2022 SECD Research Roundup - George Toman

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03/23/2022 Added

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George Toman, a Special Education Ph.D. student, shares about what made him interested in pursuing his doctorate and his interest in improving professional development opportunities to better benefit special education teachers.

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[00:00:00.000]So, my background is
[00:00:01.434]I am a school psychologist by training.
[00:00:04.471]And so
[00:00:05.839]I worked in schools and
[00:00:07.774]and actually got lucky enough to work
[00:00:09.209]with the state office for a little bit.
[00:00:10.944]So, the research has always interested me because
[00:00:14.481]you know,
[00:00:15.415]there, there's the component of
[00:00:16.616]doing the research but also interpreting it,
[00:00:18.518]and then how to make it practical.
[00:00:19.853]So, for me,
[00:00:20.954]I kind of like being the middle guy.
[00:00:22.689]So
[00:00:23.790]as the researchers are doing their thing,
[00:00:26.526]to have someone that's able to implement and understand
[00:00:28.728]kind of what's going on.
[00:00:30.096]And be able to also signify between
[00:00:32.365]you know
[00:00:32.866]good research and maybe not so good.
[00:00:34.434]Because there's a lot of stuff out there
[00:00:35.602]and you have to parse that out and
[00:00:37.404]for a lot of people that's not
[00:00:38.538]something you think of when you think of research.
[00:00:39.873]It's just like,
[00:00:40.440]oh, you just assume that there's
[00:00:41.708]you know, a lot of quality there.
[00:00:43.476]So for me, kind of my
[00:00:44.878]my biggest piece
[00:00:45.779]was I wanted to learn how to do it,
[00:00:47.113]more than what I already knew,
[00:00:49.549]become kind of an expert
[00:00:50.583]at the craft and then
[00:00:52.752]really help practitioners
[00:00:54.687]learn how to use some of the material
[00:00:56.723]that we find in research that's really good and
[00:00:58.858]get it to our students,
[00:00:59.759]which in my mind is
[00:01:00.560]is a big reason why I'm here.
[00:01:02.295]Yeah, so I'm really fascinated with
[00:01:04.064]how we could help teachers
[00:01:06.599]be better problem solvers,
[00:01:07.867]be better decision makers
[00:01:09.135]um in a very adaptive, complex world.
[00:01:11.738]So,
[00:01:13.073]I say that to begin
[00:01:14.240]because really my
[00:01:15.075]my, my
[00:01:15.708]focus area's really looking at
[00:01:16.943]how can we build
[00:01:17.844]professional learning,
[00:01:19.446]professional development
[00:01:20.346]to help teachers best, um,
[00:01:23.049]and then also at the same time,
[00:01:24.284]what do the teachers need
[00:01:25.185]in order to carry out their
[00:01:26.553]their duties in schools?
[00:01:27.787]And
[00:01:28.922]you know, there's so many things that a
[00:01:30.390]special education teacher
[00:01:31.825]and an administrator they have to do
[00:01:34.327]that it's really hard to kind of
[00:01:36.229]maybe parse that out.
[00:01:37.230]But
[00:01:38.064]if there's ways that we can find
[00:01:40.433]good, concrete ways to help
[00:01:41.935]special education teachers not only
[00:01:43.403]access good learning, but also
[00:01:45.705]help them progress in the field,
[00:01:47.440]I think it's going to help us with
[00:01:48.975]our recruitment and retention
[00:01:51.010]issues and all those other kinds of things inherent
[00:01:52.846]within the field right now.

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