Tara Schwab

Tara Schwab , MA, is an educational training specialist at the Southern Illinois Professional Development Center, part of the Illinois Community College Board Adult Education Professional Development Network. She has 20+ years of experience in education in the areas of instruction, training, curriculum development and implementation, and mentoring. She began at the high school level and expanded to adult and higher education, where she has served for the past 15+ years. Her adult education teaching experience includes all types of classes, including ICAPS, ESL, ABE, and ASE. She currently teaches adult education classes at Waubonsee Community College in Aurora, Illinois. Her work at the Southern Illinois Professional Development includes facilitating the Equity Pathway Training for Illinois adult educators. She is also a certified Universal Design for Learner trainer through the Center for Applied Special Technologies.

Publications

Empowering Instructors and Learners by Integrating UDL in Online PD and Teaching Practices
Empowering Instructors and Learners by Integrating UDL in Online PD and Teaching Practices
Amanda Bastoni, Sarah R. Goldammer, Tara Schwab, Erin Vobornik. © 2024. 25 pages.
This chapter discusses the importance of both implementing universal design for learning (UDL) in online professional development and teaching UDL through modeling....