“The Hough Post”
April 12, 2017
Volume 5, Number 18
Counseling Students Participate in an Online Discussion with Carolyn Stone
Marci Dowdy, Senior Instructor, CLSE reported that the school counseling internship students (COU 781/783) were honored to participate with Harvard University’s school counseling students in an online discussion with Carolyn Stone (ASCA Ethics Chair and author of Ethics and Law in School Counseling).
The students were able to listen to a live lecture on ethics in school counseling, and an opportunity to ask Carolyn Stone direct questions about school counseling in their states! She even included Missouri State University in her presentation website!
Research Briefs
Dean Hough invites faculty to submit briefs of their research and scholarship for distribution in hard copy throughout College of Education. Briefs will also be posted on our web. First up is Sara Tipton’s & Ximena Uribe-Zarain’s evaluation of the Internship Academy. Click below to read our first installment:
Middle School MAP Conference Held on April 7th
On April 7, the Middle School Program, under the direction of Dr. Kimberly J. Stormer, Assistant Professor, RFT, in conjunction with the new MSU Collegiate Middle Level Association hosted the Middle School MAP Conference. Over 450 middle school students and their teachers from Reed Academy and Carver Middle School participated in sessions prepared by MSU middle school pre-service teachers in an effort to provide remediation for end-of-year testing. After choosing from 34 academic sessions, which included titles such as Get Funky: Learning the Effect of Transformations and The Truth Shall Set You Free: Examining the Retraction of the Emmett Till Accusation, the students had a question and answer session with panelists from the Office of Student Affairs, specifically Multicultural Programs. Dr. Gilbert Brown led the charge in speaking to these students about college life, preparation, and prospects for the future. Last, the students enjoyed lunch and a tour of MSU before heading back to their schools.
RFT Collaborative Project at Reed Middle School
Drs. Pam Correll and Sarah Nixon, Reading, Foundations and Technology, are working on a collaborative project Roland Young’s 8th grade critical thinking class at Reed Middle School. This project began last fall; students in RDG 474 spend 6 hours working with students in Mr. Young’s class: reading The Other Wes Moore with them, helping them with note-taking skills, small group discussion skills, questioning skills, and various other literacy skills. This semester students in RDG 474 assisted Mr. Young’s students with the 6-stages of problem solving, and helped them identify and work through the stages of problem solving. We are very excited about this collaborative community-based literacy experience and wanted to share this great news with you.
Southwest RPDC Has a New Name
The Southwest RPDC is now known as the Agency for Teaching, Leading, and Learning. In September of 2016, the Southwest Regional Professional Development Center began to go through changes to better serve the school districts in the Southwest Region. Input was sought from school Superintendents, Curriculum Directors and professional development experts. With that input, the RPDC consultants began to redesign the services and approach to providing professional development. While this is still a work in progress, this change in focus, purpose, and approach has also resulted in the need for a new name to clearly distinguish it from the other professional development centers and cooperatives in Southwest Missouri. The Agency for Teaching, Leading, and Learning will work in cooperation with the other centers and cooperatives with a goal to meet all the professional development needs of the districts they serve.
Personnel Update
The Elementary program faculty and the Childhood Education & Family Studies department welcomes the addition of three new Assistant Professors in Elementary Education.
Dr. Chloe Bolyard earned her Ph. D. in Educational Leadership from Miami University and has been teaching elementary education courses at Evangel University as an adjunct instructor. Dr. Bolyard taught third grade at Jeffries Elementary in Springfield for four years before beginning her doctoral work. Dr. Bolyard’s research interest focus on the use of currere in order to co-construct elementary teachers’ narratives of experience.
Dr. Tammi Davis earned her Doctorate of Philosophy from Indiana University and is currently a Clinical Literacy Instructor at the University of Louisville. Dr. Davis has twenty years of experience in elementary classroom teaching. Her research interests include teacher preparation and in-service teacher practices.
Dr. Stefanie Livers earned her Ph. D. from the University of Louisville in Curriculum & Instruction – Mathematics Instruction. Dr. Livers has over ten years of teaching experience in Kentucky public schools as well as several years of university teaching at the University of Louisville and, currently, at the University of Alabama. Dr. Livers’ research agenda focuses on three main areas of interest within the overarching field of mathematics teaching and learning: 1) developing effective elementary teacher preparation programs 2) supporting in-service elementary teachers of mathematics through coaching models and professional development; and 3) analyzing the instructional practice of teachers, specifically around issues of equity.
Keep Calm and April On,