Stephen D. Holtrop

Professional Experiences Education Personal Curriculum Vita

Professional Activities

Courses Taught | Professional Interests | Publications | Committees | Presentations

Associate Dean for Graduate and Adult Studies    
Professor of Education                          
Campus Coordinator: Assessment, Diversity,   
HLC Accreditation, NCATE Accreditation

Joined the Education Department in 1992, began part-time administration 1997, full-time administration 2007

 

   
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   Courses I teach or have taught

Curriculum Design ED614 (Master of Education program)
Integrating Computers into the Classroom ED577 (Master of Education program)
Instructional and Management Strategies for the Adolescent Learner ED320
   Writing Lesson Plans  (Reviewed in MERLOT and reprinted in Job Corps Teachers' Guide, US Gov't)
Secondary Curriculum and Methods ED410
Student Teaching (supervisor) ED450 & ED460
Growing Up Male or Female and Sex Roles in Society (January term courses 2002 & 2004, team taught with Sharon Bouma)
Reading in the Content Areas ED335 (link to Spring '03 course page)
Computers & Integrated Curriculum ED377 (course page with link to Fall '99 syllabus)  
Educational Psychology ED236
Introduction to Education ED212
Adolescent Literature ED273
Topics and Problems in Education ED440
Language Arts Methods and Materials ED384
English Composition EN121
Business Software:  Microsoft Access
College Life Course SS111
EXCEL, HU's adult program in Organizational Management:
   
Business Research Project advisor
    Introduction to Literature EN151
   
Introduction to Writing

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   Other stuff I get involved in 

Huntington University committees I'm on: 

bulletGraduate and Adult Studies Committee (chair)
bulletDiversity Task Force
bulletDiversity Conference Planning Committee
bulletStudent Learning Committee
bulletPlanning Council
bulletMarketing Task Force
bulletAcademic Concerns Committee
bulletCore Curriculum Committee
bulletCommunity Advisory Board (for new Social Work program)
bulletTeacher Education Committee

Huntington University past committees and roles

bulletSelf-Study Steering Committee, Higher Learning Commission/North Central Association accreditation
(chair)
bulletUniversity Innovation Task Force (Strategic Planning Team)
bulletSteering Committee for the University Innovation Task Force
bulletUniversity Innovation Task Force Subcommittee Team B (chair)
bulletCouncil for Planning and Assessment
bulletAdmissions Committee
bulletAssessment Task Force (chair)
bulletCore Curriculum Review Task Force (chair)
bulletTechnology Advisory Council
bulletProbation Policy Task Force
bulletLibrary Committee
bulletSocial Committee

bulletRestructuring of graduate and adult studies governance structures
bulletSecondary Education coordinator
bulletTeacher Education state and national annual reports
bulletTeacher Education assessment coordinator

Some state and community committees I've been on:

   Current:

bulletTeacher Education Committee, a standing committee of the Indiana Department of Education
Division of Professional Standards
(deals with teacher licensing and teacher education program
approval and accreditation), 2000-present
bulletLanguage Inclusiveness (LINC) Task Force
bulletLifelong Learning of Huntington County (2006-2007)

   Past:

bulletHuntington Education Roundtable (for P-16 education)
bullet Board of Examiners, state level, of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
(NCATE),
chair of state team for accreditation visits to other Indiana colleges, March 1999, Oct. 1999
bullet Executive Board, Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (IACTE), 1999-2001  
bullet Issues and Resolutions IACTE Subcommittee (legislative concerns), 2001
bullet Resource Advisor to the state Teacher Education Committee of the Indiana Professional Standards
Board, 1999-2001
bulletTeacher Educators of Northeast Indiana, convener (an informal group of small college teacher education faculty, meets several times a year)

Other: 

bulletHuntington University Peer Award, June 2005
     
bulletread citation   bulletclick picture to enlarge
bullet Literature and Composition Web Page ~Grant project with Huntington North High School
bullet Taught Microsoft Excel Community Education courses, 1997


 

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  Presentations

"What's Moral about Assessment?"--a presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Higher Learning Commission, April 2007.
“Diversity and Huntington County.”  Presentation for the Huntington Optimist Club, 2007.
Inclusive Communities presentation with G. Blair Dowden to the Huntington Common Council, 2006.
"NCATE Accreditation Review"--a PowerPoint presentation for the Huntington University faculty (emailed) and the Teacher Education Professional Advisory Council, April 2005.
"Surprised by Quality"--a presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Higher Learning Commission, March 2005.
"Doing More Assessment than We Realized"--a poster session presented at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis annual Assessment Workshop, November 2004.
"Jump-Starting Assessment after the Assessment Guru Went Somewhere Else"--a PowerPoint presentation presented with Norris Friesen at the Annual Meeting of the Higher Learning Commission, March 2004.
"NCATE & HC" --a PowerPoint presentation about NCATE, INTASC, IPSB, HC's Education Department model and the accrediting process in Indiana, presented to each faculty division on campus and at the TEPAC breakfast, March & April, 1999.
Guest lecture with Sharon Bouma Holtrop on History,Sociology of Education, and Homeschooling in Intro. to Sociology course, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 1999.
"Unit Assessment System"--part of a presentation about how Indiana is moving toward performance-based licensing and accreditation, presented at American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, D.C., February, 1999.
"Situations of Oppression in the Classroom: Case Studies," co-presented with Jon Parker and Phil Downs at Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, March, 1996.
"Teaching Christianly: A Responsibility Model," presented at Nurturing Reflective Practitioners, Azusa Pacific University, Los Angeles, May, 1996.   Subsequently published, see above.
"Using Multiple Intelligences to Teach an Adolescent Novel," presented with Evelyn Priddy at Indiana Teachers of Writing Conference, Indianapolis, September, 1996, and at Ball State Reading Conference, Muncie, October, 1996.
"Integrating Technology Using Multiple Intelligences and Thematic Units," Powerpoint presentation for Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, Atlanta, November, 1996.

 

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  Professional interests and publications

Co-editor of Nurturing and Reflective Teachers:  A Christian Approach for the 21st Century (1999)
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     rock7114.gif (1120 bytes) proceeds: Nurturing Reflective Practitioners conference, Wheaton College, May 1998.
    
rock7114.gif (1120 bytes) Published by the Coalition of Christian Teacher-Educators & the
           Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
           Distributed by
Learning Light Educational Publishing, Claremont, CA, 1999.
   
  rock7114.gif (1120 bytes) Web site about the book and an accompanying study guide.
   
  rock7114.gif (1120 bytes) Contact me if you'd like a copy:  sholtrop @ huntington.edu

Christian philosophy of education:  A responsibility model published in H.Van Brummelen & D.C.Elliott (1997). Nurturing Christians as Reflective Educators, Claremont, CA: Learning Light Press.
Christians, education, and race relations
Interest-initiated homeschooling (published as "Individualization Starts at Home" in Educational Leadership, Oct. 1996)
Process-oriented teaching of writing (Click here for Dissertation Abstract, 1992)

Other Interests:
Gender and Diversity Issues
Leadership and Power
Language and Learning
Classroom Discourse
Classroom Evaluation & Program Assessment
Christian Parenting through Loving Guidance


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    sholtrop @ huntington.edu

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