Fellows of the Elizabeth Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education

Dr. Beth Maloch is an associate professor in Language and Literacy Studies in the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Fellow of the Charles H. Spence Centennial Associate Professorship in Education, She teaches undergraduate courses in literacy methods and graduate courses in classroom discourse and discourse analysis. Her research interests include classroom discourse, specifically teacher/student interactions around texts, and pre-service teacher education.

In addition to receiving the Massey Award in 2011, Dr. Maloch has received numerous accolades since coming to The University of Texas at Austin. She was named to the University’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers, a recognition that only five percent of tenured faculty receive. In past years, she received the UT System’s Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in recognition of extraordinary classroom performance and innovation, two Dean’s Faculty Integration Awards to support her creative use of technology, and the Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the College of Education’s highest teaching honor.

A native of Little Rock, Ark., Dr. Maloch earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Ouachita Baptist University and a master’s degree and doctorate in language and literacy studies from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Dolly D. Lambdin is a Clinical Professor in the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. Dolly teaches in the Physical Education Teacher Education program in the Department of Kinesiology. She has taught in elementary schools in New York and Maryland as well as here in Austin. For fourteen years she taught simultaneously in the university teacher education program and as a physical education specialist in a local elementary school. Dr. Lambdin’s unique experience as both a university teacher and an elementary school teacher gave rise to a book she authored “Putting Research to Work in Elementary Physical Education: Conversations in the Gym.” Equally influential, her book “Fitness for Life: Middle School” won a national Textbook Excellence Award. She is the first University of Texas at Austin faculty member ever to win this national award.

Dolly worked with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education and with Texas Board for Teacher Certification in establishing the national and state standards for beginning teachers. She also served on the Texas Education Agency TEKS writing team for physical education. Her passion is communicating the importance of physical activity for children and visions of quality physical education.

Dr. Michael P. Marder is a Professor of Physics, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Associate Dean for Science and Mathematics Education. He is also the director of the Special Projects Office in the College of Natural Sciences and co-director of UTeach, the University program for preparation of secondary math and science teachers. Michael is helping to introduce inquiry techniques into undergraduate teaching, and is helping implement a new series of undergraduate degree plans involving computation

Michael is involved in a wide variety of theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations, ranging from studies of plasticity and phase transformations to experiments on sand ripples at the sea bottom. He specializes in the mechanics of solids, particularly the fracture of brittle materials.

Dr. Joan Shiring is a clinical associate professor in the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is one of the 2009 Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards recipients and the 2007 Elizabeth Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education.

Joan is a faculty member in the College of Education and is the coordinator of the Secondary English Language Arts program. Her major contributions and teaching include teaching for the UTeach Liberal Arts program, participating in the Warren Fellowship Program and the Teacher Education Diversity Initiative, integrating technology in the classroom and working with urban schools and students.

Dr. Jo Worthy is a professor in the UT College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. As a former elementary and middle school teacher, Dr. Worthy teaches classes focusing on literacy acquisition and development, pedagogy, and research in the teacher preparation and graduate programs. She is the 2005 recipient of the Sid W. Richardson Regents Chair in Community College Leadership and 2006 recipient of the Elizabeth Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education.

Jo works closely with and teaches classes in local schools. Her major research and teaching interests are teacher education, reading interests and preferences, alternatives to ability grouping, and students who find school challenging.

Robert Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of the Center for Music Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. His research on human learning and behavior spans multiple disciplines, including motor skill learning, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. He is the founder of the National Forum on Research in Motor Learning and Music, and his most recent work explores procedural memory consolidation and the cognitive processes engaged during musical improvisation.

A former studio musician and public school music teacher, he has worked closely with children at-risk, both in the public schools and through the juvenile court system. Dr. Duke lectures frequently on the fundamental principles of human learning and behavior change, presenting workshops and teaching demonstrations throughout North America.

Dr. Lisa S. Goldstein worked for the University of Texas at Austin until 2009 as Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Director of Early Childhood Teacher Education. Dr. Goldstein taught graduate classes in early childhood educational theory, curriculum, and teaching, and offers specialized coursework in qualitative research methodologies.

She has published 2 books and over 20 journal articles on teaching and teacher education, particularly in relation to early childhood and elementary education.