Faculty Profile

 

 

Maude Yacapsin

Assistant Professor of Special Education

myacapsin@messiah.edu

 

EDD, Teacher Leadership, University of Nebraska, 2006

MS, Special Education, Bloomsburg University, 1992

BA, Organizational Psychology, Bloomsburg University, 1988

Yacapsin Academia Information

At Messiah: 

• Intro to special education
• Effective practices for every learner
• Curriculum and learning

Other: 

• Student teacher supervision
• Assessment
• Technology for teachers
• Educational Psychology

Advice for First-Year Students:

Look at learning as a process and a lifelong journey, not an ending; engage in reflective practice; be thankful, forgiving, and gracious always.

Vocational Story :

Interest in the psychology of learning processes of students and students with disabilities, and the wonderful and "not-so wonderful" role models that helped me realize I wanted to pursue teaching as a vocation.

Hobbies:

Running and running with my family; adopt a boxer animal rescue; service projects for school, church and animal rescue organizations; reading the classics and historical fiction.

Favorite Quote:

I handed on to you…what I also received.  (1 Corinthians, 15:3)