World Language Education

Who We Are

Dr. Jennifer Eddy is Assistant Professor of World Language Education in the department of Secondary Education and Youth Services (SEYS) at Queens College of the City University of New York. Dr. Eddy teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as well as directs workshops and seminars for pre, in-service teachers and post secondary faculty.

A world language educator for 22 years, Dr. Eddy is consultant to school districts and states on performance-based curriculum and assessment design for transfer. She designed a protocol aligning Understanding by Design/Backward Design with the National Standards (5Cs).  The teacher training program at Queens College has adopted this model for program, unit and lesson design. Dr. Eddy wrote and recorded five television broadcasts on performance assessment and wrote accompanying publications for the educational television network of the Department of Education of South Carolina specifically for their world language curriculum reform initiative. Most recently, she developed the Online Curriculum Guide for STARTALK, an NSLI funded project providing student and teacher programs across the country in critical languages.

Dr. Eddy is author of Sonidos, Sabores, Y Palabras (ThomsonHeinle), a book using songs and lyrics as authentic material for performance assessment within a backward design framework, several articles on the arts and language learning, standards-based curriculum and performance assessment, and a book chapter for the People's University Press of Beijing. She is frequent presenter at local, regional, and national conferences on UbD/Backward Design and performance assessment, is on the editorial board of the Journal of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers and is on the taskforce of STARTALK at the National Foreign Language Center

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