Kathleen Crawford

Kathleen Crawford , Ed.D., has been in the field of education for over twenty years; she is currently an Assistant Professor of Elementary Literacy at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches elementary literacy courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Southern, she was a K-5 Literacy Coach and 4th/5th grade ELA teacher in Jacksonville, Florida. Her research interests include effective literacy instruction, integration of children’s literature inclusive of diverse populations of people, teacher education, effective supervision of pre-service teachers, mentoring beginning teachers and instructional coaches, humanizing online instruction, and understanding the emotions involved in teaching and learning.

Publications

Problematizing Niceness: A Teacher Educators' Learning Community on Culturally Responsive Teaching
Michelle Reidel, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Courtney Alexander Toledo, Kathleen M. Crawford, Leslie D. Roberts, Heather M. Huling, Delores D. Liston. © 2024. 21 pages.
Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) advocates for “teaching to and through” cultural diversity to improve learning, build relationships, mediate classroom power imbalances, and...
The Art of Connection: Humanizing Teaching and Learning in Online Classes
Kathleen Crawford, Heather M. Huling. © 2024. 23 pages.
This chapter showcases how the practices of two teacher educators in an asynchronous, online graduate-level summer course, Advanced Language Arts Methods, humanized the learning...
Peer Assessment for Development of Preservice Teachers
Lorraine Gilpin, Yasar Bodur, Kathleen Crawford. © 2009. 18 pages.
Peer assessment holds tremendous potential to positively impact the development of preservice teachers. The purpose of this chapter is to describe our findings on the impact of...