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Fredricka K. Reisman, Ph.D. is a tenured professor in the Goodwin College of Professional Studies, and founder and former director of Drexel's School of Education. Additionally, Dr. Reisman served as Drexel University's assistant provost for assessment and evaluation, and serves as director of the Drexel/Torrance Center for Creativity and Innovation.
Dr. Reisman has an impressive record of external funding, including the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Education (USDE), the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Dewitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, and the Anna E. Casey Foundation. Among her funding awards, Dr. Reisman has led several initiatives to assist pre- and in-service teachers in developing their pedagogy, mathematics and technology skills. Her teacher development initiatives include three USDE Transition to Teaching programs (2002, 2004, and 2007), with combined funding totaling almost $10 million. In 1984, Dr. Reisman headed the Drexel project management team for the Computer Applications in Teaching Program, which was the first major effort to integrate computing into instruction in Philadelphia high schools. Dr. Reisman also collaborates on Drexel-funded projects in the Colleges of Engineering and Business.
Dr. Reisman is the author of books with subjects that include: diagnostic teaching; teaching mathematics to children with special needs; elementary education pedagogy; and mathematics pedagogy. With the late world-renowned creativity scholar and researcher E. Paul Torrance, Dr. Reisman has co-authored a trilogy of books on teaching mathematics creatively. She is currently creating a Grades 1-2 Diagnostic Mathematics Assessment that incorporates creativity theory, to be published in 2007 and 2008 by Scholastic Testing Service (publisher of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking). Dr. Reisman was awarded the national 2002 Champion of Creativity Award by the American Creativity Association, and is a member of the ACA's national board of directors.
Prior to her tenure at Drexel University, Dr. Reisman served as professor and chair of the Division of Elementary Education at the University of Georgia, and as an elementary, middle- and high school mathematics teacher in New York State. She also served as a mathematics education instructor at Syracuse University. |
