CURRICULUM VITAE

RANIA J. JOHNSON
E-mail: rjjkyung@gmail.com
www.JohnsonRania@weebly.com

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

MA, Sign Language Education. Gallaudet University, ASL Studies

(expecting September 2017)

M.Ed. Special Education. University of Minnesota, Education & Psychology

February 2014

B.A. Cross-Cultural Communication, Metropolitan State University

May 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fall 2017-Present Unlimited full-time ASL Instructor, Saint Paul College

American Sign Language Studies/Interpreting Program

Teaching ASL Core Courses include: ASL 1-5, Linguistics, Classifiers, Non-manual Markers,
Semantics, Fingerspelling and Numbers, and Deaf Culture. Developing course materials and
videos for lecture, supplemental exercise, and assessment in comprehension and articulation.
Students engage in collaborative learning through discussion forum on D2L Brightspace and
GoReact online. Monitoring and providing support to student members of ASL Club. Screening
and assessing transfer students taking ASL Test Out for course placement. On the Advisory
Committee for collaborative work with other ASL Programs/Departments within the Twin
Cities, sharing ideas and tools for enhance learning in classroom and services.

2009-2016 Part-time Adjunct Instructor, Saint Paul College

American Sign Language Studies/Interpreting Program

Teaching American Sign Language 1-4 courses to students needing credits toward ASL
Certificate, Child Psychology degree, or complete prerequisites ASL courses prior entering the
Interpreting Program. Understanding the language pragmatics of ASL communication in social
contexts and cultural behaviors in the Deaf community and in the interpreting field.

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 Fall 2015 Long term ASL Substitute, Minnetonka High School
World Languages Department

Teaching ASL 1 & 2 to students in grades 9-12 taking World Languages credits. Meeting with
student after hours for additional support in learning and practicing specific areas within ASL
contents. Communicating with parents on weekly for class activities and students progress.
Creating and Developing ASL curriculum in align to Curriculum MAPS with colleagues.

2000 - 2015 ASL Instructor, University of Minnesota

American Sign Language Program
Department of Educational Psychology
Signing Naturally Curriculum Levels I-III for CLA requirement and/or
minor studies.

Assessing students ASL sign skill in receptive and expressive competency in levels 1-4.
Developing course materials and online lab for supplemental practice and learning application.
Collaborating ideas and develop materials and resources with other faculty staff to better
learning tools for the students and for the program.

2004 - 2015 Adjunct Instructor, St. Kate University

ASL/INTP Program

Teaching ASL core courses (levels 1-5) for ACTC credits or Interpreting Training Program
prerequisite credits. Understanding ASL and English languages, knowledge of Deaf culture and
community, engage in the Deaf events and/or clubs, fulfill ASL language competency in
articulation prior Interpreting Training Program degree.

2000 2013 ASL Volunteer/Private Tutor

Teaching hearing parents with a deaf child learning ASL to communicate. Developing lessons
and materials corresponding to their skill levels and length of working with diverse families.
Creating activities for all of members in the family to engage through visual, gesture and
communicate in sign language only.

Fall 2008 Preparing Future Faculty Internship, College of St. Catherine

Interpreting Training Program
ASL and English Text Analysis

An introduction course to interpreting/translating both ASL and English, to analyze spoken and
signed texts intralingually in both meaning and form. Establish hands on activity practice in

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different scenarios of role-play and dialogue contexts, understanding the deep text analysis, both
language and culture, and to able to translating/interpreting accurate information in ASL/English.
Fall 2008 Adjunct Instructor, College of St. Catherine
Urban Library Program

Teach basic sign language communication skill needed for librarians to communicate with deaf
people. Understand about American Sign Language, Dear culture, and Deafness related
resources.

Spring 2004 Adjunct Instructor, College of St. Catherine

American Sign Language Program

Prepare students to meet and fulfill their prerequisite courses prior the Interpreting Training
Program focusing in medical fieldwork. Assess students sign language expressive and
comprehension skills in language pragmatics, conversation contexts, and cultural behaviors
(informal and formal).

1999 2000 American Sign Language Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota

Instructors Shirley Egbert and Dan Humphrey
American Sign Language Program

Understand the philosophy of the Signing Naturally curriculum and teaching applications.
Observe and understand teaching approaches corresponding to the curriculum. Assess students
comprehension of ASL language, ability to interpret conceptual meanings of signs. Students
develop visualization skill through understanding and using the spatial language, the ability to
use facial expressions and body movements in communication. Screening learners Language
Proficiency interview at the end of their 2-year language requirements.

1999 2000 ASL Tutor, University of Minnesota

American Sign Language Program
Department of Educational Psychology

Tutoring ASL students needing additional practice or assistance in ASL grammatical, conceptual
meaning of signs, discourse exercise, fingerspelling and numbers exercise, classifiers, spatial
perception exercise. Working with ASL students developing in independent learning skills.

1996-1999 Educational Assistant, Gideon Pond Elementary, Burnsville,

MN.

Working one-on-one with deaf students: supplemental reading, writing, and math as well as
other subjects when needed. Teaching Deaf culture and sign language to deaf students,
understand the Deaf identity as a bilingual/bicultural person. Assisting deaf students in
understanding how to interpret and convey thoughts through sign language to writing English -
understanding the conceptual meanings of signs and finding English words. ASL consulting sign
language interpreters and Deaf and Hard of hearing teachers in interpreting/translating English to
ASL.

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PRESENTATIONS

Understanding the Deaf identity of multi-cultural within the Deaf Education Academics
Metro Deaf School
St. Paul, MN, November 2013 and March 2014

Deaf Empowerment: Special Education and Sign Languages

Seoul Deaf National Youth Association
Seoul, Korea. July 2012

Understanding the ASL language and Deaf culture

World Language Day, University of Minnesota
East Bank campus, May 2011 and May 2012

Introduction to ASL Language and Deaf Culture workshop sessions

Metropolitan State University
St. Paul. October 2009, November 2010, October 2011, and October 2012

Deaf Children of Hearing Parents Workshop Retreat

Bemidji, Minnesota. November 2008

Understanding the Diversity Within The Deaf Community

Metropolitan State University
St. Paul, Minnesota. October 2008

Understanding the Dynamics of the Deaf Culture, Sign Language, and Deaf Community
Metropolitan State University
St. Paul, Minnesota. September 2007

Deaf and Hard of hearing Teachers Workshop

Metro ESCU
Semantics, Fingerspelling, and Numbers
Minneapolis, Minnesota. January 2007

Deaf Salon
Subcultures Within the Deaf Community
St. Paul College, panel discussion. February 2004

Interpreting Training Program

Variations of Signing in Receptive and Expressive Skills
St. Paul College. Spring 2002

Minnesota Loon American Sign Language Teacher Association

Language Variations and Culture in Kenya, professional workshop
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 Charles Thompson Hall, St. Paul, Minnesota. Fall 2001

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

May 2004 December 2006 Auditory and Visual Evaluation (AVE) Laboratory,
Education & Psychology. Project Directors: Dr. Susan
Rose & Dr. Simon Hooper

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Visual Arts mentoring workshop for current and future interpreters, sponsored by
St. Catherine University Interpreting Training Program
Summer 2011, 2-week sessions

PepeNet Project sponsored by St. Paul College

Denver, Colorado
Spring 2011

Development of measurement tools for curriculum coursework

Spring 2008-present

Professional Instructor DVD Lab supplemental materials, American Sign

Language Program
Fall 2007-present

Web Video signer, Disability Services, Deaf and Hard of hearing recruitment
Summer 2007

Develop Course Contents in Higher Levels, Internal Professional Service, Spring/Fall

2006

Deaf Panel Discussion, Wulling Hall, University of Minnesota

Fall 2005 & Fall 2006

Video signer, Script writer/editor, Signers scout, Sign Consultant for Auditory and Visual
Equipment, Lab Website, 2005-2006
Model Signer, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (Martin, A.J., Sera
M.D. (2006)), 2005

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE

ASLTA National Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

June 2017

Signing Naturally Units 7-12 Workshop, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Ella Mae Lentz & Ken Mikos
May 2017
GoReact Workshop, University of Minnesota
Joseph Featherstone and Jonathan Penny
April 2017

Deaf Culture Workshop, St. Kate University, St. Paul, Minnesota

Professor Ben Jarashow
April 2017

ASLTA National Conference, Bloomington, Minnesota

June 2015

MRID Conference, Bloomington, Minnesota

March 2015

ASL Depiction: What is it, When do we use it, How do we teach it?
Lecturer Miako Rankin, Ph.D. Gallaudet University
MNLoon ASLTA Workshop, North Central University, St. Paul, Minnesota
May 2014

National ASLTA Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina

Summer 2013

Deaf Nation Expo convention, Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Summer 2012

Triskelion workshop: Korean Adoptee Identity, Washington, D.C.

Spring 2011

ASL Expo, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fall 2008

Deaf Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

April 2008

Curriculum and Assessment Workshop, Keith Cagle, St. Paul, Minnesota

April 2006

Signing Naturally Level III Workshop, Ella Mae Lentz, St. Paul, Minnesota
July 2004

Classifiers and Numbering Workshop, Neil Johnson, St. Paul, Minnesota

Spring 2003

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COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Rehabilitation Services for professionals, educators, and interpreters tutorial video

National Consortium Interpreter Center, ASL narrator
St. Paul, Minnesota
September 2012

Rehabilitation Services for professionals, educators, and interpreters tutorial video

National Consortium Interpreter Center, ASL narrator
Gallaudet University, D.C.
May 2012

Service of Senior Citizens in Nursing Home Tutorials video

MCDHH, ASL narrator
St. Catherine University, St. Paul
April 2012

ASL Consultant and Narrator, Midwest PepNet Services

Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 2011

Deaf Nation: No Barriers with Joel Barish delegate, exchanging Deaf cultures and sign
languages, Deaf Educations, and Deaf Communities. Seoul, South Korea,
August/September 2011
ASL Consulting, Making Your Case self-advocacy online course,
ZenMation, Inc., May 2010

ASL Narrator, Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of hearing Minnesotans,

March 2010

Consulting for Deaf Advocacy Training, The National Consortium of Interpreter

Education Center
Spring 2009

Develop Course Contents in Higher Levels, Internal Professional Service, Spring/Fall

2006

Sign Language Consultant for interpreting services in academia, medical, business, and
theater and arts
2001 - present

HERE photography exhibits, oral history audio/video, and book,

by Kim Dalros and Kim Park, Spring 2006

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 DVD narratives for Interpreting Training Program, College of St. Catherine, Spring 2004

Global Deaf Connection Board of Directors, Fall 2003-2005

Signing and Communication Proficiency Interview mentor, Fall 2002-2003

Rongo School for the Deaf, Rondo, Kenya. East Africa Deaf Connection
(aka Global Deaf Connection), Summer 2000

AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Graduate Student Scholarship, Gallaudet University

ASL & Deaf Studies Department
Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017

Awards for Graduate Student, Gallaudet University

ASL & Deaf Studies Department
Summer 2016 & 2017

Treks Explore Academic Technology certificate, University of Minnesota

College of Education and Human Development
June 2014

Skill Exchange Program certificate, East Africa Deaf Connection

(aka Global Deaf Connection)
July 2000

COURSES TAKEN

DST 714: Critical Pedagogy, Summer 2017, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

DST 710: Literary Traditions in the Deaf community, Summer 2017, Gallaudet
University, Washington, D.C.

ASL 762: Seminar in Sign Language Education e-Portfolio, Summer 2017, Gallaudet
University, Washington, D.C.

ASL 745: Sign Language Teaching, Culture and History, Summer 2017, Gallaudet
University, Washington, D.C.

ASL 750: Assessing Sign Language Skills, Spring 2017, Gallaudet University,
Washington, D.C.

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ASL 770: Sign Language Planning and Advocacy, Spring 2017, Gallaudet University,
Washington, D.C.

ASL 741: Methods of Sign Language Teaching, Fall 2016, Gallaudet University,
Washington, D.C.

LIN 510: Introduction to First and Second Language Acquisition, Fall 2016, Gallaudet
University, Washington, D.C.

ASL 709: Sign Language Media Production, Summer 2016, Gallaudet University,
Washington, D.C.

ASL 724: Sign Language Linguistics for Sign Language Professionals, Summer 2016,
Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

ASL 743: Curriculum Development for Sign Language Education, Summer 2016,
Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

EPSY 5151: Cooperative Learning, University of Minnesota, Spring 2009, Minneapolis,

MN.

EPSY 5991: Independent Study Educational Psychology, Fall 2008, University of

Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

GRAD 8102: Practicum for Future Faculty, Fall 2007, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN.

CI 5660: Special Topic: Teach Second Language & Teaching Pragmatics, Summer 2007,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

GRAD 8101: Teaching in Higher Education, Spring 2007, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, MN.

EPSY 5644: Language Development: Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Summer 2005,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

EDHD 5007: Technology for Teaching & Language, Spring 2004, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

CI 5651: Foundation of Second Language Education, Fall 2002, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, MN.

EDHD 5005: School and Society, Spring 2001, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN.

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ASL 3705: Deaf Culture, Spring 2001, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
EDHD 5001: Language and Cognitive Assessment, Fall 2000, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN.

EDHD 5009: Human Relations, Fall 2000, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

EPSY 5641: Foundations of Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Fall 2000,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

CAS 1751-1520: Deaf Studies, Spring 2000, Saint Paul College, St. Paul, MN.

CAS 1751-1422: ASL II Linguistics, Spring 2000, Saint Paul College, St. Paul, MN.

RDNG 331: Reading Urban Elementary School, Fall 1999, Metropolitan State
University, St. Paul, MN.

PSYC 330: Psychology of Learning, Fall 1999, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

SPCH 3501: Tutor/ASL Instruction, Summer 1999, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, MN.

ETHS 331: American Indian History, Spring 1999, Metropolitan State University, St.
Paul, MN.

SOC 305: Race and Ethnicity: Sociology, Spring 1999, Metropolitan State University, St.
Paul, MN.

ANTH 309: New Neighbors: US Hmong, Spring 1999, Metropolitan State University, St.
Paul, MN.

RDNG 112: The Educated Reader: American Reading Literacy, Fall 1998, Metropolitan
State University, St. Paul, MN.

LIT 301: The Short Story, Fall 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

LING 326: Language and Culture, Fall 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

LING 316: Nature of Language, Fall 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

ESL 193: Vocabulary/Grammar, Spring 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

SPCH 335: Intercultural Communication, Spring 1998, Metropolitan State University, St.
Paul, MN.

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WRIT 130: Writing I Intensive, Spring 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

LING 111: Vocabulary Study, Winter 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

PHIL 306: Philosophy/Sexuality, Winter 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

WRIT 101: Basic Writing, Winter 1998, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

ESL 195: ESL Basic Writing, Fall 1997, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

HIST 334: History of the Holocaust, Fall 1997, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

WRIT 091: Basic Writing, Winter 1997, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

HSTD 186: Creative Problem Solving, Winter 1997, Metropolitan State University, St.
Paul, MN.

MATH 130: Exploring Functions, Fall 1996, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

PSYC 306: Child Abuse, Fall 1996, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

ANTH 302: Gender and Culture, Spring 1996, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul,
MN.

PSYC 307: Child Development: Middle School, Winter 1996, Metropolitan State
University, St. Paul, MN.

SPCH 115: Interpersonal Communication, Winter 1996, Metropolitan State University,

St. Paul, MN.

PRSP 301: Perspectives, Winter 1996, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.

PSY 303: General Psychology, Fall 1988, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

ENG 103: Comp, Lang & Lit, Fall 1988, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

COM 120: Com Process & HI, Fall 1988, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

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