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Oct 14, 2009, 10:56:00 Roger Hill, professor and department head of workforce education, leadership and social foundations, will speak at the 2009 Global Human Resources Forum in Seoul, Korea, November 3-5.
This year’s forum entitled, Creative Education for All, will focus on education reform, government policy, evolution of the business sector, efforts of the public sector, and international alliances to cultivate creative talent.
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Oct 14, 2009, 10:38:00 Ronald Cervero, associate dean for outreach and engagement, spoke at the Ministry of National Education of Colombia's National Forum on Pertinence 2009. Cervero participated in the panel "Scenarios for life-long learning" on October 13. Note: Website is in Spanish.
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Bailey
May 18, 2009, 14:20:00 Deryl Bailey Speaks at Education Summit at Capitol Deryl Bailey, an associate professor in the department of counseling and human development services, served as a panelist on "Closing the Gap on College Preparedness" at the "Closing the Achievement Gap" Education Summit, sponsored by Rep. Alish Morgan (D-Austell) and Rep. Virgil Fludd (D-Tyrone). The summit was held at the state capitol on Monday, May 18.
Sep 15, 2008, 11:30:00 Reeves Speaks Out in Europe Thomas Reeves, professor in educational psychology and instructional technology, will be presenting in Geneva, Krems (Austria), and Prague in September 2008.
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Aug 28, 2008, 10:48:00 Atwater to Join Panel at McKnight Fellows Meeting Mary M. Atwater, a professor in the department of mathematics and science education, will be a panelist at the 24th Annual McKnight Fellows Meeting and 12th Annual Graduate School Conference Oct. 24-26 in Tampa, Fla.
Apr 8, 2008, 15:31:00 How to Truly Reduce the Dropout Rate in Georgia A Statement by the High School Completion Task Force of the University of Georgia College of Education Policy and Evaluation Center
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Feb 6, 2008, 14:16:00 Thomas C. Reeves, a professor in educational psychology and instructional technology, will lead workshops for Singapore's Nanyang Technological University Teaching and Learning Seminar, "from Good to Great 2008."
Reeves will teach "Designing Blended Courses with Authentic Tasks," a pre-seminar workshop on Feb. 26, 2008, and "Evaluating eLearning" a post-seminar workshop to be held on Feb. 29.
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Feb 19, 2007, 12:51:00 Richard T. Boon and Cecil Fore III, faculty members in the department of communication sciences and special education, were invited to present in a one-week seminar at the Universidad Complutense Madrid in Spain March 12-16, 2007.
Boon, an assistant professor and Fore, an associate professor, both in special education, will present in a seminar titled, “Inclusive Education: Practices and Strategies for Students with Disabilities.”
Boon and Fore will also converse with special education faculty at the university on issues related to inclusive education in the United States. Special education faculty in Spain are interested in programmatic and course development ideas at the undergraduate and graduate level, since their country is moving more toward inclusive education in their schools.
Oct 26, 2005, 11:23:00 Rose Chepyator-Thomson, an associate professor of physical education and sport studies, gave the keynote address at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport conference in Winston-Salem, NC, October 26-29.
In her address, Globalization, Sport Participation, and Environment, Chepyator-Thomson's address explained the ways in which globalization impacts global capitalism, promotes displacement of sports bodies/participants, and determines who journeys temporarily or permanently to take part in transnational sports competitions for personal and social development goals.
She also showed how these processes operate through information technology to influence market forces in the packaging and selling of movement codes in global environments, and function via internet technology to produce identities that oscillate between the real and imagined in sports participation in the cyberspace game environment.
Jul 6, 2005, 11:29:00 Jo Blase, a professor in the Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations, was the keynote speaker for New Zealand’s Biennial Conference for Principals and School Executives held in Rotorua, New Zealand, June 15-17, 2005.
Blase’s keynote speech was titled, “Straight Talk About the Slowest Revolution in Leadership: Connecting Pedagogy and Administration for School Success,” and compared research on quality teaching from around the world, but with special regard to Pakeha, Asian, Maori, and Pasifika students.
Blase also conducted two workshops for school administrators while in New Zealand. The conference was sponsored by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.
Lewis Allen
May 9, 2005, 11:35:00 Allen Shares Work in Georgia Schools With Educators in Estonia, Latvia
Lewis Allen, co-director of the League of Professional Schools, spoke to educators in Estonia and Latvia last month about the League of Professional School's work with Georgia public schools.
Mar 14, 2005, 16:04:00 Rose Chepyator-Thomson, an associate professor of physical education and sport studies, opened a lecture series at Ithaca (NY) College on March 14 celebrating Women's History Month with a talk titled, "Women and Sports."
Chepyator-Thomson, a pioneering African track athlete and expert on sports in a global context, was born and raised in Kenya. While growing up during the 1960s in Kipconga Village in the Great Rift Valley, she was not encouraged to compete athletically. However, her persistence was rewarded with a host of honors. At the time that she did this, Kenyan women did not run in competitive events or on a world stage.
Competing in Africa's major track games in the 1970s, Chepyator-Thomson broke all records for that continent's 1,500- and 3,000-meter events. Though a member of the Kenyan national track-and-field team for the 1980 Olympics, she did not get to compete because her country chose to boycott the Moscow games in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. The great Kenyan women runners today, including Tgela Loroupe and Catherine Ndereba, credit Chepyator-Thomson with paving the way for them.
After emigrating to the United States, Chepyator-Thomson was an 11-time track and cross-country All-American at the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a doctorate in curriculum and instruction. She is now known around the world for her work on Kenyan women and sport as well as her writings on facilitating more diverse and inclusionary perspectives and methodologies in the field of physical education and coaching. Her areas of expertise include curriculum and instruction in physical education as well as multicultural, African, and globalization issues in physical activity and sport.
Nov 30, 2004, 16:11:00 Paul Schempp, director of UGA's Sport Instruction Research Laboratory, will be among the featured presenters at the ninth biennial Teaching & Coaching Summit of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Dec. 8-12 at the PGA Learning Center in PGA Village, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The Summit theme, "The Power of the Individual Instructor," explores the state of today's game and the power that reaches from instructors to individual students. Instructors will explain what it takes to connect to students in order to empower their own games and explore what can done to enhance one's teaching skills using today's technology.
Schempp, a professor in kinesiology who has spent the past decade studying how the best teachers help students learn, will make a presentation titled, "Traits That are Common to Great Instructors."
Nov 23, 2004, 16:26:00 Lynch Speaks at UNESCO Conference on Vocational-Technical Teachers Richard Lynch, a professor of occupational studies in UGA's College of Education, recently represented the United States at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) international conference on the qualifications of vocational and technical teachers.
Feb 21, 2004, 13:08:00 Rose Chepyator- Thomson, associate professor of physical education and sport studies, was the keynote speaker at the Institute for the African Child's Sports, Youth and Africa Symposium held Feb. 21, 2004, at Ohio University.
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Oct 27, 2003, 13:15:00 Bailey a Panelist at National Conference on Postsecondary Attainment Deryl Bailey, an assistant professor of cross-cultural counseling at UGA’s College of Education, was an invited panelist at a national conference titled Double the Numbers: Post Secondary Attainment and Underrepresented Youth Oct. 23-24 in Washington, D.C.
Sep 27, 2003, 13:21:00 Bailey on Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference Panel Deryl Bailey, associate professor in counseling and human development services, was an invited panelist at the Congressional Black Caucus’ 33rd Annual Legislative Conference September 24-27 in Washington, D.C.
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