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Jennifer Haberling Brownbag Lecture

Jennifer Haberling Brownbag Lecture

Date and Time

Thursday, October 9, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Description

Jennifer Haberling is the 2014 English Department Alumni-in-Residence.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English (Secondary English Education) from Grand Valley State University. She also holds a both a bachelor’s and a master’s from Central Michigan University. Upon graduating from GVSU, Jen taught high school English in the Cadillac public schools for four years; she was then hired to teach English at Hudsonville High School, where she taught for seven years, at which point she transferred to Hudsonville’s Baldwin Street Middle School, where she currently teaches. She has served as English department chair at Baldwin Street since 2006. Jen has enjoyed working with Grand Valley undergrads in her own high school and middle school classrooms, frequently serving as a mentor/cooperating teacher for students just entering the profession; in addition, she has taught several methods courses for future teachers on an adjunct basis and has given a number of guest lectures in other courses. She has also shared her expertise by publishing in highly reputable, national journals (e.g., The English Journal and The Journal of Language and Literacy Education) and in excellent, widely-read state-level journals like The Language Arts Journal of Michigan. Her writing also appears in a “Teacher Tales” edition of the well-known Chicken Soup for the Soul series. In addition, she has presented herteaching ideas at national, regional, state-level, and local conferences. Her excellence as a teacher has been widely recognized, perhaps most notably when she was named Teacher of the Year for the State of Michigan in 2008.  

Contact

Amy Masko, English Department

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