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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board

Faculty Vita

Jean Behney, M.S.

Title: Associate Instructor
Office: W. W. Wright Education Building, room
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 1997


Academic Degrees

B.S. Indiana University 1980 French and English (Secondary Education)

Professional Experience

1997-present Guest Lecturer and Associate Instructor, Indiana University, School of Education, Language Education Department
1998-2000 Reading Specialist, BHC Meadows Hospital, Bloomington, Indiana
1996-1998 Title I Teacher's Aide, Highland Park Elementary School, Bloomington, Indiana
1993-1994 Middle School Language Arts, Reading, Gifted and Talented Teacher and Drama Coach, Pringle-Morse Consolidated School District, Morse, Texas
1981-1983 Junior High School English and French Teacher and Drama Coach, Wayne Township School Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana
1980-1981 ESL Teacher, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana

Other Administrative Responsibilities

Early Field Experience supervisor of pre-service teachers for both secondary and primary grades

Faculty Teaching

Fall, 2001 M464 Methods of Teaching Reading
Spring 2002 M401 Laboratory/Field Experience for Seniors
Spring, 2002 M464 Methods of Teaching Reading

Funded Projects

    2000 Educate Indiana (EDIN) grant of $10,000 to implement the ARRIVE (At-risk Rural Reader Inver-Vention Education) project in Medora Schools, Medora, Indiana. Grant was co-written with Dr. Hope Elkins of Indiana University

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

    International Reading Association - Indiana Chapter

Conference Presentations

    June 2000 Presenter, Summer Language Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana: "Motivating At-Risk Learners" and "Establishing Classroom Libraries."

    June 1998 Presenter, Phi Delta Kappa Reading Conference, Bloomington, Indiana: "Motivating Reluctant Readers Using Adolescent Literature as a Bridge to the Classics."

Research Areas

    Ongoing two-year field research project on reading in a rural school setting.

Honors/Awards

    1980 Graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University, Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Award

    1988 Citizen of the Year, Hansford County Annual Round-Up, Spearman, Texas (Awarded following publication of my one hundred year history of Hansford County, Texas)

    1994 Finalist, Teacher of the Year, Pringle-Morse Consolidated School District, Morse, Texas

    2001-2002 Isabel Craig Memorial Scholarship recipient

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