Barbara Govendo
Professional Title: Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Effective learning strategies for students with disabilities; development of inspiring mentoring skills; intersection of learning and neuroscience.
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Special education; neuroscience
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Contemporary Perspectives in Special Education;
Designing Instruction for the Inclusive Classroom;
Instructional Accommodations in English Language Arts and Social Studies;
Learning and the Brain: Fitting the Nurture of Teaching to the Nature of Human Learning
Education: Ph.D., Boston College; M.Ed., Lesley College; B.Ed., State University of New York, Buffalo
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- A Good Reader Has a Plan: Helping Students with Learning Disabilities Negotiate Non-Fiction Text, Learning Disabilities Association of America, 49th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2012. (presentation)
- Working Together: Co-Teaching and Collaboration, Brookline High School Professional Development Day, 2011. (presentation)
- Boosting Student Achievement by Connecting UDL and DI, Title I Conference Presentation, 2011. (presentation)
- Taking an Inquiring Stance Together: Brookline-Lesley Internship Program, Lesley Community of Scholars Day presentation with interns, 2011. (presentation)
Dr. Govendo teaches in the special education programs at Lesley University.
govendb1@lesley.edu