Brenda-Jean Tyler teaches introductory special education courses at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels. Her students come from a variety of programs. Tyler has gone
through several levels of Quality Matters training for online instruction, and she
teaches her master-level courses in an asynchronous online format. She has been a
co-director and director of personnel preparation grants, as well as a grant focused
on the comprehensive examination process in special education.
Her interests center on the unique challenges that students with disabilities who
are non-native speakers of English confront in school, including challenges arising
from differences in cultural norms and expectations and how these differences intersect
with reading disabilities as well as other learning differences. Tyler’s teaching
experience is primarily in culturally and linguistically diverse middle-school classrooms.
