Dorothy Dobson

Dorthy Dobson

Elementary Education
Phone: 435-797-0342
Email: dordob@digis.net
Office: Jones Education Building, Room 381

Education and Certifications

Administrator
- Director of the First Amendment Schools Program
- Edith Bowen Laboratory School
- Utah State University
- Logan, UT
- August 2004 – Present
Classroom Teacher
- Fifth, fourth/fifth, and third grades
- Edith Bowen Laboratory School
- Utah State University
- Logan, UT
- August 1982 – June 2003
- Sixth and third grades
- Douglas T. Orchard and Webster Elementary Schools
- Granite School District
- West Valley City, UT
- August 1977 – June 1982
- Special Education – Resource Room
- Mexican Hat Elementary School
- San Juan School District
- Mexican Hat, UT
- August 1974 – May 1976
As a teacher, I developed and participated in special programs within the classroom including: Integration of the Arts; utilization of historical fiction to teach Social Studies; preparation and accompanying 5th grade students to Teton Science School, an environmental education center; direction of Shakespeare productions staged and acted by 4th and 5th grade students.
Instigated and utilized
Student-Led Conferences Student Council Advisor

Classroom Aide
- Canyon Elementary School
- Hyrum, UT
- September 2005 – May 2006
- As a classroom aide, I was responsible for creating lessons and teaching reading to small groups. I received extensive training in the teaching of reading and brought in many of the skills I acquired as a classroom teacher to enrich my reading groups.

Teacher Leader
- Professional Academy for Teaching History in Schools (P.A.T.H.S.)
- American West Heritage Center
- Wellsville, UT
- January 2006 - present
- Responsibilities include assisting teachers as they integrate workshop material into their classrooms. I also planned an educational field trip for educators to Great Falls, Montana that traced a portion of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery journey.

Supervisor
- Classroom experiences for Elementary Education majors at Utah State University who worked in my classroom in the following capacities: observation; teacher aide; practicum; and student teaching.
- August 1982 – June 2004

Lecturer
- Elementary Education 4050 – “Teaching Social Studies”
- August 2006 – present
- Elementary Education 3005 – “Beginning Classroom Management”
- August 2006 – present
- Elementary Education 1010 – “Orientation to Elementary Education”
- August 2006 - present
- Education 3000 “Foundations of Education”
- January 2006 – Present
- “Classroom Management” and “Improving Social Studies Instruction”
- March 1987 – May 1998

Recent Presentations
- “First Amendment Schools”
- NALS Annual Conference; April 2005; Logan, UT
- “First Amendment Schools”
- Educators for Diversity Conference; April 2005; Logan, UT
- “Student Led Conferences”
- First Amendment Conference; February 2004; Logan, UT
- “Oral Biographies”with Vaughn Larson
- NALS Annual Conference; March 2002; San Juan, Puerto Rico
- “First Amendment Schools” with Mike Wildasin
- NCSS Annual Conference; November 2002; Phoenix, AZ
- “Picture Books as an Integration Tool”
- P.A.T.H.S. Conference; June 2002; Wellsville, UT
- “Shakespeare in the Classroom” with Joan Kyriopoulos
- NALS Annual Conference; February 2001; Gainesville, FL

Recent Consultations
- Teacher Advisor – Development of E-Learning Module on Participative Democracy
- Civic Education Consortium (Center on Congress, Center for Civic Education, and National Conference of State Legislatures); January 2006 - present
- Review of websites dealing with slavery
- For slaveryinamerica.org; January 2003
- Review of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
- For WNET Television; October 2002
- Reviewer of “Celebrate America”
- For the U.S. Beef Council; April 2002
- “A Project-Based Approach to Learning”
- For Takotna Charter School staff and students (Takotna, AK); April and July 1999

Formal Curriculum Development
- “Transatlantic Passage – The People & the Pain”
- For slaveryinamerica.org; March 2003
- “Japanese Americans and the First Amendment”
- P.A.T.H.S. PowerPoint; October 2002
- “Barbara Johns”
- For the P.B.S. series “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow”; April 2002
- “What Makes a President”
- A lesson about Theodore Roosevelt for AmericanPresident.org; February 2002

Periodicals
- “A Case for Integrating History and Reading Instruction through Literature in Today’s Elementary and Middle Schools; A Unified Approach” with John Smith
- For Social Education; March 1993
- “Teaching with History Novels; a Four-Step Approach”
- For Social Studies and the Young Learner; February 1992

Certified in Elementary and Special Education
Able to plan and implement learning activities that engage and motivate those being taught, regardless of the age of the students.
Adept at integrating curriculum in order to wisely utilize teachers’ and students’ valuable time as they strive to meet the rigorous requirements of today’s education.
Skilled in various classroom management techniques.
Experienced in creating school wide schedules.
Practiced in creating graphic organizers and PowerPoint presentations to explain concepts and ideas to a variety of audiences.