Jan Riggsbee, Director of the Program in Education and Center for African and African American Research and Associate Professor of the Practice, Director Elementary Teacher Preparation Program, Director Academically/Intellectually Gifted Licensure Program

Contact Info:

Office Location:	213 West Duke Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3077
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://caaar.duke.edu/~jan.riggsbee

Teaching (Fall 2013):

• EDUC 111FS.01, RETHINKING SCHOOL: SOC JUSTICE Synopsis

  West Duke 212, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• FOCUS 195FS.22, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS Synopsis

  Smith 271, W 05:30 PM-07:00 PM

• EDUC 408S.01, TEACHING PRAC LANG ARTS & SS Synopsis

  West Duke 108A, Tu 04:40 PM-07:10 PM

• EDUC 409S.01, ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM Synopsis

  West Duke 108A, WF 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

• EDUC 420.01, ELEMENTARY EDU: INTERN Synopsis

  West Duke 108A, WF 06:15 PM-07:30 PM

Office Hours:

by appointment

Education:

Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction, North Carolina State University		1995
M.A. School Administration, Appalachian State University		1982
B.A. Education Queens College		1975

Specialties:

Elementary Education
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Research Interests: Elementary Education, Teacher Preparation, Cognitive Developmental Theory as Applied to Teacher Education, Literacy Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Mentoring Programs/Relationships, Educational Leadership, Cooperative Learning

Current projects: Co-Principal Investigator: SCALE (Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education), Co-Principal Investigator: Impact of the Teacher Renewal Initiative on Mid-Career Teachers, Center for Teacher Learning and Collaboration, Principal Investigator: Transcultural Inquiry Internationalizing Teacher Preparation at Duke

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

1. Jan Riggsbee, David Malone, Matthew Straus, The Role of Liberal Education in Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers, edited by Shelley Johnson Carey, Association of American Colleges and Universities Peer Review, vol. 14 no. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 12 - 15, AACU, 1818 R. street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, ISSN 1541-1389  [abs]
2. L. Carboni and J. Riggsbee, “We needed support and it was out there:” Building an online community with cooperating teachers, Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, vol. 6 (2007), pp. 109 - 122  [abs]

Recent Honors, Awards, Distinctions: 2007 Robert B. Cox Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award