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Tanya Espinosa Cordoba
College of Education
College of Education
Assistant Professor of Education
tcordoba@andersonuniversity.edu
- tcordoba@andersonuniversity.edu
Academic Background
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.Ed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA, Flordia Atlantic University
Teaching at AU
What year did you start teacing at AU?
2020
How would you describe your classes to someone who has never attended one?
My classes are community and student-centered and are places where constructing knowledge is a shared endeavor within a culture of care. Minimal lectures and a lot of discussion, thinking, and laughing together!
Contact
tcordoba@andersonuniversity.edu
Fast Facts
My classes are community and student-centered and are places where constructing knowledge is a shared endeavor within a culture of care. Minimal lectures and a lot of discussion, thinking, and laughing together!
EDU 111 Foundations of Education
EDU 211 Educational Psychology
CTI 405 Children’s Literature: Culture and Contemporary Issues
Anderson university is a Christ-centered intellectual environment in which I can fully embrace and share my identities as a Christian and a scholar with my students and colleagues.
Becoming a teacher is more than learning methods to be applied in the classroom, it is a calling that requires open-mindedness, whole-heartedness, and intellectual responsibility.
Summited Mt. Kenya with 20+ youth after serving in schools and churches in Nairobi for a month. Helped lead youth group service projects in Egypt and within Germany.
My students inspire me through their faithfulness in Christ and their desire to learn and grow in community. I love being able to make the connection between the calling to become a teacher and servant leadership.
Sanders-Smith, S.C., Smith-Bonahue, T.M., Cordoba, T.E., & Soutullo, O.R. (2019). Shifting perspectives: Preservice teacher preparation in family engagement. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 40(3), 221-237.
Cordoba, T.E., & Sanders-Smith, S.C. (2018). A closer look: Socio-structural influences on teacher–child interactions during project work. Journal of Early Childhood Research. 16(4), 407-420.
