SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

MEET THE FACULTY

Myrtle I. Welch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, SPFE

Bacon Hall 321E
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: 716-878-5620
Fax: 716-878-6033
welchmi@buffalostate.edu

  

EDUCATION                                               

Ph.D. (2007) (Summa Cum Laude) Curriculum and Instruction, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

M.Ed. (1990) Curriculum and Instruction specializing in reading, University of Texas at El Paso 

B.S. (1969) English, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA                                            

 

COURSES OFFERED

EDF 202: Child Development and Education                                   

 

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban Education

Challenged Readers

Teacher Preparedness

 

COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS & CONSULTATIONS

  • Invited Associate Editor. (March 2011).  The international Journal of Diversity Organisations, Communities and Nations. Common Ground Publishing.
  • Invited Associate Editor. (March 2010). The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. Common Ground Publishing. Volume 6, Issue 4.
  • Invited Mentor to McNair Student (2011)
 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Welch, M. I. (June 2012).  A Global African Quest: Teaching and Learning in Uganda. Presentation at the Diversity Conference of the International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations; Vancouver, Canada.
  • Shanton, K. & Welch, M. I. (June 2012). The Often Unexamined Side of Teacher Collaboration: Vulnerability, Risk, and the Problem of Affinity. Presentation at the Diversity Conference of the International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations; Vancouver, Canada.
  • Welch, M.I. (July 2012). Look Where We Started from: Excelsior. Invited Keynote Addresss at the Thomastown School Reunion; Vicksburg, MS.
  • Welch, M.I. (July 2011). Presented workshops to faculty at colleges and taught English to primary, middle and secondary students. Invited Visiting Professor in Kampala, Uganda.
  • Welch, M. I. (June 2011).  Different is Not Deficit:  Philosophical View of Diversity and Identity. Paper presented at the International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations; University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
  • Welch, M. I. (March 2010). Reading as a Struggle. Presentation at the New York State Reading Association Annual Conference; Saratoga, NY.
  • Welch, M.I. (July 2010 and  July 2011). AERA Research in Reading and Literacy Sig G of the American Educational Research Association. Invited to review Proposals.
  • Welch, M. I., Trusedell, K., Del Prado Hill, P., Cummings, M., Sclafani, K., Elggren, J. (April 2011). Global Book Hour: Using Educational Research to Prepare Teacher Candidates in a Classroom without Walls. Paper Presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. 
  • Welch, M. I. (March 2011). The Role of PDS in the Navigation of a Professor’s Tenure and Promotion. Paper Presented at the Professional Development Schools National Conference; New Orleans, LA. 
  • Welch, M.I. (April 2009) Invited Participant. New Faculty Seminar at the Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA.            
  • Welch, M.I. (November 2009). Invited Delegate. South Africa Educational Research Trip to South Africa Sponsored by AERA.
  • Wood, K., Shandomo, H., Welch, M. I., Cummings, M. (2009). CDHS Invited Graduate Research Project on Refugee Research; Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.
 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVEMENT

  • Buffalo and Western New York Chapter for National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Organizer and President, 2011-2013
  • Buffalo State College Commencement Committee, Chairperson, 2011-2012
  • Lackawanna Teacher Center Policy Board, Member, Board of Directors, 2009-Present
  • Bethel Charter School, Member, Board of Directors, 2009-Present
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Welch, M. I. (2011). (In Progress). Writing the foreword: The Most Important Work:  Stories of Struggle and  Sovereignty for Literacy Education. Shanton, K., Meyer, R. J., Haynes-Writer, J.  University Press of America, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.
  • Welch, M. I. (2011). Different is Not Deficit: Philosophical View of  Diversity and Identity.  The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations.  Vol. 11, Issue 1. pp. 33-45.
  • Welch, M. I. (April 2010). Instructional Technological Factors that Impede and Impel Struggling Adolescents’ Reading Comprehension. The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society. Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Publishing LLC.
  • Welch, M. I. (2009). Cognitive Transfer of a Reading Strategy: From Oral Participation to Silent Reading. Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education (Buffalo State). Vol. 3, No. 1.
  • Welch, M. I. (2009).  Reading as a Struggle: Challenged Readers Making Meaning from Texts. VDM Verlag Dr. Mϋller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG.
  • Welch, M. I. (2007). Reading Pedagogy: The Foundation and Cornerstone for the Expansion of Literacy. Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table.  Oxford, England. pp. 115-128. Vol. 3, No. 1. 
 

SERVICE

  • Stay in School (SIS), Organizer (January 2012). A community based educational project designed to prevent public school dropout
  • Buffalo State College Urban Master’s Degree Committee, Member (2009-Present). The purpose of this committee is to plan for the implementation of a masters degree in urban education
  • Buffalo State College School of Education, Secretary (2010-2012)
  • Buffalo State College Teacher Education Council (TEC), Representative for Social and Psychological Foundations of Education Department, (2011)                                                            .