Teacher Education :: Jim Birrell

Area of Discipline / Professional Expertise

Moral and social dimensions of education
Multicultural issues in education or intervention
Multiculturalism and diversity

Research

Examining multiple dimensions of preparing preservice and inservice teachers for diverse classroom settings; exploring effective ways of preparing prospective and professional teachers to promote the ideals of democratic education; investigating the work of former BYU student teachers now teaching in urban classrooms.

Education

Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Nevada, 1993
M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Utah, 1984
B.S., Elementary Education, Brigham Young University, 1981

Affiliations

Elementary Education - Primary

Selected Publications

"The "U" Curve Hypothesis: A Framework for Making Sense of Learning to Teach in Diverse Settings", Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Birrell, J.R., & Tinney, M.V., Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 28-48, Peer reviewed on line Journal, March, 2008 View Abstract
"A beginning teacher's journey to culturally responsive teaching", Multicultural Teaching and Learning, Birrell, J.R., Vanatter, R., & Tinney, M., Volume One, Issue One, January, 2006 View Abstract
"Teaching with a peer: A follow-up study of the 1st year of teaching", Action in Teacher Education, Birrell, J.R., & Bullough, R.V., Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 72-81, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, MD, 2005 View Abstract
"Moving beyond collusion: clinical faculty and university/public school partnership", Teaching and Teacher Education, Bullough, R.V., Draper, R.J., Smith, L., Volume 20, Pages 505-521, April, 2004 View Abstract
"Confirming Remarkableness: Secondary student teaching in inner city Washington D.C.", Impact. A Journal for Secondary School Principles, B. Vanatter, 2003
"Teaching with a peer: A comparision of Two Models of Student Teaching", Teaching and Teacher Education, R. Bullough, J. Young, C. Clark, M. Egan, L. Erickson, M. Frankovitch, J. Brunetti, Volume 19, Pages 57-73, 2003
"The worth on nontraditional preservice teachers to urban children", Impact. A Journal for Secondary School Principles, J. BIRRELL, 2002
"Rethinking field experience: Partnership teaching versus single-placement teaching.", Journal of Teacher Education, R. Bullough, J. Young, L. Erickson, C. Clark, W. Egan, et al., Issue 53, Pages 68-80, 2002
"Overcoming parental resistance to school change", Educators for Urban Minorities, K. Allred, J. Butler, Issue 1, Pages 33-43, 1999
"Paradise unrealized: Teacher educators and the costs and benefits of school/university partnerships", Journal of Teacher Education, R. Bullough, J. Young, C. Clark, L. Erickson, R. Earle, et al., Issue 50, Pages 381-390, 1999

Experience

Teaching

Associate Professor or Elementary Education, Brigham Young University, 1999
Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, Brigham Young University, 1993-1999

Awards

Research Grant, School of Education, 2007
Research Grant, School of Education, 2005
Research Grant, School of Education, 2004
Research Grant, Educate America Act, 2001
Research Grant, Educate America Act, 2001
Research Grant, Educate America Act, 2000
Research Grant, Educate America Act, 2000
Research Grant, College of Education, 2000
Research Grant, Educate America Act, 1999
Tenure and Continuing Faculty Status, Brigham Young University, 1999

Languages

English

TED

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