Peggy Albers Education and Professional Experience

Education

• Ph.D. in Language Education, Indiana University, 1996.
• Dissertation: Art as Literacy:  The Dynamic Interplay of Pedagogy and Gendered Meaning Making in Sixth Grade Art Classes.
  Dissertation Director: Jerome C. Harste
• 1996 Maris M. and Mary Higgins Proffitt Outstanding Dissertation Award for Meritorious Achievement, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• Masters of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction.  University of South Dakota, 1992.
• Teaching English as a Second Language.  International House, London, England, 1984.
• B.S. in English and Speech and Drama. Dakota State University, 1978.

Major Fields/Research Interests
English language arts and literacy education; teacher preparation and professional development in middle and secondary English; visual discourse analysis; arts-integration in English and literacy education; critical literacy; children’s literature; new literacies; gender and literacy; interpretive inquiry; video and still photo documentation of studio potters’ processes, techniques, and beliefs.

Professional Experience

8/04–Present   ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH EDUCATION—LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION (with Tenure)
Department of Middle and Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, College of Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.  Graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, and service; courses and seminars taught in Semiotics and Multiliteracies, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Principles of English Instruction, Introduction to Secondary Teaching, Theory and Pedagogy in the Teaching of English, Theory and Pedagogy of Literature Instruction, Literacy in the Content Areas, Theory and Pedagogy of Literacy Instruction, Critique of Educational Research, Nonfiction in Language and Literacy and Social Studies, Research Seminar (Dissertation Prospectus), Practicum I, Practicum II-III. 

1/06–Present   NCTE CONSULTANT
National Council of Teachers of English. National consultant for K-16 curriculum development. Professional learning support K-16 teachers and administrators implement theoretically-grounded English language arts and literacy strategies that incorporate technology and multimedia.

8/05–5/06   LANGUAGE AND LITERACY UNIT COORDINATOR
Department of Middle and Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, College of Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Set, conduct, write up L&L unit meetings; oversee and collect L&L documents for NCATE; oversee online assessment survey for all master’s students (STARS); schedule L&L classes [summer, fall, spring, summer]and secure faculty to teach classes; create database of all master’s, Ed.S., and Ph.D. students; oversee all applications to L&L programs; organize, publicize, and conduct  two Professional Standards Week (a week devoted to advising students, supporting their portfolio work, interviewing Ph.D. applicants, collecting and organizing program update sheets from all master’s and doctoral students, presenting advisement sessions).

1/97–5/03   ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH EDUCATION—LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION
Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, College of Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.  Graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, and service; courses and seminars taught include Principles of English Instruction, Theory and Pedagogy in the Teaching of English, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Theory and Pedagogy in the Teaching of English, Theory and Pedagogy of Literature Instruction, Language, Literacy, and the Arts, Literacy in the Content Areas, Theory and Pedagogy of Literacy Instruction, Oral and Written Communication for Middle Childhood Education, The Politics of Literacy, Literacy for a Diverse Society, Advanced Research Seminar (Writing for Publication), Doctoral Seminars (two, individual focus on Henry Giroux, John Dewey), Practicum I, Practicum II-III. 

Summer 03/08   FACULTY INSTRUCTOR
Mt. St. Vincent University, Nova Scotia (Toronto, ON campus). Graduate teaching; courses taught Topics in Literacy: Arts and Literacy; Topics in Literacy: New Literacies, Literacy, and Social Justice.
 
8/97–8/03   COORDINATOR, TEEMS
English Education M.Ed. Degree Program. Department of Middle and Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, College of Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Oversee, organize and supervise practicum placements, teaching courses in program, organize seminars, adviser.

Summer 03   READING INITIATIVE TEACHER EDUCATOR
National Council of Teachers of English, Bloomington, IN; courses taught in reading during a two-week reading seminar to teachers of all age levels

9/02–5/03   LITERACY CONSULTANT
Francine Delaney New School for Children, Asheville, NC; consultant to the school; developed, organized, and taught seminars to elementary teachers (K-8); worked with individual teachers to develop arts-based strategies to develop literacy across content areas.

98–99   LITERACY CONSULTANT
Northwestern Middle School, Alpharetta, GA; consultant to the school; developed, organized, and taught seminars to teachers on content area literacy across grade levels; worked with individual teachers in their classrooms to develop literacy strategies.