Phone: 801-626-7426
Fax: 801-626-7427
Email: aforsyth@weber.edu

Professional Interests:
Social studies education (elementary focus) — citizenship
Geography education — maps, affective outcomes
English as a Second Language

Past Experience:
High school social studies teaching, Bronx, NY
Middle school ESL teaching, New Haven, CT
Instructional developer, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH
Instructional developer, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
Instructional developer, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC

Education:
B.A., Brown University, Providence, RI (French; Political Science)
M.A., Columbia University, NY, NY (Geography)
Ed.D., Utah State University, Logan (Educational Technology)
Certificate, Teaching English as a Second Language, ICAL

Professional Organizations:
National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) (former Board member)
NCGE Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Utah Association of Teacher Educators (UATE) (former President)

Personal:
Born in Chappaqua, New York, home of Horace Greeley ("Go West, young man, and grow up with the country") and the Clintons.
Lived in New York, Ohio, Kentucky. Moved to Utah in 1982.
Married to Kay W. Forsyth, Study Abroad Director, Utah State University.
Two children: Cory, born 1981, living and working in New York City; Jenna, born 1985, grad student at University of Washington, Seattle

Interests: outdoors activities (hiking and camping), sports (tennis, golf, basketball), travel (Central America, Western & Eastern Europe, Turkey, Australia, Indonesia, China, Japan), languages (French, Spanish), words and word games

Current project: writing "trivia atlas" of the USA (contributions welcome)

Favorite saying: "Moderation in all things, including moderation"