Webb to head Teacher Prep Program
John Webb has been appointed director of the
Program in Teacher Preparation, effective July
1.
He comes to Princeton with more than three
decades of experience in classroom teaching at the
secondary and postsecondary levels, school
administration and teacher preparation. Chair since
1986 of the Foreign Language Department at Hunter
College High School, he is also adjunct associate
professor in the Department of Curriculum and
Teaching at Hunter College and adjunct professor at
Manhattanville College.
Webb earned his 1968 BA at the State University
of New York, Albany; his 1972 MA at Middlebury
College; and his 1986 EdD at New York University,
where he did his doctoral studies in cultural
diversity in education, with special attention to
the Haitian community in the greater New York
metropolitan area.
He is currently working on a project on heritage
language learners in foreign language classrooms,
supported by the Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).
A member of the National Foreign Language
Standards Task Force from 1993 to 1996, he was
principal writer of the New York State Framework
for Languages Other Than English in 1996, and he
has published widely on issues in foreign language
education. As Princeton's director of Teacher
Preparation, he will succeed Marue Walizer, who
will retire from the directorship at the end of the
June after 11 years.
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