Dr. Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor in the department of Foundations, Leadership and Special Populations in the College of Education, presented on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2013 at the Council for Exceptional Children Division on Career Development and Transition conference in Williamsburg, Va. The two-hour workshop, Demystifying Transition Assessment, is based on a book by the same title in which Dr. Gentry wrote the chapter on Academic Assessment. Co-presenters include the authors of the book, Dr. Colleen Thoma,Virginia Commonwealth University, and Dr. Ron Tamura, Southern Connecticut State University, as well as Dr. Cindi Nixon from Francis Marion University.

Dr. Gentry will present virtually at the 6th International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation in Seville, Spain, Nov. 18 to 20, 2013. The titles of those presentations are:  Electronic Mentoring:  Do special education mentors and their mentees discuss standards? and Electronic Mentoring:  What is it? What do we know?

Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor of Special Education in the College of Education, recently received a grant from the Virginia Department of Education. Grant funds will be used for tuition reimbursement for special education teachers enrolled in a licensure or degree program at UMW and currently working on a provisional license in regions 3 and 4 of Virginia, training mentors, paying mentors, and Council of Exceptional Children student memberships.

Gentry is giving two presentations at the Council for Exceptional Children Teacher Education Division conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nov. 6 to 9, 2013.  She is presenting  “What do new special educators and their mentors discuss in an electronic mentoring site?” solo and “Preparing Special Educators in the Use of Evidence Based Instructional Practices” with Dr. LaRon Scott, Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.

She presented at the 2013 Mentoring Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico Oct. 29 to 31.  The title of her presentation is “Electronic Mentoring – A Qualitative Review.”

Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor in the College of Education, gave three presentations at the Conference on Education and Evaluation held in Beijing, China Sept. 19 to 23, 2013.  Conference presentations all related to research conducted with special education teachers and their mentors using an electronic mentoring platform.

Roberta Gentry

Dr. Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor of Education, presented Electronic Mentoring:  What is it? at the 25th annual National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning in Atlantic City, N.J.  The theme of this year’s conference was Looking Back. Moving Forward.