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Associate Professor of Literacy Education and M.Ed. in Reading Program Coordinator

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Examining Adult Learning of “Giving Back” Initiatives (Gina M Doepker) In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Adult Education and the Development of Lifelong Learners IGI Global (2021)

Examining Adult Learning of “Giving Back” Initiatives (Gina M Doepker) Handbook of Research on Adult Learning in Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Publishers (2020)

Pre-Service Teachers Perspectives on How the Use of TOON Comic Books during Guided Reading Influenced Learning by Struggling Readers (Ewa McGrail, Alicja Rieger, Gina M Doepker, et al.) SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education (2018)

The study presented in this article examines the use of comic books, TOON comic books, during guided reading. The instruction with this comic book series was provided to struggling readers, kindergarten through fifth grade,by the ...

Using Comic Books to Improve Three Elementary Studens' Reading and Writing Skills- A Multi-Case STudy Analysis.pdf (Gina M Doepker, Ewa McGrail and Alicja Rieger) READ: An Online Journal for Literacy Educators (2018)

Education and literacy researchers have acknowledged educational merit in reading instruction that integrates authentic reading texts, such as comic books, which meet the needs of today’s multi-modal learners. This qualitative multi-case study explores how three ...

Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions about the Effectiveness of the TOON Comic Books in Their Guided Reading Instruction (Ewa McGrail, Alicja Rieger and Gina M. Doepker) Georgia Educational Researcher (2017)

Recently, education and literacy researchers have acknowledged educational merit in guided reading that incorporates interactive and authentic reading texts, such as graphic novels, which meet the needs of today’s predominantly multimodal learners (Jennings, Rule, & ...

LEAP-ing into literacy: Study buddies helping students improve their reading and writing skills (Gina M Doepker, D. Monettie and J. Breneiser) GATEWays to Teacher Education (2016)

Service Learning in the Sullivan Literacy Center (Gina M Doepker) Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice: Vol. 11. Service Learning as Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (2016)

The preservice teacher candidates (PTCs) in the Department of Early Childhood and Special Education at Valdosta State University (VSU) participate in three SERVICE LEARNING experiences during their first, second, and third professional semesters which occur ...

A personal journey to merge literacy education and multicultural teacher education (Gina M. Doepker) Education Faculty Publications and Presentations (2015)

There has been considerable attention to multicultural education and how to effectively integrate it into teacher education programs so that it helps teachers to be attentive to and effective for the economically, culturally, and racially ...

White multicultural voices in Southern universities: An overview (Gina M. Doepker and Steven Chamberlain) Education Faculty Publications and Presentations (2015)

It is a fact that the diversity of today’s student population in schools across the United States is growing. According to the Center for Public Education (2012), it is also a fact that the majority ...

Early Literacy Applications (Gina M Doepker) (2015)

LEAP-ing into literacy: Study buddies helping students improve their reading and writing skills. (Gina M Doepker, D. Monetti, J. Reffel, et al.) GATEWays to Teacher Education (2015)

The Literacy Education Assessment Program (LEAP) is a tutoring program that pairs a pre-service teacher with a K-5 student for one-on-one reading and writing assessment and intervention. LEAP works in conjunction with an undergraduate course ...

Preparing Educators through Relationships between Schools, Families, and Communities (Gina M Doepker) Critical Issues in Preparing Effective Early Childhood Special Education Teachers for the 21 Century Classroom: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2015)

The purpose of this book is to provide a forum for an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue with regard to preparing teachers for early childhood special education. In addition, it is aimed at examining and making available ...

Reflection Matters: Preparing Effective Teachers for the 21st Century Classrooms (Alicja Rieger and Gina M Doepker) Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts, Research Strand (2015)

The current study examined thirty-four teacher candidates’ field reflections, written during their tutoring literacy experiences in their preparation programs for evidence of their developing reflective thinking skills and teaching skills. A qualitative approach was utilized ...

Multicultural teacher education and literacy education: One teacher educator's journey from ignorance to insight (Gina M Doepker) White Voices in Multicultural Education: How They Came to Be (2014)

Practices for developing reflective thinking skills among teachers (A. Rieger, B. Radcliff and Gina M Doepker) Kappa Delta Pi Record (2013)

In this article, the authors advocate the practice of reflection and reflective thinking skill development. More specifically, they offer definitions of reflection, identify reasons that may inhibit preservice teachers' reflection, and suggest practices that specifically ...

Bringing service learning to scale in an undergraduate reading foundations course: A quasi-experimental study (I. A. Wilkinson, Gina M Doepker and D. Morbitt) Journal of Excellence in College Teaching (2012)

This study documents the effects of service-learning as it was introduced and brought to scale in an introductory undergraduate course in Reading Foundations for students seeking to become early and middle childhood education teachers. Participants ...

Preserving Adolescent Readership through Interest and Motivation (Gina M. Doepker and Evan Ortlieb) Education Faculty Publications and Presentations (2011)

Adolescent literacy has remained a relatively hot topic for several years in the field of reading education (Cassidy, Ortlieb, & Shettel, 2010/2011) however, educators remain conflicted about how to maintain high levels of reading motivation. ...

Should Standardized Reading Tests Be Untimed?: Untimed Testing Conditions Can Benefit Most Students' Academic Performance on Standardized Reading Tests (Gina M Doepker) (2010)

Year after year I was placed in the lowest reading class because my scores were so low on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. My grades in reading class were always A's, and I never ...

A collaborative approach to higher education induction (Evan T. Ortlieb, J. P. Biddix and Gina M Doepker) Active Learning in Higher Education (2010)

Success in higher education is often measured by one’s ability to conduct research, effectively disseminate findings, and competently teach in a collegiate setting. These measures are not entirely developed during doctoral school, let alone as ...

Reaching Resistant Readers: Explicit Approaches to Promote and Retain Reading Motivation (E. T. Ortlieb and Gina M Doepker) The Oklahoma Reader (2010)

Modernizing the Reading Clinic through Research and Exploration (Evan T. Ortlieb and Gina M. Doepker) SoTL Commons Conference (2009)

Reading clinics are not only necessary, but pertinent in the age of educational assessment, accountability, and best practices. Assessing and individualizing instruction are only facets of what encompasses a reading clinic; the structure of a ...

Preservice teachers want more, more, more supervision: A statewide study of supervisors’ roles, responsibilities, and practices (Gina M Doepker) (2008)

The position of a university supervisor is a very important one. There is a heavy reliance on the university supervisor to act as the communication and instructional link between the university and educational field sites. ...

A study to determine the status of the roles, responsibilities, and practices of university supervisors who serve middle childhood preservice teacher candidates in the state of Ohio (Gina M Doepker) (2007)

This research explored the status of the roles, responsibilities, and practices of the university supervisors who served the middle childhood preservice teacher candidates in the state of Ohio. Survey results were collected from 36 colleges ...

Helmy Abdel-Hamid El-Touni (Gina M Doepker) Bookbird (2004)

Appeared in Bookbird, 42(4), 37. Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominee Profile.

Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives on How the Use of TOON Comic Books during Guided Reading Influenced Learning by Struggling Readers (Ewa McGrail, Alicja Rieger, Gina M Doepker, et al.) SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

The study presented in this article examines the use of comic books, specifically the TOON comic books during guided reading instruction. The instruction was provided to struggling readers by the Literacy Center at a comprehensive ...