Graduate Teacher Education Program
Oberlin College
132 Elm Street
Oberlin, Ohio 44074-1546
440/775-8468
FAX 440/775-6805
kathy.jaffee@oberlin.edu
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Kathy Jaffee
Site Coordinator
Education
M.A.T. Oberlin College, 1971
B.A. Western College for women, 1967
Courses
Looking More Closely: Learning & Teaching in Schools I
Teaching as a Profession: Seminar I
Teaching as a Profession: Seminar II
Brief Professional Biography
Kathy Jaffee has had twenty-five years experience teaching with integrated curriculum, primarily in a first/second grade open classroom at Eastwood School in Oberlin, Ohio. Her particular expertise is the use of the multiple perspectives of the fine arts to help students develop multiple pathways into learning. In 1998 Kathy and her teaching partner Sharon Blecher wrote Weaving in the Arts: Widening the Learning Circle (Heinemann, 1998), a book that chronicles their classroom work. One of the most rewarding and illuminating teaching experiences of her career was a ten year partnership with Cleveland Opera’s Music! Words! Opera! program in which the open room teachers and first/second grade students worked with opera mentors to create and perform original classroom operas.
Since leaving the public school classroom in 2000 Kathy has taught literacy and assessment courses at the undergraduate and graduate level as an adjunct instructor at Cleveland State University, and has taught Reading in the Content Area to students in the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. For the past five years she has been involved in the development of the Graduate Teacher Education Program at Oberlin College. Her present responsibilities in the program include teaching a methods course in the summer session and directing the seminars each semester. Kathy’s primary responsibility in the graduate education program is to act as a liaison to the Oberlin Schools, to work closely with the mentor teachers, and to observe and evaluate the GTEP students as they work with mentors and children in the classroom.
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