NCID-1569
Hiawatha Smith
Assistant Professor Literacy Education
University of Wisconsin at River Falls
Education/Degree:
1 Educational Studies - Literacy Education (the University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
About
Hiawatha is an assistant professor of literacy education at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. There he teaches children's and adolescent literature (both graduate and undergraduate) and language arts methods (graduate and undergraduate). His additional responsibilities include supervision of practicum experiences and serving as the director of the graduate elementary education program.
Current Work
Dr. Smith has completed and published research highlighting the motivation for reading with historically marginalized non-proficient elementary students. This research has included the identification of strategies to engage non-proficient marginalized readers.Hiawatha's current projects include a chapter and presentations sharing best practice for preparing pre-service teachers to teach developmental word study in K-6 classrooms. This project will help teacher educators with understanding salient practices which can directly improve the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of pre-service teachers to teach developmental word study. Additionally, he is working on a continusouly developing project understanding how teachers (pre-service and in-service) process diverse perspectives within texts and strategies that can be used to overcome weaknesses in these texts.
Research Area Keyword(s)
diverse perspectives in literature, non-proficient readers, reading motivation, writing conferences, developmental word study