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Chinaka DomNwachukwu, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Teacher Education
Professor of Teacher Education
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5128
Email: cdomnwachukwu@apu.edu
Fax: (626) 815-5416
Chinaka DomNwachukwu is a Professor of Teacher Education and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa California. Prior to coming to APU, he served as a public school teacher and instructional leader, primarily in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Dr. DomNwachukwu is one of the 40 professors in California who worked with Educational Testing Services (ETS) and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) through the process of Benchmarking and Scoring the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) tasks for the State of California. Since completing this process with ETS in 2003 he has worked on the whole process of developing the TPA for Azusa Pacific University Department of Teacher Education, Training Assessors and Professors in the TPA process. Dr. DomNwachukwu has served as a member of the University Senate, and continues to serve as Co-Chair of the University’s Masters Program Review Committee.

Education

Post-Doctoral - M.S. - Educational Leadership, National University
Ph.D. - Intercultural Studies, with an emphasis in Cultural Anthropology and Leadership Development, Fuller Theological Seminary
M.S. - Educational Administration, National University
M.A. - Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary
Advanced Studies in Education toward the California Teaching Credential, California State University, Los Angeles
B.A. (B.Th.) - Religion and Philosophy with a minor in English as a Second Language (ESL), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (through the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary)

Expertise

  • African Religions
  • Intercultural Studies
  • Social Justice and Multicultural Education
  • Teaching English Language Learners in the K-12 Classroom
  • Theology and Demonology

Courses Taught

EDUC 503 – School Practicum in English Language Development
EDUC 504 – Teaching and Cultural Diversity
TEP 505 – Educational Foundations and Classroom Experiences (K-8)
TEP 555 – Clinical Experiences in Teaching English Language Learners (K-8)

Professional/Scholarly Presentations

Presentations
Social Action, a Strategy for promoting Social Engagement in Schools, presented by Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu and Jim Bryan, at the Association for Moral Education 32nd Annual Meeting in Fribourg Switzerland. July 5-7, 2006.

Educational Internship in California: Structures, Challenges and Effectiveness, presented by Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu, Ivy Yee-Sakamoto, and Nilsa Thorsos, at the World Association for Cooperative Education Asia Pacific Conference, June 24-28, 2006.

Standards-Based Planning and Teaching of Social Studies in Multicultural Classrooms, presented by Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu at the California Council for Social Studies, March 4th, 2006. San Diego, California.

Impact of the Partnership between School Districts and Universities: The Role of an Advisory Board. Presented by Nilsa Thorsos, Ivy Yee-Sakamoto, Chinaka DomNwachukwu, and Nancy Brashear, at the Hawaii International Conference January 6-9, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Towards a Cross-cultural Understanding of Academic Dishonesty and Cheating: The perceptions of international College Students. Presented at the Association for Moral Education Conference, November 2-5, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.

Publications
DomNwachukwu, Chinaka (2008). Through The Eyes of Faith: Teacher Goodness as a Divine Imperative. In Doing Good and Departing from Evil, Carol Lambert (ed). New York: Peter Lang.

DomNwachukwu, Chinaka (2007). The Historical, Legal & Intellectual Foundations of Cultural Diversity in the United States & California” in Connecting English Language Learners to the Cross-Cultural Methodology. Alfonso Nava (Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

DomNwachukwu, Chinaka (2007). Teaching History-Social Studies: A Social Action Approach. Social Studies Review: Journal of the California Council for the Social Studies, vol. 46, No.2.

DomNwachukwu, Chinaka (2007). “The Historical Development of Language and Cultural Diversity in the United States and California” in Connecting English Language Learners to the Cross-Cultural Methodology. Alfonso Nava (Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

DomNwachukwu, C.S. (2006). The American Mosaic: Ministry in a Culturally Diverse Society. Enumclaw, WA: Winepress Publishers.

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Professional Involvement and Accomplishments

Recognition for special contribution as benchmarker for the California Teacher Assessment (TPA) from Educational Testing Services (ETS) and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. 2003

Significant Accomplishment in the Field of Christian Mission, from the School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. 1995

Academic Excellence, awarded by the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. 1989

Excellence in New Testament Theology, awarded by the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

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