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Professional Development

Professional Development Statement

While enrolled within the Learning, Design, and Technology Doctoral Program at the University of Georgia, I will seek insight regarding research initiatives, technology integration, and research methodologies associated with our field. My main focus will be studying how technology can support instruction in a variety of learning contexts, with a concentration in elementary mathematics education. Over the course of my first year, I have participated in a variety of research, scholarship, teaching, and service activities which are preparing me for a career in higher education.

Goals

During my tenure at the University of Georgia within the Learning, Design, and Technology program, I expect to accomplish the following goals:

 

  • Apply instructional technology foundational literature and a multitude of research methodologies to personal research ventures. 

  • Publish an article in the Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology (JoTLT) focusing on the instruction of elementary mathematics conceptually utilizing block based programming. 

  • Design and develop an effective professional development module to motivate elementary pre-service teachers to teach a subject area they perceive themselves as instructional weak in.

  • Serve as a Research Assistant (RA) in order to gain experience as a professional researcher at a research one university. 

  • Transform into an active scholar providing evidence of publishing in top-tier instructional technology journals. 

Research

Manuscripts in progress

Gleasman, C. L., & Kim, C.K. (2017). Guidelines for the use of block based programming in improving elementary conceptual

     mathematics teaching. Manuscript in preparation. 

 

Yuan, J., Kim, C.K., Vasconcelos, L., Shin, M. Y., Gleasman, C. L., & Umutlu, D. (2017). Engineering design practices of pre-      

     service elementary teachers in robotics activity. Manuscript in preparation. 

 

Projects

  1. Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE) Research Project

  2. RoboSTEM Research Project

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Presentations

Yuan, J., Kim, C.K., Vasconcelos, L., Shin, M. Y., Gleasman, C. L., & Umutlu, D. (2017). A qualitative study of pre-service  

     teachers' engineering design process. Paper to be presented at the Assoc. for Educ. Communications and Tech (AECT) Intl.

     Conf., Jacksonville, Florida. 

 

Kim, C.K., Yuan, J., Gleasman, C. L., Shin, M.Y., & Hill, R. (2017). Preparing pre-service early childhood teachers teach

     mathematics with robots. Paper to be presented at the International Conf. on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning,

     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

 

Gleasman, C. L. (2017). PBL pedagogy and robotics programming: Motivating anxious elementary math teachers. Presented

     paper at Interdisciplinary Research & Ideas Symposium (IRIS) Conf. Athens, Georgia.

                                                                                                                                                                                     

Gleasman, C. L., & Fegely, A. (2016). Personalizing the blended classroom. Presenter at the Assoc. for Middle Level Educ.

     (AMLE) Conf., Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Teaching

  • EDIT 2000: Taught 3 face-to-face sections of this course and developed my teaching proficiency at the higher education level.

  • EDUC 204: Online Adjunct Instructor at Coastal Carolina University developing my teaching proficiency at the higher education level.  

Service
Professional Organization Memberships

-Volunteer Instructor at the 2017 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) University of Georgia  Math Fest

-Volunteer on RoboSTEM Research Team

-Organized and supervised ETES 2320 Robotics Fair

-Marion County robotics professional development training volunteer 

-Golden Key Honor Society community service projects including tutoring undergraduate students in study skills   and college success.

-Kappa Delta Pi International Educational Honor Society community service projects including Readers &    Pajamas at York Elementary School and book drive donation for Rochester City Schools. 

-Instructional Technology Students Association (ITSA)

-Associate for Educational Communications& Technologies (AECT)

-Graduate Students and Postdocs in Science (GSPS)

-Golden Key International Honor Society

-Kappa Delta Pi International Educational Honor Society

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