Name:  Anita Greenwood          
Title:    Professor and Faculty Chairperson
Office:  O'Leary 525
Phone:  978.934.4658
Fax:      978.934.3005
                                  

Anita_Greenwood@uml.edu

Education: 

  • B.Sc. (Hons), P.G.C.E. University of Birmingham, U.K.

  • M.Ed., Ed.D. University of Massachusetts Lowell

Links:

http://faculty.uml.edu/agreenwood/index.htm

Research Interests:
  • The development of new science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge

Course Offerings:
  • 01.646    Perspectives and Vision of Schooling (Ed.D. course)

  • 02.576    Curriculum and Teaching: Science 7-12 (M.Ed. course)

  • 04.525    Science for Science Teachers (M.Ed. course)

  • 04.614    Constructivist Perspectives (Ed.D. course)

  • 04.626    Development of Concepts in Science (Ed.D. course)

  • 04.674    Research into Learning in Science (M.Ed. online)

  • 04.676    Exploring the Nature of Science (M.Ed. online)


  • Publications - Recent Print and Videos:

     
  • 2003 Factors influencing the development of the career-change teacher's science teaching orientation.  Journal of Science Teacher Education, 14(3), 217-234
  • 2001  Science is part of the big picture.  Article reprinted in Teaching Teachers: Bringing First-Rate Science to the Elementary Classroom (pp 1-3). Arlington, VA: NSTA Press
  • 1999  Preservice and inservice science teachers in partnership through EarthVision.  Proceedings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.  Boston, Massachusetts.  http://www2.educ.sfu.ca/narstsite/conference/  (also found ar ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED44690)
  • 1998  Learning science at a distance.  Education, 118 (3), 349-352
  • Looking at Learning - Eight VIDEOS.  CPB/Annenberg Nationally Distributed Video Material.  Harvard-Smithsonian Science Media Group CPB/Annenberg Professional Development Channel Video Series Content guide and printed materials contributor.
Grants:
 
  • 2003-2006  Project EXCELExchanging Careers Enhancing Learning Funded by the NSF Robert Noyce Foundation.           

  • 2003-2006     Science Education Online – In collaboration with UMass Amherst.  Funded by the NSF with UMass Amherst

  • 2003-2004  STEP UP (Science Teacher Enhancement Program for Urban Professionals) Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education

  • 1998-99  The Influence of University Methods Courses on the Practice of Novice Science and Mathematics Teachers (with R. Panasuk).  Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Education

  • 1998- 00   EarthVision 2000  Funded through a contract from the Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio State University

Professional Activities:
 

Advisory Boards:

  • 2003  Harvard - Smithsonian Science Media Group - Physical Science Video Series funded by CPB/Annenberg Foundation
  • 2001  Teacher Education Research Council (TERC) - NSF funded project - Earth Science by Design

Manuscript reviewer:

  • Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Consulting

  • Lowell Public Schools - Review of PK-5 Science Curriculum (2003)
  • Lowell Public Schools - PK-5 Science Curriculum Guide (2002)
  • Lowell Public Schools - 6-8 Science Curriculum Assessment Guide (2002)
  • Lowell Public Schools - 6-8 Science Curriculum Guide (2001)
  • Critical Mass - NSF funded content knowledge workshops for middle school science teacher in the school districts of Hudson and Fitchburg, Massachusetts (2000)
  • EnLIGHTening Science - Professional development workshop series for 24 elementary teachers from six school districts in EDCO (Educational Consortium).  Funded through a Massachusetts Department of Education Eisenhower grant. (1999)