SOE Faculty Featured at Fall Professional Meetings

The work of University of Michigan-Dearborn School of Education faculty is well represented at professional meetings this fall, locally, nationally, and internationally. Here is a summary of conference presentations this fall:

Martha Adler, associate professor, presented a paper at the Michigan Department of Education Special Populations Conference in September about an accelerated summer program for English Language Learners; her co-presenter was Maura Sedgeman (Resource Teacher Leader, ELL and Compensatory Education, Dearborn Public Schools).

Mesut Duran, associate professor, is co-author of a paper with Serkan Sendag (assistant professor of education, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey) comparing preservice teachers` perceptions of online problem-based learning and online instructor-led learning; the paper will be presented in Istanbul, Turkey, in October at the 2nd World Conference on Learning, Teaching and Administration.

Susan Everett, associate professor, is presenting at the 2011 Detroit Area Science and Math Conference (DACTM-MDSTA) in November; her talk will focus on incorporating children's literature into Earth and Environmental Science.

Kristen Dara Hill, assistant professor, is presenting one paper at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Conference in Chicago in November and two other papers at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Annual Conference in Jacksonville, Florida in early December; her papers all pertain to her research on improving reading proficiency among youth in high poverty, urban schools.

Seong Hong, associate professor, is presenting a paper on strategies for on-going reflection and documentation-driven decision making for curriculum planning at the Association for Constructivist Teaching Conference in Houston, Texas in October.

LaShorage Shaffer, instructor, presented at the Wayne County (Michigan) Head Start Training Conference in Westland in September on the topic of using positive behavior support to address the needs of children with persistent challenging behavior.

Edward Silver, dean and professor, is presenting at two National Council of Teachers of Mathematics regional conferences – one in St. Louis, Missouri, in October and the other in Albuquerque, New Mexico in November – on the work of an NSF-funded project that uses findings and tasks from the PISA international assessment of mathematics as resources for teacher professional development.

Mary Trepanier-Street, professor, presented at the Michigan Tri-county Head Start Training Conference in Paw Paw in October on the topic of appropriate learning activities for infants and toddlers; she is also presenting a keynote talk at the Wayne County (Michigan) Head Start Training Conference in Dearborn in early November on the topic of developing friendships in typically and atypically developing children.

We appreciate the efforts of these faculty to represent the SOE in this way.