Academics

LMU Graduate Faculty


Dr. Helen Cole   Helen Cole
  Professor, Graduate Educaton; Chair, Curriculum and Instruction
  423.869.6374
  helen.cole@lmunet.edu







Education

EdD in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Tennessee (1981)
MS, University of Tennessee (1973)
BS, Tennessee Wesleyan College (1969)
Post-graduate work, University of Tennessee (1982-1983)

Other Teaching Experience

  • Tennessee Technological University, methods courses in reading and language arts, statistics, business law, elementary school principalship, instructional supervision and school and community relations (1982-1996)
Consulting/Outside Training
  • Fall Professional Development, Lee County, Virginia, Schools, Learning-Focused School Achievement Strategies-Vocabularly (2007)
  • Lee County, Virginia, Schools In-service, Understanding Children of Poverty (2007)
  • Lee County, Virginia, Administrators, Learning-Focused School Achievement Strategies (2007)
  • CEO-Evaluation Instrument Design Workshop, Loudon County Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (2004)
  • Understanding By Design Workshop, Griffin, Georgia (2003)
Honors and Awards

  • Who's Who Worldwide Edition (2008-2009)
  • Houston Award for Teaching Excellence, LMU (2005)
  • Level III Administrator, Tennessee Career Ladder Program (1986)
  • State Evaluator, Tennessee Career Ladder Program (1985)
  • Teacher of the Year, Steekee Elementary, Loudon County Schools (1973)
Professonal Presentations

  • Does Assessment Have to Drive the Curriculum?, Oxford Roundtable, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (2008)
  • Using Dispositions to Bridge the Cultural Divide, Association of Teacher Educators, Washington, DC (2008)
  • Practicum and Field Experience: Exemplar Programs Linking Pedagogy and Reality, Association of Teacher Educators, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2007)
  • Boy Brains: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap, Association of Teacher Educators, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2006)
  • You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd, Association of Teacher Educators, Williamsburg, Virginia
  • Diversity and Group Dynamics, World Council for Curriculum & Instruction, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Diversity and Team Building, Association of Teacher Educators, Portland, Oregon

Publications

  • Member of team that developed a paper for publication to Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, University of Oxford, UK
  • Updated case studies used in politics of education clas
  • Updated case studies for use in politics class
Professonal and Scholarly Affiliations
  • ASCD/TASCD/VASCD
  • AAUW
  • Association of Teacher Educators
  • Loudon County Education Foundation