Faculty Fellows
Diane DePew, PhD
Diane DePew is an Associate Clinical Professor in the College of Nursing & Health Professions and serves as Faculty Fellow for the Teaching and Learning Center. She was a former Drexel University Assessment Fellow and participated in the Drexel Teaching Academy in 2023. Diane has over 15 years of teaching experience in higher education and has been teaching online for the past ten years. She is a Quality Matters Master Reviewer, a VoiceThread Certified Educator, and has a Certificate in Neuroscience, Learning and Online Instruction. Diane has provided workshops to academic and professional development educators on behavioral objectives, curricular alignment, test development, and rubrics.
Brenda Dyer, MA
Brenda Dyer is a lecturer of French whose communicative approach to language teaching is designed to help students develop the linguistic and cultural skills necessary to function in a French-speaking environment, providing them with skills that they can use in their lives after graduation and to help them become better citizens of the world. She has a particular interest in the areas of cross-cultural studies, global competency and French for Business. Professor Dyer takes a collaborative approach to teaching and is a frequent participant in Drexel's Teaching Learning Center workshops designed to improve her teaching skills. She also has received a certificate in Teaching Business Language from the CIBER program at the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Valerie Klein, PhD
Valerie Klein serves as an Associate Clinical Professor and the Program Director for the teacher certification pathways in the School of Education. Her research focuses collaborative online work to support the development of teachers’ capacity to examine and understand student work and to use that understanding to inform and instructional decisions. Prior to joining the SoE as a faculty member, Klein worked for the Math Forum for five years and in that capacity implemented many professional development workshops, both in person and online, to support teachers to develop their own mathematical thinking and to implement meaningful problem-solving experiences for all students in their classrooms.