Education Studies DePauw University
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Education studies
Judy Raybern
Dr. Judy Raybern - 2004-2006 DePauw Distinguished Professor Award!
Judy Raybern joined the faculty at DePauw as an Assistant Professor of Education in 1974. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and to Professor in 1988. She served as chair of the Education Department and chair of the Teacher Education Committee from 1983 to 1997. She has also served as NCATE Exhibit Coordinator, helping to guide the department through successful national and state accreditation reviews. She earned her B.S. degree from Butler University in Elementary Education in 1961, her M.S. from Butler in School Administration in 1965, and her Ed.D. degree from Indiana University in Elementary Education: Language Arts, Reading and Curriculum in 1974.
She has taught courses in elementary curriculum, developmental reading, corrective reading, reading diagnosis, foundations of education, introduction to exceptional children, curriculum and instruction, content literacy and learning, and language arts. She has also mentored andsupervised many students as they have completed their student teaching and gained licensure (certification). Her students note how effectively she prepared them for careers as teacher/educators and how consistently she stays in touch, providing continuing mentoring
and encouragement. They note her inspiration and her exemplary teaching which they still try to emulate. In her service to DePauw, she chaired the Task Force to develop the Writing Competence Program in 1979, and served as Associate Director for Faculty Development
for the Writing program in its first two years. She also twice served as resident director of the DePauw program in Freiburg, Germany.
She also served as a member of the Committee on Faculty, the International Studies Committee, and the Committee on Management of
Academic Operations (which she also chaired). In her professional service, she has also provided state and national leadership to the national education honorary Delta Kappa Gamma. She has served on the Editorial Board of the Indiana Reading Journal, the Indiana Professional Standards Board, and Indiana Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. She has also served on the NCATE Board of Examiners for accreditation visits to several other schools.
