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Ethel Gaides

Ethel Gaides

Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Technology Education
Coordinator, Graduate Computer Technology Education

Office phone number: (603) 536-1254
e-mail: e_gaides@plymouth.edu

Profile

Ethel Gaides is an Assistant Superintendent of Schools, overseeing curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) program, and serves as the Title I Project manager for seven schools within SAU #48 in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Ethel began her career as an elementary educator (preschool through grade 2), and later worked as a library media specialist (grades K-12) and as a technology educator (grades K-8), before assuming the principalship at Campton Elementary School. She is an experienced facilitator of instructional development teams, working with faculty to effect connections among learning styles, teaching strategies, information technology, and curriculum mapping. In addition to teaching courses at Plymouth State University, Gaides is also a PBS TeacherLine facilitator, and an OPEN-NH facilitator and course designer.

Degrees and Education

  • Doctoral Student of Education (ABD), Argosy University, Sarasota, FL
  • CAGS, Doctoral Option in Educational Leadership/Curriculum and Assessment, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
  • M.Ed., School Librarianship/Media, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
  • B.S., Elementary Education, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA

Research Interests

  • Technology Literacy Transfer: Portrait of Professional Development Connections
  • Eportfolio Development & Technology Integration
  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and 21st Century Skills
  • Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Publications

  • Leading with POOH (Passion, Objectives, Outcomes, Heart) in The New Hampshire Journal of Education, Vol. V, 2002
  • Curriculum Integration Project: Windows of Opportunity for Technology Integration at Campton Elementary School in The Scientist As Humanist Project Conscious Creations: Computers, Minds and Society, 1996
  • Numerous SAU #48 Curriculum Guides

Associations, Boards and Committees

  • New Hampshire Staff Development Council Board of Directors
  • New Hampshire Profile Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa International Executive Board Member
  • Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development & NHASCD
  • International Society for Technology in Education & NHSTE
  • International Reading Association
  • National Staff Development Council
  • OPEN-NH facilitator and developer for Online Professional Development Courses
  • PBS TeacherLine facilitator for Online Professional Development Courses
  • Parents As Teachers (PAT) Council Member
  • NEASC Co-Chair, Plymouth Regional High School
  • New Hampshire Community Technical College Advisory Board Member

Academic Distinctions

  • New Hampshire Society for Technology in Education Technology Leadership Award
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