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Early Childhood Education

Barbara Meyers, Ed.D.

Barbara Meyers Ph.D. Department ChairDepartment Chair
Associate Professor 


Room: 550 COE
Phone: (404) 413-8020
Email: barbara@gsu.edu 

Department of Early Childhood Education
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3978
Atlanta, GA. 30302-3980 

EDUCATION:

  • Ed.D., Temple University, 1988
  • M.Ed., University of Minnesota, 1980
  • B.S., Tufts University, 1966


MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST:

  • Teacher development: supervision, induction, attrition and retention and cross-disciplinary training
  • Qualitative research

  See Dr. Meyers's COE highlighted research project and related publication on teacher retention


BIO

Dr. Barbara Meyers is currently Chair of the Department of Early Childhood Education at Georgia State University. She has been a classroom teacher, program director and teacher educator. In all roles she has had the opportunity to work with diverse students in a range of settings in several states and abroad. In addition to working directly with pre and in-service teachers and other school personnel, she has developed and taught courses in the supervision/coaching of student teachers and beginning teachers, the prevention of learning and adjustment problems of school children, parent-teacher community partnerships, and numerous early childhood education courses such as reading/language arts, child development, teacher development and action research.  She collaboratively designed and implemented innovative undergraduate pre-service teacher and graduate Teach For America and Educational Specialists Degree programs. Dr. Meyers served as co-editor of the Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators (SRATE) Journal for six years and since 2007 has been co-principal investigator of  a Transition to Teaching Grant U.S. Department of Education:  Joining urban school partners in building a future workforce: Highly qualified alternative certification teacher pathways (PACT+). Her research interests include educational reform in both public schools and higher education and focus on shared decision making, family involvement and teacher development. In 2009, Dr. Meyers was awarded the Edi Guyton Faculty Mentoring Award College of Education Georgia State University and Laureate in the Association of Teacher Educators. Her children’s book, The Long and the Short of It, A Tale About Hair will be published fall, 2010.