1 / 12

Kathy Mountjoy

Kathy Mountjoy. Presenter. Who Am I?. Personal Native of central Illinois Married; husband retired military 3 children Education B.S. & M.S. in Business Education Ph.D. in Educational Administration & Foundations Teaching Experience 3 years at high school level

media
Download Presentation

Kathy Mountjoy

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Kathy Mountjoy Presenter

  2. Who Am I? • Personal • Native of central Illinois • Married; husband retired military • 3 children • Education • B.S. & M.S. in Business Education • Ph.D. in Educational Administration & Foundations • Teaching Experience • 3 years at high school level • Proprietary business school • Community/junior college • University • Teaching Philosophy

  3. What is Business Teacher Education? • Preparing students for teacher certification in grades K-12 • Business • Marketing • Computers • Coursework • Business courses • BTE courses • Professional courses in College of Education • Student teaching – 6 weeks in elementary; 10 weeks in high school

  4. History of Business Teacher Education at Illinois State University • September 1914 • Department of Commercial Branches established • Forerunner of today’s College of Business • 1967 – College of Business established • Business Administration • Accounting • Business Education • Secretarial Education • General Business • Distributive Education • Comprehensive major in Business Education • 1997 – Business Education absorbed into Marketing Department • Currently about 90 BTE majors • 1 Tenure-track faculty

  5. History of Business Education at Other State Universities in Illinois • 1970s • Eastern Illinois University – B.S. & M.S. in Business Education • Western Illinois University – B.S. & M.S. in Business Education • Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville – B.S. & M.S. in Business Education • Southern Illinois University-Carbondale – B.S. & M.S. in Business Education; Ph.D. in Occupational Education w/specialty in Business Education • Northern Illinois University – B.S., M.S., & Ed.D. in Business Education • Today • Eastern Illinois University – B.S. in Career & Technical Education w/specialty in Business Education • Southern Illinois University-Carbondale – B.S. in Workforce Education w/specialty in Business Education; M.A. in Education w/specialty in Business Education; Ph.D. in Occupational Education w/specialty in Business Education • Illinois State University – B.S. in Business Education • WIU, NIU, SIU-C – Business Education programs closed

  6. What Happened to Business Education? Focus of my dissertation • Title: Perceptions Of Business Educators Concerning Change and Adaptation In Business Teacher Education Programs at Two Midwestern Universities • Qualitative study • Examined BTE at ISU & SIU-C • Interviewed faculty & administrators associated w/programs

  7. 3 Research Questions • What do educators in the two business teacher education programs perceive to be the major issues that have affected their programs over the last 15 years? • How do these educators perceive their programs responded to these issues? • What do educators perceive will be the future direction of business teacher education?

  8. Results of Question #1 (What Issues Have Impacted Business Education?) External influences • Birth of Microcomputer • Change in office culture • Typewriting, shorthand, variety of office machines no longer needed • Software replaced many clerical functions; hardware replaced filing cabinets • Change in Societal Attitudes • Vocational education is out • Everyone must go to college • Emphasis on academic subjects in high schools • Changing Role of Women • Historically – business teacher or secretary • Today - careers once reserved for men now available to women

  9. Results of Question #2 (How Have Business Education Programs Responded?) • Downsizing, elimination, & reorganization • Changes in curriculum • No more typewriting, shorthand, & office machines • Replaced with microcomputer & its keyboard • SIU-C • Very small traditional student population • Alternative certification program • Carbondale • Chicago • ISU • Traditional student population • Second bachelor degree students

  10. Results of Question #3 (What Will Future Hold?) • Business Education does have a future! • Microcomputer technology here to stay • Finding qualified faculty to staff BTE programs will be a challenge • Must partner with academic disciplines to become part of core mission of schools • Quote from one study participant “In fact if my daughter, who is a college freshman, said that she wanted to become a business teacher, I would say ‘Good!’”.

  11. Current Research • Working on quantitative study w/Glenn Bailey • Determining how business educators are using technology in schools • Learning the types of technology which are available as teaching or administrative tools • Online survey • Sent out two times; sent out again this week to those who have not previously responded • Preparing to submit presentation proposal to national business education organization

  12. Questions?

More Related