Name: Richard Henry
Phone: 718.482.5366
Office: E-200/S
E-mail: rhenry@lagcc.cuny.edu

Rick Henry has an MS in Teaching English as a Second Language from the State University of New York at Albany. He has also studied in doctoral programs in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology. He has been teaching since 1971. His career in education has been varied and rewarding. He has taught in adult education, junior high school and college, arriving at LaGuardia Community College in 1977. Aside from his extensive classroom experience, he has coordinated ESL programs in adult education and in college. His experience also includes teacher training, both in the United States and overseas. He has published articles in the TESOL Quarterly and in other ESL publications. He has also written approved curricula for two ESL programs for the New York State Department of Education, one for adult education and one for vocational training. In addition, he spent a year teaching overseas on a Fulbright Fellowship as a senior lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In his long career in education, he has also taught adult basic education as well as GED and TOEFL preparation and worked with Youth Corps teens. He holds a New York State teaching license and teaches a course in the Education Program at LaGuardia Community College for the preparation of secondary school teachers.