UCI Public Impact Distinguished Fellow
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Fourth-year doctoral student Sharin Jacob is one of four UCI students selected as a 2021 Public Impact Distinguished Fellow. Jacobs will receive $12,000 to support her research on the teaching and learning of computer science to multilingual students. As part of her research, Jacob is developing, implementing, and evaluating a curriculum that is being integrated into elementary schools across Santa Ana Unified School District as well as in San Francisco Unified and Chicago Public Schools.
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“This curriculum leverages what is known about linguistic scaffolding, instructional design, and culturally-relevant pedagogy to help multilingual students and other diverse students leverage their own and their community resources for greater success and entry into the field of computing,” Jacob said.
“Sharin's contributions have been critical to three grants we have been awarded for this work,” said Professor Mark Warschauer, Jacob’s advisor. “These grants include a $5 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education, a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and most recently, a grant from the American Educational Research Association to hold the first national conference on this topic, which Sharin is now helping to organize. It is an honor to work with such a brilliant graduate student so dedicated to serving the public interest.”
“Sharin's contributions have been critical to three grants we have been awarded for this work,” said Professor Mark Warschauer, Jacob’s advisor. “These grants include a $5 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education, a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and most recently, a grant from the American Educational Research Association to hold the first national conference on this topic, which Sharin is now helping to organize. It is an honor to work with such a brilliant graduate student so dedicated to serving the public interest.”
Cal State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Fellow
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PhD in Education student Sharin Jacob has been named a 2019 California State University Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Scholar.
CDIP provides financial support, mentorship, and professional development opportunities from the CSU’s Chancellor’s Office for promising doctoral students who are interested in becoming faculty at a California State University. A major feature of CDIP is the loan forgiveness program. For each year of full-time teaching at a CSU campus, a recipient will have one-fifth of the loan principal and interest cancelled. Sharin is a third year doctoral student specializing in Language, Literacy, and Technology. Her research interests include literacy and technology, computer assisted language learning, second language acquisition, academic language and literacy, stem education, and sociolinguistics. She is advised by Professor Mark Warschauer. Her CDIP mentor is Professor Lia Kamhi-Stein, Cal State LA. |
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David E. Eskey Memorial Award
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Sharin Jacob has received the 2017 David E. Eskey Memorial Award from CATESOL, a professional organization serving teachers of English to speakers of other languages in California.
In advising Sharin of her award, CATESOL wrote, "The Selection Committee was unanimous in their support of your proposal for the 2017 David E. Eskey Memorial Award. Your background as an ESL high school teacher, graduate student researcher and now doctoral student has provided you with first-hand knowledge of the reading/literacy needs of language learners in California Schools. Most exciting is your focus on computational thinking in the language classroom to develop multiple literacies for English Language learners. Your experience in STEM, which is a burgeoning field, will pay big dividends for the students involved." Sharin received her award in October 2017 at the annual CATESOL conference. At the 2018 CATESOL Conference she delivered a 45-minutes presentation on her research. |
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