He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Syracuse University in educational psychology and has been on the faculty at Madison since that time.
[3] He received a Fulbright senior specialist grant in education at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
[4] He was awarded the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research on Teacher Education in 2002; UW–Madison School of Education’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2000; the National Staff Development Council’s Best Non-Dissertation Research Award in 1998; an Award for Excellence in Professional Writing from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in 1993; the Association of Teacher Educators’ Distinguished Teacher Educator Award and its Distinguished Research Award in 1990; and was named Wisconsin Teacher Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
[5] In May 2018, Zeichner received an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree during the 164th commencement of Syracuse University.
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