Contact Info
Geri Chesner is currently accepting and scheduling areas of expertise interviews. Please use the information below to arrange a meeting.
Campus: Milwaukee
Email: geri.chesner@nl.edu
Phone: 414.577.2658
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Biography
Geri A. Chesner is coordinator of NLU's interdisciplinary studies in curriculum and instruction program in Milwaukee. She currently teaches graduate courses related to urban education curriculum and instruction an reform. Teaching at the college level since 1994, she spent twelve years at Alverno College teaching reading and literacy courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels, technology in education courses and integrated social studies methods. She was an elementary teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system prior to 1994. While working on her Ph.D., focused on the visual literacy development of young children through the use of picture books, she discovered visual literacy skills that are developed through this medium.Education
PhD in Urban Education - UW MilwaukeeMS in Curriculum and Instruction - UW Milwaukee
Publications
Discovering Voice in the Language Arts (2007) Sage PublicationsAltered Books As Visual Representations Of Self And Reflection - published in the 2009 IVLA book of Selected Readings
Presentations
Exploring and Reflecting on Teachers' and Children's Literate Lives Through the Creation of Altered Books - International Reading Association Conference - Phoenix, AZ, Feb 2009
Altered Books as a Visual Representation of Self and Reflection- International Visual Literacy Association Conference - Blacksburg, VG, Oct. 2008.
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