Name

Lynette

Last Name

Noel

Occupation

Instructor of Future Teachers

Affiliated Institution or Organization

University of Trinidad and Tobago

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Short bio- Lynette T. Noel

Lynette Noel is an instructor in Reading at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. She was chairperson of the International Development Committee for the Caribbean of the International Reading Association (IRA) and is a serving member of its Publications Committee. On two occasions, she was president of the Trinidad and Tobago Reading Association (TTRA), and also served in other executive positions. She has taught at all levels of the education system in her country, and facilitated workshops there, in Barbados, Bermuda and the USA.
Her passion for literacy and the academic improvement of adolescents, has propelled her to create resources that engage students and help them see reading and writing as enjoyable literate experiences. In 2004, she co-authored an educational series with Caribbean Language Arts teachers entitled, Kaleidoscope .In 2009, she pioneered an out-of-school intervention for adolescents which assisted them in raising their literacy performance. Having won a Developing Countries literacy grant from IRA, she held a Trainers' workshop in 2010,geared towards assisting members of the Trinidad and Tobago Reading Association in leading a family literacy initiative.
Lynette holds a Bachelor of Arts (University of the West Indies); Master of Education in Literacy (Mount Saint Vincent University), and is a doctoral student at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. A strong believer in the benefits of professional development, she avails herself of every opportunity to refine her skills and interact with other educators. Lynette Noel is a recipient of the 2010 CBIE Scholarship for research, pursued at Mount Saint Vincent University.
In 2010, she and a team of educators and parents launched the first issue of Reading Educators At Large (REAL). The Night Nopat Was Left Out is her first published short story, for which she was honoured by the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), “in recognition of World Book and Copyright Day”, April 2012.