Division of Teacher Education 2004-05

Ann Adams [Division Chair]

Awarded tenure and rank of associate professor

Attended:

• International Reading Association International Conference, San Antonio, Texas

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

• Just 4 Development Laboratory, Professional Development Conference, Mobile County Public School System, Mobile, Alabama

• Presented two sessions of "How to teach Open Court reading in pre-kindergarten"

• Gary Pavela's interactive audio conference: "Responding to Students with Mental Disorders: Law and Policy Issues"

• Mobile County Public School System's Education Summit, Mobile, Alabama

• Alabama Department of Education professional studies assessment meeting, Montgomery, Alabama

• Teacher Preparation Technology Summit, Birmingham, Alabama

• LiveText Conference

• Child protection program training provided by the Child Advocacy Center

• SHC course HUM 396 Seminar: Holocaust and Genocide, taught by Jon Yellin

• Writing conference, Point Clear, Alabama

• Kappa Delta Pi (international honor society in education) Counselors' Training Workshop, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

• Donald Dunnam's presentation on peace in Ireland

• Good Question (a series of meetings on Catholicism for non-Catholics), presented by Rev. Jim Chamberlain and Ms. Dori Berahya

• SHC workshop on grant funding presented by Jennifer Delcambre and Stephanie Girard

• SHC Heartland-Delta post-conference group meetings

• SHC professional development workshops (August and January)

• SHC Teaching for Solidarity summer seminar

• SHC Lenten Table Talks

• SHC Faculty Fridays

Presentations:

• McGill-Toolen High School faculty meeting, Mobile, Alabama: on SHC Teacher Education Division's Cohort Program

Member:

• International Reading Association

• Alabama Reading Association

• Alabama Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (ALACTE):  SHC representative

• National Council for the Social Studies

• Alabama Council for the Social Studies

• Kappa Delta Pi

Participated in the interview training process in four Mobile County schools

Suzanne Horn

Awarded:

• Teagle Summer Research Grant: "Promoting Professional Development Schools in Mobile: A Study in the Viability and Sustainability of a Partnership between Denton Middle School and Spring Hill College"

• Member of a group that received a Teagle Curriculum Grant to work on the division's curriculum project

Publications:

• Book chapter: Carlone, H. and Horn, S.E. (in Press). "Archer Elementary."  In G.E. Ponder and D. Strahan (Eds.), Deep Change: Cases and Commentary on Schools and Programs of Successful Reform in High Stakes States (pp.). Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishing Inc.

• Article: Cooper, J.E., Horn, S.E., and Strahan, D.B. (2005).  " 'If only they would do their homework' : Promoting Self-Regulation in High School English Classrooms."  The High School Journal. (88)3. 10-26.

Presentations:

• Study skills seminars for area children (and their parents) from fifth through twelfth grades

Attended:

• Georgetown University's nine-week Crossroads Online Institute: completed the first phase of the two-phase project

• National Professional Development School Conference (founding member)

Member:

• Kappa Delta Pi

Works in progress:

• "Readers' Theater Used as a Research Project"

• "Preservice Teachers' Views of Writing Instruction Pre and Post Student Teaching"

• "Ninth-Grade English Teachers' Use of Self-Regulation in Ninth-Grade English Classes"

• "Discovering the Viability of a Professional Development School Relationship Between Spring Hill and Denton Middle School"

Leona Rowan

Attended:

• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) annual conference, Washington, DC

• Received one-on-one orientation on LiveText, a program SHC will implement next year

• Alabama State Department of Education Certification Officers and Personnel in Education (COPE) meeting, Montgomery, Alabama

• Mobile County Public School System training on the Classroom Organization and Management Program (COMP)

• Kappa Delta Pi Counselor Academy, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

• SHC lectures on solidarity

• SHC Faculty Friday presentations

Member:

• Mobile County Retired Teachers Association:

• Mobile Literacy Coalition:  Executive Board member; budget subcommittee member

• Kappa Delta Pi

Worked with Leinkauf Elementary School principal to develop ideas for future workshops and joint projects to help "at risk" students improve their achievement in literacy and technology

Read two books relative to the teaching profession:  What Great Teachers Do Differently and Creating Conditions for Learning

Wrote grant for the Literacy Coalition through which approximately 150 children's books were donated to an area school

Works in progress:

• Presentation entitled "Using Children's Books to Enhance Student Learning" for next year's Kappa Delta Pi Convocation in Orlando, Florida

• Research on student bullying in schools: am currently gathering data

Lois Silvernail

Lectures/presentations/workshops given:

• Coordinator/presenter: Parents as Teachers Program, Office of Catholic Schools (10 evening meetings)

• Presenter: "A Look at Trinidad" to three third-grade classes and one second-grade class

• Co-Presenter: SHC Opening Day presentation on the college's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) re-accreditation

• Coordinator and table leader: SHC QEP Student Summit and QEP Faculty Summit

Attended:

• Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

• Southeast Regional National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

Awarded:

• Wrote proposal for the Summer Teagle Grant that was awarded to the Teacher Education Division

Member:

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

• National Science Teachers Association

• American Orff-Schulwerk Association

• National Association for the Education of the Young Child

• Learning Disabilities Association:  Board member 

• Title I Advisory Board, Mobile County Public Schools

• Kappa Delta Pi

Traveled to Trinidad, West Indies: Visited schools, provided teacher workshops, and purchased children's literature and music to use with local children and with students in my classes

Consultant for LaCasa de Amigos Summer Preschool Curriculum Planning Committee

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

Served as judge for:

• Catholic Schools Spelling Bee

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Service:

• Chair, SACS Team: St. Mary Catholic School 

• Chair, SACS Team: Allentown Elementary School

• Chair, SACS Team: Foley Elementary School

• Chair, SACS Team: St. Ignatius Catholic School

• SACS Team: Faith Academy

Mathematics tutor for:

• Old Shell Road School for the Creative and Performing Arts, 3rd graders

• Christ the King School, 3rd graders