Peggy Johnsen
Visiting Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4418
pjohnsen@whitworth.edu

Office Location: Dixon Hall

Teaching is Peggy's passion, and reading is life! Over 35 years of experience as a classroom teacher (K-8), consultant, and university professor has provided Peggy with continual opportunities to learn from students. Her specialties are language acquisition and literacy, children's and young-people's literature, and exploring authentic assessment for both the learner and the teacher. Peggy instructs courses in literature, language and reading literacy, and curriculum methods, along with coordinating the elementary components within the Whitworth Master in Teaching Program. You are invited to come over to Dixon and share a good book, or check out what is best and most current in young people's literature! This particular Thoreau quote is at the heart of Peggy's personal philosophy concerning learners and teaching:

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
Perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer;
Let him step to the music which he hears,
However measured or far away.

Resources

• Literature Bibliographies (2006)
  
  
• WAASCD Presentation: Using Literature in Classroom Relationships
  
  
• Current Literature (2007-08)
  
  Fairy-Folk Literature
  Human-Family Stories Literature
  Nonfiction Literature
  Novels
  Christmas Literature
  
  
• WORD Essential Literacy Conference 2007
  Current Essential Literature for the Classroom
  
  

• Fall 2006 WSTA-WORD Conference: Linking Science and Literacy
  Complete Presentation
  Abstract of Pappas Research Article
  MS Power-Point Presentation
  
  

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