Naomi Feldman began at B-W in 1986 and is currently a professor in the Division of Education, where she teaches courses in literacy education. Dr. Feldman got her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas in Austin and her master’s degree from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Her initial training was in elementary and special education. She earned her doctorate in reading education at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Feldman’s first teaching position was in the South San Antonio Independent School District where she served as a teacher for learning disabled three and four year old children. The South San Antonio Independent School District serves a large population of Hispanic children and most of her students spoke English as a second language. Dr. Feldman then worked as a fourth grade teacher and as a special education resource teacher, also in the South San Antonio Independent School District before taking a position as a special education resource teacher in the Houston Independent School District.
While completing her doctorate, Dr. Feldman taught literacy courses at Northwestern State University of Louisiana in Natchitoches, Louisiana before starting at B-W. At B-W her focus has been on literacy instruction for early childhood teachers, research in literacy education, content area literacy, and diagnosis and remediation of literacy problems. Dr. Feldman has been active in professional organizations whose focus is literacy education. For many years, she was the director of Baldwin-Wallace’s summer reading program for children who experience difficulties in literacy. Her research interests involve studying classroom practices in literacy instruction. Currently, Dr. Feldman is serving in the capacity of field faculty representative in the statewide Reading First Project and in this capacity works with literacy specialists in the East Cleveland and Akron City Schools.
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