Beverly Eileen Crane

Background

Beverly Eileen Crane was born on July 11, 1943, in Pasadena, California, United States. She is a daughter of William C. and Dolores A. Foust.

Education

In 1965 Beverly Eileen Crane received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Education in 1980. In 1985 she obtained a Doctor of Education degree from Oklahoma State University.

Career

From 1967 to 1970 Beverly Eileen Crane was a theme reader at Upper Moreland Junior High School in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, and Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania. From 1978 to 1980 she was a teacher at the State College Area School District in State College, Pennsylvania.

From 1981 to 1985 she was a lecturer in English department at Pennsylvania State University. From 1985 to 1988 Crane was a lecturer in English department at Oklahoma State University and an educational technology specialist in Bilingual Education Multifunctional Resource Center from 1986 to 1988. From 1988 to 1993 she served as a lecturer in English and English as a second language (ESL) departments at San Jose State University (SJSU) and a coordinator of English (teacher) education program from 1993 to 1998.

She conducted workshops for K-12 teachers on such topics as literacy, writing and the writing process, ESL and integrating technology into the curriculum. She also created educational materials and conducted workshops for K-12 library media specialists and teachers on using online searching in the curriculum. She presented throughout the United States across curriculum areas at conferences.

As director of the English Education Program at San Jose State University for five years, she worked closely with classroom teachers and administrators to provide guidelines for mentor teachers supervising English student teachers at SJSU. She creates training materials, including distance education online courses and self-paced module in searching techniques for Dialog and is editor of the Dialog customer e-newsletters. She has published more than five books.

Achievements

• Beverly Eileen Crane is best known as the author of Teaching with the Internet: Strategies and Models for K-12 Curricula and Infographics: A Practical Guide for Librarians. Her works received good reviews from critics.

Works

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  • Online Teaching and Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians

    (Designed for experienced librarians, librarians new to th...)

    2016
  • Teaching With the Internet: Strategies and Models for K-12 Curricula

    (This book discusses the use of the Internet in education,...)

    2000
  • Game-Based Teaching and Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians

    (Game-Based Teaching and Learning: A Practical Guide for L...)

    2018
  • Infographics: A Practical Guide for Librarians

    (This practical guide will help every type and size of lib...)

    2015
  • Using Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools in the K-12 Classroom

    (Here's a book that describes Web 2.0 tools in-depth, mode...)

    2012
  • Using Web 2.0 Tools in the K-12 Classroom

    (From blogs to wikis, invite Web 2.0 tools into the classr...)

    2009
  • How to Teach: A Practical Guide for Librarians 2013

Membership

Beverly Eileen Crane is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, American Library Association.

Connections

On March 11, 1964, Beverly Eileen Foust married J. William Johnston. Later, they divorced. They have two children: Michael Johnston, Mark Johnston. On September 20, 1974, she married John K. Crane, a writer.

Father:

William C. Foust

Mother:

Dolores A. Foust

Spouse:

John K. Crane

ex-spouse:

J. William Johnston

Son:

Michael Johnston

Son:

Mark Johnston

References

• Contemporary Authors
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