About Me

Here are some of the students in an EnglishTeaching Department in an academic college in central Israel.

My courses include the following: Individual Learning Differences; Academic Writing; Teaching Learners with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia; Integrating Technology with Special Needs Learners; Remedial Reading; Reading Strategies; Literacy Development (M.Ed.); Creative Writing (M.Ed.)

Dr. Rosenfeld's full PhD

Dr. Rosenfeld's CV

Academic Positions

1984-2025 Lecturer in Academic Colleges of Education, Israel

2010-2014 Chair of EFL Teacher Development Department. Achva Academic College of Education, Israel

2009-2014 Director of Pla'ot, Study Skills for All Incoming Freshmen. Achva College of Education, Be'er Tuvia, Israel

EDUCATION

2008 Ph.D.

Developing teacher sensitivity to individual learning differences.

Dept. of Social Sciences

University of Utrecht. The Netherlands

1978 M.A.

Advanced Reading & Language Leadership Program.

University of California, Berkeley

1974 M.Ed.
Reading Specialist Credential. Lifetime teacher credential. San Diego State University, San Diego, California

1970 B.A.

Near Eastern Languages & English

University of California, Berkeley

Selected publications

2024 Rosenfeld M. (2024). Continuing language teacher education: L2 experienced teachers engage in the craft of creative writing. Journal of Language Teaching 4 (2), pp 12-26.

2017 Rosenfeld & Rosenfeld (2017). The phenomenon of "weak" learners who suddenly succeed and "strong" learners who suddenly fail in science education (Hebrew). Middle School Science & Technology; Kriyat Beinayim:28, pp 49-55.

2010 Rosenfeld M. and Rosenfeld S. Illustrating a complementary paradigm for styles research: From a third-person to a second-person perspective. Invited Chapter 10 in Stephen Raynor & Eva Cools (Eds.) pp.143-159. Style differences in cognition, learning and management: theory, research and practice. New York: Routledge.

2008 Rosenfeld, M. and Rosenfeld, S. Developing effective teacher beliefs about students: Do teachers' own individual learning differences (ILDs) make a difference? Educational Psychology 28 (3), 245- 272.

2008 Rosenfeld, M. and Rosenfeld, S. Understanding teachers with extreme individual learning differences (ILDs): Developing more effective teachers. Teaching Education 19 (1), 21-41.

ABOUT ME