This fall the Georgia State University College of Education will be offering a series of professional development sessions which will be open to AYS faculty. A listing of all workshops can be found on the College of Education website and some will be available for download on iTunes U. Here are some upcoming events which may be of interest to our faculty and researchers:
October 2, 2013 at 12 p.m.–“The Importance of Education Research: A Strategic Approach to Apparent National Priorities,” presented by Peggy McCardle. Ms. McCardle previously served as Chief of the Child Development and Behavior branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. National Institutes of Health, and directed the organizations Language, Bilingualism and Biliteracy program. She has been a classroom teacher, speech-language pathologist, and has held faculty positions at South Carolina State College, the University of Mississippi, the University of Maryland and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
RSVP to Erin Whitney in the Education Research Bureau at ewhitney@gsu.edu.
October 9, 2013 at 12 p.m.–“Differences in Agencies: What I Need to Know About IES, NSF and NIH,” presented by Alison Norsworthy and a faculty panel. Alison Norsworthy and a faculty panel will discus the major differences in the three federal funding agencies: the institute of Education Sciences, the National Science foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The faculty panel will give insight on the agencies from the standpoint of an applicant and a reviewer. Alison Norsworthy is the associate director of the College of Education’s Educational Research Bureau.
The Forum will be held in room 1030 of the College of Education.
November 6, 2013 at 12 p.m.–“Practitioner Inquiry and the Constructive Disruption of University Culture,” presented by Susan Lytle. Susan Lytle retired in June of 2012 as Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. During her tenure, she served as the Joseph L. Calihan Term Chair in Education, chair of the Language and Literacy Education Division, and director of the master’s and doctoral programs in reading/writing/literacy. She is the founding director of the now 26-year-old Philadelphia Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, an urban school-university collaborative network focused on teacher-to-teacher professional development and fostering practice-based research on teaching, learning and schooling.
RSVP to Erin Whitney in the Education Research Bureau at ewhitney@gsu.edu
November 13, 2013 at 12 p.m. “Research in Schools: Gaining Entry and Sustaining Partnerships with P-12 Schools,” presented by Gwen Benson and Susan Ogletree. This presentation will provide information for new faculty member on how to gain entrance to the P-12 school community. A discussion around P-12 partnerships and collaborative work will be presented. Gwen Benson is the associate dean for school, community and international partnerships in the College of Education and Susan Ogletree is the director of the College of Education’s Educational Research Bureau.
The forum will be hosted in room 1030 of the College of Education.
