LMU Graduate Faculty

  Judy Arnold
  Professor, Graduate Education
  423.869.6217
  judy.arnold@lmunet.edu






Education

EdD in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in English, University of Tennessee (1978)
MA in English, University of Tennessee (1972)
BA in English, Carson-Newman College (1970)
Post doctoral work, University of Tennessee (1984-1985)

Other Teaching Experience

• Bearden Senior High School, English teacher and tennis coach - 1970-1984
  
• Post Doctoral Study:  “Teaching English in Australia,” Somers, Victoria, Australia - 1984-1985
  
• Roane State Community College, Assistant Professor, English - 1985-1990
  
• Tennessee Wesleyan College, Associate Professor of Education, Coordinator of Teacher Center, department chair, tennis coach - 1990-1993
  

• Planned the Sixth Annual Equity Issues Conference for para-professionals, teachers, and administrators in conjunction with the Knox County School System and the Knoxville Branch of the American Association of University Women
• Worked with the Sister to Sister Summit and the Knoxville Youth Summit 
• Presented/conducted training on the topics of gender equity and bullying

• Houston Award,Lincoln Memorial University
• YWCA Tribute to Women Award - category:  Education, 2001
  
• Selected to present at the National Council of Teachers of English International Conference on
  
• Literacy and Learning in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  
• Selected to present at the International Women’s Conference in Beijing, China on Gender Equity
  Issues in education
  
• Listed in Who’s Who of American Women

• Knoxville Branch of the American Association of University Women on topics ranging from gender equity to bullying
• Panel discussion on “The Evolution of Today’s College Women,” moderated by Cheryl Travis, professor and chair of women’s studies, University of Tennessee - March 2008
• Tennessee Middle School Association
• ACA sponsored conference in Bethany, West Virginia

Research

• Involved in the initial research project with other members of the Curriculum and Instruction Department for presentation at the Oxford Roundtable, Oxford University, England. Topic: “What impact does the No Child Left Behind Act have on classroom instruction?”
• Completed research in Gender Equity for publication and presentations. This research was used to create a Gender Equity in Education course which has now become an Equity Issues course presented as part of the Masters program, with portions also included in the Ed. S. course, Politics in Education.
• Completed research in Bullying in Schools for publication and presentations. Completed research on reflective practice in education for presentation at the ACA sponsored Human Rights and Globalization Conference at Bethany College in Bethany, West, Virginia. The title of the paper is “Self Reflection, the Reflective Self: Teachers Looking Through a Glass Darkly.”
• On-going project - collecting teacher stories from the early part of the century to the present

• Article Published in The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin: International Journal for Professional Educators titled “Mentoring New Teachers in Lenoir City, Tennessee,” Summer 2008, Volume 74-4.
• Reworked and submitted the article, “Lessons Learned from Don Imus and the Sullivan County, Tennessee School System” with Dr. John O'Dell
• Wrote Case Studies that were included in the Curriculum and Instruction Department’s Case Study
  Manual

• American Association of University Women
  
• Chair, AAUW Equity Issues Task Force
  
• Annual Professional Development Workshop on Equity Issues presented each summer at the Knox County Teacher Center
• AAUW Sister to Sister Program
• Past president, Knoxville Branch of AAUW
• Past president, Alpha Tau Branch of Delta Kappa Gamma (honorary teaching society)
• Tennessee Education Association (TEA)
• NEA Higher Ed Council
• Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)