Contact Information
Mailing Address:
4080 FLB, MC-168
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Cassandra is originally from upstate New York and graduated from Marist College with a BA in Spanish, a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a concentration in Bilingual Education/ESL. She earned her Master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she now works as the Teaching Coordinator of the ESL Writing Program. Her work includes teaching academic writing for international students and working with the other ESL instructors on teacher training, professional development, classroom instruction, and technology in the classroom.
Education
Certificate in Online Learning Administration, ION
Master Online Teacher Certificate, ION
MA in TESL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA in Spanish, Marist College
Awards and Honors
Mary A. Hussey Award for Excellence in ESL Teaching
Courses Taught
- ESL 111/114
- ESL 115
- ESL 501 (online)
- 512 (online)
- 515 (online)
- ESL 502/592
- ESL 503/593
- ESL 505 (f2f)/ESL 522 (online)
Recent Publications
Kotnarowski, J. E., & Rosado, C. A. (2020). Picking Teams: A Communicative Decision-Making Game. In U. Nurmukhamedov , & R. Sadler (Eds.), New Ways in Teaching with Games (pp. 5-7). TESOL Press.
Rosado, C. A., & Kotnarowski, J. E. (2020). Teaching Questions and Descriptions With “International Guess Who?”. In U. Nurmukhamedov, & R. Sadler (Eds.), New Ways in Teaching with Games (pp. 93-94). TESOL Press.