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PROFESSIONAL
EMPLOYMENT |
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Academic
Year Appointments
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Dates |
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Caneyville
Public Schools, Caneyville, Kentucky
Teacher of science and sixth grade.
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1970 |
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Edwardsville
Public Schools, Edwardsville, Illinois
Demonstration
teacher of the gifted.
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1971
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Department
of Exceptional Children, Illinois Office
of Education
Regional
Supervisor.
Major responsibilities:
(a) supervising
and assisting in the development of programs
for the
gifted
in a 17-county region, (b) developing
state program policies
and guidelines,
(c) supervising an area service center
for the gifted,
and (d)
approving proposals for state-funded local
school projects for
the gifted.
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1971-1974
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School
of Continuing Education, Western Illinois
University
Off-Campus
Instructor.
Hilda Taba Teaching Strategies.
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1972 |
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National
College of Education, Evanston, Illinois
Off-Campus
Instructor.
Hilda Taba Teaching Strategies.
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1973 |
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Office
of Gifted and Talented, U.S. Office of
Education
Administrative
Intern.
Major responsibilities:
(a)
assisting director in administration of
various programs, (b) writing
rules
and regulations for implementation of
first federal legislation for
the
gifted and talented, (c) liaison with
training institute on the gifted,
(d)
writing requests for proposals, and (e)
organizing and conducting
regional
hearings on proposed rules and regulations.
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1974-1975 |
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Department
of Foundations of Education, University
of Virginia
Graduate
Instructor.
(Team Teaching)
Introductory
Educational
Psychology.
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1976-1977 |
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School
of Continuing Education, University of
Virginia
Off-Campus
Instructor.
Introductory courses in education
of
the
gifted.
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1976-1978 |
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Department
of Special Education, University of New
Mexico
Assistant
Professor.
Major responsibilities:
(a)
developing and coordinating graduate degree
programs in education
of
the gifted, (b) teaching and advising
graduate students, and
(c)
coordinating summer enrichment program
for preschool and primary
gifted
children.
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1978-1981 |
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Department
of Special Education, The University of
Arizona
Assistant
Professor.
Major responsibilities:
(a)
developing and coordinating graduate degree
programs in education
of
gifted students, and (b) teaching and
advising graduate students in
special
education, especially education of the
gifted.
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1981-1983 |
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Department
of Special Education and Rehabilitation
Associate
Professor.
Major responsibilities:
(a)
coordinating the degree concentrations
in education of the gifted,
and
(b) teaching and advising graduate students
in special education,
especially
education of the gifted.
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1983-1996 |
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Department
of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, The University of
Arizona
Professor.
Major responsibilities:
(a)
coordinating the degree concentrations
in education of the gifted,
and
(b) teaching and advising graduate students
in special education,
especially
education of the gifted.
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1996-Present
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Summer
Seminars, Workshops, and Sponsored Travel |
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Institution,
Responsibility, and Topic
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Dates |
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Department
of Special Education, University of North
Carolina
Taught
workshop in education of the gifted.
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1976 |
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Department
of Educational Psychology, University
of Connecticut
Taught
a "strand" on questioning strategies
for institute on
education
of the gifted.
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1981 |
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Department
of Special Education, University of Denver
Taught
advanced seminar on issues in education
of gifted
handicapped
individuals
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1981,
1982 |
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College
of Education, University of Wyoming
Taught
course in education of the gifted.
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1981 |
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Department
of Special Education, Canberra College
of Advanced
Education,
Australia
Presented
seminars on education of the gifted.
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1982
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Department
of Special Education, Texas Women's University
Taught
workshop on methods for teaching the gifted.
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1983 |
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University
of Southern Maine and the Department of
Defense
Dependents
Schools (DODDS)
Taught
seminar on curricula and teaching strategies
for
teachers
of gifted students in DODDS schools in
23 countries.
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1983 |
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Division
of Special Education, Hawaii State Department
Education.
Taught
seminars on curriculum development as
part of a
larger
project to develop a curriculum for programs
for the gifted.
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1983,
1984 |
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College
of Education, McGill University (Canada)
Taught
seminar on curriculum and teaching strategies
in
education
of the gifted.
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1984 |
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Department
of Education, College of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Taught
workshop on curriculum development for
programs for
gifted
students.
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1985 |
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Department
of Education, Minot State College (North
Dakota)
Taught
workshop on curricula and teaching strategies
for the gifted.
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1985 |
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Department
of Education, Spalding College (Kentucky)
and
National
Catholic Education Association
Taught
summer institute on education of the gifted.
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1985 |
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College
of Education, Berlin University (Germany)
sponsor
Presented
seminars on education of the gifted and
handicapped,
focusing on international comparisons,
to the
Universities
of Wurzburg, Munchen, Frankfurt, Tubigen,
and Koln.
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1986 |
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Department
of Education, Universidad de las Americas
(Mexico)
and
The University of Arizona
Taught
colloquium on creativity and giftedness
to American
and
Mexican educators in an exchange program.
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1987 |
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The
Tennessee Department of Education and
Belmont College
Presented
a keynote address series on Problem Solving
and
Multiple
Intelligences for Annual Summer Symposium
for
Teachers
of the Talented and Gifted.
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1989 |
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Lamar
University, Beaumont, Texas and
National
Javits Project STEP-UP
Presented
one-week seminar on curriculum and alternative
identification
processes for potentially gifted minority
and
disadvantaged students.
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1991,
1992 |
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Saratoga-Warren
BOCES and National javits Project for
Language
Arts
Research
Assisted
in supervision of language arts curriculum
development
teams, presented seminars on curriculum
for
gifted
students, and assisted in development
of plans for
field
testing of curricula.
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1991 |
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Durham
County Public Schools
Taught
2-week course in curriculum development
for the
gifted
in regular classrooms.
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1992 |
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China
Association for Science and Technology
and China International
Conference
Center for Science and Technology (Beijing,
China) and
Global
Interactions, Inc. (Arizona)
Coordinated
Interactive Learning Center for Chinese
and
American
students and teachers.
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1997 |