Adel G. Aiken
Office Phone: 724-847-5002
aaiken@geneva.edu
Disciplines/Field of Instruction
- Reading Specialist
- Program Director, M.Ed. in Reading
Degrees Received
- Ed.D., University of Pittsburgh
- M.Ed., Westminster College
- B.S. El. Ed., Geneva College
Courses Taught
- Language Arts
- Reading Methods
- Reading Program in the Elementary School
- Diagnostic and Remedial Reading
- Children’s Literature
- History & Philosophy of Reading
- Phonics and Orthography of Reading
Presentation/Publications
- "The Heart of a Child", Geneva College, 2009
- Reading Words, Reading Worlds. The Geneva Magazine, spring, 2007
- Postmodernism’s impact on children’s picture books: A faith-based perspective. ICCTE Journal, 2:2 http://www.icctejournal.org, 2007
- “Postmodernism and Children’s Literature,” Thinking Women, Geneva College, 2006
- "Adapting Instruction in Christian Education," Community Ministry Seminar, Geneva College, 2004
- "French as a Second Language and How It Relates to Literacy" Seminar for Elementary Principals, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2003
- They love words. The Reading Teacher, 56, 68-74. Teachers implement a spelling-decoding strategy within a first-grade language arts curriculum. (refereed journal), 2002
- "A College Instructor and Third Grade Teacher Exchange Places" PAC-TE Conference, Grantville, PA, 1996
Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.
- NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English
- IRA - International Reading Association
- KSRA - Keystone State Reading Association
- Beaver County Reading Council
- PAC-TE - PA Association of Colleges & Teacher Educators
