Stephen D. Holtrop


Professional Activities

~Courses Taught | Professional Interests | Publications | Committees | Presentations

Assistant Dean for Assessment
 NCATE Coordinator, Teacher Education Accreditation

Associate Professor of Education

Joined the Education Department in 1992

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 Courses I Teach (or have taught)

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 (on-line syllabus, Fall '99)
Growing Up Male or Female (January term courses 2002 & 2004, team taught with Sharon Bouma Holtrop)
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
Intro. to Education ED212
Adolescent Literature ED273
Student Teaching (supervisor) ED450 & ED460
Topics and Problems in Education ED440
Language Arts Methods and Materials ED384
English Composition EN121
Business Software:  Microsoft Access
College Life Course
EXCEL, HC's adult program in Organizational Management:
   
Business Research Project advisor
    Introduction to Literature EN151
   
Introduction to Writing

 

 Other stuff I get involved in 

Huntington University committees I'm on: 

bulletAcademic Assessment Committee (chair)
bulletCouncil for Planning and Assessment
bulletCore Curriculum Committee
bulletCommunity Advisory Board (for new Social Work program)
bulletTeacher Education Committee
bulletAcademic Concerns Committee

Huntington University committees I've been on: 

bulletSelf Study Steering Committee, Higher Learning Commission/North Central Association accreditation
(chair)
bulletAssessment Task Force (chair)
bulletCore Curriculum Review Task Force (chair)
bulletDiversity Task Force
bulletTechnology Advisory Council
bulletProbation Policy Task Force
bulletLibrary Committee
bulletSocial Committee

Some state committees I've been on:

bullet Teacher Education Committee, a standing committee of the Indiana Professional Standards Board
(deals with teacher licensing and teacher education program accreditation), 2000-present
bullet Teacher Educators of Northeast Indiana, convener, a informal group of small college teacher education
faculty, meets several times a year
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

Other: 
Literature and Composition Web Page ~Grant project with Huntington North High School
Taught Microsoft Excel Community Education courses

 

 Presentations

"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.
"Doing More Assessment than We Realized"--a poster session presented at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis annual Assessment Workshop, November 2004.
"Surprised by Quality"--a presentation proposal for the Annual Meeting of the Higher Learning Commission, March 2005.
"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.

 

 Professional Interests and Publications

Coeditor 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 Issues
Leadership and Power
Language and learning
Classroom discourse
Classroom evaluation
Christian parenting through loving guidance


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Send me an email if we have some common interests! sholtrop@huntington.edu

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