Accomplishments: Department of Teaching and Learning

Sadia Shaukat (Teaching and Learning) as a Fulbright Scholar from College of Education presented her paper on “Teachers’ Technostress, Work Family Conflict and Life Satisfaction while Working from Home during COVID-19” at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference in Chicago earlier this month. She presented the findings of her…
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, & Special Education) and Silvina Jover (Teaching & Learning) participated in a panel discussion, The Future of Dual Language Bilingual Education in CCSD (Clark County School District), with Anthony Troche and Ignacio Ruiz, both of CCSD, at the Nevada TESOL Symposium. Jover is a doctoral…
Dr. Eve Chung (Dental) and Xue "Cher" Xing (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article, “Flip Your CTE Classroom: A Dental Education Model,” that appeared Jan. 10 in the Association for Career & Technical Education online publication.
Travis Olson (Teaching and Learning) was a special guest on the Teaching Math Teaching podcast, Episode 57, which aired Jan. 26, 2022, Olson discussed the upcoming 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). The national conference, running February 10-12, will be hosted in the Las Vegas Valley at the Hilton…
Xue "Cher" Xing (Teaching and Learning) presented "Tackling Low Enrollment: Data-driven Program Redirection & Recruitment" as part of the Postsecondary Leadership Success Program professional development series at the annual meeting of the Association for Career and Technical Education in New Orleans. In addition, she was…
Sam Leif (Teaching & Learning) published, along with two other authors, "Data Consultations, Racism, and Critiquing Colonialism in Demographic Datasheets" in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. The article synthesizes historical contexts with modern critical thinking about race and data to examine the origins of current…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) was invited to participate in The Global Human Resources Forum 2021, at Seoul, Korea, as a presenter at the research session . The title of his presentation was"Understanding Team Leadership and Team Effectiveness: Are We There Yet." The Global HR Forum is the foremost open forum for HR…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) delivered the keynote address, "Ethical Leadersship: Potential Challenges and Implications for the Next Generation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Leaders," at the 2021 East and Southeast Asia UNEVOC Network Consolidation Workshop. His address emphasized the elements of the toxic…
Travis A. Olson (Teaching and Learning) co-authored "Conceptualizing Curricular Reasoning:A Framework for Examining Mathematics Teachers’ Curricular Decisions" in the journal Investigations in Mathematics Learning. The article presents research based on a recent National Science Foundation grant for which Olson served as the…
Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) published an article titled "Not Suspended but Not Protected: Challenging School Discipline Reform in the Name of Restorative Justice for Young Adult Black Girls." This article is part of a special issue of the Northwest Journal of Teacher Education on anti-Blackness in education. 
Travis A. Olson (Teaching and Learning) authored the president's column in the September 2021 issue of Intersection Points: The Newsletter of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning. The Research Council on Mathematics Learning seeks to stimulate, generate, coordinate, and disseminate research efforts…
Kenneth Varner and PG Schrader (both Teaching & Learning) along with their colleagues Jennifer Markides, David Gerlach, and Siniša Opić published "Global Challenges to Teacher Education and a Glocally Sustaining Pedagogical Framework" in the journal Global Education Review.