Susan Van Kirk
Lecturer

Rm. 311, Wallace Hall
309-457-2367
svankirk@monm.edu

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Office Hours:

or by appointment

Education:

(2001) Lecturer, Department
of English, 2001- B.A., Knox College, 1968;
M.Ed., University of Illinois, 1999.

Courses Taught:

Fundamentals of Communication
Methods of Teaching English
Writing Fellows
The Teacher and the School
Educational Psychology
Foundations of Education

Teaching Interests:

Communication Fundamentals
Secondary Methods and English Methods classes

Research Interests:

Reflective Teaching

About Susan Van Kirk:

Susan Van Kirk has been teaching in the CATA, Education, and English departments at Monmouth College since 2001. She holds a B.A. in history from Knox College and a M.Ed in education from University of Illinois. She comes to MC after teaching English and speech for thirty-four years at Monmouth High School where she was instrumental in setting up a gifted program and chaired a department of six teachers. She also taught part time for two years at Carl Sandburg College and at MC’s College for Kids program for ten years. In her spare time she does writing projects for Wiley and Sons, publishers. Currently she is working on creative nonfiction stories about teaching. She published an article about teaching called “War and Remembrance” in the March/April  '06 edition of Teacher Magazine.

When she isn’t teaching, Professor Van Kirk is traveling and seeing her three children and their spouses and three granddaughters. She is currently awaiting three more grandchildren. She has a soft spot for going to movies and reading mysteries and suspense novels. She is also interested in politics, debate, and the theatre. In her spare time she is taking guitar lessons.