MEdT Faculty

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The faculty consists of professionally and academically qualified personnel, each with many years of experience in different aspects of teacher education. The backgrounds and experiences of the faculty complement each other so that the department can offer an innovative, high quality, well-respected, field based instructional teacher education program.

Two graduates wrote the following on a survey asking about their experience in the program, “The faculty work very well with each other and they seem like family. They are all incredibly supportive!” and “The MEdT program’s biggest strength was the opportunities they have opened up for us. There were countless means of communication with professionals of all different experiences that shaped the way we learned and molded our educational practices.”

The extended MEdT community includes faculty, staff, along with school and community partners. There is a team that manages the office for the MEdT program. This team will either be able to resolve the matter directly, or assist in resolving problems in the most expeditious way possible.

Jon Yoshioka Chair

Interests: Teacher Education, Professional Development Schools, P-20 Partnerships, International Partnerships, Science Education

(808) 956-7989 jonyoshi@hawaii.edu

Lori Fulton Associate Chair

Interests: Teacher Professional Development; Elementary Teacher Education; Science Notebooks; Discourse of Science

(808) 956-3823 fultonl@hawaii.edu

Kahea Faria Assistant Specialist

(808) 956-2889 kaheaf@hawaii.edu

Stephanie Furuta Program Chair

furutas@hawaii.edu

Stacy George Assistant Professor

Interests: Place Based Education; Elementary Science Education; STEM Education

stacya@hawaii.edu

Jaime Kent Instructor

jaimemk2@hawaii.edu

Mischa Lenchanko Assistant Specialist

mischa@hawaii.edu

Aaron Levine Partnership and Placement Coordinator

Interests: the teacher as actor ; the classroom as a performance space; teaching as a creative act; teacher education; international partnerships; P-20 partnerships

(808) 956-0726 alevine@hawaii.edu

Patricia Massoth Instructor

Interests: Rural Schools; Place-Based Pedagogies; Arts Integration; Literacy Across the Content/ Interdisciplinary Approaches ; Elementary Education

pmassoth@hawaii.edu

Vail Matsumoto Associate Professor

Interests: Professional Development Schools; Teacher Leadership; Teacher Preparation

(808) 956-4408 vail@hawaii.edu