Rate My Professor Jacquelyn Benchik-Osborne

Jacquelyn Benchik-Osborne is a dedicated educator and scholar in the field of Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her B.A. in Sociology from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. She serves as an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education in the Department of Education Studies at Chicago State University's College of Education, where she also functions as a program adviser for the Master of Arts in Teaching in Elementary Education and contributes to freshman advising. Her professional experience includes adjunct faculty roles at Dominican University's School of Education and National Louis University's National College of Education.

Benchik-Osborne's research specializations encompass democratic teaching and classroom practices within the social foundations of education, integrating students' voice, perspective, and point-of-view in the Deweyan tradition of classrooms, literacies across all subject disciplines, and social and emotional learning in STEM for elementary and middle-level students. Her key publications include the book "Utilizing Artifacts to Engage in Deeper Thinking in the Elementary Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study" (2025), the conference paper "Why and How to Teach Democratically: Teacher Candidate Perspectives From Two Minority-Serving Universities" (2023), "SOEs with SFE: Forwarding the Work of the Liberal Arts in Democratic Community" (2021), "An Empirical Study: To What Extent and In What Ways Does Social Foundations of Education Inform Four Teachers’ Educational Beliefs and Classroom Practices?" (2013), and reviews of "The New Politics of the Textbook: Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks" (2014) and "Teacher Assessment and the Quest for Teacher Quality: A Handbook" (2011). She contributed a case study to "Democracy and Decency: What Does Education Have to Do with It?". Benchik-Osborne serves on the editorial team of Higher Education Studies by the Canadian Center of Science and Education and has presented at the 2025 International Learning Assistant Conference.