School of Education

Phone: (626) 815-5371
Fax: (626) 815-5416
Email: ddoorn@apu.edu

Doorn’s most recent community service and research-based study project involves the structure and implementation of a summer academic-enrichment writing camp for bilingual children. His other ongoing collaborative research interests include: student self-assessment of growth as readers and writers, children’s discoveries about the process and purpose of writing, and children’s development of non fiction writing and reading. Doorn’s major long-term study involves ways expanding and enriching home-school literacy connections for language minority children and their families.

Ph.D. - Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Education, University of New Mexico
M.A. - Applied Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh

Publications
Family Collaboration in Children’s Literacy: When Journals Travel Home (1995). Immigrant Learners and Their Families: Literacy to Connect the Generations.

ESL Teacher Preparation Program. U.S. Department of Education, OBEMLA. August, 1989 through July,1991. Two-year award for $104,000.

He has served as a workshop leader, consultant, and presenter on language and literacy development strategies for educators across the US and at international sites.

Over the past 25 years, he has taken on several leadership roles in the professional organizations of TESOL, NCATE, and CATESOL and continues to be a regular presenter at their annual conferences

Advanced Literacy Development (EDUC 505)
Family, Community, and School Connections (EDUC 507)
Assessment and Evaluation in Multicultural Classrooms (EDUC 508)
Special Topics in Education (EDUC 509)
Research for Educators: Beginning Process (EDUC 589)
Research for Educators: Finish Reporting (EDUC 589)