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Academic Portfolio - 2023-24 

Teaching

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 61 ONLINE  Level 2 Field Experience: Lesson Planning and Instruction (Fall 2023)

Scholarship

Service

  • College of Education Fall Retreat Planning Committee 

  • College of Education Alignment Committee

  • Gary Benda Dissertation Committee - Why are we getting Short on Teachers-Why are there Fewer People Going into Teaching?

  • Kurt Devore Dissertation Committee - TBD probably something around the topic of School Shootings

  • Danielle Woods Dissertation Committee - Facilitating Leadership Among Educators

  • School-University Partnerships - SUP-01-2023-0003.R2 Building a Community of Practice: Shifting an M.Ed. Program to a PDS School-based Cohort Model. 

Current Project Involvements

Lincoln Instructional Rounds

Level 2 students, as a group, visit a classroom other than their assigned room to complete a 15-minute observation and then use a protocol to debrief what they observed.  

Level 2 Co-Teaching

Level 2 students volunteer to pair up to complete the 25-hour Level 2 experience. They each teach their own lessons but collaborate along the way. 

Teacher 2 Teacher

Lincoln School teachers form volunteer groups to study an agreed upon topic. They visit each other's classrooms to observe how each teacher addresses the pedagogy of the topic.  

Gallery Walk: Understanding Teacher Candidates' Thoughts Prior to Early Field Experiences

During a seminar class the week prior to in-classroom field experiences students complete a gallery walk where they respond to sentence stems that focus on their thoughts and feeling about teaching.  

Academic Portfolio - 2022-23 

Teaching

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2022)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 05  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2022)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2023)

Scholarship

Service

  • Teacher Leadership Compensation Statewide Support Team - State of Iowa DOE Committee

  • Graduate College Curriculum Committee - Graduate College

  • Gary Benda Dissertation Committee - Why are we getting Short on Teachers-Why are there Fewer People Going into Teaching?

  • Sharon Dentlinger Dissertation Committee - Culture of Learning: A Qualitative Case Study of Teacher Leader Perceptions on the Power of a District's Schemata in a Distributive Leadership Model.

  • Kurt Devore Dissertation Committee - TBD probably something around the topic of School Shootings

  • Jackie Moorman Dissertation Committee - Effectiveness of Amish School Teachers

  • Danielle Woods Dissertation Committee - Facilitating Leadership Among Educators

  • School-University Partnerships - SUP-D-21-00009 Examining a Music Education School-University Partnership in Relation to the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Knowing. 

  • School-University Partnerships Themed Issue - "Remote Teaching".  Coaching Cubed: Mentor Teachers' Perspectives on the Exponential Nature of Supporting Teacher Candidates during Uncertain Times.

  • Journal of Practitioner Research - Manuscript 1239 - Inquiry on Preservice Teachers' Inquiries in a Small Liberal Arts Context

  • The Teacher Educator Journal - Manuscript #1 The Teacher Educator Technology Competencies and Technology Tools in Action

Academic Portfolio - 2021-22 

Teaching

Scholarship

  • Nielsen, C.P. (2021). Early field experience instructional rounds. Accepted by Theory & Practice in Rural Education  (October 2021). 

  • Nielsen, C.P., Bryant, R., & Simpson, K. (2021). Teacher to teacher: Teachers observing each other teach. Kappa Delta Pi Record. (accepted for publication January 2021) 

Service

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2021)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 05  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2021)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2022)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 05  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2022)

  • Teacher Leadership Compensation Statewide Support Team - State of Iowa DOE Committee

  • Graduate College Curriculum Committee - Graduate College

  • Gary Benda Dissertation Committee - Why are we getting Short on Teachers-Why are there Fewer People Going into Teaching?

  • Sharon Dentlinger Dissertation Committee - Topic TBD

  • Kurt Devore Dissertation Committee - TBD probably something around the topic of School Shootings

  • Jackie Moorman Dissertation Committee - Effectiveness of Amish School Teachers

  • Danielle Woods Dissertation Committee - Facilitating Leadership Among Educators

  • School-University Partnerships - SUP-D-21-00009 Examining a Music Education School-University Partnership in Relation to the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Knowing. 

  • School-University Partnerships Themed Issue - "Remote Teaching".  Coaching Cubed: Mentor Teachers' Perspectives on the Exponential Nature of Supporting Teacher Candidates during Uncertain Times.

Teaching

Academic Portfolio - 2020-21 

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2020)

  • MEAS RES 3150 Section 06 Classroom Assessment (Fall 2020)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01 and 05 Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2021)

  • MEAS RES 3150 Section 06 Classroom Assessment (Spring 2021)

Scholarship

  • Nielsen, C.P. (2021). Early field experience instructional rounds. Submitted to Journal of Practitioner Research (April, 2021). 

  • Nielsen, C.P., Bryant, R., & Simpson, K. (2021). Teacher to teacher: Teachers observing each other teach. Kappa Delta Pi Record. (accepted for publication January 2021)

  • Nielsen, C.P., & Lockhart, A. K. (2020) Using a professional learning community framework to assist early field experience students as they move from teacher candidate to teacher. InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching 15(1), 52-66.  

Service

  • Teacher Leadership Compensation Statewide Support Team - State of Iowa DOE Committee

  • Graduate College Curriculum Committee - Graduate College

  • Carelton-Mellinchamp Speaker Series Committee - College of Education Committee

  • Jackie Moorman Dissertation Committee - Effectiveness of Amish School Teachers

  • Dan Butler Dissertation Committee - Educator Burnout and the Impact of the Orange Frog framework 

  • Journal of Practitioner Research - MS #1160 - Summer 2020 (Article Reviewer)

  • School-University Partnerships - SUP-D-20 - 00008 Summer 2020 (Article Reviewer)

  • School-University Partnerships - SUP-D-20 - 00008R1 Summer 2020 (Article Reviewer)

Academic Portfolio - 2019-20 

Teaching

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2019)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 05  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2019)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2020)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 05  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2020)

Scholarship

  • "Using a Professional Learning Community Framework to Assist Early Field Experience Students as they Move from Teacher Candidate to Teacher" Article submitted to InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching (Manuscript Accepted publish in  Fall 2020)

  • "Teacher 2 Teacher: Building Collective Teacher Efficacy Through In-service Teacher Learning from Each Other in Real-Time. Article submitted to  Kappa Delta Pi Record (under review)

  • "Lincoln Instructional Rounds" (IRB 19-0090) (In progress Spring 2019-Spring 2020)

  • "Lincoln Writing Consulting Workshop" National Association for Professional Development Schools - Stories from the Field, September 2019. https://napds.org/category/stories-from-the-field/

Service

  • Teacher Leadership Compensation Statewide Support Team - State of Iowa DOE Committee

  • Graduate College Curriculum Committee - Graduate College

  • Carelton-Mellinchamp Speaker Series Committee - College of Education Committee

  • Jackie Moorman Dissertation Committee - Effectiveness of Amish School Teachers

  • Dan Butler Dissertation Committee - Educator Burnout and the Impact of the Orange Frog framework

  • American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 2020 Annual Conference Presentation Peer Reviewer.

  • "Instructional Rounds: A Way to Strengthen the Early Field Experience" Accepted presentation at American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 2020 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA. (February 2020).  

  • School-University Partnerships Manuscript Reviewer SUP-D-1900012 - Summer 2019

  • The Teacher Educator Manuscript Reviewer - UTTE-2019-0009.R2 - Summer 2019 (2nd Review)

  • Journal of Practitioner Research - MS #1134 - Summer 2019

  • School-University Partnerships - SUP-D-19-00014 - Fall 2019

Academic Portfolio - 2018-19 

Teaching

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• kindness • patience • understanding • thoughtfulness • peace

• listening • honesty • integrity • empathy • learning • love

  • GEOG 4133 Section 60 Digital Earth: Integrating Mapping Technologies into Social Science and STEM (Workshop Aug. 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 80  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 84  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 94  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2019)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 05  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2019)

  • EDLEAD 6248 Section 60 Leading Instruction in Schools (Summer 2019)

  • EDLEAD 6248 Section 62 Leading Instruction in Schools (Summer 2019)

Scholarship

  • "Teacher 2 Teacher: Teacher Perceptions of the Experience" (IRB 18-0231) Article submitted to The Teacher Educator

  • "Using a Professional Learning Community Framework to Assist Early Field Experience Students as they Move from Teacher Candidate to Teacher" Article submitted to InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching (review pending)

  • "Lincoln Instructional Rounds" (IRB 19-0090) (In progress Spring 2019-Spring 2020)

  • "Lincoln Instructional Rounds" Presentation at the National Field Experience Conference. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO April 4-5 2019.

Service

  • Teacher Leadership Compensation Statewide Support Team - State of Iowa Department of Education Committee

  • Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Council - University Committee 

  • Graduate College Curriculum Committee - University Committee

  • Carelton-Mellinchamp Speaker Series Committee - College of Education Committee

  • Department of Teaching Professional Assessment Committee Leadership - Department Committee

  • Department of Educational Leadership & Post Secondary Education Faculty Search Committee - Department Committee

  • Lincoln Elementary School Leadership Committee - Lincoln Elementary School Committee

  • School-University Partnerships Manuscript Reviewer - SUP-D-18-00007 - Fall 2018

  • School-University Partnerships Manuscript Reviewer - SUP-D-19-00003 - Spring 2019

  • The Teacher Educator Manuscript Reviewer - UTTE-2019-0009 - Spring 2019

  • Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education Conference Presentation Proposal Reviewer - Spring 2019 

Academic Portfolio - 2017-18 

Teaching

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 01  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2017)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 02  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2017)

  • EDLEAD 6282 Section 60 Leading School Growth and Improvement (Fall 2017)

  • GEOG 4133 Section 60 Digital Earth: Integrating Mapping Technologies into Social Science and STEM (Workshop Aug. 2017)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 94  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Fall 2017)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 80  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 84  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 90  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2018)

  • TEACHING 3128 Section 94  Level 2 Field Experience: Teacher as a Change Agent (Spring 2018)

  • EDLEAD 6282 Section 60 Leading School Growth and Improvement (Spring 2018)

  • EDLEAD 6248 Section 61 Leading Instruction in Schools (Summer 2018)

  • EDLEAD 6248 Section 62  Leading Instruction in Schools (Summer 2018)

Scholarship

  • "Teacher 2 Teacher: Teacher Perceptions of the Experience" (IRB 18-0231) 

  • "Using a Professional Learning Community Framework to Assist Early Field Experience Students as they Move from Teacher Candidate to Teacher" Manuscript revised and edited in Spring of 2018.

  • "Lincoln Instructional Rounds" Sample case study conducted in Spring of 2018.

  • "Teacher 2 Teacher: Teachers Learning from Each Other" Presentation at the National Professional Development Schools Conference. March 15, 2018, Jacksonville, FL.

Service

  • Teacher Leadership Compensation Statewide Support Team - State of Iowa Department of Education Committee

  • Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Council - University Committee 

  • Graduate College Curriculum Committee - University Committee

  • College of Education Associate Dean Search Committee - College Committee

  • Department of Teaching Professional Assessment Committee Leadership - Department Committee

  • Lincoln Elementary School Leadership Committee - Lincoln Elementary School Committee

  • School-University Partnerships Manuscript Reviewer - SUP-D-17-00014 - Fall 2017

  • School-University Partnerships Manuscript Reviewer - SUP-D-17-00014R1 - Fall 2017

  • Journal of Practitioner Research - 1071 - Fall 2017

  • National Association of Professional Development Schools Special Edition Proposal Reviewer for the Theme: Mutually beneficial PDS Models: What does mutually beneficial look like? - Fall 2017

  • Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education Conference Presentation Proposal Reviewer - Spring 2018

  • External Reviewer for the Professional Assessment Committee Reviewer for the Department of Educational Leadership & Post Secondary Education

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