Gayle VanTrease

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Education

• M.A. in Teaching American Sign Language | University of Northern Colorado
• B.A. in Deaf Education | University of Tulsa

Professional/Academic Experience

Gayle is a full time assistant professor at Tulsa Community College and professor and previous Faculty member in the Sign Language Interpretation Program at McLennan Community College and Baylor University in Waco, Texas for 4 years, she has over 30 years of teaching. She has been a part of the Deaf community her entire life. She graduated from Tulsa Junior College aka TCC in 1992 and  University of Tulsa and graduated with her Bachelor of Science in degree in Deaf Education in 1993. 

Her previous experience includes teaching ASL students in Denton and Arlington Public Schools and deaf students in the Brownsville and Arlington Public Schools from 1993 to 2018. She taught as an adjunct instructor in the interpreter training program at Tarrant County College for 3 years. In 2016, she went to the University of Northern Colorado to obtain her graduate degree in Teaching American Sign Language, graduating in 2018. At MCC and TCC, her course loads included  American Sign Language (ASL all levels), Deaf Culture, Fingerspelling and Numbers, and Visual Gesture Communication. Her scholarly interest is Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Culture.