Arts & Humanities

INSTEP program in English Education By: Liz Hoelzle

For three weeks each summer, Teachers College is home to a group of graduate students from across the country who come together for a three-week session in the Intensive Summer Teacher Education Program.

Pat Zumhagen lectures in the English Education program at Teachers College and has served as the INSTEP coordinator for three years. Her background as a high school English teacher enables Dr. Zumhagen to bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to classes such as Literature and Teaching, English Methods, and Feminist Perspectives and Literature. Having completed her last year as INSTEP coordinator over the summer, she will hand over the reins for next summer to English doctoral student Nicole Callahan, an experienced high school English teacher, who has taught Fieldwork and Teaching of Writing here at Teachers College.

INSTEP students create context for studying Hemingway

The English INSTEP program provides a theoretical and pedagogical approach to studying English Education with an arts-based undercurrent. It started back in 2002 when Lincoln Center was looking to establish an affiliation with the university and found that Maxine Greene’s philosophic writing on aesthetic education were in line with the principles they sought to advocate. A partnership was formed, and since then the TC/Lincoln Center connection has served as a foundational frame for the English INSTEP program. (more…)