Faculty Achievements
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Dr Martha Tevis had three brief interviews for the documentary title "A Class Apart" which was featured
on PBS' series, American Experience. Her interviews can be viewed in the "Conversation with the Film Makers" and
the "Bonus" scenes. Link to video. She also has a citation for the bibliography. Link to bibliography. |
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Dr. Pete Farruggio and Dr. Michael Guerrero were commissioned to write a refereed paper entitled: The CASSO Plan for Improving Bilingual Teacher Preparation through Curricular Modification. They presented the paper on May 1, 2009 at the Linguistic Minority Research Institute Conference in Irvine, California and organized by the University of California System. |
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In January 2009, Dr. Michael Guerrero and Maria C. Guerrero published an article in the Journal of Latinos and Education, 8, 1, entitled: El (sub)desarrollo del español académico entre los maestros bilingües: ¿Una cuestión del poder? |
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Dr. Shirley Mills, Assistant Professor in the department of Educational Leadership collaborated with
Dr. Martha Jeanne Yanes, Associate Professor in the department of Curriculum & Instruction and Director of the Educational
Technology Resource Center, in the following conference presentations:
Texas Distance Learning Association Conference in Corpus Christi (TXDLA), Texas on April 7th. Faculty Disassociation from Distance Education: An Action Plan Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE), Charleston, South Carolina. March 6th. An Action Plan for Faculty Development in Distance Education |
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Dr. Shirley Mills, Dr. Martha Jeanne Yanes and Dr. Cindy Casebeer also collaborated on an article published in the
MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching:
Mills, S.J., Yanes, M.J. and Casebeer, C., Perceptions of Distance Learning Among Faculty of a College of Education, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2009 |
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Publications Vela-Gude, L., Cavazos, J., Johnson, M. B., Fielding, C., Cavazos, A. G., Campos, L. (2009). My counselors were never there: Perceptions from Latina/o college students. Professional School Counseling Journal, 12(4). Lowdermilk, J., Fielding, C., & Lowdermilk, C. (2009). Building learner-focused collaborative relationships. In V. Spencer & C. Simpson (Eds.) Teaching Children with Autism in the General Classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1043 |
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Presentations 04/06/09 – Cheryl Fielding and John Lowdermilk National Social Science Association Las Vegas, NV Crossing Borders: A Video Ethnography of a Special Education School on the Texas-Mexican Border 03/06/09 – Cheryl Fielding and John Lowdermilk Texas Association of Applied Behavior Analysis (TxABA) Houston, TX Behavioral Logic: Using a Flow Chart as a Visual Prompt to Teach Novel Interventionists How to Determine Functions of Behavior and Interventions |
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Drs. Bobby Guinn and Donna Dugas, Department of Health and Kinesiology, and Dr. Vern Vincent, Department of CIS and
Quantitative Methods, presented the paper, “Stress Mediators in Adult Mexican Americans,” to the Research Section of the Texas
Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Annual Convention, Corpus Christi, December, 2008.
Drs. Guinn, Dugas, and Vincent also presented the paper, “Stress Resilience Among Border Mexican American Women,” at the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention, Tampa, FL, April, 2009. Additionally, Drs. Guinn, Dugas, and Vincent published the research article, “Stress Resilience Among Border Mexican American Women,” in the May, 2009 issue of the refereed Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. |
In this issue...
Editors
Dr. Martha Jeanne Yanes,
Associate Professor, Director,
Educational Technology Resource Center (ETRC) yanesm@utpa.edu
Dr. Karen Watt,
Associate Professor, Director,
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Research Office watt@utpa.edu
Associate Professor, Director,
Educational Technology Resource Center (ETRC) yanesm@utpa.edu
Dr. Karen Watt,
Associate Professor, Director,
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Research Office watt@utpa.edu