Dr. Fontenelle-Tereshchuk is a dynamic educator and scholar with a combined 20 years of Canadian and international teaching and research experience. She received her Ph.D. in English Language and Curriculum Studies from the University of Alberta and, her M.A. in Second Language Teaching from the University of Calgary.
As an educator, she thinks that the diversity in students’ learning needs and perspectives can be challenging but seeing them develop the skills they need to reach their learning goals is also exciting and her motivation to become a better educator.
Her research experience includes one of the first authored studies on the perceived impact of COVID-19 school lookdowns on young children. The study generated three articles with a combined 40k reads and almost 200 citations, mainly in education, psychology and psychiatry papers. As a researcher, Dr. Fontenelle-Tereshchuk is interested in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on high school students writing and its ramifications on first-year university students’ writing and the use of new technologies such as ChatGPT. Her most recent paper is – “Academic writing and ChatGPT: Students transitioning into college in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-023-00076-5 .
Dr. Fontenelle-Tereshchuk is also an amateur photographer and a world travel enthusiast, who has a passion for cultures, languages and cooking.