Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Special Education
Dr. Marsha Swindler is Core Faculty for the School of Education at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena CA. She has been an instructor in Special Education for over 23 years, in the public and private sector, and has been a professor at Pacific Oaks College for over eight years teaching online and on ground courses in special education. She has a passion for teaching Special Education and mentoring new teacher candidates in general education and special education to better understand that all students have the capacity to learn, but it is up to educators to uncover the potential in every individual.
In addition to her work with Pacific Oaks College, Dr. Swindler presents at workshops and seminars, online and in face to face environments, teaching educators how to infuse Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory into every day teaching styles, along with Strengths Finder. The inclusion approach empowers educators to assist every student in the classroom despite unique learning styles. Dr. Swindler's vision in education seeks to create an intellectual understanding of a deep and lasting change to how students in special education must be included in general education classrooms, recognizing that there is a paradigm shift for the new millennium.
Dr. Swindler's doctorate dissertation, Effects of Teacher Training for Individual Differences to Improve the Academic Performance of Special Education Inclusion Students, includes projections for the transformational potential of all educators to become agents of change in support of students at all levels of learning, culturally, social-emotionally, and behaviorally.
Degree | Institution | Year |
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Bachelor of Arts in Human Development | Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA | 2000 |
Master of Arts in Education: Teaching | Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA | 2002 |
Doctorate of Philosophy in Special Education | Walden University, Minneapolis, MN | 2007 |
Role | Organization |
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Member | National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |
Member | Association of Curriculum and Development |
Member | Feingold Association of the United States |
Member | Council for Exceptional Children |
Commission on Teaching Credentialing, State of California |
Clear Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, State of Califorina |
Clear Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development (CLAD), State of California |
Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA), State of California |
Role | Organization |
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Volunteer | St. Luke Church and School - Eucharistic Minister, Parent School Association officer, BSA: religious medals instructor, Confirmation class high school instructor |
Volunteer | AAPC PUSD Math Power Hour |
Area | Expertise |
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Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) | Applied Behavior Analysis |
Autism | |
Child & Adolescent Development | Cognitive Development |
Learning/Learning Disabilities | |
Diversity | Culture-centered Pedagogy |
Higher Education | Teaching Adult Learners |
K-12 Education | Special Education |
Social Justice | Disabilities |
Education |
Appearance |
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O Magazine ADHD Special Education: Diet vs. Drugs May 2016 |
P.O. TV: In It Together--Working From Home and Caring for Kids |
Asynchronous/Synchronous Student Engagement |
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
Cognitive Development |
Child & Adolescent Development |
Disabilities |
Higher Education |
Learning Communities |
Learning/Learning Disabilities |
Multiple Intelligences |
Special Education |
Teaching Adult Learners |
Title | Location | Date | Link |
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Synchronous Student Engagement Course Buddy Connection: Special Education and General Education Teacher Teamwork | Rhodes, Greece | May 4, 2021 | |
Did you ever wonder what you could do with a degree . . .? | Pasadena, CA virtual | July 9, 2020 | |
Student Research Forum, California Association of Private Special Education Schools (CAPSES)(postponed) | Pasadena, CA | April 2020 | California Association of Private Special Education Schools (CAPSES) |
Synchronous Student Engagement | Pasadena, CA | February 13, 2020 | |
Poster Presentation: Student Degrees | Pasadena, CA | March 2019 | |
Poster Presentation: Head, Heart, Hands | New Orelans, LA | May 2018 | NCORE |
ARC Conference: Why Get a Pacific Oaks College Degree? | San Diego, CA | March 2017 | Academic Resource Conference (ARC) |
Video Presentation: Multiple Intelligence Simulation | Pasadena, CA | February 2016 | |
Cultural Intelligence: Howard Gardner's Theory | Pasadena, CA | May 2015 |
Other |
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Dr. Marsha Swindler (2017). Video: Harris--Diet vs. Drugs for ADHD. . (www.drswindler.com). |
Dr. Marsha Swindler (2017). Video: Formal Assessment Presentation. . (www.drswindler.com). |
Dr. Marsha Swindler (2016). Video: Adult Diagnosis--ADHD. . (www.drswindler.com). |
Dr. Marsha Swindler (2016). Video: Peggy The Paraprofessional. . (www.drswindler.com). |
Dr. Marsha Swindler (2015). Video: School Psychologist. . (www.drswindler.com). |
Dr. Marsha Swindler (2015). Video: Speech and Language Pathologist. . (www.drswindler.com). |
Dr. Marsha Swindler (2014). Video: Occupational Therapist. . (www.drswindler.com). |
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Teaching Adults, Educational Technology, Multiple Inteligences, Adult ADHD, Diet vs. Drug Therapy, Curriculum Design, Impulsivity, Special Education in-service training sessions for teachers, Curriculum ideas for special education students in general education settings, Suggestions for adapting curriculum providing equal opportunities to learn from alternate styles of comprehension, Private enterprise for coordinating special educational services |