Christian Z. Goering
Assistant Professor of Secondary English/Literacy Education
Curriculum and Instruction
206 Peabody Hall
Phone: (479) 575-4270
FAX: (479) 575-6676
cgoering@uark.edu
Degrees:
Ph. D., Kansas State University, Curriculum and Instruction, 2007M.Ed., Kansas State University, Curriculum and Instruction, 2005
B.A., Washburn University, English Education, 2000
Teaching Areas:
• English/Language Arts Methods• Secondary Education
• Adolescent Literacy
• Adolescent Literature
Research Interests:
• Adolescent literacy• Social context of secondary students striving towards literacy
• Dispositions of early career teachers of English/Language Arts
• Reading motivation strategies
Professional Biography:
Chris Goering received a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Kansas State University while teaching courses and supervising student teachers as a graduate teaching assistant under Dr. F. Todd Goodson. Goering also served as a co-director of Youth and Community Programs for the Flint Hills Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project while in Manhattan. He taught high school English and leadership courses while in Topeka, Kan. His special interests are helping secondary level students become interested and engaged in writing and reading, using popular music as a motivational tool in the English/Language Arts classroom, and ultimately helping teachers develop literacies in their students.Job Duties:
Goering will lead a group of students in the University of Arkansas Literacy Outreach Corps this fall who will serve as mentors in a service-learning literacy project at Fayetteville High School.
Academic Interests and Accomplishments:
Goering has authored or co-authored several articles on English education and has presented at 25 or more regional, national, and international conferences. In 2007, he was invited as a lifetime member of the Kansas Exemplary Educator Network (KEEN) sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education following the successful completion of National Board Certification for Teachers (2006) in English/Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood. The National Council of Teachers of English recognized Goering in 2004 as a High School Teacher of Excellence and The Writing Conference named him the Judith C. Gilbert Outstanding Writing Teacher the same year.Publications/Presentations:
Goering, C., Caswell, R. & Oertel, S. (2007). Connecting in their context: Practical methods of using adolescent’s literacies to teach English today. Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), New York, NY.Goering, C. (2007). What are the conditions that promote dramatic oral reading fluency in a high school classroom? Annual Conference of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English, Wichita, KS.
Goodson, T., & Goering, C. (2007) Where service learning meets scholarship: The fluency project. Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, Toronto.
Goering, C. (2007). Cool capital: Social context of dramatic oral reading fluency in the high school classroom. 12th Annual Graduate Research Forum, Manhattan, KS.
Goering, C. (2007). Interviewing the interviewer: Talking with Robert Lipsyte. ALAN Review. 34 (2), 52-58.
Goering, C., Caswell, R. & Sitomer, A. (2006) Reading literature ‘with a little help from’ contemporary music. Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN.
Goering, C., Armstrong, E., Brady, J, Hill, E, & Oertel, S. (2006). Discovering the courage within: Surviving and thriving as an early career teacher. Annual Conference of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English, Wichita, KS.
Goodson, T., Caswell, R., Goering, C., Goodson, L., & Witte, S. (2005) With coaching from a veteran teacher, methods students become involved in after school writing clubs, family writing, talkback, and fluency for struggling readers: The fluency project: Oral interpretation of literature with at-risk high school students. Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburg, PA.
Copeland, M. & Goering, C. (2005). Socratic circles: Empowering the voices of democracy. Whole Language Umbrella’s Literacies for All Summer Institute, San Diego, CA.
Goering, C. (2004). Music and the personal narrative: The dual track to meaningful writing. The NWP [National Writing Project] Quarterly, 26 (4), 11-17.
Copeland, M. & Goering. C. (2003). Blues you can use: Teaching the Faust theme through music, literature, and film. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 46 (5), 436-441.