The University of Tennessee - Martin

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

Spring 2009

A Message From the Dean

We are halfway through spring semester during a year that has been difficult due to the economic situation in the country and the impact budget cuts have had on our campus. I made a statement in a college-wide faculty meeting that our faculty has continued to do what you do best, teach, complete a variety of service activities, and publish despite the bad economic news. This newsletter confirms that. I am so proud of the positive attitude shown by you as you work to assure our students get the best education. This college had recipients for two prestigious awards this academic year. Dr. Michelle Merwin is the Cunningham Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award and Dr. Becky Cox is The University of Tennessee Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award.

Congratulations to all of you for a productive fall and spring! I appreciate what you do to promote the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, but I appreciate it all the more because I know you are putting your students and their best interests at the heart of everything you do!

~Dr. Mary Lee Hall  

Department of Educational Studies

Becky Cox

Teaching

•  Recipient of The University of Tennessee Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award.

Scholarship

•  Cox, B. A., Cox, B. J. (2008). The use of discussion board to create a community of learners. National Social Science Proceedings. 38(3), pp. 20-25.

Service

•  Reviewer of supplement textbook Introduction to Online Learning , Sage Publications.

•  Online reviewer of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Global Climate Change Education

Betty Cox

Service

•  Selected as a member of the Tennessee State Board of Examiners (BOE) for Teacher Education beginning January, 2009

Beverly Hearn

Presentations

•  Cherry Watts and Beverly Hearn presented at the 7 th Conferencia Internacional de Lecto Escritura, of the International Reading Association in Guatemala City in February on Incorporar Modalidades Visuales, Auditivas, Kinestesicas Para Una Ensenanza Efectiva de la Lectura. 

Scholarship

•  “Instructional Strategies for Using Problem-based Learning with Engliosh Language Learners” MexTESOL Journal February, 2009.

Service

•  Special Publications Committee, International TESOL.

•  Started Reading Clinic, UTM Reading Center

•  Proposal Reviewer AERA, ALER

•  Editorial Board Reading Teacher

Other Awards

•  Ray and Wilma Smith Professorship Award

Sandra Murray

Teaching

•  Training for the Spring Student Teachers on Classroom Management.

Scholarship

•  Completed the How to Teach Online training.

Service

•  Scored student applications for Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.

•  Scored applications for Northwest Tennessee Teacher of the Year.

•  Selected to be a member of the Tennessee Department of Education Leadership Implementation Task Force.

•  Presented new licensure requirements to the principals, curriculum directors, and district directors' groups.

Other Awards

•  I am awarded each morning with cheerful purring and cuddling by the three terrorist cats that allow me to live in the house with them, change their litter, and feed them. They ferociously drive away all invading ants, spiders, gnats, and other vicious invaders as a reward for my faithful service.

Beth Nason Quick

Teaching

•  TCED 716 (online delivery)

Service

•  Feb 2009 to present – Member, Tennessee Board of Examiners, Tennessee Department of Education

•  Jan 2009 to present – Member, Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance (TECTA) State Steering Committee

•  Feb 2009 – Peer Reviewer for National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference Proposals

Joyce Swan

Scholarship

•  Mathematics Teachers of Tennessee Northwest, Annual Spring Conference, Jackson Christian School, Jackson, TN.

Presentations

•  Feb. 27, 2009 Presented two sessions with one of my undergraduate students, Robyn Daniel. "Puzzling Pentominoes" and "Math Mysteries and Chasing Vermeer ".

•  Research Council for Mathematics Learning, Annual National Conference, Rome Georgia. March 5-7, 2009. Presenting one session: Changes in Teaching Styles and Methods: Insights from Project IMPACT.

Cherry Watts

Presentation

•  Cherry Watts and Beverly Hearn presented at the 7 th Conferencia Internacional de Lecto Escritura, of the International Reading Association in Guatemala City in February on Incorporar Modalidades Visuales, Auditivas, Kinestesicas Para Una Ensenanza Efectiva de la Lectura. 

•  Cherry Watts and Crystal Whitlow presented at the International Child and Adolescent Conference XIV. Sponsored by CCBD and NASP. Minneapolis. November, 2008. Use Your Words: Language Development as the Foundation for Social Competency.

Service

•  The Northwest Tennessee Reading Council had its 3rd meeting in February, 2009. The Council is a venture supported by members from UTM, Bethel College, and a variety of school systems. Cherry Watts and Jennifer Cook are officers this year.

•  Gwen Tomlin, Cris Whitlow, and Cherry Watts attended the State Special Education Conference in Nashville on February 25 and 26.

Department of Health and Human Performance

JC Kim

Teaching

•  Travel Study (South Korea) – This program (HPED 485) was approved. Total 8 participants will leave for Seoul, Korea on May 11TH, and they will be back in Martin on May 21st.

•  SPMG 406 (Advanced Sport Management and Administration) – Two field trip opportunities (Nashville Predators: NHL and Nashville Sounds: AAA Minor League) will be given to students this semester.

Service

•  Co-Advisor of the Korean Student Association (KSA) of UT Martin since September 2008 (Roughly 60-70 Korean students study at UT Martin)

• UT Martin Athletic Game Event Volunteer (Baseball, Basketball)

Department of Sociology, Anthropology,

Social Work, and Criminal Justice

Brian W. Donavant

Teaching

•  Developed the UT Martin Law Enforcement Proficiency Program (LEPP) with the assistance of Dr. Donna Massey-Anderson. This program awards UT Martin proficiency credit in select criminal justice courses to Tennessee law enforcement officers who complete the police academy, and provides an incentive for these officers to begin or continue higher education.

•  Assisted Dr. Donna Massey-Anderson in development of the UT Martin Tennessee Correction Academy Proficiency Program (TNCAP2). This program awards UT Martin proficiency credit in select criminal justice courses to Tennessee correctional officers who complete the correction academy, and provides an incentive for these officers to begin or continue higher education.

Scholarship

•  Donavant, B. W. (in press). To Internet or Not?: Assessing the Efficacy of Online Police Training. American Journal of Criminal Justice .

•  Donavant, B. W. (in press). The NEW Modern Practice of Adult Education: Online Instruction in a Continuing Professional Education Setting. Adult Education Quarterly .

•  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, New Orleans, LA: Online Education for Police Professional Development .

Service

•  Obtained approval from the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission for UT Martin Criminal Justice courses to serve as substitutes for the annual in-service training requirement for law enforcement officers in the state of Tennessee

•  Attended the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education Conference: Creating Your Future Within Our Future . Denver, CO

Department of Psychology

Brian Johnson

Scholarship

•  Johnson, B., MacKewn, A., Crews, L., & Gibson, M. Social Influence and the Teach of Evolution . Teaching Evolution Symposium Talk presented at the 2008 Tennessee Academy of Science Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee.

•  Panelist for Talking about Teaching Discussion on How Perceptions of Math Affect Every Major on Campus, November 12, 2008.

Service

• Currently serving a 3-year term on the UTM Extenuating Circumstances Admissions and Residency Appeals Committee.

•  Continued serving as Co-chair of Psychology Club.

•  UTM Phi Kappa Phi Hospitality Committee Chair.

•  I am currently serving as one member of a twelve member Advisory Board for a new Introductory Psychology text from Cengage/Houghton Mifflin through September 2009.

Participant in Innovation Focus Group for Social Psychology for Pearson.

•  Reviewer for Social Psychology textbook being written for Pearson Prentice Hall (participated in 2 separate reviews of different elements of this textbook and 1 focus group for the text in development).

•  Reviewer for Integrated Research Methods and Statistics textbook (a total of 7 chapters) being written for Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

Other Awards

•  Interviewed by reporters for The Pacer for stories on Social Loafing (October 2008), Conformity Pressures (January 2009), and the power of First Impressions (February 2009).

Susan Buckelew

Teaching

•  I am teaching a new course for me, Senior Seminar, Psych 480.

•  I am preparing a new course for UTM for Maymester, Sleep and Dreams.

Scholarship

•  I have had 1 article accepted for publication, 2 poster presentations accepted, a technology grant awarded, and I have begun data collection on 2 new research projects.

•  Buckelew, S. P., DeGood, D. E., Roberts, K. D., Butkovic, J. D., & MacKewn, A. (in press). Awake EEG disregulation in good compared to poor sleepers. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

•  2009, April. Buckelew, S.P., DeGood, D. E., Roberts, K. D., Butkovic, J. D., & Crittendon, R. S. Awake EEG disregulation: Good vs poor sleepers. Paper accepted for presentation at the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB). Albuquerque, NM.

•  2009, February. Buckelew, S.P., Roberts, K.D., MacKewn, A., & Dickey, J. The will and the ways: Hope and academic performance. Paper accepted for presentation to the Southeastern Psychological Association Meeting, New Orleans

•  2008 Principal Investigator. Technology Development Award. Funding to attend Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Meeting (2009) to develop strategies to implement applied psychophysiology training in the classroom. Funded by the University of TN at Martin Research Office $1000.

•  Data Collection underway for 2 new research projects: 1) Attributions, grade expectations, and academic performance, and 2) EEG patterning and sustained attention abilities in good vs poor sleepers

Denise Jones

Presentations

•  In-service Training for Pre-K - 12 Teachers, Greenfield School, Autism Spectrum Disorders, March 9th, 2009

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