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Dr. Timothy Thomas

Education

Ph.D. in Education, University of Virginia, 2002                                                             
Dissertation: "Teacher Decision-making in Response to Mandated Curricular Change," a qualitative study of the experience of one school's faculty with implementing state-wide curriculum content standards

 Master's in English Teaching   Spring 1991     University of Virginia 

 Bachelor of Arts in English    Spring 1987     University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

Instruction

EDUC 642 "Curriculum: Theory and Issues"
EDUC 360 "Foundations of American Education"
EDSE 633 "Effective Classroom Instruction"
EDSE 634 "Secondary Curriculum"
EDIS 598 "Writing Across the Curriculum"
EDSE 483 "Classroom Organization and Management for Secondary Teachers" 
EDSE 333 "Observation in Secondary Classrooms"

Select Publications

Thomas, T. G. (May 2009) "More Real and Less Factual:" Teacher Decision-Making About Place-Based Topics in Rural Secondary Classrooms.  Occasional Research Paper Series, Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, Morehead State University.

Thomas, T. G. (October 2007). New and veteran teachers' perspectives about delivering multicultural education.  Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue 9, 1 and 2, 113.

Thomas, T. G. and Owen, T. R. (January 2007). Decision-making by online instructors: Recognizing student potential for success.   The PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning 16.

Jones, R.C. & Thomas, T. (2006). Let's leave no discipline behind. The Reading Teacher 60, 1, 58.

Thomas, T. (2006). Speaking a foreign tongue in the homeplace: Science instruction in American high schools and a curriculum for eco-solutions. Conference Proceedings, Institute for Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY.

Gibson, M. & Thomas, T. (2005). Quilt blocks: Writing in the geometry classroom. The Mathematics
Instructor 99, 2, 108.

Thomas, T. (2005). Teachers' decision-making about place-based education and state testing.  The Rural
Educator 26, 3, 19.

Select Presentations (in reverse chronology)

Stallions, M. and Thomas, T. G. (April 2009). Cross-Cultural Cognitive Mapping in Teacher Preparation. Association of Teacher Educators-Virginia/Virginia Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Spring Conference, Sweet Briar, VA.

Reynolds, T. Murrill, L., & Thomas, T. (April 2009). The Art and Practice of Teacher Professional Development: Preparing Culturally and Globally Competent Teachers. Association of Teacher Educators-Virginia/Virginia Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Spring Conference, Sweet Briar, VA.

Thomas, T.G., Edwards, G.T., and Givens, P. (March 2009). Training for K-12 Teachers: Appalachian and Ulster-Scot Roots. Appalachian Studies Conference, Portsmouth, OH.

Thomas, T.G. (November 2008). A Culpeper County Owner's Manual: Environmental Awareness in Social Studies Accepted proposal for presentation at 37^th Annual Conference of North American Association of Environmental Education.  **

Thomas, T.G. (October 2008). From State Standards to Global Competence.  ATE / VACTE Conference. Sweet Briar College, VA.

Thomas, T.G. and Murrill, L. (November 2007) Place of learning, place of practice.  Virginia Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Williamsburg, VA.

Thomas, T.G. (October 2007). Local to Global Connections: Promoting Place-Based Lessons in Classrooms. North American Association of Environmental Education, Virginia Beach, VA.

Thomas, T., Cubbage, H., Schiller, S., Tschohl, J., Van Sickle, K., Williams, R. (June 2007). A meaningful watershed experience:  Using connections within a school's locality to bring learning standards to life. Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute for Teaching and Learning, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.

Thomas, T. Alt, R., Fitzgerald, A., Walbert, B., Zelasko, S. (April 2007).  Childhood geography, standards-based topics, and a meaningful watershed experience.  JMU College of Education Elementary Teachers' Conference, Harrisonburg, VA.

Thomas, T.G. (October 2006). New and veteran teachers' attitudes about delivering multicultural education. American Association for Curriculum and Development, Charlotte, NC.

Thomas, T.G. (June 2006). Where Are You? Socially Conscious Cooperative Learning for Your Classroom & Community.  Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute for Teaching and Learning, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.

Thomas, T. (April 2005). A curriculum for eco-solutions. Institute of Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY

Branham, D., Barnett, D., Duvall, D., Thomas, T., & Wallace, R. (December 2004). SLC's in Seven Kentucky High Schools: First-Year Status Report. Blue Ribbon Schools Blueprint for Excellence Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC.

Thomas, T.  (September 2004). Kentucky teachers' attitudes about multicultural education. Kentucky Association of Teacher Educators, Lexington, KY.

Barnett, D. & Thomas, T. (December 2003). Smaller learning communities (High school restructuring culture & learning environment). National School Reform Conference. Orlando, FL.

Thomas, T. (August 2002). Teaching state standards in a vanishing village. North American Association for Environmental Education, Boston, MA.

Additional Experience

• Sponsor, Kappa Delta Phi chapter, JMU College of Education
• Assistant Professor, Secondary Education, Morehead State University (Morehead, KY) August 2002-May 2005
• Assistant Principal, Central High School (Woodstock, VA) July 1999 - July 2002
• English Teacher, Louisa County High School (Mineral, VA) Fall 1991-Spring 1995

 Awards     

2007-08 JMU Partnership Service Recognition from the College of Education

(Co-recipient with Lisa Schick, Director, Career Development Academy at JMU College of Education)
For Spring 2007 "Workshop in Survival Spanish for Educators"

2007-08 Martha B. and Guy M. Jones Educational Endowment
Primary investigator."Appalachian/Celtic Instructional Materials for Classrooms in Appalachian Region - Phase II"(a partnership with the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, Morehead State University)

2006-07 Martha B. and Guy M. Jones Educational Endowment
"Appalachian/Celtic Instructional Materials for Classrooms in Appalachian Region - Phase I"
(a partnership with the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, Morehead State University)

2004 Forestry Activist Award
From Forest Resources Association, Appalachian Technical Division
(Co-recipient with Evelyn Morgan, US Forest Service, Morehead District Office)
For 2003 Timber Academy for Science and Social Studies Teachers, Morehead State University

Affiliations

Dr. Timothy Thomas

Memorial Hall, Room 3330B
568-6190