ED233 Principles of Elementary and Secondary Education

ED353 Elementary Student Teaching

ED379 Human Relations

ED210 ELL

ED310 Reading/LA in the Elementary School

ED313 Reading Dysfunctions

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As a member of the Mount Mercy College Education Faculty, I bring with me a wide range of teaching experiences that include teaching kindergarten, third, fourth, and sixth grades. I have also taught in traditional English only classrooms as well as in bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL), gifted and talented, and Chapter 1 Migrant Education programs. My elementary teaching experiences have involved working with a diverse group of students, teachers, parents, and administrators in several states including Wisconsin, Texas, Washington, D.C. and Iowa. I have found these experiences to be immensely rewarding and of critical importance to my teaching.

In addition to my public school teaching, I have taught and supervised undergraduate and graduate students at the university and college level. In my position as an instructor at Pan American University, I taught general education courses and supervised the site-based experiences of student teachers. At the University of Iowa I supervised the clinical experiences of reading practicum undergraduate and graduate students. As their supervisor, my role was to provide reading practicum students with knowledge in corrective reading methods and strategies, prepare them to interpret and analyze their own teaching, conduct reflective discussions centered on their actual teaching experiences, and develop context-specific solutions for the problems encountered when teaching less proficient readers. My work at the University of Texas also involved teaching courses in Children and Adolescent Literature, Reading Methods, Diagnostic Reading for graduate students, and Language Development to undergraduate and graduate students.

Currently, the courses I teach at Mount Mercy College are Reading and the Language Arts, Dysfunctions of Reading, Reading & English as a Second Language Tutor, Human Relations, and Principles of Education in addition to supervising student teachers in their field placements. I find that students at Mount Mercy College want to be successful teachers and I am committed to helping them excel as teachers and take their place in society as highly skilled, reflective, and dedicated professionals.

One of my greatest joys is reading books with my son, Austen. With the encouragement of my husband, I play the piano and when I am inspired I like to oil paint on canvas.

I can be reached at:
Education Division
Mount Mercy College
1330 Elmhurst Drive, NE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402

phone 319-363-8213 x1303
email nmatting@mtmercy.edu 

Norma Linda Mattingly