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Deborah Kight

Deborah Kight

Title:
Adjunct Professor
Primary Discipline:
Education  / TeacherEd  / Special Education
Member Type:
Faculty
Last Login:
March 6, 2012
Member Since:
February 3, 2012

Contributions

  • Submitted Materials
  • Authored Materials
  • Learning Exercises
  • Bookmark Collections
  • Course ePortfolios
  • Content Builder Materials

Affiliations

Primary Affiliation:
Mount Olive College (Education, 4 Year/4 Year + Grad, NC, United States)

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Skills & Interests

  • Education (Advanced)
    Experience in working with adult learners in the following areas: Teacher Education with concentration in Language & Literacy, Special Education, and Collaboration

Associations

  • Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education
    Member 12/2011 – Current
  • Cambridge Who’s Who among Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs
    Member 11/2011 – Current
  • Biltmore Who's Who Executive and Professional Registry
    Member 10/2011 – Current

Education History

  • Doctoral Student Leadership in Higher Education Administration (02/2012)
    Grand Canyon University
  • Masters in Teaching Special Education (05/1992)
    University of Virginia
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree Psychology (05/1992)
    University of Virginia

Teaching Experience

  • EDU 370 Exceptional Children in Early Childhood Education Programs (Current)
    • Mount Olive College – Teacher Education
    • This course is a survey of the nature and needs of exceptional children – the gifted, mentally handicapped, learning disabled, speech impaired, physically and health impaired, sensory impaired, emotionally handicapped, and developmentally delayed.
  • EDU 396 Practicum II Seminar: Exceptional Children/Special Needs (Current)
    • Mount Olive College – Teacher Education
    • This course is a practicum in curriculum planning appropriate for exceptional/special needs children. It includes discussion, student reflections, analysis, problem solving, activity/lesson planning, and presentations. Emphasis is placed on the development of critical thinking and communication skills
  • EDU 421 Literacy and Literature for Early Childhood Education (Current)
    • Mount Olive College – Teacher Education
    • This course is a study of the development of literacy in early childhood emphasizing language acquisition, communication, emergent reading, emergent writing, and spelling.

Languages

  • English
    • Speaking level: Superior
    • Reading level: Superior

Positions

  • Adjunct Professor (05/2007 – Current) Mount Olive College
  • Special Education Teacher (11/2000 – 06/2005) Wake County Public Schools
  • Special Education Teacher (08/1992 – 11/2000) Virginia Beach City Public Schools