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Leslie's best picks
- Books and authors that can make a
difference in the lives of teachers, parents and children.
On-Line Standards
The Celt Center
A little inspiration - poems
and stories
ASCD's
The Lexicon of Learning - Makes understanding the
jargon or education easy
Just for Fun
Brain Test
Unique personality test
Color Test
Graduate Exam Questions
Journal Articles On Line
New
Horizons for Learning Electronic Journal -
Vol. III, #5, March/April 1998
The
eighth intelligence
Why
teachers are drawn to using Multiple Intelligence Theory in the classroom
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Leslie Owen
Wilson 1997, 2005,
restrictions
on usage
The second principle of
magic...things
which have once
been in contact with each other continue to act on
each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
Sir James Frazer
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Biography
Originally from
Baltimore, Maryland Leslie has
lived in many areas of the US and in Germany. Her doctorate, from Oklahoma State
University, is in curriculum and instruction, with additional emphasis in
educational foundations and gifted education. She came to the University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1990 and is a full professor in the School of Education.
Here she teaches graduate
courses in a number of topics - philosophical foundations of education, creativity; newer views of learning;
curriculum; reflective teaching; and the models of teaching and
learning; and an undergraduate course in educational psychology.
Occasionally, she also teaches special interest graduate courses in
brain-based education, and another in newer taxonomies of learning.
Beyond her university experiences, she has had multiple incarnations as
a classroom teacher, reading teacher, and teacher and developer of
programs for gifted, highly able, and creative learners in Maryland,
Georgia, and Oklahoma.
In addition to pursuing her
professional interests and maintaining active partnerships with classroom teachers and
public schools, Leslie has also written the book, Every Child, Whole
Child (out of print).
When time permits she works an on-going book manuscript - Journeys: Inside
Out, Outside In - which melds holistic learning and rites of
passage education with concepts like emotional and multiple
intelligences. She also
continues active partnerships with classroom teachers and public
schools. From 2000-2003 Leslie was actively involved in a UW-System's technology
grant initiative (the CELT Project) with the Stevens Point School District training teachers in
melding brain-based learning and Multiple Intelligence Theory with
technology.
In 2003 she received a
three-year Congressional Award to fund
The FACETS Project
which was geared toward
university faculty development and focused on realigning university
teaching to the needs of Millennial students, as well as introducing
faculty to newer methods of teaching and current research on learning and
cognition. She is currently heading a pilot program through
UW-Systems working with six UW campuses in a project that combines
different types of learning technologies with relation to backward
course design and meeting the needs of Millennial students entitled
ICoP -- Intercampus Communities of Practice. Leslie was
one of the UW-Systems Teaching Scholars in 2004 concentrating investigating and creating
quality online graduate instruction that featured the development of
online communities and based on models of teaching and learning. She has
extensive presentation experiences and continues to do faculty
development work.
She writes on many
topics that are reflective of her graduate teaching and personally
maintains this large comprehensive website which is related to those
interests and is used by other teaching professionals around the world.
Her latest publication, in 2005, concerns the importance of rights of
passage educational experiences in
Holistic learning and spirituality
in education: Breaking new ground, edited by John P. Miller, et al
for SUNY Press. UW-SP has recognized her outstanding contributions in
the area of instruction with a University Teaching Excellence Award.
Currently she teaches:
Leslie's
Vita
Professional Development Experiences
 Links
to Areas of Concentration
Information in this site specifically pertains to the following areas:
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Curriculum development
- Original topical material related to: Curriculum
definitions and terms; curriculum planning and development; hints for
writing usable curriculum; general information and suggestions about
curricular issues: and numerous sample lesson plans which use eight
different models of teaching and learning.
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Creativity - Topical materials in the following areas:
Definitions; books; creative problem solving techniques; teaching and working
creatively; inspirational material; information on fostering creativity, and much more.
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Models of
teaching and learning - A graduate level e-course on teaching models
and their uses in the instructional process -- a course stressing the
development of an online learning community. While much of the course
content is open to outside browsers, certain segments, forms, and
details are closed and secured for enrolled students use only and to
UWSP browsers. The course uses D2L for online management.
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Theories of learning -
Many diverse topics related to: How students learn and think; effective teaching
strategies; learning and its relationship to personality theory; brain-based learning and
metacognition; plus information on newer views of intelligence,
especially Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Brain-based
learning and Multiple Intelligences meet technology in a virtual center.
Leslie has been involved in an innovative technology grant
initiative sponsored by University of Wisconsin System Funds. Related
grant activities have involved many talented teachers from the Stevens Point Public
Schools. The name of the project is called
The CELT Center --
Center for the Expansion of Learning and Teaching.
Faculty
Development Programs:
FACETS (Faculty Alliance for
Creating and Expanding Teaching Strategies) A Faculty Development
Program. This multi-year
program is a faculty development initiative supported by a Congressional
Award from Congressman Dave Obey which concentrates on teaching
excellence at the university level. It is a partnership with faculty
from UW-Marathon Center. The FACETS team is multidisciplinary and
includes Leslie and partners Susan, Gingrasso, Marty Loy, and Craig
Wendorf. Read more about this program in an online journal by
faculty participants -
Views from the
bridge.
ICOP
(Intercampus Communities of Practice)
The Intercampus Community
of Practice (ICoP) grant targets support for the uses of
newer technologies, especially as these technologies
have the potential to increase the quality of
interpersonal communications and understandings between,
but not limited to, faculty-to-student, and/or
student-to-student interactions.
This initiative was
conceived as a pilot program running for one year and is
funded by the Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC)
of University of Wisconsin Systems. The grant activities
bring together faculty members and campus LTDC personnel
from six UW campuses Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse,
Stevens Point, Superior, and Whitewater. Activities
focus on understanding and learning more about the
intersections between the learning differences and needs
of Millennial students, Backward Course Design, and new
forms of communication technology like blogs, wikis,
D2L, podcasting, and virtual office hours. Twenty seven
faculty members have devised proposals whereby they will
develop, or revise courses to add newer forms of
communication through technology.
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