Herrera, Lynda

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Dr. Lynda Herrera is an assistant professor in Secondary Education (SEED) in the School of Education in the College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Herrera began her career teaching secondary social studies in Uniondale, New York. As a social studies teacher she developed district curriculum, led staff development workshops, and mentored student teachers.  While teaching she received her Ed.D. from Hofstra University in Educational Administration and served in a school administrative role.

As a military spouse, Dr. Herrera had the pleasure of teaching at multiple Universities (Hofstra University in New York, St. Mary’s University in Kansas, University of Hawai’i – Manoa in Hawai’i, and Marymount University in Virginia). Over the course of her career in higher education she has taught Curriculum Development, Literacy in the Content Area, Research Methodology, and Social Studies Method courses.  She has taught both undergraduate and graduate students in secondary education and elementary education.

Dr. Herrera strives to prepare pre-service teachers in the art and science of teaching using interdisciplinary, hands-on, higher-level thinking strategies. Her hope is that students leave her class with a toolbox of strategies they can implement in their classrooms to better connect students to content in an engaging and stimulating way. Strategies she focuses on are Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in Social Studies and Dramatic Arts in Social Studies.  She stresses the need for purposeful instruction. 

Courses Dr. Herrera teaches in the SEED program are: Methods of Teaching Social Sciences in the Secondary School, Advanced Methods of Teaching Social Sciences in the Secondary School, Action Research in Secondary Education, Action Research Seminar, Creating Advocacy with Adolescent Learners in Secondary Education, and Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories.

Dr. Herrera has served on the Editorial Board of the Social Studies and the Young Learner Journal for the National Council of Social Studies since 2011. She enjoys gardening, travel, and time with her husband and two children as she follows them around to various Comic-Cons.

• Secondary Education 6-12

• Teaching Social Studies in the Secondary School (SEED - 567)
• Internship: Secondary Education English (SEED - 792)
• Internship: Secondary Education Math (SEED - 793)
• Internship: Secondary Education Science (SEED - 794)
• Internship: Secondary Education Social Studies (SEED - 795)
• Internship: Secondary Education Computer Science (SEED - 796)
• Internship Seminar in Secondary Teaching (SEED - 491)
• Action Research Methods in Secondary Education (SEED - 677)
• Action Research Seminar in Secondary Education (SEED - 678)
• Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories (SEED - 505)
• Teaching History and Social Science in the Secondary School (SEED - 367)
• Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories (SEED - 405)
• Studying Teacher Impact on Student Learning (SEED - 477)
• Special Topics in Secondary Education (SEED - 498)

• Special Topics in Education (EDCI 597)
• Special Topics in Education (EDUC 597)
• Creating Advocacy with Adolescent Learners (SEED 408)
• Perspectives on Extraordinary Teaching (SEED 409)
• Creating Advocacy with Adolescent Learners (SEED 508)
• Advanced Methods of Teaching Social Sciences in the Secondary School (SEED 667)
• Research in Secondary Education (SEED 675)