Dr. Tracy W. Smith

Dr. Tracy W. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Appalachian State University. She is also a faculty development fellow for Appalachian. In 2017, she was awarded the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2005 and 2015, she was the recipient of the Reich College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2005, she also received the Appalachian Student Government Association Outstanding Teacher Award. She was the recipient of the College of Education Outstanding Mentor Award in 2014. In 2001, she received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Her research interests include performance-based middle level teacher preparation, the history of the middle school movement, the relationship between teaching expertise and student learning, and evaluating the depth of student understanding. She has had articles published in journals such as the Middle School Journal, Journal of Teacher Education,Clearing House, and Teacher Education and Practice.

There are 2 included publications by Dr. Tracy W. Smith :

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Align And Refine: Using The Taxonomy Of Significant Learning To Plan For FYS Faculty Development 2019 321 Our faculty development (FD) work applies Dee Fink’s (2013) integrated course design model. In this article, we describe the situational factors related to supporting faculty who teach a required, academically-focused First Year Seminar course at a l...
Teachers' Responsibilities When Adolescent Abuse And Neglect Are Suspected 2005 461 As institutions collectively serving young adolescents of every race, creed, ethnic, and socioeconomic group, middle level schools provide an ideal environment for combating adolescent abuse and neglect. Additionally, because of their frequent, recur...