Jim Siders

Head and Associate Professor, Special Education
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities
201B Graves Hall
(205)-348-5577
jsiders@bamaed.ua.edu
Appointed in 2005

Recent Courses Taught:

SPE 300: Survey of Special Education and Accomodation Strategies
SPE 499: Internship in Special Education
SPE 500: Introduction to Exceptional Children and Youth
SPE 614: Assessment of Teaching and Learning in Special Education

Areas of Research:

Qualitative Research in Special Education
Personnel Preparation Models
Video Self-evaluation by Learners with Mental Retardation

Academic Degrees:

Ed.D., University of Florida, 1979. Special Education – Mental Retardation.

M.Ed., Bowling Green State University, 1976. Special Education.

B.S., Bowling Green State University, 1974. Special Education and Industrial Education.

Professional Experiences:

Head, Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities, The University of Alabama, 2005 – Present.

Associate Professor of Special Education, Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities, The University of Alabama, 2005 – Present.

Director of Technology, South East Mississippi Center for Educational Excellence and Development, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2004 – 2005.

Professor of Special Education, The Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2000 – 2004.

Professor of Special Education, The Department of Special Education, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1988 – 2000.

Chair of Special Education, The Department of Special Education, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1989 – 1996.

Assistant Dean, College of Education, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1985-1989.

Associate Professor of Special Education, The Department of Special Education, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1982 - 1987.

Assistant Professor of Special Education, The Department of Special Education, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1980 - 1982.

Assistant Professor of Special Education, Department of Special Education and Speech Pathology, Arkansas State University, 1979 - 1980.

Special Educator, Four-County Joint Vocational School, Archbold, Ohio, 1976 - 1977, and Wood County Board of Mental Retardation, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1974 - 1976.

Grants:

Siders, J., Thompson, A., & Scherff, L. (March 2006). Planning Proposal for Collaborative Teacher Education Program: Secondary General/CTP, Grades 6-12., (Alabama Department of Education, Principal Investigator. - $18,000 )
Siders, J. (2003-2004) "Heart of a Teacher" (Mississippi Board of Trustees for Institutions of Higher Education, Alternate Certification preparation, Author and Project Director $58,250).

Selected Presentations:

Whetstone, M., Siders, J.A., and Box, J. (October, 2007) Alabama Collaborative Teacher Preparation. Invited National Paper presented at the National Association of State Directors of Special education, Scottsdale, AZ.

Siders, J.A. (June, 2007) Video Intervention Program (VIP): Self–Modeling Video Feedback Paper presented at the 2007 NECC Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Siders, J. A. & Shores, G., Teri, M., and Boothe, M. (February, 2007) Video Intervention Project., Paper presented at the annual conference of the Alabama Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children, Birmingham, Alabama.

Siders, J.A. (November, 2006) Preferred Practitioner: A consideration for change in teacher development. National Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Teacher Education Division of the CEC, San Diego, CA.
Siders, J. A. (October, 2006) Secondary Special Education Collaborative Preparation Measures. Alabama Department of Education, Montgomery, Alabama.

Siders, J. A. & Myrick, J. (February, 2006) The Future of Special Education Preparation: The Great Karnac, Paper presented at the annual conference of the Alabama Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children, Birmingham, Alabama.

Siders, J.A. (November, 2005) An Accountability Preparation Model for Quality Teaching and Learning: Teachers and Learners. National Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Teacher Education Division of the CEC, Portland, Maine. Birmingham, Alabama