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Professional Development Statement

As a doctoral student in Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia, I would like to have a comprehensive theoretical background in instructional technology and in different research methodologies when I finish my study. In my first year, I think I tried to do my best to achieve these two main goals of mine. Towards the end of Fall 2016, my research interests changed. In the beginning, I was interested in literacy instruction and in-service teacher education. As of now, I am interested in teacher preparation. I currently focus on how to prepare pre-service teachers to become reflective practitioners in STEM education contexts.  

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My goals

• Having a well-developed understanding of learning theories and tenets of instructional design and putting them into practice in authentic classroom research settings

• Gaining experience in design-based research

• Becoming a prolific scholar and publishing papers in high quality journals such as Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR-D) and  British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET)

• Gaining research experience in the projects about technology integration into STEM education

• Gaining teaching experience in higher education in the US (e.g. teaching EDIT 2000)

• Designing and developing a tool that promotes pre-service teachers’ critical reflective thinking skills

• Getting more familiar with Maker Education

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Research

• January, 2017- Present: RoboSTEM Research Team, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

                                                     Helping data collection

• Manuscripts in progress

         Umutlu, D. & Kim, C. (2017). Use of learning by teaching to scaffold pre-service teachers' critical reflection.

Manuscript in preparation.

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         Yuan, J., Kim, C., Vasconcelos, L., Shin, M. Y., Gleasman, C. L., & Umutlu, D. (2016). Engineering design

practices of preservice elementary teachers in robotics activity. Manuscript in preparation.

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Presentations

Umutlu, D. (Under review). Scaffolding content area teachers in their reading instruction for struggling

readers. Submitted to be presented  at the Assoc. for Educ. Communications and Tech (AECT) Intl. Conf., Jacksonville, FL.

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Yuan, J., Kim, C., Vasconcelos, L., Shin, M. Y., Gleasman, C. L., & Umutlu, D. (Under review). A qualitative

study of pre-service teachers' engineering design process. Submitted to be presented  at the Assoc. for Educ. Communications and Tech (AECT) Intl. Conf., Jacksonville, FL.

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Umutlu, D. (2017, March). ReadJoy: Scaffolding toolbar for struggling readers. Poster presented at Integrative

Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS), Athens, GA.

              

Umutlu, D. (2017, February). Effectiveness of different video formats in flipped English classes. Paper presented

at Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy (CHEP), Blacksburg, VA.

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Umutlu, D. (2016, October). Effectiveness of different video formats in flipped English classes. Paper presented

at Innovation in Teaching and Technology Conference, Athens, GA.

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Teaching

• EDIT 2000- I observed EDIT 2000 classes in the Fall 2016 (I hope to teach the course in 2018-2019)

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Service

• March, 2017- AECT 2017 Proposal Reviewer for 'Teacher Education' and 'Design and Development'  divisions

• Spring, 2017- EDIT 4100S- Service Learning (Makerspace)

• October – December, 2016- Volunteered in CCSD 21st Century Skills After School Program

                November, 2016- STEM Club, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School

                October, 2016- Literacy Support Club, Clarke Middle School

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Professional Organization Memberships

• January, 2017- Present: AERA Membership

• September, 2016- Present: AECT Membership

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