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Donald Freeman

Associate Professor

Prior to coming to the University of Michigan in June 2007, Freeman was dean of the Department of Language Teacher Education and director of the Center for Teacher Education, Training, and Research, at the Graduate School for International Training in Vermont. His research interests focus on teacher learning, in the contexts of organizational and systemic reform, and its influence on student learning.  He examines the development and use of teacher knowledge, particularly in the interrelationship between teacher learning and systemic change and the influences of teacher education on student learning. Methodologically, he studies the place of language as data in these learning processes, and how it can be used to trace influences across the interrelated domains of teacher education, classroom practices, and student learning.

His books include Doing Teacher-Research: From Inquiry to Understanding (Heinle-Thomson; 1998) and Teacher Learning in Language Teaching (co-edited with Jack C. Richards; Cambridge University Press, 1996), as well as a four-level student curriculum ICON- International Communication through English, with Kathleen Graves and Linda Lee (McGraw-Hill).  He was series editor of the TeacherSource professional development series published by Heinle-Thomson. He serves on the editorial board of the Modern Language Journal and previously on the boards of the Educational Researcher and the TESOL Journal.  He is past president of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and member of the University of Cambridge ESOL Advisory Council.

Freeman teaches courses in the following program(s): Teaching and Teacher Education;Teaching and Learning;Elementary Teacher Education;Elementary Teacher Education (ELMAC).

Affiliations

• Educational Studies

Projects

• Ann Arbor Languages Partnership (A2LP)

Grants

2/9/2008 - 1/9/2009	Ann Arbor Language Partnership - an Ann Arbor Public Schools grant Granting Agency: Ann Arbor Public Schools
2/1/2010 - 1/4/2010	Improving the Quality of UA Instructor Training-Planning Phase - an Institute for Social Research/United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices grant Granting Agency: Institute for Social Research/United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices
2/1/1998 - 1/1/2002	Initiate the Teacher Knowledge Project - a U.S. Department of Education grant Granting Agency: U.S. Department of Education
2/1/2010 - 1/1/2011	Learning for Teaching: a Research Study of Participation, Uptake, and Influences of Professional Learning in Two National Contexts - a Pearson Education Foundation grant Granting Agency: Pearson Education Foundation
2/1/2006 - 1/1/2008	MELT Training - a Massachusetts Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition grant Granting Agency: Massachusetts Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition
2/1/2001 - 1/1/2004	Project Instituto-Brasil Estados Unidos 2003 Granting Agency: unknown
2/1/2007 - 8/6/2010	Teacher Learning Framework - a Wisconsin Center for Educational Research/WIDA Consortium grant Granting Agency: Wisconsin Center for Educational Research/WIDA Consortium
2/1/2002 - 1/1/2006	The Teacher Knowledge Project: Madison Wisconsin School District Granting Agency: unknown
2/1/2000 - 1/1/2007	The Teacher Knowledge Project: San Francisco Unified School District Granting Agency: unknown

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