May 2nd, 2011 | Published in Calendar
UGA Professional Development Workshop Series on Research Methodology
Presenter: Mark Vagle, assistant professor,
UGA Department of Elementary and Social Studies Education
Georgia Center
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May 31st, 2011 | Published in Awards / Honors, CHDS, Press Releases
Kleiber is widely known as a leading authority on leisure and human development.
University of Georgia recreation and leisure studies professor Douglas Kleiber has spent most of his career studying what makes people active in their communities and happy in later life. He will continue that research over the next six months in Spain after receiving a fellowship from a university there.
Kleiber, a faculty member in the College of Education’s department of counseling and human development services, has received a fellowship from the Basque Science Foundation to do research on leisure and aging with the Institute of Leisure Studies at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain, from June to December 2011.
“Deusto University primarily serves the people of the Basque region in northern Spain where the work will take place,” said Kleiber. “The primary objective is to identify factors associated with active engagement and subjective well-being in later life with the purpose of informing education and social policy decisions and identifying opportunities for leisure education and intervention earlier in life.”
Kleiber will also give a keynote address to the “OcioGune 2011,” a national conference on leisure and social innovation being held in Bilbao on June 10.
Kleiber is widely known as a leading authority on leisure and human development. His work has addressed a wide range of research issues that has furthered the understanding of leisure behavior and the role of leisure in the psycho-social adjustment of the individual. He was among the first scholars to explore personality differences in leisure behavior and the contributions that people’s leisure could make to their mental health.
The second edition of a book titled, A Social Psychology of Leisure (Venture Publishing), that he co-authored with Roger Mannell, a professor of health studies and gerontology at the University of Waterloo in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is to be published this summer.
His book, Leisure Experiences and Human Development (1999), in which he pulls together his observations and research over many years, to present a comprehensive developmental treatise on leisure over the entire life course, has been highly praised by scholars both inside and outside of the field.
Kleiber has received many honors for his work over his 39-year career including the 2009 Distinguished Colleague Award from the Society for Park and Recreation Educators, the
2008 Russell H. Yeany Research Award from the UGA College of Education, the 2003 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Award for Research on Recreation and Leisure from the National Park and Recreation Association and the 1994 Allan V. Sapora Research Award from the University of Illinois. He was inducted into the Academy of Leisure Sciences in 1987 and served as its president in 1992.
He has served as associate editor of several professional journals including Leisure Studies, Leisure Sciences, World Leisure Journal, Journal of Leisure Research and Journal of Sport Behavior.
Kleiber joined the UGA faculty in 1989 as a professor and head of the department of recreation and leisure studies, which he led for 12 years. He served as director of the School of Health and Human Performance from 2001-03. He received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Texas at Austin
May 31st, 2011 | Published in LLE, Press Releases
Pictured in front of the mural created by students of the Project Focus After School Program at Gaines Elementary School are: (L-R): Gloria Thompson (Director, Project Focus After School Program at Gaines Elementary), Dean Arthur Horne (COE), Richard Siegesmund (professor and co-chair, Art Education dept), Lauren Kucera and Jim Woglom (instructors, Art Education).
A colorful, new six-by-seven-foot mural painted by local elementary school students now brightens a third floor wall of the College of Education’s Aderhold Hall, thanks to a collaborative effort led by a group of University of Georgia art education students.
The mural which is titled, “Shaping our World,” depicts the relationships between humans, animals and the environment. It was recently installed between the college’s Reading and School Psychology clinics. Now, as children and their families and caregivers attend the clinics, they will be welcomed by the art of local youth.
The project was directed by Lauren Kucera, an adjunct instructor and James Woglom, a doctoral student in art education who were both teaching UGA classes spring semester that featured a month-long practicum experience with students in the Gaines Elementary AfterSchool Program.
The UGA students plan four-week, age-appropriate units connected to the central theme(s). These units feature children’s books, and include reading, writing and art-making in small groups. Reading the books together inspires conversation about environments, large and small, and the relationships between humans and other creatures, real and imaginary, in those environments.
“The children create their own worlds and inhabitants, learning media and techniques to use for the mural panels,” said Woglom. “Each mural panel is unique, reflecting the media and technique utilized, as well as the individual artist’s hand and view of his or her world. Combined, the panels create a large globe of diverse blue and green tones, textures, and gestures, from elementary and college students working together.”
“The spirit of the mural and the project’s integration of literacy, the environment and the arts, represents the teaching, research and outreach of the 3rd floor of Aderhold,” said JoBeth Allen, a professor of language and literacy education whose initial idea led to this project. “Our scholarship focuses on language, literacy, culture, and individuals’ cognitive and emotional well-being, so we welcome this mural.”
The project was actually the culmination of a proposal Allen made to the dean last summer about creating “Halls of Learning” in the college featuring faculty and student work for a more engaging, attractive educational environment.
Smith
But the idea was really set into motion by Winnie Smith, a former administrative assistant in the dean’s office and now an administrative manager with the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science. Smith (BFA ’00), currently a master’s student in art education, talked with Allen about a mural like the one outside the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. She contacted her art education professors Tracy Costantino and Richard Siegesmund who suggested the project for the UGA class who were working with Gaines Elementary School.
May 31st, 2011 | Published in Features, LLE
Pictured in front of the mural created by students of the Project Focus After School Program at Gaines Elementary School are: (L-R): Gloria Thompson (Director, Project Focus After School Program at Gaines Elementary), Dean Arthur Horne (COE), Richard Siegesmund (professor and co-chair, Art Education dept), Lauren Kucera and Jim Woglom (instructors, Art Education).
A colorful, new six-by-seven-foot mural painted by local elementary school students now brightens a third floor wall of the College of Education’s Aderhold Hall, thanks to a collaborative effort led by a group of University of Georgia art education students.
The mural which is titled, “Shaping our World,” depicts the relationships between humans, animals and the environment. It was recently installed between the college’s Reading and School Psychology clinics. Now, as children and their families and caregivers attend the clinics, they will be welcomed by the art of local youth.
The project was directed by Lauren Kucera, an adjunct instructor and James Woglom, a doctoral student in art education who were both teaching UGA classes spring semester that featured a month-long practicum experience with students in the Gaines Elementary AfterSchool Program.
The UGA students plan four-week, age-appropriate units connected to the central theme(s). These units feature children’s books, and include reading, writing and art-making in small groups. Reading the books together inspires conversation about environments, large and small, and the relationships between humans and other creatures, real and imaginary, in those environments.
“The children create their own worlds and inhabitants, learning media and techniques to use for the mural panels,” said Woglom. “Each mural panel is unique, reflecting the media and technique utilized, as well as the individual artist’s hand and view of his or her world. Combined, the panels create a large globe of diverse blue and green tones, textures, and gestures, from elementary and college students working together.”
“The spirit of the mural and the project’s integration of literacy, the environment and the arts, represents the teaching, research and outreach of the 3rd floor of Aderhold,” said JoBeth Allen, a professor of language and literacy education whose initial idea led to this project. “Our scholarship focuses on language, literacy, culture, and individuals’ cognitive and emotional well-being, so we welcome this mural.”
The project was actually the culmination of a proposal Allen made to the dean last summer about creating “Halls of Learning” in the college featuring faculty and student work for a more engaging, attractive educational environment.
Smith
But the idea was really set into motion by Winnie Smith, a former administrative assistant in the dean’s office and now an administrative manager with the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science. Smith (BFA ’00), currently a master’s student in art education, talked with Allen about a mural like the one outside the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. She contacted her art education professors Tracy Costantino and Richard Siegesmund who suggested the project for the UGA class who were working with Gaines Elementary School
May 31st, 2011 | Published in CHDS, Dean's Office, Press Releases, Student News
Phil and Carol Hendrickson present the first scholarship in their son's name to Maddeline McGraw (C) who is joined by Corey Johnson, an associate professor in the recreation and leisure studies program. Photo by Julie Sartor.
University of Georgia student Michael Hendrickson dreamed of running a youth camp before he was was tragically struck down by meningitis in December 2007.
Now, a rising senior in UGA’s recreation and leisure studies program will get to realize the same dream herself thanks to financial aid from a memorial scholarship set up by Michael’s parents, Phil and Carol Hendrickson, of Martinez.
Maddeline McGraw, of Rome, is the first recipient of the Michael J. Hendrickson Memorial Scholarship. She received the award from the Hendrickson family during the program’s recent year-end celebration.
The scholarship is a cash award for the recipient to use toward education expenses. The fund also supports program activities such as class field trips, student conference attendance, guest speakers, programming resources and other undergraduate program-related expenses.
The Hendricksons established the fund shortly after Michael’s death from meningococcal meningitis, an infection that results in swelling and inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
The loving response and outpouring of support from the RLST program, the College of Education and the university led the Hendricksons to initiate the fund at UGA.
“When you’re a grieving parent, you want to look for something positive,” said Phil. “Out of the blue, I thought of the scholarship. I thought it was impossible because of the amount we would need to raise. However, within six months, we had more than enough to start an academic fund. Now we have raised more than enough for the scholarship, and the money just keeps coming in.”
Michael Hendrickson remembered for striving to make a difference in his community.
The scholarship is a way to remember Michael’s life and the impact he had on his fellow students. Selection is based on ambition, quality of character and someone who shares Michael’s spirit, said Gwynn Powell, an associate professor in the program, which is based in the college’s department of counseling and human development services.
“The scholarship is a way that Michael’s legacy can have a lasting impact on the entire state,” she said.
Michael had earned enough credits to graduate from UGA that December, and he was awarded his degree posthumously. The degree is extra special because Michael found a home and his life path in the RLST program, said the Hendricksons. He had plans for an internship at Mistletoe State Park in Appling, following graduation.
Michael attended Georgia Military College before transferring to UGA as a junior, quite a surprise to Phil, a University of Florida alumnus.
“Michael called to tell me that he had damaged the front of my car and that I needed to take a look,” recalls Phil. “He had put a UGA/UF House Divided plate on my car as a way of telling me he was headed to UGA.”
The plate remains on the car today.
Michael became a leader at UGA and served as a peer mentor for students in his major, said Corey Johnson, an associate professor in the program.
“Michael was one of the bright and shining stars in that group,” he said. “He was out to make a difference in his community, out to share his beliefs and his faith.”
Like Michael, McGraw thrives on investing in the lives of others, particularly as a camp counselor. She has served as a counselor at Camp Skyline Ranch in Mentone, Ala., for the past few years.
“I am excited to represent this scholarship as its first recipient, and I can only hope to leave such an amazing impact as Michael did on the RLST family,” said Maddeline. “Through the Hendricksons, I am afforded the opportunity to take one more step toward my future goals and endeavors. It’s incredibly encouraging to know that not only are they supporting me financially, but also emotionally and spiritually.”
Meningococcal meningitis is caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis (also known as meningococcus). Most cases occur in children and adolescents. Meningococcus is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in children and the second most common cause of bacterial meningitis in adults.
Risk factors include recent exposure to meningococcus and a recent upper respiratory infection. The infection occurs more often in winter or spring. It may cause local epidemics at boarding schools, college dormitories or military bases.
Vaccines are effective for controlling epidemics. They are currently recommended for college students in their first year living in dormitories, military recruits and travelers to certain parts of the world. Michael did not get the vaccine because he never lived in a dorm.
If you would like to contribute to this endowment, please mail a check payable to the Arch Foundation/Hendrickson Schp in Rec & Leisure Std (Acct # 30-7134-50) to: UGA Gift Accounting, 394 S. Milledge Avenue, Athens, GA 30602. All contributions to the Michael J. Hendrickson Scholarship are tax-deductible, and you will receive a receipt.
May 24th, 2011 | Published in CSSE, Press Releases, Research
Nearly 200 speech-language pathologists and special education teachers from across the state will hear about the latest research and best practices concerning a wide variety of topics in their fields at the University of Georgia’s third annual Communication Sciences and Special Education Summer Institute June 15-17.
Hoit
A special Pre-Conference Workshop on June 15 will feature Jeannette Hoit, a professor in professor in speech, language, and hearing sciences at the University of Arizona, who will speak on Evaluation and Management of Speech Breathing Disorders. Keynote speakers for the June 16-17 sessions of the conference at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education will include:
Sousa
Sousa has conducted workshops in hundreds of school districts on brain research, instructional skills and science education at the Pre-K to 12 and university levels. A member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, he has made presentations to more than 100,000 educators at national conventions of educational organizations and to regional and local school districts across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. He has taught senior high school science, served as a K-12 director of science, a supervisor of instruction, and a district superintendent in New Jersey schools. He has been an adjunct professor of education at Seton Hall University and a visiting lecturer at Rutgers University. He has doctorate from Rutgers University.
Sousa will deliver a keynote address at 8:45 a.m. on Thursday titled, How the Brain Learns to Read: A Difficult Process, Indeed!
Lee
As a young man, Lee was recruited to UGA on a swimming scholarship and was elected captain of the swim team, graduating after facing his learning disabilities and developing learning strategies. In 1992, Lee published a book titled, Faking It: A Look into the Mind of a Creative Learner and in 2001, What About Me? Strategies for Teaching Misunderstood Learners. Lee has published a one-of-a-kind online guide, Learning Disabilities and Technology, an Emerging Way to Touch the Future. He is a member of the Heinemann Speakers Bureau and has spoken to groups around the nation about self-advocacy, living with learning disabilities and assistive technology for learning disabilities. He has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio and in newspaper articles picked up by the Associated Press. In 2003, Lee was awarded the W.F. Faulkes Award by The National Rehabilitation Association and was highlighted in a Microsoft video and publication, Microsoft Accessible Technology for Everyone. In 2007, he was featured in PBS’ Reading Rockets Program. He has served as director of Georgia’s Assistive Technology Project, Tools for Life, and executive director of the Learning Disabilities Association of Georgia and president to both this organization and the Atlanta chapter of the Learning Disabilities Adults of Georgia. He has a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on social psychology from the Union Institute and University.
Lee will present a keynote address at 10:45 a.m. on Thursday titled, A World of Knowledge Open to All.
Alderman
Alderman has been on the faculty at Winthrop since 1992. His research has been in the areas of students with emotional disabilities, classroom management practices, reading, spelling, peer tutoring, and inclusion, which has been published in numerous journals and he regularly presents at state, regional, and national conferences. He also has developed a classroom management program and manual, Advanced Classroom Management: Strategies and Techniques for The Most Difficult to Manage Students that has been adopted by schools districts both nationally and internationally. He regularly provides training throughout the United States in this model. He also has served on many boards, grants, and workgroups through the South Carolina State Department of Education. He is a member and past president of the South Carolina Association of School Psychologists, past president of the South Carolina Council for Children with Behavior Disorders, and currently is a member of the National Association of School Psychologists. He received his Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of South Carolina.
Alderman will deliver a keynote address at 9:45 a.m. on Friday titled, Bringing Out the Best in Students Behaving at Their Worst: Getting Out of the Traps of Behavior Management.
All keynote addresses will be given in the Georgia Center’s Mahler Auditorium.
The two-day conference is hosted by the UGA College of Education’s department of communication sciences and special education.
Registration fees include keynote and breakout sessions, as well as morning and afternoon refreshments and a networking lunch each day. Registration can be done on site on the first day of the conference, but pre-registration is preferred. For more information or to register, visit:
May 18th, 2011 | Published in CHDS, Press Releases, Research
Alan Stewart (above), an associate professor in counseling psychology is leading the NSF-funded project along with UGA colleague John Knox, an assistant professor in geography.
A team of science and educational experts led by a University of Georgia psychologist and atmospheric scientist will teach a group of Bibb County school teachers what they should teach their students about the science of weather and how to respond safely when it threatens in a weeklong series of workshops.
About 30 K-8 teachers are expected to attend a Weather Science and Safety Workshop May 23-27 in Macon, according to project leader Alan Stewart, an associate professor in counseling psychology in UGA’s College of Education. UGA colleague John Knox, an assistant professor in geography, is a co-investigator in the project, which is funded by a National Science Foundation grant.
The workshop comes in the aftermath of a series of recent tornadoes that have ripped across the Southeast, causing hundreds of deaths and millions of dollars in damage over the last several weeks.
“Our goal is to provide professional development to teachers about both the science and safety practices concerning hazards we routinely face in Georgia: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods,” said Stewart. “As part of this effort, the workshop uses the Masters of Disaster (K-8) curriculum that has been developed by the American Red Cross as a curricular resource that meets state and national performance standards in multiple curriculum areas.”
The workshop team consists of meteorologists Knox and his doctoral student, Aneela Qureshi; a science educator, Thomas Koballa, dean of the College of Education at Georgia Southern University and former professor and head of the department of science education at UGA; and Pat Schneider of Teachable Tech, Inc., of Atlanta, whose company helped to develop the Masters of Disaster curriculum.
The workshop will introduce the teachers to the curriculum and train them in its use. It will show teachers how to deliver the curriculum to their classes during the following school year and to share the curriculum with their colleagues.
The Masters of Disaster curriculum is centered on a series of ready-to-go lesson plans that help schools educate youth about important disaster safety and preparedness information. The curriculum contains lessons, activities and demonstrations on disaster-related topics that schools can incorporate into daily or thematic programming. The curriculum is non-sequential, allowing organizers to choose the lesson plans that best fit into their programming. The curriculum materials meet national educational standards and are specifically tailored for lower elementary (K–2), upper elementary (3–5) and middle school (6–8) classes.
The education on essential preparedness skills that students receive through the program will carry them through life. Lessons are enjoyable and interactive, ensuring that children are having fun while internalizing important life skills though building capabilities in mathematics, language arts, social studies and science.
The curriculum can also help reduce children’s anxiety about unknown aspects of disasters and tragic events. They will also gain confidence to deal successfully with life’s unexpected turns.
The Masters of Disaster series has almost 200 lesson plans in it including such topics as:
“Another important goal of the project is to evaluate the extent to which providing the workshop and disseminating the Masters of Disaster curriculum materials to teachers during the workshop leads to an increase in the weather science and safety knowledge of students of those teachers who participate in the workshop,” said Stewart. “We will also evaluate the extent to which the safety messages about weather that students learn are taken home and are either known, or hopefully, implemented by the students’ families.”
The grant will allow the UGA researchers to do two more workshops in the summer of 2012. One will be held in South Georgia and another in Georgia’s southern coastal region.
May 18th, 2011 | Published in Features
"We will also evaluate the extent to which the safety messages about weather that students learn are taken home and are either known, or hopefully, implemented by the students' families," said Stewart.
A team of science and educational experts led by a University of Georgia psychologist and atmospheric scientist will teach a group of Bibb County school teachers what they should teach their students about the science of weather and how to respond safely when it threatens in a weeklong series of workshops.
About 30 K-8 teachers are expected to attend a Weather Science and Safety Workshop May 23-27 in Macon, according to project leader Alan Stewart, an associate professor in counseling psychology in UGA’s College of Education. UGA colleague John Knox, an assistant professor in geography, is a co-investigator in the project, which is funded by a National Science Foundation grant.
The workshop comes in the aftermath of a series of recent tornadoes that have ripped across the Southeast, causing hundreds of deaths and millions of dollars in damage over the last several weeks.
“Our goal is to provide professional development to teachers about both the science and safety practices concerning hazards we routinely face in Georgia: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods,” said Stewart. “As part of this effort, the workshop uses the Masters of Disaster (K-8) curriculum that has been developed by the American Red Cross as a curricular resource that meets state and national performance standards in multiple curriculum areas.”
The workshop team consists of meteorologists Knox and his doctoral student, Aneela Qureshi; a science educator, Thomas Koballa, dean of the College of Education at Georgia Southern University and former professor and head of the department of science education at UGA; and Pat Schneider of Teachable Tech, Inc., of Atlanta, whose company helped to develop the Masters of Disaster curriculum.
The workshop will introduce the teachers to the curriculum and train them in its use. It will show teachers how to deliver the curriculum to their classes during the following school year and to share the curriculum with their colleagues.
The Masters of Disaster curriculum is centered on a series of ready-to-go lesson plans that help schools educate youth about important disaster safety and preparedness information. The curriculum contains lessons, activities and demonstrations on disaster-related topics that schools can incorporate into daily or thematic programming. The curriculum is non-sequential, allowing organizers to choose the lesson plans that best fit into their programming. The curriculum materials meet national educational standards and are specifically tailored for lower elementary (K–2), upper elementary (3–5) and middle school (6–8) classes.
The education on essential preparedness skills that students receive through the program will carry them through life. Lessons are enjoyable and interactive, ensuring that children are having fun while internalizing important life skills though building capabilities in mathematics, language arts, social studies and science.
The curriculum can also help reduce children’s anxiety about unknown aspects of disasters and tragic events. They will also gain confidence to deal successfully with life’s unexpected turns.
The Masters of Disaster series has almost 200 lesson plans in it including such topics as:
“Another important goal of the project is to evaluate the extent to which providing the workshop and disseminating the Masters of Disaster curriculum materials to teachers during the workshop leads to an increase in the weather science and safety knowledge of students of those teachers who participate in the workshop,” said Stewart. “We will also evaluate the extent to which the safety messages about weather that students learn are taken home and are either known, or hopefully, implemented by the students’ families.”
The grant will allow the UGA researchers to do two more workshops in the summer of 2012. One will be held in South Georgia and another in Georgia’s southern coastal region.
