Title
Associate Professor/Assistant Director-K-12 EducationOffice Building
Wenona HallOffice
109Mailing Address
Wenona Hall 109Teaching Learning & Leadership-Box 0507
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Biography
Patrick Hales is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Leadership at South Dakota State University. He has 10 years of experience in public school teaching as a high school English teacher and K-12 English as a second language specialist. He earned his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in teacher education in 2016. His primary research interests are teacher professional development and teacher action research, educational technology, language supports in education and authentic assessment. His research into teacher professional development coalesces all veins of his research including language, technology and assessment. The majority of his research involves working directly with in-service or pre-service teachers to explore their practice around developing strategies to improve student learning.Education
- B.S. in english education | East Carolina University | 2008
- M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction, teaching english to speakers of other languages | University of North Carolina-Greensboro | 2012
- Ph.D. in teacher education and higher education | University of North Carolina-Greensboro | 2016
Academic Interests
- Scholarship of teaching
- The science of learning
- Language acquisition
Academic Responsibilities
- Secondary teaching education program coordinator
- Educational assessment
- Educational psychology
- Teaching English as a second language
- Teaching and learning I, III
Committees and Professional Memberships
- American Educational Research Association
- Association of Teacher Educators
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Literacy Research Association
Work Experience
- High school English teacher
- K-12 English as a second language specialist
- Adult English as a second language instructor
- Graduate teaching and research assistant
Areas of Research
- Teacher professional development and learning communities
- Teacher action research
- Education technology
- Discourse analysis
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
Department(s)
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School of Education, Counseling and Human Development
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Teacher Education