Visiting Professor of Education
E-mail: hildab@stanford.edu

Dr. Borko’s research explores teacher cognition and the process of learning to teach, with an emphasis on changes in novice and experienced teachers’ knowledge and beliefs about teaching, learning, subject matter, and their classroom practices as they participate in reform-based teacher education and professional development programs. Her teaching interests are in the related areas of classroom processes, teaching for understanding, and teacher learning.

Dr. Borko is a member of numerous professional organizations in education and psychology and has served as a member and chair of various committees for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Educational Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association (APA). She was President of AERA (2003-2004), editor of the Teaching, Learning, and Human Development section of the American Educational Research Journal and interim editor (with Lorrie Shepard) of Educational Researcher. (For additional information about AERA, please see www.aera.net.) She is editor of the Journal of Teacher Education (with Dan Liston and Jennie Whitcomb), beginning in January 2005.

Education:
PhD Educational Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
MA Philosophy of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
BA Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971