Department of Special Education

Faculty

Susan Sheffield, PH.D.
Visiting Instructor

941-359-4226

sheffie@banshee.sar.usf.edu

Dr. Susan Sheffield is a Visiting Instructor in the College of Education. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in special education. Her research interests involve teacher training, the use of evidenced-based teaching methods in special education classrooms, and alternative teacher training programs.

She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts English from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh , and her M.A. in Varying Exceptionalities and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Florida Tampa campus. She began her teaching career in the Los Angeles Unified School District teaching at-risk urban minority students. Upon moving to Tampa, she taught at the Vanguard School , an international residential school for students with learning disabilities, in Lake Wales , Florida . While a doctoral student at University of South Florida Tampa campus, she coordinated two federal grant programs involving an accelerated graduate program and a program designed to help paraprofessionals earn teaching degrees and certification in special education. Before coming to the Sarasota/Manatee campus from the Florida Mental Health Institute/USF, she coordinated a four-year federal grant entitled Whole School Reform: Creating Environments the Work for All Children that focused on collaborating with special education classroom teachers to identify and implement research-based teaching strategies in the areas of reading, formative assessment, positive behavior support and parent/family involvement.

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