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Academic Interests:
Cognitive and social emotional processes; teaching project-based curriculum development integrated with self-management skills of decision making, planning, and self evaluation; teaching the conscious integration of intellectual and social emotional processes throughout curriculum.
Dissertation Title and Research:
"Managing Choice: Helping Teachers Facilitate Decision Making, Planning and Self-evaluation with Students."
Worked with four NYC teachers for one year. Taught curriculum design that included planning for student self-directed, project-based learning: setting criteria, decision making, planning, and student self-evaluation based on TIELŪ framework. Observed, conducted interviews with teachers and students, analyzed teacher materials and student projects to determine changes in thinking and practice.
Research and Publications:
Research:
Assessing the effectiveness of using Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL) to promote transfer of learning from masters program coursework to K-6 classroom.
Publications:
Complex teaching and learning: Connecting teacher education to student performance. (2004). In E. Guyton (Ed.), Teacher Education Yearbook (pp. 205-231). In Guyton, E. M. & Rainer, J. D. Teacher Education Yearbook XII. Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
"From a Distance: Joining the Mind and Moral Character," Roeper Review, May/June 1998, Volume 20, No. 4, p. 260-270.
Moving Teacher Education Forward: A Model for a New Pedagogy; ACTION; American Association of Teacher Educators Journal (ATE). Submitted February 2004.
Exploring a New Pedagogy: Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL); Journal of Teacher Education; American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE). Submitted May 2004.
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