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"One who Dares to Teach Should Never Cease to Learn"
         
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My goal as an educator is to partner with my students in learning, and instill in them, as future teachers, the awareness that often it is they who will learn from their students in the classroom.

"Dr. Mary Cameron has made a dramatic difference in my teaching life, and in my thinking life as well. Her deep and sincere commitment to the nature and needs of exceptional children is contagious, and her great skill as a socratic seminar leader makes for classes that are never boring, and never meaningless."
(Henry Stobbs, MFA Education. 2004).

Meet Our Staff
 
Mary T. Cameron, Ph.D.
 Associate Professor, College of Education
 Year Started at UF: 1998
Contact Information
  Office Location: 300 Davis Street #158
 Telephone: 419-434-6626
 E-mail: cameron@findlay.edu
Credentials
  Ph.D., University of Toledo
M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., University of the West Indies

    Profile

    Dr. Mary Cameron has been involved in education for over 30 years in various capacities and in several countries. Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica, she came to the US in 1977, lived in Cleveland Ohio for seven years before settling with her family in the Toledo area in 1983. Before coming to The University of Findlay in 1998,  Dr. Cameron's teaching experience included:

    • Teacher Supervisor, Head Start, Toledo Ohio
    • Part-time Assistant Professor, Special Education, The University of Toledo
    • Adjunct, Special Education, BGSU
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, Special Education, The University of Toledo
    • Part-Time Instructor, Dept. of Foreign languages, The University of Toledo
    • Teaching Assistant, Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Toledo
    • Teacher, ESL, Griswold Institute, Cleveland
    • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages, The University of the West Indies
    • Classroom Teacher, Secondary, Kingston, Jamaica
    • Classroom Teacher, Elementary/Middle, Brown's Town, Jamaica
    • Classroom Teacher, Elementary, London, England

    COURSES TAUGHT AT UF

    • SPED 261:01 Implications of Brain Research for Teaching and Learning (three hours) Fall/Spring
    • SPED 261:02 Implications of Brain Research for Teaching and Learning (three hours) Fall/Spring
    • SPED 336:01 Implications of Mild/Moderate Exceptionalities For the Curriculum (three hours) Fall/Spring
    • SPED 485:01 Capstone Seminar for the Intervention Specialist (three hours) Fall/Spring
    • EDUC 509:51 Introduction to the Education of Exceptional Children in the Regular Classroom (three hours) Fall
    • EDUC 535:51 Learning Styles & Needs of Children with Mild/Moderate Disabilities (three hours) Spring
    • EDUC 543 Neurobiology of Learning
    • EDUC 630:51 Career Professionalism (three hours) Fall/Spring

    Professional Activity

    Dr. Cameron is a member of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), The Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities (OCECD), Phi Delta Kappa, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). She is a trained reviewer of programs seeking State approval and has read several for the Ohio Department of Education in the past year. She served last year on a committee that was convened in response to a state funded grant that developed articulated courses between two and four year colleges to facilitate seamless transition for students between Institutions. Dr. Cameron serves on the Faculty Senate at The University of Findlay, and was recently on the Programs Committee of the President's Task force that formulated the Strategic Plan for 2005-2015. She continues to pursue research in her area of interest in Brain Research and Learning, by attending and presenting at conferences. She developed the Brain Research Classes at the undergraduate and post-baccalaureate levels, and has partnered with Dr. Donald Cameron, pediatric neurologist, who co-teaches the Neurobiology of Learning course.

    Recent Publications and/or Performances

    Most recently, in summer 2005, Dr. Cameron gave an in-service on Special Education to teachers at St. George's College, a Jesuit boys' high school in Kingston, Jamaica. Subsequently this school has hired a Special Education teacher for the first time in its history.
    Dr. Cameron has presented on many topics in Special Education, including Neurobiology of Learning, Autism, Brain Based Learning, Brain Electrical Activity Patterns in the Underachiever, Collaboration Skills for Parents of Students with Special Needs, A Multidisciplinary Team Approach, Tourette's Syndrome.
    These presentations have been given at The University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, The University of Findlay, The OFCEC in Columbus, and Mercy Children's Hospital of Toledo.
    Dr. Cameron is the Director of the Intervention Specialist Program at The University of Findlay. In 2004, She wrote and submitted the revised Intervention Specialist program to NCATE in their Pilot for electronic Program Review. The Program was accepted and is now Nationally accredited.