Mission
The mission of the School of Education is to prepare men and women to become Christian educators by fostering scholarship and a Christian ethic of care in the image and nature of Jesus so as to produce teachers who are leaders and world changers with the education profession.
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Educators who demonstrate scholarship
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Dr. Paul Shotsberger Email: pshotsberger@swu.edu |
Education
| Ph.D. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Curriculum and Instruction |
| M.A. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Mathematics Education |
| B.A. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Education (Secondary Math) |
Work Experience
| Dean, School of Education, Southern Wesleyan University | 2009-present |
| Director of the Institute for the Development of Chrisitian Leadership, Kiev, Ukraine |
2002-2009 |
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Missionary to Ukraine with Ministry to Educate and Equip, Intl., |
2002-2009 |
| Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Wilmington |
1993-2002 |
| · Responsible for the secondary mathematics teacher preparation program,including methods instruction, supervision and advising of student interns |
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| · Taught mathematics at the undergraduate level | |
| · Active in research and grant-writing (see below) | |
| · Served on and chaired the departmental Teacher Education committee |
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| · Served on numerous School of Education committees | |
| · Prepared documentation for NCATE and state reviews of the secondary mathematics eduction program |
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| Middle and High School Mathematics Teacher | 1983-1990 |
| · Taught private school (Charlotte Christian School, Charlotte, NC) and public school (Jordan High School, Durham, NC) |
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| · Taught grades seven through twelve, from Pre-algebra through A.P. Calculus |
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| U.S. Naval Officer (retired from Reserves) | 1979-1994 |
| “Active Learning and Differentiated Instruction,” for K-12 teachers at Athens and Glyfada Christian Schools, Athens, Greece, September 2007 |
| “Implications of Brain-based Research for Teaching and Learning,” for K-12 teachers and Institute instructors, Lovech, Bulgaria, November 2006 |
| “Implications of Brain-based Research for Teaching and Learning,” for K-12 teachers at Athens and Glyfada Christian Schools, Athens, Greece, September 2005 |
| Geometry graduate course taught as part of the “Meeting Diverse Needs in High School Algebra and Geometry” project, Chapel Hill, NC, July 2003 |
| “Introduction to the World Wide Web” taught as part of the “Technology Professional Development – NOW” project, Wilmington, NC, July 2000 |
Selected Professional Presentations
| "Enhancing Presentations Using Geometer's Sketchpad," at the Upstate Technology Conference, Greenville, SC, June 2010 |
| “The Handheld Web: Using Mobile Wireless Technologies to Enhance Teacher Professional Development,” at the International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Training (SITE), Orlando, FL, March 2001 |
| “Network-based Professional Development: A Comparison of Statewide Initiatives,” at WebNet99 World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Honolulu, HI, October 1999 |
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“Changes in Teacher Beliefs as a Result of Web-based Professional Development” at the |
| “Using the World Wide Web in Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation.” Presented at Teachers Teaching with Technology (T 3 ), Nashville, TN, March 1998 |
| “Just-in-time Professional Development Using the World Wide Web” at the International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Training (SITE), Orlando, FL, April 1997 |
Selected Publications
| Shotsberger, P.G. (2002). Mobile wireless technologies for field-based teacher interns and their partnership teachers. Computers in the Schools. |
| Shotsberger, P.G., & Vetter, R. (2001). Teaching and learning in the wireless classroom. IEEE Computer, 34(3), 110-111. |
| Shotsberger, P.G. (2001). Changing mathematics teaching through Web-based professional development. Computers in the Schools, 17(1/2), 31-39. |
| Shotsberger, P.G. (2000) The Human Touch: Synchronous Communication in Web-based Learning. Educational Technology, 40(1), 53-56. |
| Shotsberger, P.G. (1999). The INSTRUCT Project: Web professional development for mathematics teachers. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 18(1), 49-60. |
| Shotsberger, P.G., & Crawford, A.R. (1999). On the elusive nature of measuring teacher change: An examination of the Stages of Concern questionnaire. Evaluation and Research in Education, 13(1), 3-17. |
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Shotsberger, P.G. (1997). Emerging roles for instructors and learners in the WBI |
| Shotsberger, P.G.(1996). Toward a greener Internet,” IEEE Computer, 29 (12), 113-114. |