by faculty member Dr. Albert Mazurkiewicz. The ITA method and related materials were adopted by the Bethlehem School District, along with many other districts around the country. However, as is the case with many experimental approaches to reading instruction, research findings dimmed the light of the ITA. The program did, however, bring national attention to Lehigh University’s reading program. Years after ITA’s expiration, reading experts from around the country associate Lehigh University with the ITA. For over 30 years, Kender and Heydenberk provided leadership for the Reading Certification program, which granted master’s and doctoral degrees in reading. Our Reading program was a popular program for many years and often modeled by other institutions, which included a reading clinic for elementary and middle-level students at Broughal Middle School. In the 1970s, hundreds of teachers attended the annual reading conference at Lehigh University, which was the springboard for numerous journal articles and conference proceedings. When the Reading program closed, Kender and Heydenberk joined the Teacher Education program. Dr. Judith Bazler (1988-97) joined the Teacher Education program in 1988, as an assistant professor in science education in the College of Education. She brought the JASON Project to Lehigh University during May 1990. The JASON Project was the first remote live virtual exploration that was developed by Dr. Robert Ballard. Ballard and his team broadcasted four hourlong sessions live via satellite explorations in Lake Ontario to big-screen TVs in Grace Hall. The educational program was attended by Lehigh Valley area teachers, who taught a curriculum designed by the National Science Teachers Association centered on live exploration. This community science education activity was a precursor to the founding of the SMART Discovery Center in Bethlehem by the College of Education. SMART is an acronym for Science Model Area Resources and was housed in a former Bethlehem Steel office building. The Discovery Center hosted many science educational outreach initiatives for the College of Education. Dr. Lynn Columba (1989-present) taught in the Teacher Education program in a department titled Leadership, Instruction, and Technology, one of two departments in the College of Education in 1989. In an effort to build bridges with the undergraduate colleges on lower campus, Columba reactivated the education minor and enthusiastically recruited students for these courses, which were created to explore the possibility of education as a graduate degree. From this curriculum and student interest, Columba designed and developed the Fifth Year program for teacher certification. Students enroll in this program in their sophomore or junior year and remain for a fifth year or graduate year for a master’s degree and teacher certification. The TLT program is the only program in the COE that accepts undergraduate students in a special status at Lehigh University toward a five-year
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