Department of Education

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http://www.umes.edu/Education

Dr. Nomsa E. Geleta, Chairperson

Mission

The mission of the Department of Education and Professional Education Unit is to advance the science and practice of education, and to promote related careers in counseling and mental health. Toward this end, the Department and Unit offer state-of-the-art undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs, a graduate counselor education program, and a doctoral program in Education Leadership. The Department of Education and Professional Education Unit seek to nurture minds, advance knowledge, promote life-long learning, and prepare skilled educators and counselors to meet the needs of the twenty-first century.

Obejectives

The objectives of the Department of Education are to prepare teachers, counselors, and administrators who:

1. have the professional knowledge base of change strategies that enables them to participate in school restructuring;
2. become engaged critical and creative thinkers, problem solvers, and reflective professionals;
3. review and embrace their personal heritage in order to facilitate learning for individuals from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds;
4. are consumers, brokers, and generators of school-based research;
5. are innovative users of and advocates for content technology-based instruction;
6. integrate state, national, and international priorities into instructional and assessment strategies;
7. incorporate national and state professional standards into their practice;
8. incorporate the Professional Education Unit’s Conceptual Framework into their practice;
9. demonstrate appropriate human, conceptual, and technical skills when working with students and other educational stakeholders; and
10. have a commitment to the moral obligations of teaching so as to ensure equitable access to and engagement in the best possible P-12 education for all children and youth from all ethnic and religious groups, as well as those with disabilities, those for whom English is a second language, and those who are gifted and talented.

Directory of Faculty

Baldwin, C. Grattan, Assistant Professor
B.A., Weslyan University; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Rutgers Graduate School of Education

Bowers, Cheryl D., Assistant Professor
B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.S., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Goslee, Patricia A., Assistant Professor
B.S., University of Maryland Eastern Shore; M.Ed., Wilmington College; Ed.D., Wilmington University

Geleta, Nomsa E., Professor, Chair
B.A., University of Zululand, South Africa; M.S., Ed.D., Oklahoma State University

Foust, Gretchen, Assistant Professor
B.A., M.Ed., and Ph.D.., The Pennsylvania State University

Lewis, Jamie, Lecturer/Coordinator of Professional Development Schools
B.A., Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; M.A.T., University of Maryland Baltimore County; ABD; University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Nugent, Michael A., Lecturer II
B.A., Marist College; M.Ed., St. John’s University; Ph.D., University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Patterson, Michael, Assistant Professor
B.A., Hampshire College; M.A. and Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Poole-Sykes, Kimberly J., Associate Professor
B.S., University of Maryland Eastern Shore; M.S., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Rh.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Reed, Michael, Associate Professor
B.A; BSW; M.A., Ph.D; Bowling Green State University

Stufft, Derry, Associate Professor
B.A., Rutgers College; M.Ed., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ed.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Programs

• Special Education, B.S.

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