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Dr. Robert D. Leier Assistant Professor
Prior to coming to Auburn, he was ESOL program coordinator and taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of West Florida in Applied Linguistics, ESOL Materials and Curriculum Development, ESOL Principles and Practices, ESOL Testing and Evaluation and Cross-cultural Communications. He also taught graduate and undergraduate Social Foundations course at the University of South Alabama since 1995. Recently, Dr. Leier has worked with the Alabama State Department of Education as an ESOL consultant and taught ESOL at the Middle School level in Mobile County. Prior to his move to Alabama, Dr. Leier was co-coordinator of a grant-supported Bilingual-Spanish/ESOL program at Western Illinois University, which produced over forty teachers to serve bilingual and ESOL classrooms in the greater Chicago area. Earlier in his ESOL career, Dr. Leier taught ESOL to secondary students at a private school in PA and a public school in MA. He has also taught ESOL to adults at a two-year college in MA. Dr. Leier is fluent in Spanish and has taken coursework in French, Italian, German and Mayan-Quiche. He has lived, worked and traveled in the Latin countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Puerto Rico. Dr. Leier's research interests include teaching, assessment and certification issues in ESOL Education, school reform in rural Alabama, progressive school education (nationally and internationally), immigrant and refugee students, and ethnographic field research. His current research interests are with the bilingual private K-12 school, Thomas Jefferson Institute, located in Mexico City and with progressive education in Costa Rica. His leadership in the Alabama-Mississippi TESOL (AMTESOL) includes serving as President (2007-2008), Vice President / Conference Chair (2006-2007), and Executive Board Member (2004-2006).
For more information about the Alabama / Mississippi Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. please visit http://www.amtesol.org/ or contact Dr. Leier at rdl0002@auburn.edu.
Dr. Leier's vita:
Leier, Robert D.
1. Academic Degrees
2. Professional Experience
3. Selected Publications
Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (2002). Praxis and Teacher Visions of socially just school reform. In The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice. Slater, J., Fain, S, Rosatto, C, (eds). New York: Peter Lang, pg 172-183. Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (2001). The nexus of community and school in the black rural South. In Kincheloe, J. and Steinberg, S. (Eds.). Multi/Intercultural conversations. New York: Peter Lang. Fregeau, L., Leier. R., & Newman, J. (2000). Progressive Education and Quaker Schooling: Alabama Emigrants influence on Education in Monte Verde Costa Rica. The High School Journal. October-November 2000. V 84, n 1. Chapel Hill: School of Education, University of North Carolina. Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (1999). The story of a community and its school in the black rural South. In NAAAS Conference Proceedings, 1998. CCS Publishing Co. Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (1999). Fixin' to describe pedagogy of place in a Southern black rural school. In NAAAS Conference Proceedings, 1998. CCS Publishing Co. Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (1999). A critical analysis of socio-economic, ethnic and educational factors influencing success for immigrant and refugee students in community college adult education. Taboo, Caddo Gap Press, Spring/Summer). Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (1999).The nexus of community and school in the black rural South. In Kincheloe, J. and Steinberg, S. (eds.). Multicultural conversations. New York: Peter Lang. Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (1999). Pedagogy of place in a Southern black rural school. Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 12 (1), 1-11. Fregeau, L. & Leier, R. (1998). In the heart of Dixie: A rural black community and its school's struggle to overcome. Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 2 (4), 25-30. 4. Selected Presentations Hurricane Katrina's effects on Public Schooling: Some International Comparisons. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, 50th Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (2006, March). Reflections on an ESOL Endorsement Program. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting AMTESOL 2006, Jackson, MS (2006, January). Assessing English Language Learners in ESL or Mainstream Classrooms. Paper presented at SETESOL 2005, Myrtle Beach, SC (2005, September). A dichotomy of attitudes toward graduate level teacher education: The case of Peruvian immigrant educators and American teachers. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, 49th Annual Conference, Stanford University, CA, (2005, March). Working with ELLs: Strategies for Mainstream Teachers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting AMTESOL 2005, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, (2005, January). Not One Organic School but Many: Four Schools founded on the Organic Principles of Marietta Johnson. Paper presented at SHOES 2004, University of South Alabama, Fairhope, AL, (2004, March). The Use of Dialogue Journals for Assessment of Oral and Literacy Development in Second Language Learners. Paper presented at SCOLT/AAFLT, Mobile, AL, (2004, March). Dialogue Journals: Theory into Practice. An earlier version of this paper won Best of Conference 2003 and a revised, updated version was presented again by invitation at the Annual Meeting of AMTESOL 2004, Starkville, MS, (2004, January). Managing Math Through Literature. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AMTESOL 2004, Starkville, MS, (2004, January). Dialogue Journals for Assessment of Oral and Literacy Development in ELLs. Paper presented at SETESOL 2003, New Orleans, LA. (2003, September). Online Curricular and Assessment Suggestions for Mainstream Teachers Who have ELLs. Paper presented at SETESOL 2003, New Orleans, LA. (2003, September). Marietta Johnson's influence on American education: An historical and contemporary comparison of four organic schools. Paper presented at American Education Studies Association Meeting 2003, Mexico City, Mexico, (2003, October). International Educational Achievements of Progressive Pedagogist Marietta Johnson: An Historical Perspective. Paper presented at American Education Studies Association 2003, Mexico City, Mexico, (2003, October). Dialogue Journals for English Language Learners: Theory into Practice. Paper presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of AAFLT/AMTESOL, Birmingham, AL, (2003, January). Also produced a PowerPoint Presentation of this information for use in workshops. Immigrant impact on the social construction of marginalized groups in Costa Rica. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, 46th Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, (2002, March) Praxis and teacher visions of socially just school reform. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual South Eastern Association of Educational Studies meeting, Atlanta, GA, (2002, March). Marietta Johnson: Progressive Educator. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association 2000 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2000, April). Progressive Education and Quaker Schooling: Alabama Emigrants' Influences on Education in Monteverde, Costa Rica 1950-2000. Paper presented at the 44th Annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Antonio, TX (2000, March). Progressive Education and Quaker Schooling: Alabama Emigrants' Influences on Education in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Paper presented at the 5th Annual South Eastern Association for Educational Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. (2000, February). Progressivism transplanted from North America to Central America: A curriculum History of the Friends School in Monteverde. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association 1999 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. (1999, April). A Pedagogy of Place in a Southern black rural school and its Community. Paper presented at the 4th Annual South Eastern Association for Educational Studies, Roanoke College, Salem, VA (1999, April). From Fairhope to Alabama to Monteverde Costa Rica: The impact of Organic Education conceived by the progressive philosopher Marietta Johnson. Paper presented at the American Education Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (1998, November). Fixin' to describe pedagogy of place in the black rural South. Paper presented at the American Education Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (1998, November). The nexus of community and school in the rural black South. Paper presented and chair of panel at 19th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (1998, March). Pedagogy of Place in a Southern black rural school. Paper presented at National Association for African American Studies Conference, Houston, TX. (1998, February). The story of a community and its school in the black rural South. Paper presented at National Association for African American Studies Conference, Houston, TX. (1998, February). A critical analysis of the socio-economic, ethnic and educational factors influencing success for immigrant and refugee students in community college adult education. Paper presented at the American Education Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada. (1997, November). |
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Robert D. Leier is an Assistant Professor and program coordinator for the Masters in English for Speakers of Other Languages Education Program in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching in the College of Education. He has been at Auburn since August 2006. He teaches graduate courses in the areas of second language acquisition, assessment and evaluation, foundations of ESOL/Bilingual education and teaching methods. In addition, he supervises ESOL graduate student internships. ?
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