Published in ConnectED Newsletter - Volume 7 - Issue 3 - March 2024
Dr. Jason C. Baez is an Adjunct Professor in The City College of New York's Childhood Education program. He holds a B.S. in childhood education and an M.S.Ed. in special education (grades 1-6) from CCNY, an M.S.Ed. in school building leadership and school district leadership from Hunter College, and an Ed.D. in administration and supervision from St. John’s University.
Dr. Baez has served in the role of adjunct professor of childhood education since January 2021. Before joining CCNY, Dr. Baez was an elementary school teacher in Hamilton Heights, NY, and Astoria, Queens. He has also served as an assistant principal in the South Bronx and is currently a high school assistant principal in Yonkers, New York.
Baez's passion at CCNY is teaching pre-service teachers how to deliver high-quality social studies instruction to elementary students. He sees the role of being an adjunct not solely as a disseminator of information, but as a mentor and instructional coach to his students. Baez designs his course so pre-service teachers are confident in their practice and successful as teachers. Through anecdotes and discussing hypothetical scenarios, he helps prepare his students to navigate the road of being a new teacher.
Integrating the Curriculum through the Social Studies is Dr. Baez’s favorite course to teach. “Being able to bring that positive energy into a classroom and having students excited, engaged, and eager about teaching social studies to elementary students, using multiple pedagogical approaches, is my goal every time I am in front of CCNY students,” he explains. “Every class, my students gain new knowledge on content and teaching practices that they can incorporate starting on day one when they enter their classroom,” he adds.
Among his awards, he was a New York City Department of Education Big Apple Teacher Finalist. In addition, he received the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute Scholarship, the Scholarship for Touro College's Clinically Rich Intensive TESOL Institute Grant, the American Women at War National Endowment of Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship, and the Hunter College New York Historical Society Gifted Education Scholars Program.
Last Updated: 03/15/2024 14:01