AACTE Lunch & Learn-Using ATLAS to Enhance Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Teaching Structures

This Lunch & Learn features Cam McComb, Ph.D., an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University who uses ATLAS (Accomplished Teaching, Learning, and Schools®) to help her candidates identify and analyze teaching structures in a three-part strategy. ATLAS is a video library providing cases and analysis tools of accomplished teaching practices indexed to common teaching and learning frameworks across various classroom settings. Observations with ATLAS are made even more valuable because they include insights into behind-the-scenes instructional decision-making from board-certified educators. AACTE Members receive 20% off ATLAS subscriptions before the end of 2023. Join us to learn more about ATLAS and how educator preparation faculty like McComb are using the tool to improve pre-service training. Speaker: Cam McComb, Associate Professor Eastern Michigan University Cam McComb is an associate professor of visual art education at Eastern Michigan University where she co-leads the art teacher certification program. She holds degrees in art education from The Ohio State University, Miami University, and the Pennsylvania State University, where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy for researching pre-adolescents and their ability to document artistic thinking. McComb spent 25 years teaching art in K-12 public schools before beginning her work with preservice teachers. She is a National Board-certified teacher, a mixed media artist, a published writer and scholar, an arts advocate, and a 2018 graduate of the National Art Education Association School for Art Leaders. She is the higher education division chair of the Michigan Art Education Association with research interests focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning, assessment, and concept-based curriculum design. This year the National Art Education Association recognized McComb as a leader in higher education for the western region of the United States and at this year’s conference they named her the 2023 National Art Educator. McComb believes in the democratization of art making: a creative practice open to everyone at any time. She is currently releasing a six-segment podcast/video series titled, Engaging Process: Where Art Education and Art Making Meet.

Queering the Curriculum: Advocating for and Affirming LGBTQIA+ Identities in the Teacher Education C

TBA Speakers/Panel: Kate Kedley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Critical Literacy Technology & Multilingual Education Rowan University Kedley joined Rowan University in 2017 and is an associate professor in the Department of Critical Literacy, Technology, and Multilingual Education. Kedley received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (Language, Literacy, and Culture), an M.A. from Northern Arizona University (English), and a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa (English Education). Kedley also holds graduate certificates in professional writing and in gender, women's, and sexuality studies. Kedley is a former secondary English language arts and driver’s education teacher in Iowa, Arizona, and the Central American country of Honduras. At Rowan, Kedley teaches in the pre-service teacher program. Kedley's research centers around critical literacy and education, public engagement, LGBTQ and young adult literature, language education, and social and educational movements in Honduras. Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2Iz8yscAAAAJ&hl=en Rowan Digital Works:  https://works.bepress.com/kate-kedley/ TBA TBA Moderators: Christine Gentry, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Co-Chair, AACTE’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Inclusion Topical Action Group (TAG) Gentry is a clinical assistant professor in the NYU Teacher Residency, where she serves as residency director for the NYC DOE partnership and leads the data, assessment, and continuous improvement efforts of the program. Gentry currently serves on the AACTE Programmatic Advisory Committee on Government Relations and Advocacy and co-chairs the LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Inclusion Topical Action Group (TAG) for AACTE. Before her work in teacher preparation, Gentry taught English, creative writing, and oral storytelling in the public schools of Boston and New York City for thirteen years. Will Coghill-Behrends, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor University of Iowa Co-Chair, AACTE’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Inclusion Topical Action Group (TAG) Coghill-Behrends is the associate chair in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa College of Education and a clinical associate professor of multilingual education. He is also co-director of the Baker Teacher Leader Center, where he leads a focus on global education initiatives and educator pathway programs. Coghill-Behrends was a classroom world language teacher, starting his career abroad in Germany, and teaching more recently in Iowa City before moving to the University of Iowa. In his current position, he supports the comprehensive internationalization of the College of Education, including the development of educational opportunities abroad for pre-service teachers to grow in their own global education competency. He is co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Inclusion Topical Action Group (TAG). He is the author of three books on the education job market and search for pre-service teachers and those seeking work in academe, and has presented at numerous conferences at the state, regional, national, and international levels.

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