Beth Dykstra VanMeeteren, EdD
Director, Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education
Associate Professor, Literacy Education
Schindler Education Center 117A
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0616
Beth Dykstra VanMeeteren, EdD
Director, Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education
Associate Professor, Literacy Education
As Director of the Iowa Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education, Beth leads a team in developing, piloting, and implementing inclusive early childhood educational materials and professional learning in early STEM education. The team's early STEM work has both national and international recognition as trail blazers in STEM with infants and toddlers, and STEM in preschool through 2nd grade. Their work is being published by Teachers College Press in a series of teacher's guides entitled STEM For Our Youngest Learners.
EdD, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Northern Iowa
MAE, Literacy Education, University of Northern Iowa
BA, Social Sciences, Northwestern College
Early Childhood Curriculum Development and Organization
Methods of Teaching Early Literacy
Language Development and Emergent Literacy
Teaching Elementary School Science
Methods and Materials in Literacy Education
Elementary Curriculum
Children's Literature
Assessment and Evaluation in Literacy
Experiences in Reading - Tutoring
Early STEM
Early Engineering
Integrative STEM and Literacy
Social-Emotional Development through STEM Learning
- Editor of STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series - Teachers College Press
- Co-Author of STEM Learning With Young Children: Inquiry Teaching With Ramps and Pathways - Teachers College Press
- Advisor to FIRST LEGO League Discover
- President of the Association of Constructivist Teaching International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
- 21st Century Leadership Academy Award Member
- Gold Star Award for Outstanding Teaching
- Outstanding Service Award - Iowa Science Teachers Section and Iowa Academy of Science (2021)