Assistant Dean for Administrative Services
    and Planning
Senior Instructor of Education
School of Education, Room 122B
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-735-3029
Fax: 303-492-7090
Email: jennie.whitcomb@colorado.edu

Jennifer Whitcomb is assistant dean for administrative services and planning and senior instructor in the area of teaching and teacher education. Her research interests focus on the intersection between and among the practice and structure of teacher education and teacher learning. She has co-edited a casebook and facilitator’s guide Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms (with Judith Shulman and Rachel Lotan, Teachers College Press, 1998) and has studied the impact of case writing on teacher learning. Dr. Whitcomb has taught courses that introduce the teaching profession to teacher candidates as well as master’s and doctoral seminars in the following areas: the practice of teaching, research on teaching, teaching and learning environments, and literacy policy.

Dr. Whitcomb is a member of several professional organizations including American Educational Research Association, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and the National Council of Teachers of English. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Teacher Education Quarterly.

Education:
PhD Curriculum & Teacher Education, Stanford University, 1997
BA English, Stanford University, 1985