Grant Focus Seminar

This seminar intends to share and discuss the ongoing STEM grants (see below).

The PIs of six projects would love to invite you to join them at WP 411, 12:30-1:30 pm, Thursday, 2/21/2013

They would like to utilize this opportunity to share what they have learned to the CCOE community.

Also, they hope to facilitate more talks and collaboration among the faculty in terms of grant-writing, research, teaching etc.

The on-going projects include:

· THEC STEM PD2, Incorporating Active Learning into Life Sciences Teaching $196K (PIs: Govett, A. and McDowell, T.)

· THEC STEM PD2, Project SEE: Science in Early Elementary, $197K (PIs: Geiken, R. and Henson, G.)

· THEC STEM PD2, Integrating STEM Hands-on Activities with Math and Reading Common Core Standards, $199K (PIs: Keith, K. and Price, J.)

· THEC STEM PD2, PCMI: Professional Community of Modeling Instruction $200K (PIs: Rhoton, J. and Zhao, N.)

· THEC 2013 ITQ, High School Algebra, $120K (PI: Tai, C.; Co-PIs: Nivens, R. and Stephens, D.)

· TDOE 2013 MSP, Grade 3-8 Math, $300K (PI: Tai, C; Co-PIs: Nivens, R. and Price, J.)

You are welcome to contact the PIs for more information.

#14 Dr. Sobol and Dr. Hogan powerpoint 12/8/2011

Click here for the presentation file.

#13 Meeting Schedule in Fall 2011

Here is a meeting schedule for the COE Brown Bag Seminar Fall 2011. The presentation topics would be available later.

Please contact Ryan Nivens (nivens@etsu.edu) to be listed.


 

1. 9/22/2011	Dr. Sobol	“Storytelling Modules in COE Curriculum"
2. 10/13/2011	Dr. Ralston et al	“Dispositions to Teach”
3. 11/10/2011
4. 12/08/2011	Drs. Hogan & Sobol	“From an Editor and a Reviewer: How to Get Your Article Published”

#12 Seminar Nine on May 05, 2011

Time: 12:00-12:40 pm Thursday May 5, 2011

Place: Warf-Pickel 403

Presenter: Dr. Norma Hogan (CUAI) 

Topic: MAT Student Teachers

Powerpoint: Hogan's PPT

Summary: I will present data from surveying MAT student teachers for two (and possibly three) semesters about: The levels of stress they experienced during student teaching. Nature of the stressors What they found helped them deal positively with their stress Advice they would give future student teachers about handling stress General program evaluation—what parts of their preparation program they found most helpful and what changes they would recommend Based on the data, I have developed some recommendations to help reduce student teachers’ stress level. I will like to extend the survey to other program areas in the future, and so colleagues might like to see what it entails.

#11 Seminar Eight on March 17, 2011

Time: 12:00-12:40 pm Thursday March 17, 2010

Place: Warf-Pickel 403

Presenter 1: Dr. Eric Glover (ELPA) 

Topic: You must listen to be heard: a new leadership

Powerpoint: Glover's PPT

Summary: This presentation advocates a new leadership grounded in constructivist philosophy that moves away from the positivist machine dominated metaphor for organizational development and leadership. It is framed around four practices: Deep Listening, Respecting Others, Suspending Assumptions, and Speaking Individual Truths. It develops the role of an organizational leader (principal, teacher, or any leader for that matter) as an inquirer who co-develops the work the organization needs to accomplish with other organization participants. The leadership practices advocated in this presentation challenge the leader(s), participant(s), and members of the broader organization (school district, community, company), thereby developing a more authentic, moral, ethical, and democratic  organization. The theoretical framework presents leadership as movement toward change and management as maintenance of the status quo. It places the leader as a fulcrum point within the organization with the responsibility to balance the opposing elements of this paradox.

#10 Seminar Seven on February 10, 2011

Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Thursday February 10, 2010

Place: Warf-Pickle 403

Presenter 1: Dr. Edward J. Dwyer (CUAI) 

Topic: Enhancing Learning through Affective Considerations

Presenter 2: various faculty (COE)

Topic: How Students Are Conducting Learning Projects in Classrooms

Powerpoint: N/A; N/A

Dwyer's Topic Enhancing Learning through Affective Considerations

Summary: Scholars in the fields of learning theory, neurology, and cognitive psychology have provided evidence that learning is enhanced when learners are involved academically, physically and emotionally in their learning environments. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in an application of the learning theory and strategies presented. A comprehensive handout will be provided.

Second Topic How Students Are Conducting Learning Projects in Classrooms

Summary: We would like to have a causal conversation about how faculty members provide/use various projects in their classrooms. We may be inspired from our colleagues' teaching experiences.

#9 Meeting Schedule in Spring 2011

Here is a meeting schedule for the COE Brown Bag Seminar Spring 2011. The presentation topics would be available later.

Date	Presentation 1	Presentation 2
02/10/2010 Thurs (12:00-1:00) WP Rm 403	CUAI faculty
	Ed Dwyer
03/17/2011 Thurs (12:00-1:00) WP Rm 403	ELPA faculty
	Eric Glover
04/14/2011 Thurs (12:00-1:00) WP Rm 403	HDAL faculty
	Deborah Harley (postponed)
05/05/2011 Thurs (12:00-1:00) WP Rm 403	CUAI faculty
	Norma Hogan

#8 Seminar Six on December 10, 2010

Time: 12:40-1:40 pm Thursday December 10, 2010

Place: Warf-Pickle 403

Presenter 1: Dr. Pamela Scott (ELPA) 

Topic: 23^rd Century Lessons for 21^st Century Leaders

Presenter 2: Dr. Lynn Williams (Ctr of Early Child)

Topic: Consortium for Promoting Cross-Linguistic Understanding of Communication Disabilities in Children

Powerpoint: Scott's PPT; Williams' PPT

Scott'sTopic 23rd Century Lessons for 21st Century Leaders

Summary: “23rd Century Lessons for 21st Century Leaders” looks to the future to help modern day leaders become more effective and successful. Themes of teamwork, friendship, creativity, ingenuity, and challenge are woven together to provide innovative leadership lessons that promote originality, a pioneering spirit, and leading from the heart. Participants will be encouraged to think critically and develop their leadership skills in order to provide vision and inspiration to their personal and organizational missions.  Reach beyond the typical leadership lessons to discover a new frontier in your personal and professional development.

Williams' Topic Consortium for Promoting Cross-Linguistic Understanding of Communication Disabilities in Children

Summary: This consortium is a funded project through the U.S. Department of Education’s FIPSE program, which is part of the International Education Programs Service (IEPS). I will present an overview of our cross-linguistic project to foster student exchange, research collaborations, and language and cultural skills among US-Brazil students in speech-language pathology and audiology. Additional funding opportunities to increase international educational opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students will also be presented.

#7 Seminar Five on November 11, 2010

Time: 12:40-1:40 pm Thursday November 11, 2010

Place: Warf-Pickle 403

Presenter 1: Dr. Jane Broderick (HDAL) 

Topic: Introducing the Cycle of Inquiry System

Presenter 2: Dr. Lee Daniels (CUAI)

Topic: Student Perceptions of e-Readers and e-Texts in Higher Education

Powerpoint: Broderick's PPT; Daniels' PPT

Broderick'sTopic Introducing the Cycle of Inquiry System

Summary: The Cycle of Inquiry System is a set of organizational forms (Broderick and Hong, 2005) developed for teachers to record their planning and implementation of an inquiry curriculum that focuses on problem solving and reasoning skills for maximum achievement, moving beyond ages and stages skill attainment.  An overview of the system will be shared, with examples from teacher candidates use of the system, as well as a brief synopsis of the current direction of the research.

Daniels' Topic Student Perceptions of e-Readers and e-Texts in Higher Education

Summary: This presentation will offer summaries of two recent pilot projects that examined student perceptions of the affordances and constraints of a particular e-reader mobile device. It will also examine the current higher education market for these devices from the perspective of student, faculty, publishers, and device makers.

#6 Seminar Four on October 13, 2010

Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Wednesday October 13, 2010

Place: Warf-Pickle 403

Presenter 1: Dr. Virginia Foley (ELPA) 

Topic: Teacher Leadership Academy from Conception to Reality

Presenter 2:
Dr. Rosalind Gann (CUAI)
Topic: Beyond Alphabetic Literacy: Lessons from the Chinese

Powerpoint: Gann's PPT; Foley's PPT

Virginia Foley’s Topic Teacher Leadership Academy from Conception to Reality

Summary: As the role of school leadership changes, more emphasis is placed on teacher leadership.  See and hear how a central office administrator, a university professor, and a local business partner created and delivered a Leadership Academy for teachers in Kingsport City Schools.  Emergent design was the model for delivering this professional development to teacher leaders in this district.   Participant Outcomes Participants will Learn about the application and selection processes to participate in the academy Learn about what designers see as the basics for a leadership academy Learn how sessions were designed in response to participant feedback Lean how evaluation of sessions and of the academy is directing the form of the next academy Lean how business can provide support in ways other than dollars Learn how professional practice has changed for academy alumni

Rosalind Gann's Topic Beyond Alphabetic Literacy: Lessons from the Chinese

Summary: In this presentation, I discuss what American reading educators might learn from a 2006 field study of Chinese reading instruction, conducted while I was in residence at the University of Shandong at Weihai. The notion of cuing systems in reading serves as a theoretical frame for this inquiry into Chinese reading pedagogy. Eighteen school teachers in Nanjing and Weihai were questioned about the way reading is taught in China. Informal observations of Chinese classrooms were also conducted. Collaborators were a renowned American language and literacy educator, Dr. Martha Collins and Liu Wei, a Chinese academic specializing in English. Unlike English, the Chinese writing system is not alphabetic; rather it is ideographic. A variety of methods is employed to teach characters: visual discrimination, morphemic analysis; syntactic and textual context; pragmatic use, kinesthesia in writing. Some of these techniques are relevant to American reading practice, if allowances for language differences are made.

#5 Seminar Three on September 9, 2010

Time: 12:40-1:40 pm Thursday September 9, 2010
Place: Warf-Pickle 403
Presenter 1: Dr. Aimee Govett (CUAI)
Topic: Performance of Service-Learning as part of a curriculum

Presenter 2: Dr. Alison Barton (HDAL) 
Topic: Helicopter Parenting: Construct Validation and Scale Development

Powerpoint: Govett's PPT ; Barton's PPT

Aimee Govett's Topic Performance of Service-Learning as part of a curriculum

Summary: Service learning projects emphasize both the service and the learning. By applying the environmental science content to community settings in the SCED 4321 class, we hope to provide more authenticity and purpose for classroom learning.  Using the facilities and expertise of the Office of Service-Learning, we have gathered student feedback and other data to document the efficacy of implementing service-learning as a hands-on approach to mastering subject material while fostering a sense of stewardship for our planet.

Alison Barton’s Topic Helicopter Parenting: Construct Validation and Scale Development

Summary: College administrators and other journalists have increasingly labeled certain parenting behaviors as “helicopter parenting (HP),” and the general consensus is that it is a negative form of parenting. However, no formal measure of this set of behaviors has been developed. The purpose of my series of studies is to develop a reliable and valid measure of behaviors considered to reflect HP, and to use this scale in part to determine if HP is an independent construct. Early survey studies indicated some validity and reliability of the scale; however, the scale did not entirely behave in a predictable manner. Recent re-evaluation of scale items at face level suggests that some rewording and additional items are needed; development and data collection for a new survey with the revised scale is underway.

#4 Meeting Schedule in Fall 2010

Here is the tentative meeting schedule in Fall 2010. The presentation topics would be available later.

Date	Presentation 1	Presentation 2
09/09/2010 Thurs (12:40-1:40) WP Rm 403	CUAI faculty	HDAL faculty
	Aimee Lee Govett	Alison Barton
10/13/2010 Wed (12:00-1:00) WP Rm 403	CUAI or HDAL faculty	ELPA faculty
	Rosalind Gann	Virginia Foley
11/11/2010 Thurs (12:40-1:40) WP Rm 403	HDAL faculty	CUAI faculty
	Jane Broderick	Lee Daniels
12/09/2010 Thurs (12:40-1:40) WP Rm 403	ELPA faculty	Faculty from other departments
	Pam Scott	Lynn Williams

#3 Seminar Two on Wed 5/05/10

Time: 12:30-1:00 pm Wednesday May 5, 2010
Place: Warf-Pickle 209 E
Presenter: Dr. Karin Bartoszuk, Ph. D. (HDAL)
Topic: Emerging Adulthood during the College Years
Powerpoint: Bartoszuk's PPT

Summary:

Karin Bartoszuk, Ph. D. in the department of Human Development and Learning will provide a short overview of her academic background, research interests, and current and future research projects.

In addition, she will provide a short overview of her study regarding identity development during emerging adulthood. She will present a short overview of identity research that is of interest to educators at the college setting. Some interesting findings from her studies will be included.

One of her current projects focuses on ETSU students who provided some interesting insights regarding their background, perception of emerging adulthood, life stressors, and many other important issues. For instance, information will be provided regarding their relationship statuses, living arrangements, working arrangements, etc. that might be helpful to better understand college students.

#2 Seminar Premiere on Wed 4/14/10

Time: 12:30-1:00 pm Wednesday April 14 2010
Place: Warf-Pickle 209 E
Presenter: Dr. Chih-Che Tai (Tai's CV)
Topic: Two Collaborative Projects:
1. Application of Free Web-platform into P-12 Learning Environments
2. Green Course Project: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Powerpoint: Tai's PPT

Abstract:
Project One: Application of Free Web-platform in P-20 Learning Environments

Currently, I have involved all of the students (28) in the discovering science course at Walters State Community College using blogs to accumulate their work. Here are the students' links:
Alex, Allison, Andrea, Angela, Ashlee, Ashley, Carla, Cassie, Erin, Falon, Heather, Jessica, Jody, Julie, Kayla B, Kayla W, Latoya, Megan, Samantha, Sarah, Tabbatha, Tiffany, Tonya, Amy, Brittany, Ketti, Meghan and Trisha.

Generally, the students (pre-service teachers in the ISED program) presented and accumulated their science work online. This practice implies that the free web-platform can potentially work for most of the teachers and may change the instructional methods that we are used to applying in the education community. Several CUAI faculty and staff have formed a team to investigate the possibility of department-wide implementation. Also, I would like to expand the pre-service teachers' project to in-service teachers' classrooms, particularly with the collaboration of the University School.

#1 Initiative of Brown Bag Seminar

Initiative
The purpose of the brown bag seminar is to offer informal presentations of interest to the COE community. The meetings will provide opportunities to discuss new/on-going projects, resources or solutions, and to share ideas and insights gained at conferences and workshops. The length of a seminar would be 30 minutes, easier to steal time from our tight schedules and make the seminar feasible.

Requesting your participation
We hope the seminar will start in the first week of April 2010 and will have two seminar sessions by the end of Spring 2010 semester. We will have some adjustments after that then we plan to run a bi-weekly or monthly schedule in Fall 2010. We would like to request your participation. If you are interested in taking part of it (either a presenter or an audience), please fill out a brief survey that will help the seminar team to organize the event effectively. Your information will be kept confidential.

Intent of Participation (Please click the link on left then it will pop out a survey window)

Blogging
This seminar is using blogging to communicate with the interested audience. It provides two main functions. First, the seminar schedule and content of the presentation (e.g. powerpoints, videos etc.) will be available on the blog for keeping the audience updated. Second, discussion and collaboration between the presenters and the audience are supported by this web platform. For example, Presenter A could share her/his presentation outlines on one of the posts and others could provide additional ideas or express interests of collaboration by writing some comments on the specific post.

We hope you will enjoy COE becoming a more sharing and collaborative community and are looking forward to seeing you in the Brown Bag Seminar.