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Teaching Alive! Professional Development Institutes—
The Presenters
| Ji-Mei Chang — San Jose State University Professor of Education
Ji-Mei Chang is a professor and educational researcher in the Department of Special Education at San Jose State University in California. She earned her doctorate from the University of Southern California with an emphasis on learning disabilities, bilingual education, and research methodology. Prior to joining CREDE, she conducted cross-language reading research among monolingual Chinese children in Taiwan, Chinese-English bilingual children in Singapore, and Cantonese-speaking children in Northern California. She was a principal investigator at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE), conducting a Title I middle school-based professional development project by engaging participating teachers in collaborative action research to facilitate language and literacy development among Asian American English learners. The research group field tested CREDE’s five standards-based pedagogical principles across three interrelated contexts: Professional development, classroom intervention and family literacy nights for reading and literacy development. Patterned after her CREDE project, she launched a school-based professional development project in Taiwan, funded by that country's Ministry of Education, working with nine professors and participating school teams in five elementary and four middle schools over four years. Currently, she conducts studies validating CREDE standards-based classroom model among pre- and inservice teachers from special education, general education, and bilingual/immersion programs. She is an international presenter in the area of school-based professional development for teaching transformation. Her research and presentations focus on integrating three sets of theoretical frameworks as a basis to foster the transformation in support of diverse learners. The three frameworks are CREDE standards, the theory of multiple intelligences as tools enhancing teaching for understanding, and productive habits of mind as tools exhibiting intelligent behaviors. For more information, you may visit her homepage. |
