Dr. Schack's curriculum vita

Educational Background

• PhD Educational Psychology (Gifted Education), University of Connecticut
• MEd Curriculum, Michigan State University
• Teacher certification (K-8; middle school social studies, science), Michigan State University
• BS (Psychology), Michigan State University

Teaching Areas

• Challenging advanced learners; teaching diverse learners
• Instructional planning and assessment
• Gifted/talented education and talent development
• Middle level education
• Multiple Intelligences and learning styles

Research Interests

• Curriculum instruction to challenge and support all students
• Gifted/talented education
• Alternative teacher certification
• Teachers' behaviors and attitudes about teaching diverse students

Professional Activities

• Principal Investigator, Transition to Teaching Alternative Teacher Certification Program (2002-2008) – U. S. Department of Education grant for $1,095,000+ over six years (grant written by Linda Irwin-DeVitis, who directed it the first nine months)
• Co-Chair, Standard 1 (Candidates’ Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions) Self-Study Committee, College of Education and Human Development
• Principal Investigator, Developing the Leadership Talents of Gifted Students (1997-1999) – Gifted & Talented Education Division of the Kentucky Department of Education, $35,000

Professional Memberships

• National Association for Gifted Children
• Council for Exceptional Children; The Association for the Gifted Division
• American Educational Research Association
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• National Middle School Association
• Phi Delta Kappa
• Kentucky Association for the Gifted

Selected Publications

• Schack, G. D. (2000). Plusses, minuses, and interesting points about multiple roles and relationships of the PDS liaison. Peabody Journal of Education, 74(3&4), 306-309.
• Schack, G. D. & Starko, A. J. (1998). Research comes alive! A guidebook for teaching middle and high school students to conduct original research. Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press, Inc.
• Schack, G. D. (1996). All aboard or standing on the shore: Gifted education and the educational reform movement. Roeper Review, 18(3), 190-197.
• Schack, G. D. (1994). Authentic assessment procedures for secondary students' original research. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, VI(1), 38-43.
• Starko, A. J. & Schack, G. D. (1992). Looking for data in all the right places: A guidebook for conducting original research with young investigators. Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press, Inc.