A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
On Friday, Feb. 6, Roberta Gentry, assistant professor in the College of Education, will speak at the South Carolina Council for Exceptional Children professional development conference in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Her presentation, “Supporting Pre-Service Special Educators in the Virtual World,” reviews research conducted using TeachLive to train pre-service teachers. The TeachLive Lab uses a mixed-reality (blended real and virtual characters), avatar-based (virtual characters controlled by human performers) simulated environment. In the TeachLive Lab, candidates build content and pedagogical skills in a controlled environment that enables consistent data collection, immediate feedback, and ongoing assessment.