Dr. Elizabeth Senger

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Dr. Elizabeth Senger

Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Auburn University, AL 36849
(334) 844-6888
FAX (334) 844-6789
sengees@auburn.edu

Dr. Elizabeth Senger is an associate professor in the College of Education and the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. She specializes in mathematics education at the elementary and middle school levels. Dr. Senger has been at Auburn University since January 2,1996. Prior to coming to Auburn, she was an assistant professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She received her doctorate from the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has 20 years of elementary school teaching experience including all grade levels (of math) from grades 1st through 10th. Dr. Senger's teaching interests include teacher development in mathematics through an understanding of current national reforms and through the use of classroom research. Pedagogical issues include teaching as problem solving, and setting the stage for mathematical understanding through inquiry-based learning and writing/discussion of children's ideas. Math curricular areas of special interest are spatial sense/geometry, technology, probability, problem solving, and logic. Related to her teaching interests is Dr. Senger's desire to work with experienced teachers in elementary/middle schools in graduate coursework and field research. Dr. Senger's current research interests include: (1) philosophical and cognitive issues of teaching, (2) practicing teachers' manner and style in teaching mathematics, (3) teachers' beliefs about mathematics and teaching, and (4) the development of spatial thinking in teachers and students.

Dr. Senger's vita:

Senger, E. S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Elementary Education
Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty
Appointed 1996

1. Academic Degrees

Ph.D. University of Arizona 1992 Elementary Education/Mathematics

M.Ed. University of Central Florida 1978 Mathematics Education

B.A. Marillac College 1972 Mathematics

2. Professional Experience

1996-Present Auburn University

1992 - 1995 Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor

1991 - 1992 University of Arizona, Writer for NSF Grant, Research Project

1990 - 1991 Amphitheater High School, Tucson, AZ, Mathematics Teacher

1988 - 1990
University of Arizona, Clinical Professor

1987 - 1988 Out-of-Door Academy, Sarasota, FL, Mathematics Resource Teacher

1982 - 1987 Park Maitland School, Maitland, FL, Mathematics Teacher Grades 4-6

1979 - 1982
Liberty Junior High, Orlando, FL, Mathematics Teacher, Grades 7-9

1/79 - 6/79
Robinswood Junior High, Orlando, FL, Mathematics Teacher, Grade 8

8/78 - 12/78 Trinity Preparatory School: Orlando, FL,Mathematics Teacher, High School and Grade 8.

1974 - 1978 Park Maitland School, Maitland, FL, Mathematics Teacher Grades 4-6

1972 - 1974 St. Mary Magdalen School, Altamonte Springs, FL, Teacher, Grade 4

1969 - 1970 St. Jude's Elementary School, Mountaintop, PA, Teacher, Grade 1

1968 - 1969 Holy Trinity School, Hazelton, PA, Teacher, Grades 1 & 2

3. Selected Publications

Walker, S. & Senger, E. S. (2007). Using Technology to Teach Developmental African-American Algebra Students. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 26(3).

Senger, E. S. (1999). Reflective reform in mathematics: The recursive nature of teacher change. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 37(3), 199-221.

Senger, E. S. (1998) Beyond classroom description: Methods of understanding reflection and beliefs in mathematics teaching, Educational Research Quarterly, 21(3), 17-42.

Senger, E. S. (1997). Student-Invented Numeration Systems: Pattern-Analysis and mathematical understanding. School Science and Mathematics, 97(3),139-149.

Senger, Elizabeth. (1997). "Mathematical Meaning in Context." Teaching Children Mathematics. Reston, 3(7),362-366.

Senger, Elizabeth. (1996). Relating mental image and language use to change in teacher beliefs. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, the Florida State University, Panama City, Florida.

Senger, E. S. (1995). The setting for problem solving: A teacher's beliefs. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.