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Joshua Schulze

Professor, Education & Leadership

89285 | schulzejm@wou.edu
RWEC 221

Why I chose WOU

WOU has a great environment that recognizes excellent teaching and encourages scholarly pursuits.

At WOU since

09/16/2016

Hobbies

Traveling to foreign locales and learning about cultural differences and similarities, reading, genealogy, hiking, and gardening.

Fun fact

Saw one of Sinatra's last concerts and witnessed him pass out during the performance.

Hometown

Peabody, Massachusetts

Favorite book/movie

Before Sunrise/East of Eden/Good Will Hunting/Network

Office Hours

Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri

ON SABBATICAL ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025

Areas of responsibility

Dr. Joshua Schulze serves as a Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Leadership. In this role, he helps prepare effective teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K-12 contexts through teaching, research, and service. He is the former coordinator of the MSED program and a former seminar leader for MAT. In this capacity, he has successfully chaired over one hundred master's theses, professional projects, and action research projects.

In addition to teaching courses in educational linguistics and language acquisition, Dr. Schulze is the COE contract person for international teaching. If you have an interest in pursuing a career in international education, contact Dr. Schulze.

Education

Ed.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst Concentration: Language, Literacy, & Culture

MAT- University of Southern Mississippi Major: Teaching Language-TESOL

BA- University of Richmond Major: English Minor: Education

Professional experience

Dr. Schulze brings extensive experience in teaching emergent bilingual students in a variety of instructional contexts in both the US and abroad. In addition to his work as a classroom teacher in elementary settings in Boston and Kissimmee, Florida, he has also taught EFL in Warsaw, Poland. He recently has taught teacher candiates in Shanghai, China.

ORTESOL BOARD MEMBER, Higher Ed SIG

Scholarly Reviewer

TESOL JOURNAL

NCTE's Talking Points

TESOL QUARTERLY

LINGUISTICS in EDUCATION

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEARNING, RESEARCH, and TEACHING

ORTESOL JOURNAL

Editorial Board Membership

International Joural of Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2020-2022

Awards and honors

NATIONAL BOARD TEACHER CERTIFICATION-MIDDLE CHILDHOOD LITERACY (2004-2014)

Nominee, Pastega Award for Scholarship 2023

Professional memberships

TESOL

AAAL

Oregon Teachers of English as a Second Language (ORTESOL)-Board Member, Higher Ed SIG

ORATE (Oregon Association of Teacher Educators)

Washington Affiliate of English as a Second Language (WAESOL)

North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association International Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics

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