Teaching

Graduate Courses

(ECED 7/8103) Literacy Development in Early Childhood Education 
(ECED 7/8102) Observation and Assessment in Inclusive Early Childhood Programs

(ECED 6510) Early Childhood Education Programs and Practices 

(SPED 6900) Consultation with Schools, Families, and Communities  

(ICL 7706) Family and Community Relations for Teachers 

(SOC 6700) Cultural Competence/Constituent Participation/Strengths-based Assessment: Toward a System of Care for Children and Families 

 

Undergraduate Courses

(CFD 560) Family Involvement

(CFD) 563) Administration of Programs

(ECED 4936) Early Childhood Education Level IV Senior Seminar

(ECED 4900) Student Teaching in Primary Grades

(ECED 4515) Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood

(ECED 4510) Early Childhood Education Programs and Practices

(ECED 3555) Observation and Assessment of Infant and Early Childhood Development 

(SPED 2000) Issues in Human Diversity 

(EDG 2701) Teaching Diverse Populations   

 

Honor’s Course

How Many Licks does it take to get to the Center of Competence in the 21^st Century?

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

2006  Listed in the 10th edition of Who's Who among America's                
            Teachers, the nation's top five percent of educators.

2005  Listed in the 9th edition of Who's Who among America's Teachers,
            the nation's top five percent of educators.

2005  Nominee for the Thomas W. Briggs Foundation Excellence in
            Teaching Award at the University of Memphis.

2002 Selected to teach a course designed, “How Many Licks does it take
           to get to the Center of Cultural Competence in the 21^st Century?”
           for the University of Memphis Honors’ Program.

2002 Nominee for the Outstanding Teacher Award for the College of
           Education at the University of Memphis.

2001 Selected to teach a course designed, “How Many Licks does it take
           to get to the Center of Cultural Competence in the 21^st Century?”
           for the University of Memphis Honors’ Program.

2000 Recipient of the Achievement Award for Adventures in Learning to
           Teach, from the Dean’s Institute for Educational Excellence at the
           University of Memphis.

 

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again

into flame by an encounter with another human being. 

Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those

who have rekindled this inner light.

 ~Albert Schweitzer~