Faculty Contacts Jennifer Berke, Ph.D. Dr. Berke, who has been at MNE since 2001, received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Syracuse University, master’s degree in special education with a concentration in learning disabilities from Boston State College, and completed her doctoral studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo with a concentration in early childhood. She taught first grade for the Syracuse City School District for three years and taught first and second grade for the Brookline School District in Boston. Moving to Quebec, Canada she became the Head Teacher at Ecole la Campagne, a bi-lingual parent cooperative preschool for children ages 2 to 6. Returning to New York State after eight years, she opened Rhymes, Rhythms, and Rainbows, a private preschool for children ages 3 to 5. She became adjunct instructor for Jamestown Community College for ten years and has also worked as a Cornell Cooperative Extension agent, a human development specialist for Family Health Services, a family practice medical setting, and as an education specialist for the Achievement Center, an agency providing services for children with identified needs, birth through 18, and their families. She has served on the Board of the New York State Association for the Education of Young, is a Past President of Chautauqua County Association for the Education of Young Children, and currently serves on the Northwest Regional Key Board (PA) which is responsible for the development of a comprehensive plan to help create a high-quality, assessable, and affordable system of early care and education for young children in Pennsylvania. Also, she is a member of the Success by Six Early Childhood Focus Group (Erie, PA). She is a lifetime member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and a member of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE). She has written parenting columns in numerous magazines and is a co-author of “See How They Grow: Infants and Toddlers” (2007), published by Thomson Delmar. Her latest project involves working with Hilda Jackman on a revision of “Early Education Curriculum: A Child’s Connection to the World,” published by Thomson Delmar. |
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