 Dr. Mary Cates Draper
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Education, Chair of Graduate Education
Degrees Earned
Tennessee Temple College,
Chattanooga, TN
B.S. Elementary Education, 1971
Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga, TN
M.S. Educational Administration and Supervision, 1991
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction: major area-elementary education. Cognate-teacher education, 1998. Major Professor: Priscilla Griffith
Dissertation title: "A Study of the Reflective Practice of Preservice Teachers in their Final Internship."
Special projects: Museum of Science and Industry: wrote curriculum for preschool teachers.
Courses taught: Teaching middle school social studies
Supervised Level I, II, and III Interns and taught the corresponding seminar
Teaching and Professional Experience
2003-Present, Clearwater Christian College
Courses Taught: Methods of Teaching Elementary Science,
Methods of Teaching Language Arts,
Children's Literature
2001-2003 Spurgeon Baptist Bible College (Assoc. Prof. of Educ.; El. Ed. Chair)
Courses Taught: all education courses
Responsibilities: Curriculum revising, Constructing syllabi, assessments, and grading rubrics
1999-2000 Temple Heights Christian School (Administrator; Teacher)
1994-1999 Spurgeon Baptist Bible College (Asst./Assoc. Prof. of Educ.; El. Ed. Chair; Dean of Women; Academic Dean)
1992-1994 Hillsborough Baptist School (Administrator; Teacher)
1983-1992 Brandon Heights Christian School (Administrator; Teacher)
1977-1983 Good Shepherd Christian School (Teacher; Dean of Women/Supervisor)
1973-1982 Tampa Bay Children's Home (Co-Director; Houseparent)
1971-1973 Hamill Road Christian School, Hixon, TN (Teacher)
Served on accreditation teams with Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (FACCS) and Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)
Memberships
FACCS Editorial Board for Life@School Journal
Eastern Education Research Association
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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- Oropallo, K, King, J, Draper, M, Radencich, M, & Barksdale-Ladd, M. (1997) Prospective Teacher Authorship of Teaching Case Narratives.
Inquiries in Literacy Theory and Practice, 405-415.
- Draper, M.C. (1998) A study of the reflective practice of preservice teachers in their final internship. UMI dissertation.
- Barksdale-Ladd, M.A. & Draper, M.C. (1998) Reading and writing habits of preservice teachers. Paper presentation at the December
meeting of the National Reading Conference. Phoenix, AZ.
- Draper, M.C. & Barksdale-Ladd, M.A. (1998). Using Cases to address multicultural issues in undergraduate literacy education courses.
Paper presentation at the December meeting of the National Reading Conference. Phoenix, AZ.
- Radencich, M.C., Barksdale-Lann, M.A. & Draper, M.C. (1999). Multicultural self-selected readings by preservice teachers in their
final internship. Research and Diversity: Institute on Black Life.
University of South Florida, spring, 101-121.
- Draper, M. C., Barksdale-Ladd, M. A., & Radencich, M. C. (2000). Reading writing habits of preservice teachers.
Reading Horizons, 40(3), 185-203.
- Draper, M. C. (2003, October). A study of the reflective practice of preservice teachers in their final full-time internship.
Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Education Research Association, St. Petersburg, FL.
- Draper, M. C. (2003). Take a course. Life At School, 3(2), 8-10.
- Draper, M. C. (2005, Spring). The Christian Teacher as an encourager mentor. Life At School, 3, 8-9
- Draper, M.C. (2006, Fall). Maybe Johnny really can't find his pencil: field-independence/field-dependence. Life @ School
- 2/1997 EERA: "Exploring Professional Dilemmas as a model for the writing of case stories in teacher education."
- 12/1997 NRC: "Using Case Studies to Model Self-Inquiry Processes in Literacy Courses" and "General and Multicultural Self-selected
Reacing by preservice elementary and special education teachers."
- 12/1998 NRC: "Reading and Writing Habits of Preservice Teachers" and "Using Cases to address multicultural Issues in Undergraduate
Literacy Education Courses."
- 1/1998 QUIG: Conference on Qualitative Research in Education. "HyperRESEARCH: A tool for qualitative research."
- 2/2003 EERA: "A Study of the Reflective Practice of Preservice Teachers in their Final Internship."
- 10/2003 FACCS: "Incorporating Group Work into the Curriculum" and "Turning an Expository Lesson into a Discovery Lesson."
- 2/2004 EERA: High Stakes Testing and Best Practices of Teachers: What really occurs in classrooms.
- Draper, M. C., & Barksdale, M. A. (2003, Month). High stakes testing and best practices of teachers: What really occurs in the classroom.
Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Education Research Association, St. Petersburg, FL.
- Draper, M. C. (2004, October). Teaching preschool mathematics using manipulatives. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Florida
Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, Orlando, FL.
- Draper, M. C. (2005, October). Teaching reading using reading writing workshops. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
Georgia Association of Christian Schools Conference, Atlanta, GA.
- Draper, M. C. (2005, October). Teaching spelling. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Christian
Schools Conference, Atlanta, GA.
- Draper, M.C. (2006). Participated in the AACS Summit on Christian Education, Atlanta, Georgia. June 22-23. Presented research on
five areas of concern in Christian education, K-20.
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