| Deanna Gilkerson, Ph.D |
Professor, Early Childhood Education Pugsley 139 Tele: 688-5708 Fax: 688-5797 Deanna.Gilkerson@sdstate.edu Education Ph.D Iowa State University , 1993 M.S. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1978 B.S. South Dakota State University, 1975 Teaching ECE 362 Early Childhood Education Curriculum ECE 365 Emergent Literacy ECE 543 Child Inquiry ECE 665 Parent Education Theory and Issues ECE 676 Early Childhood Administration HDCF 210 Lifespan Development Primary Academic Interests Program Area: Early Childhood Education Content interests and specialties - Curriculum for children ages 3 - 8 (Focus Areas: Math, Literacy, and Science). - Child Inquiry - DAP Assessment of young children Service/Outreach: Professional Associations and leadership positions South Dakota's Rep to the Board of Directors for the Mid-West Association for the Education of Young Children Member of Phi U, IRA, NAEYC, and NAREA Board of Director for the Acts Faculty Advisory roles: Coordinator of the Elementary Education Cooperative Programs with DSU, BHSU, NSU, and USD Current Research My research is in the areas of Early Childhood Curriculum, Emergent Literacy, Impact of Kindergarten Scheduling and Assessment. Ongoing projects (funded or non-funded) - The development and standardization of a USA version of the Swedish Word Chain (an early screening tool for detection decoding skills in 2nd and third graders). - Action Research related to student's development and opinions relating to child inquiry and long term investigations. -All Team Teacher Meeting (ATTM) as a strategy for Teacher Action on Research Recent Selected Publications and Presentations Publications and presentations within the last five years Referred Presentation: Gilkerson, Jaconson, Nystrom, Brown-Sandberg & Elliott 2004, 49th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, Reno, Nevada. Titled: Fluency Revisited: What can two minutes tell a teacher? A Developmental comparison of Word and Letter Recognition in Two Languages. Gilkerson, Brown-Sandberg, Nystrom, & Jacobs (Accepted - I worked on the presentation, but was unable to attend the actual meeting). To the European Reading Association. Summer 2003 in Estonia. Titled: Decoding Development in Two Different Orthographies. Parrott, Gilkerson, & Cutler, 2002, Presented at the South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children and the South Dakota Head Start Association Joint state conference, Pierre, SD. Titled: Developing Family Literacy Programs. Gilkerson, Cutler, Parrott, & Bowne, 2002, Presented at the Joint Conference of South Dakota Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the South Dakota Science Teachers Association, Huron, SD. Titled: Math Games and Children's Literature. Gilkerson & Cutler, 2001, Presented at the South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children and South Dakota Head Start Association Joint State Conference, Rapid City, SD. Titled: Developing Math Fames from Children's Literature. Sue Parrott, Mary Bowne, and Be Gilkerson, 2001, Presented at the South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children and South Dakota Head Start Association Joint State Conference, Rapid City, SD. Titled: Helping to Integrate Math and Reading Into Classrooms and Home Settings. Brown-Sandberg, Gilkerson, Cutler, & Parrott, 2001, presented at the 12th European Conference on Reading, Dublin, Ireland. Titled: Preschool Students Reading and Writing Development: What do Literacy Assessments and Artifacts Tell Us? Gilkerson, Bowne, and Parrott, 2001, Presented at the Building Family Strengths International Symposium, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE. Title: Building Stronger Families Through a Parent Education Program With A Focus On Mathematical and Emergent Literacy Skills of Young Children. Gilkerson, Bowne, and Parrott, 2001, Presented at the 28th Plains IRA Regional Reading Conference, Sioux Falls, SD. Titled: Building Children's Early Literacy Skills Through A Focused Curriculum and Parent Education Program. Gilkerson, Brown-Sandberg, & Nystrom, Presented at the 28th Plains IRA Regional Reading Conference, Sioux Falls, SD. Titled: Evaluation of Early Reading Assessment Tools. Gilkerson, Brown-Sandberg, Helling 2001. (Submitted and accepted but presented by Cutler & Howlett). National Association for the Education of Young Children Conference in Anaheim, California. Title: Meeting the Needs of Early Childhood Education Students by Transcending Geographical and Cultural Boundaries. Gillkerson, Hilling, Cutler, Brown-Sandberg, Venhuizen, Johnson, Nelson, & Kranhold, 2001, Presented at the Developing Native American Scientists Research Day. Poster on Curriculum Development Projects. Refereed: Publication: Refereed: Cutler, Gilkerson, Parrott, & Bowne 2003 Developing Math games based on children's literature,. Spotlight on Young Children and Math, NAEYC, NY. Cutler, Gilkerson, Parrott, & Bowne (Jan. 2003) Developing math games based on children's literature. Beyond The Journal, Young Children. Gilkerson, Brown-Sandberg, Nystrom, & Jacobs (Accepted for Publication) in the Conference Proceedings of the European Reading Association. held Summer 2003 in Estonia. Titled: Decoding Development in Two Different Orthographies. Gilkerson, Brown-Sandberg, 2000, Vol. XXIII, No. 1. From the little house to the "Global Schoolhouse:" Transcending geographical and cultural barriers in reading methods courses taught on-line and through distance education. Professors of Reading Teacher Educators Journal. Culter, Gilkerson, Parrott, & Bowne 2005, Developing math games based on children's literature. Young Children. Peer Reviewed Presentations: Gilkerson, D., & Cutler, K. (2007). Improving classroom practices. Presented to the International Conference of Teacher Research (ICTR), Chicago, IL. Invited Presentations: I have been invited to do a feature presentation at the South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children, April 24 & 25, 2008. Gilkerson, D. & Kampmann, J. (2007) Documentation - Preschool. The Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education's Delegation Days, Brookings, SD. Presentation Proposals Accepted: Gilkerson, D. & Bowne, M. (2007) - All Teacher Team Meeting (ATTM): Documentation and Dialogue as a Tool of Inquiry. To be presented at the International conference of Teacher Research (ICTR) at Banks Street College of Education, New York, New York, March 28 & 29, 2008. |
