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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board
Faculty Vita
Thomas Buckingham, M.S.
Title: Associate InstructorOffice: W. W. Wright Education Building, room 3048-M
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 2000
Academic Degrees
| M.S. | University of South Florida | 2000 | Education in Foreign Language |
| B.A. | State University of New York at Buffalo | 1980 | History |
Certification/Licenses
| Florida Teacher Certification in History (grades 6-12) Florida Chinese Language Certification Summer 2000 |
Professional Experience
| 2000-Present | Associate Instructor, Student Academic Center |
| 1999-2000 | Educational Consultant: Wrote curriculum projects and give presentations on Chinese language and culture. Distance study course for Chinese I, II, and III |
| 1993-1999 | Chinese Language Teacher, Grades 2-12: Six years of high school and middle school foreign language teaching |
| 1990-1993 | Adult Education/GED Teacher |
| 1989-1992 | Math/Reading/Writing Paraprofessional |
| 1988-1988 | Classroom Teacher, Ninth Grade Social Studies |
| 1987-1988 | Adult Education Teacher |
| 1980-1982 | Classroom Teacher: Taught grades 3-6 |
Faculty Teaching
| X150 | Managing Resources for Learning | |
| X151 | Critical Thinking and Reading | |
| X152 | Learning Strategies for Returning Students | |
| X153 | Critical Thinking for new College Students |
Funded Projects
- Foreign Language Assistance Program Grant (September 1996) Co-wrote a three-year, $491,000 federal grant to expand Chinese language studies in Lee County Florida.
Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships
- American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
- American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language (ACTFL)
- Chinese Language Association of Secondary and Elementary Schools (CLASS)
- Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA)
- Florida Council of Social Studies
- Northeast Conference of Foreign Language Teachers (NEC)
- Southwest Florida Coalition for Social Studies
Conference Presentations
- Southwest Florida Council for Social Studies Teachers Regional Conference (February 1996, 1997, 1998) Presented six workshops on the culture, language, politics, and history of China. Titles included The Chinese Language, Elementary China, Xianggang Hui Gui: Chinese Perspectives, Multimedia China, The Lee County Chinese Program, Chinese Culture Resources.
Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (April 1996) : Presented workshop, The Lee County Chinese Program, narrating the development of the program in all phases.
Florida Council for Social Studies State Conference (October 1997) Presented The Return of Hong Kong from Chinese Perspectives.
AAAL Annual conference ( April 2002) in Salt Lake Utah. Presented paper on Bilingual Elementary Students Strategies Usage in Problem Solving (written with Simich-Dudgeon)
Service/Outreach Projects
- Chinese Cultural Perspectives (June 1994): Co-organized and presented in four day workshop for Lee County teachers on Chinese Culture.
National Standards For Chinese Language K-12 ( 1998) Participated in the final drafting of these language specific goals for Chinese.
Curriculum Committee: Chinese Language Association of Secondary and Elementary Schools (1999-present) Part of a task force for the implementation of the Foreign Language Standards in Chinese.
Southern Region Coordinator: Chinese Language Association for Secondary and Elementary School (1999-present) Responsible for regional representation in policy meetings on CLASS governing board.
Editor of CLASS Journal for the year 2000 edition
Honors/Awards
- Fulbright Hays Scholarship for Teachers, "China, Tradition and Transformation"(June to August 1994): Awarded scholarship to travel and study throughout China (Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, Xianggang, Guilin, Shenzhen, Wuhan, San Xia).
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