Amy D. Lewis

Dr. Amy Lewis is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching, and currently serves as the Program Coordinator for the Early Childhood and Elementary Education Program at the GSE. Focused largely on teacher preparation programming, Dr. Lewis researches curriculum and course design with a concentration on merging the teaching and learning of content and practice. Through this work she aims to effectively support future educators in gaining both the content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge required to teach multiple subject areas in early childhood through the middle grades. She is also interested in examining the student teachers’ experiences in teacher preparation programs as they manage their coursework, clinical practice, and certification requirements, and the structures, resources, and systems in place that facilitate this work. Her goals as a researcher are focused on continuing to examine effective teacher preparation in order to better understand how to educate and support our nation’s future teachers. With this research, she hopes to reach a broader audience of teacher educators focused on improving systems, programming methods, and practices in teacher education.

Dr. Lewis believes becoming an effective educator requires a complex set of skills and broad knowledge base. She uses her practical experiences teaching young young children, elementary, and middle school, and years of experience researching learning and teaching theories and practices to create an environment where her students grow as both learners and future educators. Through this experiential approach, her students gain practical methods for instruction and engage in reflective discourse about why and how to implement what they have experienced.

• Expertise & Research Interest

  Early Childhood/ Early Education (and Development)

  Elementary Education

  Science Education

  Literacy

  Higher Education

  Professional Development

• Honors & Awards

  2018 – Faculty Teaching Award, Rutgers Graduate School of Education