SPECIAL EDUCATION FACULTY
Harold Johnson , Ph.D.
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Phone: 517-432-3926
Office: 343A Erickson Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824
E-mail: hjohnson@msu.edu
Harold Johnson is a professor of special education with a focus upon the preparation of teachers to work with students who are deaf/hard of hearing (d/hh). His research focuses upon how web based technologies and resources can be used to reduce isolation, facilitate collaboration, recognize excellence and enhance teaching/learning within K-20 deaf education. He is especially interested in investigating how student learning in school can be tied to student living outside of school. One of his current projects concerns the use of a “Virtual Professional Development School” (VPDS) for deaf education. This ongoing project, first funded in 1999, has resulted both in the Deaf Education Web site (www.deafed.net) and a nation wide collaborative effort to ground the preparation of new teachers in the instructional realities, learning opportunities and proven practices of existing teachers of students who are d/hh. He is currently exploring how science and mathematics teaching can be improved within the VPDS and the subsequent impact of this improvement upon student’s learning, language and literacy skills.
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