Valerie Otero
Valerie Otero, Associate Professor, School of Education. Otero is the Director of the NSF-DRL Colorado Learning Assistant program, the NSF-DUE Noyce Fellowship program, and Co-Director (with Klymkowsky) of the CU-Teach program. Otero serves on three national boards including American Institute of Physics National Task Force for the Professional Preparation of Teachers of Physics. Her research program investigates the recruitment and development of future science teachers and how these students’ identities shift as science majors become science teachers and as non-science majors become elementary science teachers. She has published broadly from Science Magazine to Science and Children Magazine. Otero is author of two nationally recognized curricula in physical science. Otero and her colleagues have brought in an excess of $10 million to fund their efforts in discipline-based education research.