Lois+Yocum

Lois Yocum, Ph.D., NBCT lyocum@uafortsmith.edu Lois Yocum taught high school English at Iowa Falls High School for seven years and language arts/publications at Anson Middle School in Marshalltown, Iowa, for 23 years. She earned her B.A. at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, IA; her M.S. and Ph.D. at Iowa State University; and she served as Director of Teacher Education at The Franciscan University for two years before being recruited to teach at UA - Fort Smith in 2004. A participant in the original NBPTS field test, Dr. Yocum's was certified in 1995. She has taught descriptive, analytic, and reflective writing sessions at the University of Northern Iowa and at UA - Fort Smith where she is an Associate Professor of Middle Childhood Education. Dr. Yocum's research interests include facilitating literacy-related instructional strategies across the curriculum, middle school team collaboration, and online instruction in middle level pedagogy. 

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