E-mail this pageAbout Literacy Education
Regardless of their particular ages, learners are always in the process of developing their abilities to use the language arts - the arts of "reading, writing, listening, and speaking" along with the recent addition of "viewing and representing visually." Due to this, every teacher is, in effect, a literacy educator. Across all subject areas and grade levels, teachers help students use skills and strategies to make sense of the world.
Through our Writing Program (in which teacher candidates explore educational issues while honing their own writing abilities), our undergraduate courses, and our specialized graduate courses, Literacy Education faculty members seek to prepare teachers for the challenges of the new century.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Department of Literacy Education at Plattsburgh State University is to nurture and guide reflective literacy practitioners. The faculty is committed to the development of literacy teachers who are compassionate, knowledgeable, mindful, metacognitively aware, and morally intuitive decision makers who model a commitment to lifelong learning. Reflective literacy teachers provide multiple, integrated, practical, problem-solving instructional strategies adapted to the specific needs and interests of individuals in all areas of the language arts: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing visually. We seek to cultivate the scholar, teacher, and colleague within.
"Caring, Competent, and Qualified Professionals"
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
If you would like more information about literacy education at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact:
Robert Ackland, Department Chair
Phone: (518) 564-5131
E-mail: robert.ackland@plattsburgh.edu
Faculty Website: http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/robert.ackland/
Jessica Chase, Secretary
Office: Sibley Hall 302
Phone: (518) 564-2125
E-mail: chaseja@plattsburgh.edu
Fax: (518) 564-2149