NIU FACULTY RESOURCES

Anthropology	Biology	Chemistry	Communications	Computer Science
Economics	English	Environmental Science	Foreign Languages	Geography
Geology	History	Mathematics	Philosophy	Physics
Political Science	Psychology	Sociology	Southeast Asian Studies	Women's Studies

 

PARTNER SCHOOL FACULTY RESOURCES

Administration	Health Education	Special Education	Technology	Language Arts
Math	Social Studies

Specialization:

• Anthropology
• Southeast Asia

• We have videos, books, maps, and other materials for teachers who wish to expose students to this part of the world (Southeast Asia -- the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Laos and Cambodia).
• We can develope Southeast Asia-content workshops to suit the needs of teachers in the humanities and social sciences, provide CPDUs for various events and training workshops, and provide small grants for teachers to develop new materials for classes.

• Assist in international curricular development for Southeast Asia (content area only)
• Provide specialized training in foreign language and culture on the web (SEAsite)
• Provide specialized activities for students (concerts, workshops, performances and presentations on Southeast Asia

Specialization:

• Southeast Asia
• Japan
• Political economy

• consulting
• speaking

• knowledge of topics above

Specialization:

• Vertebrate paleontology
• Division biology

• Information on possible programs and resources
• Use of dinosaurs, fossils in general
• Secondary curricula

• Help in evolution/ paleontology curriculum development
• Textbook/ Program review

Specialization:

• Collaboration and messaging technology for the web.

Web Hosting:

• We can host SharePoint Team Services (STS) on our web servers for schools that lack the necessary server and software support.

STS is a new, cutting edge Microsoft technology for enabling Office document management, lists, surveys, and other team services on the web. It is an ideal, low cost solution for setting up student / teacher portfolios on the web with just a few clicks of the mouse.
For an example of a SharePoint web site that we use in our chemistry teacher certification program, visit http://teachers.cties.niu.edu/Teams.

• We can also host schools on an Exchange Server 2000 to support Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Outlook 2000 / XP.

OWA enables mail access, contact management, and group scheduling from anywhere on the web. Outlook XP can be configured to connect with our servers to enable a personal information management solution for a school or district. Outlook XP seamlessly integrates with STS.

• For technology administrators:

This would include training to setup and configure SharePoint and FrontPage extensions on school servers. It would also provide hands-on instructions on how to use FrontPage XP to setup and customize school SharePoint sites.

• For teachers:

This would include training on how to use SharePoint Team Services for portfolio or community-focused projects. Discussions, lists, document libraries, and integration with Office 2000 / XP will be emphasized.

Description of skills I can bring to a public school partner district:

SharePoint Solutions:

• We can work with technology administrators to setup Windows 2000 services within the school or district to enable SharePoint webs for custom applications, such as portfolio creation and management, parent / teacher / student communities, etc.

• We can also work with technology administrators to use FrontPage XP to develop custom rollouts of SharePoint web sites that include a school logo, custom style sheets, lists, and libraries.

• We can work with teachers to help them implement SharePoint solutions in the classroom.

Specialization:

• Public argumentation and advocacy is my specialization, within which I include the following sub-areas of research: (a) American foreign policy rhetoric, (b) gender relations in society, and (c) critically reading popular media (media literacy).
• Developing multicultural curriculum, with an emphasis on teaching approaches and institutional programs that engage the subject of sexual orientation and gender relations in society.

• Materials useful in training students in debate
• Knowledge about public advocacy and activism (useful both as information for students and for offering strategic counsel to administrators seeking favorable reception and/or adoption of proposals to improve education within their district)
• Materials useful for teaching media literacy (The goal is developing critical responses to popular media, such as television drama, motion picture, and television news.  My emphasis is on how the media cultivates dispositions toward populations that lead to discrimination and/or violence, including foreign and domestic cultures.)

• How to begin or improve the teaching or argumentation and debate
• How to begin or improve the teaching of media literacy
• How to develop strategic public advocacy campaigns designed to improve education and services

Specialization:

• Communication and the sexes
• Multicultural Communication Skills and Curriculum Development
• Rhetorical Studies
• Gender in Film & Popular culture

• Workshops for teachers/ administrators on above subjects
• Review of class materials/ curriculum
• Content suggestions; referrals to other communication specialists

• Public speaking
• Group facilitation
• Team building
• Curriculum Development experience (multicultural)
• Critiques of communication practices and specialist referrals

Specialization:

• Organizational Communication

• Conflict management
• Ethics and organizational communication

Specialization:

• Database Design
• Analysis and Design of Software Systems
• Object Oriented Programming and Design

• Curricular Development
• Provide short courses/ activities to extend knowledge of students beyond classwork
• Encouragement to Female Students in technical area

• Background in designing many courses in computer languages (Assembler, Basic, C, C++, Pascal, PL1, etc.)
• Have worked with Girl Scouts/ Boy Scouts and children for over three decades
• Experience in what it is like to be a mother, wife, work full-time and attend college at the same time
• Background in designing activities for youth to encourage exploration in computer science

Types of Resources I can make available to the partner school:

The Northern Illinois University Office of Economic Education is available as a resource to teachers and school districts, or to assist faculty participants in the Sharing Our Skills program with economics course content.  The Office is able to assist in curriculum development and can provide lesson plans and workshops to teachers, and might be able to demonstrate in-class activities to students.

Specialization:

• Writing in electronic environments
• Computers in language arts instruction
• Rhetoric of computer mediated communication
• Cross-cultural rhetoric
• Technical communications
• Poetry

• Making and evaluating web pages
• Online discussions (synchronous and asynchronous)
• Electronic portfolio creation and evaluation
• Can bring laptop and projector but would need Internet connection.

• Evaluating online sources
• Writing effective e-mail
• Peer evaluation/revision of writing in progress
• Navigating to and using information on the web

Specialization:

• English literature (with strong background in classical and continental literature and history)

• Curriculum development
• Teaching workshops in subject materials and/or pedagogy
• Interdisciplinary development

Specialization:

• Training of secondary teachers of English -- for 30+ years
• Modern British and American literature
• Literature and Psychology

• Assist in curricular development
• Provide specialized training in "cutting edge" research in teaching literature

• I have been training secondary school teachers for over 30 years and have developed all the skills that go with educating teachers of English.
• I have also done many in-service workshops for teachers in situ -- in Shakespeare, fiction, poetry, and other genres.
• I hold Ph.D.s in both English (Illinois, 1971) + Educational Psychology (Wisconsin-Madison, 2000).

Specialization:

• 18th-century English culture
• Popular prints

• Strong record in winning grants
• Experience in teacher workshops
• Strong record in teaching writing
• Winner of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award: 1996

Specialization:

• Linguistics

• I can deliver a complete interactive grammar textbook that runs on the internet.
• I can deliver a search program for literary texts, which also runs on the internet.

• Linguistic analysis, literary and ordinary language
• PERL programming
• Internet HTML and Javascript programming

Specialization:

• American literature & American studies
• Creative writing

• non-print course materials (including photographs and films)
• American lit/studies texts that are wide-ranging, both in terms of multicultural diversity and of diversity of media

• expertise in developing multicultural curricula and developing courses that use non-print materials (including photographs and films)
• Experience with partner programs:  At NIU, I participated in the "New Ideas in History and English" Conference for High School Teachers, Oct. 2000.  The seminar I ran was entitled "American Social History Novels:  Voices from Urban Neighborhoods."  At the college where I worked previously, Mount Mary's College, I participated in planning a set of workshops meant to introduce high school teachers to mulitcultural curricula.
• Experience teaching high school:  My experience teaching at the high school level familiarized me with what high school students can handle and what high school teachers look for in terms of curriculum enhancement.

Specialization:

• environmental change
• oceanography
• global chemical cycles
• climate change

• Background
• teaching materials
• web resources

• Concepts in Environmental Analysis
• Numerical methods in Environmental science
• Teaching and managing the complexity of environmental issues
• technical background in environmental analysis

Specialization:

• linguistics
• second language acquisition
• Germany (business culture, culture, history, etc.) -- all age levels

• teaching materials

• I have been going into schools (so far elementary and high schools) locally for special activities associated with Germany and Europe.
• I have given a workshop at the Illinois Council for Social Studies on Germany.
• I have received a lot of support from the Goethe-Institut.  They have supplied me with wonderful teaching materials to hand out to workshop participants.
• I am involved in talking about and teaching German business culture (in contrast to American).

Specialization:

• Climatalogy/ Meteorology

• We can share some of our old meteorogical instrumentation.
• Limited time to work with teachers and students

• Assist in curriculuar and grant development
• Provide specialized activities for public school students

Specialization:

• Geographic Information Systems
• K-12

• Training in GIS designed for K-12
• Training packages available for schools

• Designed prototype GIS training module for Rockford Schools last year under grant by Jule Scarboro.

Specialization:

• Soil science
• Earth surface processes
• Soils and agriculture
• Physical geography
• Surface geology of Northern Illinois
• Soils and Prairies

• Hands-on lab and field equipment to understand soils and their use and management potential
• Soil cores
• Lab demos
• Slides of soils and land use

• development of skills to understand fundamental soil properties:
-- Soil Suitability for:
-- plant growth
-- septic systems
-- ecologic systems
-- engineering uses
• Soil erosion/ conservation

Specialization:

• Mapping technologies
• Geographic information systems
• Economic geography of cities
• Precision agriculture

• special activities related to above

• mapping technologies
• GIS

Specialization:

• Physical Geography
• Earth science
• Hydrology
• Water resources
• Geographic informaton system
• Remote sensing

• GIS skills

• GIS skills

Specialization:

• Computer simulation of the atmosphere and climate
• Satellite remote sensing application in earth system study

• meteorogical observation instrument set can be available for display
• 3-Dimensional computer modeling results display/ demonstration

• application of math and physics in natural environment
• observation, analysis, and modeling of the atmosphere

Specialization:

• Earth Science
• Volcanology
• Geochemistry

• Classroom or assembly presentations on any of the following:
1. Science in Antarctica
2. Volcanoes
3. Minerals
4. Earthquakes
5. Careers in geosciences

Specialization:

• Modern Japanese and popular culture
• Modern Korea
• Oral History

• Curricular materials on oral history, Asian and world history

• I have experience teaching in professional development programs for teachers in Illinois and Arkansas.
• I can work with teachers developing primary source materials for world and Asian civ. units, and audio-visual teaching materials on Japanese popular culture.
• I teach oral history methods at NIU and can assist with the development of local oral history projects for U.S. history classes.
• I'm also willing to guest lecture in classes in areas relevant to my expertise.

Specialization:

• Abstract Algebra -- Noncommutative Ring Theory
• Number Theory

• Guest lecture at secondary schools on mathematical cryptography (Appropriate for seniors)
• Guest lecture on a mathematical puzzle (Appropriate for students in Algebra II or above)
• Participating in (or leading) a reading group on a mathematical topic that met one Saturday per month

Specialization:

• Number Theory
• Combinatorics

Talk:

• Secret Codes
• Running a successful summer camp for talented math students

Specialization:

• Number Theory

• Guest lecture on cryptography and codes, appropriate for any high school audience

Specialization:

• Geometry

• literature on research mathematics and popular math

• coaching math clubs in junior high or high schools

Specialization:

• Philosophy of Language
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Religion
• International Ethics

• I can talk about the Middle East, especially the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and about topics in International Ethics, e.g. violence, war, terrorism, international law, international federations, and nationalism.

Specialization:

• Particle Physics

• loans of demonstration materials
• equipment repair
• NIU observatory

• teaching experience in general education courses

Specialization:

• Science Education and Technology

• Technology
• Starlab

• Technology
• Science Curriculum Design
• Gifted Education

Specialization:

• American politics
• Survey research methods

• can help in developing student projects centering on voting and civic life
• can help design surveys and also analyze data

• expertise in American government
• design and implementation of surveys
• analysis skills

Specialization:

• American foreign policy
• international relations
• national security policy

• asssist in curricular development and research activity
• Special projects

• experience in case teaching where descriptive case studies of critical public policy decisions and actions are employed to highlight conceptual material and the real world of government policy-making (This approach promotes active engagement, critical thinking, and reasoned argumentation.)

Specialization:

• International Relations
• Russian politics
• African politics

• Curriculum development
• personal presentation
• arrange speakers

• Have lived in both regions (Russia & Africa) and have considerable research expertise on both regions

Specialization:

• Southeast Asia
• Japan
• Political economy

• consulting
• speaking

• knowledge of topics above

Specialization:

• Developmental Psychology
• School Psychology

• Knowledge of child and adolescent development
• Knowledge of the roles and functions of school psychologists
• Knowledge of the process of conceptualizing and conducting research

Specialization:

• Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Assessment of Social Support in Children
• Adolescent School Psychology

• Consultation relevant to school pyschology
• Inservices relevant to school pychology
• Program evaluation

Specialization:

• School Psychology

• Social support available to students (3rd - 12th)
• Problem-solving program evaluation in schools
• Curriculum-based measurement
• Assesment issues (e.g. testing accomodations)

• help in evaluating social curricula or programs being implemented in schools
• providing screening of students at-risk
• consulting on these issues and on assessment issues
• consulting to create CBM district norms
• inservices on a variety of topics
• some experience training in instructional technology

• strong communication skills
• experience working as a school psychologist (k-12)
• an appreciation for the workload of teachers and educators
• the resources listed above
• strong instructional technology skills
• grant writing experience
• trained in Iowa Problem Solving Model

Specialization:

• My area of expertise is in developmental psycholgy.  My focus in on children's social relationships.  Specifically, I am interested in parent-child and peer relationships, particularly during adolescence and with an interest on these issues across non-White and White racial groups.
• I also worked for three years as an Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The Cooperative Extension Service is the branch of land grant universities that is responsible for helping translate the research conducted at the university into practice.  My responsibilities in that position were to conduct research and to participate in outreach to the community around issues of youth development.  I have an ongoing interest in creating avenues for disseminating and utilizing research-based information in the community setting.

• I created a newsletter, Gateway:  Parenting Into the Teen Years (with a team of Extension Educators) for the cooperative Extension Service of the University of Illinois.  This is a 12-issue newsletter intended to provide parents of young adolescents information about the transition to adolescence.  This is just an example of the types of materials that I could assist schools in creating for their students and parents.
• I also maintain contacts with colleagues in the Cooperative Extension Service in the States of Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.  Through these contacts I have access to resources (e.g., printed materials, programs for adolescents, calls for grant proposals, etc.) that might be useful to schools in their work with adolescents.

1. Provide administrators, teachers, counselors, and parents with research-based information on adolescent development generally and more specifically (for non-White and White groups) on :
Parent-child relationships
Parenting style
Parenting and academic achievement
Parenting and drug use and delinquent behavior
Parental management of peer relationships
Friendship
Bullying/victimization
Peer rejection
Peer influence
Peer pressure
Same- and cross-ethnic friendships
2. Assist school personnel in planning programs around the issues listed in 1. above
3. Assist school personnel in preparing grant proposals around the issues listed in 1. above
4. Assist school personnel in evaluating programs around the issues listed in 1. above

Specialization:

• Gender and Family Studies
• Race and Ethnicity
• Low-income and Welfare Populations
• Multicultural Studies

• Cultural sensitivity training (I've worked with DeKalb CASA since 1994.)
• In-service training on low-income parents and family needs (I did such a training with Brooks Elementary in 2000.)
• Survey construction and interviewing parents, teachers, etc.
• Guest lecturing to secondary or elementary students
• Forming and conducting reading groups in sociological topics on site for teachers

Specialization:

• Race and Ethnic Relations
• Social Psychology

• My areas of research focus on the way that members in small groups, heterogeneous groups in particular, interact.  Due to current systems of inequality, different individuals have different statuses in groups.  Studies show that individuals who possess low status characteristics (i.e., a person of color, a woman, a person with disability) are often at a disadvantage when interacting with those of higher status (i.e., a white person, a man, an able-bodied person).  My past research indicates that by defining collaberative tasks in a non-unitary or multiability manner, individuals who possess low status characteristics can derive important benefits by decreasing group inequality and creating an environment where all group members have opportunities to participate.  America's educational system is in a state of transition as educators and administrators are challenged to create curriculum and environments for an increasingly diverse population.  Teachers and others should be award of the effects that status characteristics may have on collaberative groups, and work to ensure equity in participation.

• I can provide information on 1) diffuse status characteristics and the ways that they are activated in groups and, 2) multiability intervention ideas that create a more equitable setting where groups of diverse children must work and learn together.  I can also help in the writing of grants for funding to help implement new ideas for working with a changing population.

Specialization:

• Women's Studies (interest in girls, women and math, etc.)
• English

• Taught high school for ten years:  specialized in teaching poetry and started centers using peer tutors
• Women's Studies office resources for women and girls

• Grant writing
• Curricular and program development
• Special activities for young women
• Familiarity with current research on girls in general, as well as in math in particular

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• Information from National Association of Secondary Principals
• Information from Illinois Principal's Association
• Information from Association of Curriculum and Development
• Current information on best practice from recent conferences

Presentations that I have made or make at the state and national level:

• Creating a Brain-friendly Instructional Climate
• What Administrators Want
• Creating Success for ALL Students:  Defining the Expectations
• Block Scheduling -- The Pro's and Con's
• Strategies for Teaching in a Block Schedule
• Internal Review:  A Plan for Continuous School Improvement
• The Change Process
• Leadership Skills and Strategies

Index

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• strong background in classroom management
• experience in dean's office

• variety of classroom management techniques
• tips on creating a mutually respectful learning environment
• strategies for establishing classroom climate that is student centered
• strategies for promoting responsibility in students

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• Seventeen years of experience
• I have presented at the Illinois State Convention (AAPERD) for the last 4 years and at the national convention.

• I have skills involving classroom climates -- creating a productive, non-threatening, enjoyable environment for all.  This can be done regardless of the area that someone teaches in.

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• I have done service learning projects (3 years) with special needs students (EMH) and could (teach) present a class and show a video on this topic -- (Workshop: 1 or 2 hour, 1 time).

• I have taught Special Needs students 26 years.  I would welcome student visitors, possibly student teachers, and students who would like practicum hours into my classes.
• I would like to work with students in developing service learning activities, possibly curriculum, partnerships with the community.

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• Inservice to regular Ed (Elem/Secondary) teachers regarding the impact hearing loss has on language and classroom behavior
• Information regarding itinerant teaching for hearing-impaired teacher candidates

• I have discussed and shared information regarding hearing loss and its educational and social emotional implications with many groups.
• I am familiar with different standardized tests used for evaluation of hearing-impaired students and can accurately convey how to administer the test items.
• I have mentored beginning teachers, student teachers and practicum students.
• I have presented innovative teaching materials and techniques at statewide conferences and have been well-received at all of them.

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• Workshops -- Special Education, Reading, LD, BD, Behavior Management
• Differentiated instruction -- regualar education classes and special education

• How to incorporate Gardner's 7 intelligences Dimensions of Learning into regular education classes and special education classes through a multi-media approach.
• How to improve reading comprehension through instruction of reading strategies (Special Ed. & Reg. Ed.)

Description of skills I can bring to CLAS-NIU:

• I have extensive experience in developing curriculum.  For several years we have worked to align content, assessments, and instructional strategies, and most recently have worked on developing standards.
• District level work in social studies, reading, process writing, and math.  In our district, teachers have the opportunity to go beyond the textbook and provide other resources to maximize student learning.  I have developed units of instruction in reading, writing, and social studies that utilize a variety of instructional methods and materials, centering on a theme.
• Cooperative Learning and Collaborative Practice:  10 years of classroom experience as well as development and facilitation of teacher training workshops and courses for teachers grade 6-12.
• Classroom experience:  21 years at sixth grade level.  Mostly reading, language arts, and social studies.  Several years of math.
• Leadership and organizational skills
• Planning and communication skills
• I have supervised 4 student teachers
• I have taught a K-8 Social Studies Methods course for National-Louis University MAT students for the past two years.
• I have participated as a member of the district Strategic Planning Team for over 10 years.

Types of Resources I can make available to CLAS-NIU:

• Technology labs 3 (MAC)

• Help staff design units involving technology, from simple web pages to multimedia productions