Marion Reynolds
Lecturer
(Joint Appointment with Child Development)

• M.A., Early Childhood Education, University of New Mexico
• B.A., Political Science, The Colorado College

Marion Reynolds has a joint appointment with the Department of Child Development and the Department of Education at Tufts University. She earned a Master's in Early Childhood Education from the University of New Mexico, plus numerous post-graduate credits in mathematics education, literacy education, and leadership from a range of institutions in Massachusetts. Ms. Reynolds instructs the pre-practicum seminar and the interdisciplinary curriculum courses for the elementary certification teacher preparation program. In addition, she teaches the introductory Children's Literature course for the Child Development Department. Previous to teaching courses at Tufts, Ms. Reynolds taught in the primary grades for more than twenty years, was a literacy specialist in a Greater Boston public school system, and consulted widely in New England regional schools on elementary curriculum, literacy, and assessment. Her current professional interests include how teachers' educational biographies and their subsequent assumptions about learning and teaching inform their teaching decisions; teachers as researchers of pedagogical questions in their own classrooms; and the development of children's ideas about the world, in particular mathematics and science.