Joshua B. Tolbert

Josh Tolbert is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Indiana University East, having served since 2015. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses covering special education methods, assessment, education in a social context, and the characteristics of specific learning disabilities. Notable service activities have included providing LGBTQ+ programs at IU East, serving as Treasurer of the Indiana chapter of the Learning Disabilities Association, and contributing to the Advanced Standards Workgroup of the Council for Exceptional Children. His prior research focused primarily on Spanish vocabulary acquisition strategies for students with specific learning disabilities and on examining the multicultural perspectives of pre-service teachers. More recent research projects have been directly related to COVID-19, including efforts to better understand educator burnout and to directly document the experiences of special education teachers in the context of the pandemic.

Publications

Teaching the History of Residential Schools Through Graphic Novels: A Critical Multiliteracies Approach
Teaching the History of Residential Schools Through Graphic Novels: A Critical Multiliteracies Approach
Amanda Marie Shufflebarger, Jay Barbre, Justin Carrol, Joshua B. Tolbert. © 2024. 29 pages.
This chapter considers how a critical multiliteracies approach to teaching graphic novels can facilitate pre-service teachers' critical awareness of literacy and history...
Reviving a Graduate Certificate in Online Learning and Assessment: Crisis as Opportunity for Distributed Leadership
Reviving a Graduate Certificate in Online Learning and Assessment: Crisis as Opportunity for Distributed Leadership
Joshua B. Tolbert, Denise K. Frazier. © 2023. 21 pages.
This chapter describes the development and implementation of a sequence of courses to promote both the individual capacity of in-service educators to harness technology and their...