EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY

SUSAN CHERUP
Sonneveldt Professor of Education
Special Education

Email: cherup@hope.edu

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES

Ed. 225 – Exceptional Child
Ed. 226 – Field Placement, Exceptional Child
Ed. 356 – Classroom & Behavior Management in Special Education
Ed. 357-358 - Field Experience in Special Education
Ed. 453 – Computers & Technology in Special Education
Ed. 488-01 – Cross Cultural Education, Native American Studies

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Special Education
Instructional Technology
Plains Indians

PRESENTATIONS

“Integrating Technology into Teacher Education: A Model Implemented at One Small American Liberal Arts College” presented at the Eleventh International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning in Havana, Cuba, July 2004

Facilitator at the “Assistive Technology and Playground” at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in New Orleans, June 2004, Philadelphia (2005), San Diego (2006), and Atlanta (2007).

”Field Experiences in NETS: Distinguished Achievement Award-Winning Teacher Preparation Programs” at NECC in Seattle, Washington, June 2003

“Teaching Our P-12 Candidates to Bring Each Child Along” at AILACTE in New Orleans, January 2003

PUBLICATIONS

Cherup, S. (2007). Demonstrating Synthesis: Technology Assessment Tools for Field Experience Learning (Chapter 9) in Mezeske, R.J. & Mezeske, B.A., (eds.) (2007). Beyond tests and quizzes: Creative assessments in the college classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Cherup, S. (2004). Technology Integration (Chapter 6) in Mezeske, R.J. & B.A. Mezeske, (eds.). Finding our way: Teacher education reform in the liberal arts setting. New York: Peter Lang.

Cherup, S. & Snyder, L. (2003). A model for integrating technology into teacher education: One college's journey. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [Online serial], 3(1). Available: http://www.citejournal.org/vol3/iss1/general/article3.cfm

Bucci, T.T., Bell, R., Carmack, G., Cherup, S., Cunningham, A., Cohen, S., Hofer, M., Petrosino, A.J., & Wetzel, K. “Meeting the ISTE Challenge in the Field: An overview of the first six distinguished achievement award winning programs” Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, Volume 21, Issue 1

Cherup, S. and Linklater, L., "Integrating Technology into Preservice Education: A model implemented at one small liberal arts college" Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, Volume 16, Number 3.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Past President of the Special Education Technology Special Interest Group of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

Member of SIG - Council Advisory Board of ISTE.

PERSONAL

My areas of expertise are special education technology integration, and Plains Indians. I have guided our department in the integration of technology into existing education classes using the National Education Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T) as the framework. Each May, I offer a class on Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota where students study the history and culture of the Lakota Sioux and teach in the schools. My husband, Glenn, and I enjoy traveling.