COE Faculty well represented at AERA's 2016 Conference
Towson will have 19 College of Education faculty members present at the premiere education research conference in Washington D.C
For the past 150 years, the College of Education at Towson University has produced some of the brightest minds in the education field.
That’s why this weekend, 19 members of its faculty will present at the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
“The large presence of faculty from the College of Education at this premiere research conference exemplifies the teacher-scholar model that is so integral to who we are at Towson University,” said Laurie Mullen, dean of TU’s College of Education.
AERA is the largest national interdisciplinary research association devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. Each year it hosts an annual meeting to share research from members to a broader audience. This year’s theme is “Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies.”
This year’s conference takes place from April 8-13 and will feature not only research presentations but also exhibitors and development opportunities.
Towson COE’s AERA 2016 presenters
- Jane Neapolitan — “Examining the Experiences of Teachers and Teacher Candidates in Professional Development Schools,” “AERA 2017? You Only Have a Year to Get Your Next Proposal Ready,” “Emerging Teacher Professional Development Models Using Technology,” and “Impacts of Technology-based Professional Development.”
- Bess Altwerger and Morna McDermott — “Inside Educational Activism and Organizing: Insurgent Insights on the Advancing Endgame Revolt in U.S. Education.
- Rebecca Shargel and Lisa Anne Twiss — “’I Was So Gullible.’ First-Year College Students’ Emerging Understandings of Evidence.”
- Meghan Liebfreund — “The Impact of a Diagnostic and Formative Assessment on Elementary Reading Achievement.”
- Sarah C. Lohnes Watulak — “Inside Innovation…It’s Not Pretty: Embodied Responses to Discourses of Technological Advancement and Accountability.
- Lisa Barker — “Arts Integration and Imagination: Professional Development in a New Key,” and “A Self-Study of Side-Coaching: Applying the Pedagogy of Improvisational Theater to Teacher Education.”
- Marcia Watson — “Black People Living in a White World: Education Black Youth.”
- Stephen T. Schroth — “Building Relationships with School Partners and University Faculty to Enhance Teacher Preparations.”
- Pamela Hope Segal — “Contemporary Perspectives on Student-Athletes and Academic Success.”
- Jessica Shiller — “Philanthropy and Community Partnerships”
- Saundra Marie Deltac — “The Pedagogy of the Good Citizen: Eight Practitioners Reflect on Educating for Diverse Democracies.”
- Heather Haverback — “Maternal Self-Efficacy and the Home Literacy Environment: A Study of Families Within Head Start Programs.”
- Gary Homana — “Profiles of School and Classroom Climates for Civic Education: A Cross-National Analysis.”
- Carla Finkelstein — “Research on Coaching Approaches and Teacher Education.”
- Pamela J. Hickey — “’They Give You a Lot of Work’: Neoliberalism and Emergent Bilingual Literacy Experiences.”
- Vicki McQuitty — “Pre-service Teachers as Writers: How Do Writing Experiences Impact Their Teaching?”
- Todd W. Kenreich — “Bridging the Community and the World: Teaching Global Issues in a Local Context.”
For a complete list of presenters and more information on the event, visit the AERA website. To keep up with the weekend’s events, visit the AERA Facebook and Twitter pages. To keep up with what is happening in the College of Education, follow them on Facebook.