Katherin Garland - Faculty Spotlight

About Dr. Garland

Katherin Garland is an associate professor of education at Santa Fe College. Her work is centered on using media as culturally relevant pedagogy and supporting preservice and practicing teachers’ uses of media literacy education and critical media literacy pedagogy. To this end, her publications are focused on theory-to-practice methods for preparing students to be critical media readers. For example, as co-editor of the anthology, Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination (2021), she and her colleagues examine whose stories are told and why, and how media is produced to educate, inform, and persuade. Likewise, as former co-chair of NCTE’s Assembly on Computers in English and a member of the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies, she provides engaging ways for practitioners to support others in analyzing, evaluating, and producing culturally relevant texts, such as media.

Spotlight Video

In the following video, Katherin explains project based learning, gives examples of what is looks like in the class and provides tips to get started.

Additional Resources

Please contact me at katherin.garland@sfcollege.edu to further discuss or understand the following concepts or assignments.

Project-Based Learning: Teaching Guide

Podcast About Project-Based Learning

Student-Centered Approaches that Lead Toward Project-Based Learning

The following links provide a better understanding of the type of pedagogy required to develop project-based learning. "Teaching for Social Justice" illustrates how educators can teach about one concept in multiple ways, thus developing a project that is based on taking a deep dive into an idea. "Fostering Preservice Teachers' Media and 21st Century Literacies" demonstrates how to create a digital story assignment that can be produced throughout one semester. "Multiple Intelligences for All Ages" shows how instructors can and should consider their students' varied intelligences, which is mandatory for project-based learning.

Teaching for Social Justice: Examining the White Savior in Sports-Related Films

Fostering Preservice Teachers' Media and 21st Century Literacies (Digital Story Assignment)

Multiple Intelligences for All Ages

Sample Project-Based Learning Products

Summer's Digital Story

EME 2040 Sample Educational Technology Portfolio