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 administrative roles.
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. 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.
