Dr. Margaret Quinn

Biography

Margaret Quinn is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. Her scholarship seeks to understand children’s experiences and skills in 21st century contexts, developing approaches to support successful learners who thrive contemporaneously in innovative and effective ways. Her research examines how children develop within the context of their teachers in early education and elementary settings. Key areas of focus include understanding, evaluating, and supporting teachers’ instruction, particularly instructional interventions related to emergent literacy, early writing, and early STEM learning. She has a specific emphasis on professional learning for in-service teachers and explores the nature and development of 21st century skills, authentic assessment, and effective measures of patterns of interactions in relation to academic skills like writing and computational thinking. Before academia, she taught in schools across Atlanta, Georgia, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, working with children from toddler to pre-kindergarten levels.

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