Division of Teacher Education 2003-04

Ann Adams [Division Chair]

Attended:

• 22nd Southeast International Reading Association Regional Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi

• Presenter: "Cloze, Herringbone, and Other Strategies for Developing Comprehension" (selected as presenter by peer review program committee)

• Alabama Association of Colleges for Teacher Education meetings, Montgomery and Gulf Shores, Alabama

• Child Protection Program training, required for eligibility to visit Catholic schools

• Heartland/Delta Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Christus Theological Institute lecture by Dr. Geoffrey Wainwright:  "Places at Table: The Conditions of Communion"

• Dr. Patricia Harrison's presentation:  "Votes for Women: Tactics, Tensions, and Triumphs," co-sponsored by Providence Hospital and SHC's Division of Lifelong Learning

• Nutrition session co-sponsored by Providence Hospital and SHC's Division of Lifelong Learning

• Dr. David Sauer's presentation:  "Shakespeare's Romances: Pericles (1607-08), Cymbeline (1609-10), The Winter's Tale (1609-10), and The Tempest (1610-11)"

• "St. Ignatius in CyberSpace" session 

• "Library Literacy: What You Need to Know"

• Talking about Teaching Roundtable: "Incorporating Active and Collaborative Learning Techniques"

• Talking about Teaching Roundtable: "Using Groups and Teams to Motivate Students"

• F2F presentations

• Workshop: "Merlot, TLT, and Other Useful Acronyms"

• SHC technology workshop: "Microsoft Word: Tricks and Tips"

• SHC Lenten Table Talks

• SHC Faculty Fridays

Presentations:

• SHC Faculty Friday, co-presenter with Dr. Leona Rowan: "If Your Tests Were Graded, Would You Make an A?"

Member:

• International Reading Association

• Alabama Reading Association

• Alabama Association of Colleges of Teacher Education:  SHC representative

• National Council for the Social Studies

• Alabama Council for the Social Studies

• SHC's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Planning Committee

SACS Service:

• SACS Visiting Committee, Daphne Intermediate School's five-year review

Arranged talks for students:

• Rhonda Waltman, Mobile County Public School System Assistant Superintendent for Student Services spoke on legal rights and responsibilities of teachers

Serve as faculty representative to the Educational Policy and Academic Affairs Committee, SHC Board of Trustees

Coordinated work of teacher education programs with the State Department of Education to assure compliance with rules, regulations, and standards

Served as Alabama State Liaison for the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education

Prepared and submitted reports required by the Alabama State Department of Education, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and the U.S. Department of Education Title II office

Continued working with other divisions and departments to develop programs to enable secondary education students to meet the Highly Qualified Teacher requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act

Worked with Social Science Division to develop program for double majors in social science and secondary education

Participated in interview training process in two Mobile County schools

Directed students in SHC reading class in evaluating the reading levels and skills of fourth-grade students at Mary B. Austin Elementary School

Developed new course EDU 450 Strategies and Resources for Teaching in Secondary and Middle Schools

Revised EDU 373 Teaching Social Studies/EDU 580 The Contemporary Social Studies Program to increase the amount of technology taught to students and to increase their use of technology in developing their major project for these courses; students used internet resources, PowerPoint, Encarta, Publisher, Intel Teach to the Future Program, and other computer applications

Revised EDU 328 Diagnosis and Adjustment of Reading Instruction/EDU 577 Assessment and Reading Instruction:  used different approaches to teaching strategies for correcting reading problems; implemented plan to focus on teaching a few strategies in depth instead of teaching a large number of strategies 

Works in progress:

• Revising curricula in the undergraduate reading /language arts courses taught by several instructors

Leona Rowan

Presentations:

• SHC Faculty Friday, co-presenter with Dr. Ann Adams: "If Your Tests Were Graded, Would You Make an A?"

Attended:

• Alabama State Department of Education Committee on Political Education (COPE) meeting, Montgomery, Alabama

• Kappa Delta Pi Convocation, St. Louis, Missouri

• SHC Faculty Friday presentations:

• "Case Studies: Kick Them Up a Notch with Innovative Technology"

• "Uncertainty in Mathematics: What My Teachers Never Told Me about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem"

• "All You Sweet Girls Listen Here to Me: Gin and Whiskey Can Make You Lose Your Virginity"

• "Formative Evaluations: News from the Western Front"

• "If Students Were to Grade Your Knowledge, What Grade Would You Receive?"

• SHC faculty seminar: "Introduction to PowerPoint:

• SHC Opening Day professional meetings and activities

Member

• Mobile County Retired Teachers Association:  Vice President

• Mobile Literacy Coalition:  Board of Directors

Division of  Teacher Education certification officer, State Department of Education

Sponsored two groups of students who gave presentations at SHC's COOL (Celebration of Our Learning) Day):

• "Teaching Critical Thinking Skills"

• "Working with Hearing Impaired Students in the Classroom"

Added more hands-on activities, numerous materials from the Curriculum Center, more practical experiences, and field trips to courses

Volunteer:  Mobile Historic Homes

Lois Silvernail

Lectures/presentations/workshops given:

• Presenter:  "Using the McGraw-Hill Reading Series" for grade K-5 teachers in Catholic schools

• Presenter:  "Using NCTM Standards for Textbook Adoption," Math Textbook Committee, Office of Catholic Schools

• Presenter:  "Using NCTM Standards to Teach Hands-on Mathematics" Principals Meeting, Office of Catholic Schools

Attended:

• Alabama Music Educators Association (AMEA) Conference, Auburn, Alabama

Member:

• Learning Disabilities Association:  Board member 

• Arts Council Grant Selection Committee

Coordinator/presenter: Tutor Training Program for the Office of Catholic Schools 

Coordinator/trainer:  Child Protection Program for the Archdiocese of Mobile

Served as judge for:

• Mobile County Public Schools City-wide Spelling Bee

• Catholic Schools Spelling Bee

• Woodmen of the World Oratory Contest, St. Ignatius School

SACS Service:

• Chair, SACS Team: Dunbar Magnet School for the Creative and Performing Arts 

• Chair, SACS Team: Chickasaw School of Mathematics and Science

• Consultant, SACS Review, Daphne Elementary School

Mathematics tutor for two students at Old Shell Road Magnet School