College of Education
Developing Highly Qualified Teachers Through School
and Community Collaboration
Dr. Paznokas oversees College of
Education partnerships with school districts, agencies,
businesses, and communities. The College of Education's
School and Community Collaboration Center currently
focuses on early childhood education, developing highly
qualified teachers, Native American education,
international education, and teacher certification.
Program development and research projects are being
developed in each of these areas.
Under her direction, the College of Education is taking a
leadership role in university science and mathematics
education reform as well as serving as the K-12 pipeline
for future scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and
science/mathematics educators. As co-director of the
Washington Science Education Partnership, Dr. Paznokas
also works to bring science education reform to small,
rural schools. In addition, she works in national and
international science education arenas, serving at chair
of pre-secondary and informal science education for the
International Council of Associations for Science
Education. Her science education research interests
include determining attributes of science courses that
lead to student success, finding ways to transition
pre-service teachers between science content courses and
K-8 science methods courses, and studying ways to help
K-8 university pre-service teachers understand the
relationship between informal science education sites and
their future formal classroom settings.
Through "Teachers of Teachers of Science," Dr. Paznokas
coordinates the Pre-Service Environmental Education
Project to institutionalize significant environmental
education into pre-service science methods courses taught
by Washington's universities. This project is in
partnership with the new "e3 Washington" initiative
centered on education, environment, and the economy. She
also recently participated as an invited member of the
National Dialogue on Children and Nature and served on
the National Ecological Observatory Network Design
Consortium. Research for this project involves
determining effective ways to prepare K-8 university
pre-service teachers to teach environmental education to
their future students.
Contact Information
Lynda Paznokas, Ed.D.
Associate Dean
College of Education
PO Box 642114
Pullman, WA 99164-2114
Telephone: 509-335-0987
E-mail: lpaznokas@wsu.edu
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is the College of Education’s Boeing Distinguished Professor of Science Education and associate dean for School and Community Collaboration at Washington State University. She received her doctorate from Oregon State University in 1984 in science and mathematics education, and taught and was department chair of Instructional Leadership at Northern Arizona University. She worked as an elementary and middle school teacher in Washington and Oregon, and was chosen Oregon Teacher of the Year in 1982. She has served as a district curriculum director and as a director of outdoor school programs. In 2002 she received the WSU Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award for teaching, and in 2003 she was the Washington Higher Education Science Teacher of the Year. |
