learning more about how race, class, and gender appear in literature for young people, ages 10-18, and how literary explorations of these intersecting elements of identity might enrich, complicate, and/or challenge how we see ourselves, others, and our world. Together and independently, we will read and share in conversation around several multicultural young adult texts across multiple genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and nonfiction.
EDUC 4001 - Framing Equity and Justice in the Humanities Classroom
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Fall 2020
Critically frames learning to teach for equity and justice within schools as systems. Orients students to the School of Education's mission and guiding principles of the Secondary Humanities program. Provides opportunities for students to enact those principles with mentor teachers in local classrooms. Meets weekly on CU campus and involves a minimum of 50 hours in local schools. Same as EDUC 5001.
EDUC 4295 - Narrative and Story in the Humanities
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Fall 2023
Explores a wide variety of texts that might be used in secondary English and Social Studies classrooms. Examines philosophies and instructional approaches to the teaching of reading and literature. Considers the influence of story and storytelling in the construction of personal and societal meaning. Same as EDUC 5295.
EDUC 4342 - Secondary English Methods I
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Fall 2018
Explores the underlying principles and philosophies of several approaches to the teaching of English in the areas of language, writing, and speaking and the practical application of these methods in the secondary classroom. Provides support in constructing activities, assignments, assessments, and units that meet the differentiated needs of students given their diverse identities, lives, interests, and needs. Same as EDUC 5345.
EDUC 4345 - Secondary English Methods I
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Explores the underlying principles and philosophies of several approaches to the teaching of English in the areas of language, writing, and speaking and the practical application of these methods in the secondary classroom. Provides support in constructing activities, assignments, assessments, and units that meet the differentiated needs of students given their diverse identities, lives, interests, and needs. Same as EDUC 5345.
EDUC 5265 - Processes in Writing
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Summer 2018 / Summer 2019
Examines processes writers use from early ages to maturity by investigating current research related to writing curriculum, instruction, and policy. Includes opportunities for students to engage in inquiry related to writing curriculum and instruction in K-12 classrooms.
EDUC 5295 - Narrative and Story in the Humanities
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2023
Explores a wide variety of texts that might be used in secondary English and Social Studies classrooms. Examines philosophies and instructional approaches to the teaching of reading and literature. Considers the influence of story and storytelling in the construction of personal and societal meaning. Same as EDUC 4295.
EDUC 5345 - Secondary English Methods I
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Explores the underlying principles and philosophies of several approaches to the teaching of English in the areas of language, writing, and speaking and the practical application of these methods in the secondary classroom. Provides support in constructing activities, assignments, assessments, and units that meet the differentiated needs of students given their diverse identities, lives, interests, and needs. Same as EDUC 4345.
EDUC 5365 - Secondary English Methods II
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Explores the underlying principles and philosophies of several approaches to the teaching of English in the areas of reading, thinking, and viewing and the practical application of these methods in the secondary classroom. Provides support in constructing activities, assignments, assessments, and units that meet the differentiated needs of students given their diverse identities, lives, interests, and needs. Same as EDUC 4365.
EDUC 5390 - Professional Teaching for Equity and Justice
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Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022
Explores what it means to be a professional educator for equity and justice. Examines how such educators might best work to sustain their commitments through advocacy and care and how they might extend their role through involvement in the professional community and conversation at local, state, and national levels.
EDUC 8135 - Theories and Methodologies for Examining Teacher Learning
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Spring 2020
Examines the potential range and roles of theory in analyzing prospective and practicing teachers' learning (experiences). Explores various conceptions of teacher learning, including, but not limited to: teacher learning as a knowledge-centric phenomenon; teacher learning as a process of assembling a repertoire of practice; teacher learning as an identity-work phenomenon; and teacher learning as an activist/action-in-the-world phenomenon.
EDUC 8155 - Advanced Topics in Literacy Education
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Spring 2018
Examines special topics in theory and research related to literacy and literacy education. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
