A M Social Studies

Joan Linsley

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Houston, Texas ****5

Telephone: 713-***-****

e-mail: ad7mdd@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

MacMurray College, B. A., Jacksonville, Illinois

University of Houston, M. Ed./Gifted/Talented

Bradley University, Graduate Studies, English

University of Oklahoma, Post Baccalaureate

Kansas State University (Hayes), Graduate Studies,

History/Geography

Texas A&M, Graduate Studies, Geography

University of Houston Clear Lake, Graduate Studies, Geography

University of Washington, Graduate Studies, Science

Rice University, Graduate Studies, Geology

CERTIFICATION: All social studies, grades 6-12

ACHIEVEMENTS

Career Ladder, Level III, TEA, Houston ISD

President, University of Houston Women’s Association

Department Chair: Hamilton Middle School Social Studies

Technology Advisor: Hamilton SDMC

Secretary: Hamilton SDMC

Hamilton SDMC: 4 years

Houston Consortium of Urban Professional Development and Technology Centers Policy Council Member

Secretary: Friends of Geography

Newsletter Editor: Friends of Geography

Executive Secretary: Friends of Geography

President Elect: Friends of Geography

President: Friends of Geography

Department Chair: Pin Oak Middle School Social Studies

Faculty Representative: Pin Oak PTO

PRESENTATIONS

Texas Council for the Social Studies, Southwest Association of American Geographers, Texas Alliance for Geographic Education, Region VI Technology Conference, New Directions

Joan Linsley

in Education at Texas A&M, Houston Schools of Excellence, Friends of Geography, North Texas Geography Alliance—

GeoTech, National Council for Geographic Education, American Association of Petroleum Geologists

RECOGNITION/SPECIAL TRAINING

1989: National Geographic Society/ Texas A&M, Summer Institute for Geography

1990: National Geographic Society/Texas A&M, Geographic Leadership Institute

1991: National Geographic Society/Texas A&M, Summer Institute

1991: National Geographic Society/ IBM, Educational Technology Leadership Institute

1989-1990: Growing Thinkers, Houston ISD

1990: Hamilton Teacher of the Year

1992: Classroom selected for visit by Gilbert Grosvenor, President and Chairman of Board, National Geographic Society

1994: Participant: American Geological Institute Conference on Education

1994: Participant: Watershed Worlds, Thames Science Center, Newport, RI

1994: University of Houston Clear Lake Space Institute - Participant

1995: University of Houston Clear Lake Space Institute - Teacher Consultant

1996: University of Houston Clear Lake Space Institute - Teacher Consultant

1998: Participant: National Geographic Society/Texas A&M Summer Institute

1999: Participant: National Marine Sanctuaries/National Geographic Society, Sustainable Seas Expedition, Olympic Peninsula Workshop

2000: Participant: Mission Geography, Texas A&M University

2001: Selected as Distance Learning Teacher, Ocean Drilling Program

2002: Participant: JASON Project, National Geographic Society, Channel Islands, Biodiversity of Channel Islands

2004: Recipient: Distinguished Teaching Award, one of thirty in the nation from the National Council for Geographic Education

Joan Linsley

2006: Junior Achievement, Houston, Star Educator

2009-10: Participant: Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce TEACH Program to Saudi Arabia and Qatar

2010: Humanities Institute Participant

2011: Junior Achievement, Houston, Star Educator

2011 and 2012: Participant: Economic Landscape of Colonial Virginia Institute, Stratford Hall

2012: Teachers Teaching History Institute, University of Houston, HISD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ocean Drilling Program: Distance Learning Teacher, Pilot Project, Leg 194, on JOIDES Resolution off the coast of Australia; reported through live broadcasts on the research relating to timing and magnitude of ocean rise some fifteen million years ago (2001)

Moore, OK, Junior High, Westbury High School /Hamilton Junior High/ Hamilton Middle School Vanguard, Pin Oak Middle School, Houston ISD: Experience in teaching the following subjects: Geography, Social Studies, American History, Texas History and Geography, Government, English, Literature, Photography, Biology, Gifted/Talented.

Substitute teaching, Bellaire High School, long-term in Pre-AP and regular geography courses.

University of Houston Clear Lake Space Institute:

Teacher Consultant (two summers)

Served as a bank officer in Iowa, worked in banks in Iowa and Washington D.C

Registrar’s Office: Bradley University

President’s Office: University of Oklahoma

Volunteer work for various organizations including educational institutions and cultural and political organizations

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