Lisa Bekemeyer

Job Titles

• Adjunct Instructor
  Teaching (M.A.), Graduate School
  Special Education (M.A.), Graduate School
  Special Education (B.A.), College of Adult and Professional Studies
• Director of the Academic Resouce Center (ARC)
  Bethel University

Highlight

I am passionate about teaching multi-lingual learners and helping our teacher candidates prepare for this worthy profession. In my courses, I emphasize teaching language through a wide variety of strategies that fit under the umbrella of CI (Comprehensible Input); I strive to help my learners actively engage and practice these strategies for teaching language through content.

Started at Bethel

2001

Education

• University of Notre Dame - B.A. in French, 1994
• University of Minnesota - M.Ed. in Second Language and Cultures, 1996

Courses Taught

EDUC 751 and EDUC 451: Special Education Student Teaching Seminars

EDUC 643: Field Experiences in School-Based Settings

EDUC 678: ESL K-12 Teaching Methods

Supervision of Student Teachers

Hobbies and Interests

cooking, travel, exercise, speaking French, learning, entertaining, teaching, gratitude journaling...

Areas of expertise

I am passionate about helping educators develop an intentional practice of gratitude in their own lives and then bringing these ideas into the classroom. I am completing a gratitude journal for educators entitled, "Sharing Gratitude in the Classroom: A journal to help build connection and community" which will available for the 2025-26 academic year.