Reynaldo Llena

Reynaldo Llena, M.S.
Master Teacher/TUteach & Program Coordinator E=MC2
Dept. of Teaching & Learning

Ritter Hall 440
1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

phone/fax: (215) 204-6206
reynaldo.llena@temple.edu

Education

Ph.D. (Advanced Candidate), City University of New York, (CUNY) Urban Education

M.S., City University of New York (CUNY), Philosophy Urban Education

M.S., Lehman College (CUNY), Science Education

B.S., Silliman University Philippines, Chemistry

Areas of Professional Interest

  • The Role of Emotions in Mediating the Transformative Potential of Cogenerative Dialogue in Urban Science Classrooms
  • Coteaching in University and Public Schools Partnerships: Teacher Preparation Reform
  • Dialogic Inquiry in the Science of teaching and Learning
  • Mindfulness and Teachers’ Emotion

Recent Scholarship

Tobin, K. & Llena, R. (2012). Colliding identities, emotional roller coasters, and contradictions of urban science education. In M. Varelas (Ed.). Identity construction and science education research: learning, teaching, and          being in multiple contexts (pp. 137-152). Sense Publishers.

Tobin, K. & Llena, R. (2011). Producing and maintaining culturally adaptive teaching and learning of science in urban schools. In C. Murphy and K. Scantlebury, (Eds). Moving forward and broadening perspectives:   Coteaching in international contexts (pp. 79-104). Dordrecht: Springer.