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"Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself." - John Dewey "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King |
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Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Education |
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T 919.966.1356 |
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101B Peabody Hall |
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A North Carolina native and UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus, Bill McDiarmid previously served as the Boeing Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. At UW, he was co-director of the Washington Center for Teaching and Learning and a senior fellow with Teachers for a New Era, a national initiative to use evidence, such as performance assessments of preservice teachers, to improve teacher education. He also helped create the Teaching/Learning Partnership to prepare mid-career changers to teach mathematics and science in Seattle's high-need middle schools. Earlier in his career, McDiarmid served on the faculties of the University of Alaska-Anchorage, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and Michigan State University, taught high school history in Athens, Greece, and was a Title I teacher in a remote Alaska Native village. At Michigan State, he served as co-director of the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. In Anchorage, he directed the Institute for Social and Economic Research. He was a visiting professor at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China, in 2007. His research has focused on teacher learning-particularly the preparation of teachers to work with diverse learners-and teacher education programs. He has received an Outstanding Research Award from the American Educational Research Association. Bill McDiarmid graduated from Carolina in 1969 with an A.B. degree with Highest Honors in American Studies. He earned his Ed.D. degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education in 1984. |
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| Selected Publications | McDiarmid, G.W., David, J. & Associates (in press). Learning for reform: Professional development policies under Kentucky’s educational reforms. New York: Teachers College. McDiarmid, G.W. & Clevenger-Bright, M. (in press). Rethinking teacher capacity. In M. Cochran-Smith (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Issues in Changing Contexts (3rd Edition). Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press. Miller, M., McDiarmid. G,. & Luttrell-Montes, S. (2006). Partnering to prepare urban math and science teachers: Managing tensions. Teaching and Teacher Education, 22, 848-863. Wasley, P. & McDiarmid, G. (2004). Connecting the Assessment of New Teachers to Student Learning and to Teacher Preparation. National commission on Teaching and America’s Future. |
| Selected Presentations | McDiarmid, G. W. (2007, September). Evidence and teacher preparation program renewal. Presentation to the School of Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. McDiarmid, G.W. (2007, January). Determining the effectiveness of teacher education programs: What evidence counts? Presentation to the Institute for International Development, Aga Khan Univrsity, Karachi, Pakistan. McDiarmid, G. W. (2006, September). Rethinking teacher capacity and rural schools. Presentation to the College of Education and the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. McDiarmid, G. W. (2005, October). Assessing teacher preparation: The necessary chain of evidence. Presentation to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, Milwaukee, WI. |