| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | Teacher Education |
| Office: | JH 327 |
| Phone: | 216-875-9704 |
| Fax: | 216 687-5379 |
| Email: | M.GOVE@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. JH 327, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||
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Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, Kent State Unversity, 1981
M.Ed., Reading Specialization, Kent State Unversity, 1973 B.A., Elementary Education & French, Drury College, 1967 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Mary K. Gove PhD is co-author of a leading best selling textbook, Reading and Learning to Read, which has been in undergraduate and graduate classroom use for twenty years. Her present research interests include teachers' perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind legislation on classroom teaching and ecological critical literacy.
She teaches both the graduate and undergraduate section of Literature Based Reading Instruction and the Seminar in Literacy Research. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| 1980 Received the Kent State Redesign Grant for Producing Videotapes to be used in Teacher Training, 1980.
1980 Received an Award for Research on Language and Reading from Kent State University. 1985-87 Coordinator of Shaw Foundations Program which was named by the National Council of Teachers of English as a Center for Excellence. 1987-88 Received a Phi Delta Kappa Research Grant to conduct Action Research with teachers in East Cleveland Schools. 1988 Coordinated The Action Research in Literacy Education Project which received the Phi Delta Kappa Chapter Research Award. 1989-90 Received a grant from the College Board to conduct Action Research with teachers in East Cleveland Schools. 1990 Coordinator of Shaw Reading/Writing Programs which was named by the National Council of Teachers of English as a Center of Excellence for Students at Risk. 1990-1991 Major author of a funded Ohio State Department Third Grade Guarantee Grant: Leading staff development program with first through fourth grade teachers at Prospect School, East Cleveland Elementary School. Focus of the program is for all students to read and write fluently by third grade. | ||
| Creative and Activities: | ||
| CSU Assessment Grant, Cleveland Foundation. Co-authored with Trisha Long, date grant was received : January 3, 2002, Amount of grant: $1,500.00, Timeframe of grant project: Spring semester, 2002.
Title of Grant: Voices and Choices: Action Research Collaboration between East Cleveland Schools and Cleveland State University. Urban School Collaborative. Authors: Mary Gove and Trisha Long. Kay Benjamin joined us in the actual work in an East Cleveland School. Date Grant Received: Spring 2002, Amount of Grant: $17,000, Time frame of grant project: Fall 2002 Fall 2003. Mimic Grants. 2001 2004. These grants supported me as I incorporated technology into my teaching. External Evaluator of the East Cleveland Reading First Program, Federal Grant: No Child Left Behind. Authors Joe Ipolito & Mary Gove. Amount of grant: $30,000 for each of three school years: 2004-2005, 2005-06, 2006-07. Martha Holden Jennings Grant: $14,700. Linking Expanded Critical Literacy to the Cleveland Schools Book Fund. Time frame: School year 2007-08. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Mary Gove's current research interests include teachers' perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind legislation on classroom teaching and ecological critical literacy. | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| LIterature Based Reading Methods
Seminar in Literacy Research | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| Professional Organizations
American Educational Research Association Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development International Reading Association National Council of Teachers of English Ohio Council of International Reading Association. Phi Delta Kappa | ||
| Professional Experience: | ||
| 2001 - Cleveland State University, Tenure track Literacy Education Professor
1990-2001 Cleveland State University, Part time Professor, 1979- 1998 East Cleveland Schools, Reading Consultant 1981-89 Kent State University, Part time Professor 1984-86 John Carroll University, Part time Professor 1986-89 Project funded by Urban Initiatives, Staff Developer for teachers from the Cincinnati Schools 1985-86 Project funded by Urban Initiatives, Reading Consultant, Cleveland City Schools. 1975-81 Baldwin Wallace Summer Reading Program in Diagnosis and Remediation, Reading Supervisor 1978-79 Kent State Redesign, Reading Consultant 1973 Kent State Summer Reading Practicum in Remediation, Reading Supervisor 1975-78 Brecksville Schools, Brecksville, Ohio, Reading Teacher 1969-75 Mayfield Schools, Mayfield, Ohio, First Grade Teacher 1968-69 Jefferson City Schools, Jefferson City, Missouri, Language Arts Elementary Teacher 1967-68 Melville City Schools, Melville, Missouri, third Grade Teacher | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Member of Senate Graduation/ Convocation Committee, 2003-2004
Guided Graduate students in my EDL512 class to write book reviews which were published on the CSU library website http//ulib.csuohioledu/bookreviews. Also the picture on the opening page of the website is from my EDL312 Service Learning Project Spring 2004 | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| Co-ordinator of Literacy Education Faculty
Department Liazon to University Library | ||
| Community Service: | ||
| Member of Board of Cleveland Reads
Collaborated with Trisha Long and Linda Wheatt, a fourth grade teacher in East Cleveland, on Literature Circles and Literature Engagement Strategies,20012002 Collaborated with Christine Carnett, a third grade teacher at Prospect School in East Cleveland, on a Flat Stanley Project in which my CSU students wrote journal entries to third graders as they pretended to travel to different countries, Spring 2002 Collaborated with Kay Benjamin, Trisha Long and Regina Walko, principal of Prospect School in East Cleveland, in a project in which we worked with the teachers and the children in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade class rooms preparing the children to read Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963. Then we brought in the author Christopher Paul Curtis, for the children to interact with. It was a successful and enjoyable project. Spring 2002 Attended a meeting to aid Cleveland Catholic Diocese in writing an Early Reading First Grant. I provided some information on the assessment instruments that were being used for the Reading First Grant Projects. Spring 2003 Provided assistance to East Cleveland Schools as they wrote their Reading First Grants, Spring 2003 and Spring 2004 Served as a consultant to the CMSD Early Childhood Department as they began a model primary school at Oxford Elementary School, Summer 2003 Conducted Service Learning Project with undergraduates in EDL312 in which CSU students worked one to one and in small groups with children from a 3rd grade class in East Cleveland, Fall and Spring 2003-2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005 | ||