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G. Williamson (Bill) McDiarmid Boeing Professor of Education Senior Fellow, Teachers for New Era and Washington Center for Teaching and Learning 211 Miller, Box 353600 College of Education, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3600 (206) 221-4122 bmcd@u.washington.edu

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Currently the Boeing Professor of Education, Bill came to the UW from the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) in 2001. At UAA, he served as the Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and Professor of Educational Policy where his research focused on Alaska Native educational issues.

He is currently most involved in the Teachers for New Era (TNE) project at the UW. His responsibilities, as Senior Fellow on the project, are to oversee (with Jerry Herting from the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences) the six TNE research projects that are underway and to help build a sustainable data system that will enable the Teacher Education Program faculty and staff to gauge the impact of the program on students and graduates. He is also collaborating with faculty at two other TNE sites to conduct cross-institutional research on program effects. In addition, he serves on the TNE Executive and Steering committees and facilitate with Wanda Brown, the Principals’ Council of the Ackerley Network of Partner Schools – a collaborative of 19 low-income schools and the University of Washington.

With a group of graduate students and Ann Foster from the National Network for Education Renewal, he is examining school-university partnerships (SUPs) with an eye to understanding more about how to measure the impact of such collaborations on student learning and development as citizens of a democracy and to create comparable case studies of SUPs.

Education

Ed.D., Administration, Planning, & Social Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1984
A.B. (with Highest Honors), American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1969

Publications

Publications: Book Chapters

McDiarmid, G. W. &  Clevenger-Bright, M. (in press).  Rethinking teacher capacity. In M. Cochran-Smith (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Issues in Changing Contexts (3rd Edition). Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
McDiarmid, G. W. and Vinten-Johansen, P. (2000). A catwalk across the Great Divide: Redesigning the history teaching methods course. P. Sexias, P. Stearns, and S. Wineburg (Eds.), Knowing, teaching, and learning history. New York: NYU Press.
McDiarmid, G.W. and Corcoran, T.B. (2000). Promoting the professional development of teachers. In R. Pankratz and J. Petrosko (Eds.), All children can learn: Lessons from the Kentucky reform experience (pp. 141-158). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1996). Challenging prospective teachers’ understanding of history: An examination of a historiography seminar. In L. Schauble and R. Glaser (Eds.), Innovations in learning: New environments for education (pp. 203-244). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Floden, R. E., McDiarmid, G. W. and Jennings, N. E. (1996). What are they trying to do: Perspectives on teacher education. In D. J. McIntyre and D.M. Byrd (eds.), Preparing tomorrow’s teachers: The field experience. Teacher Education Yearbook IV. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Wilson, S.W. and McDiarmid, G. W. (1995). Something old, something new: What do social studies teacher educators need to know? In F. Murray (Ed.), The teacher educator’s handbook (pp 295-318). Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1994). Understanding history for teaching: A study of the historical understanding of prospective teachers. In J. Voss and M. Carretero (Eds.), Cognitive and instructional processes in social sciences and history. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1994). The arts and science as preparation for teaching. In K. Howey and N. Zympher (Eds.), Informing faculty development for teacher educators. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1993). Changes in beliefs about learners among participants in eleven teacher education programs. In J. Calderhead and P. Gates (Eds.), Conceptualizing reflection in teacher development (pp. 113-143). London: Falmer.
McDiarmid, G.W. and Price, J. (1993). Preparing teachers for diversity: A study of student-teachers in a multicultural program. In S. O’Dell and M. O’Hair, (Eds.), The ATE yearbook of research on diversity.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1992).  Tilting at webs of belief: Field experiences as a means of breaking with experience. In S.Feiman-Nemser and H. Featherstone (Eds.), Exploring teaching: Reinventing an introductory course (pp. 34-58). New York: Teachers College Press.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1991). What do prospective teachers need to know about culturally different children? In M. M. Kennedy (Ed.), Teaching academic subjects to diverse learners New York: Teachers College Press.
Ball, D. L., and. McDiarmid, G. W. (1990). The subject matter preparation of teachers. In R.Houston (Ed.), Handbook of research on teacher education (pp. 437-449). New York: Macmillan.
McDiarmid, G. W., Ball, D. L. and Anderson, C. A. (1989). Why staying one chapter ahead really doesn’t work: Subject-specific pedagogy. In M. Reynolds (Ed.), Knowledge base for beginning teachers (pp. 193-205). Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
Publications: Books
McDiarmid, G.W., David, J. and Associates (in preparation). Learning for reform:  Professional development policies under Kentucky’s educational reforms. New York; Teachers College.
Kleinfeld, J.S., McDiarmid, G. W. and Parrett, W. (1992). Inventive teaching: The heart of the small school. Fairbanks, Alaska: Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Alaska.
McDiarmid, G.W., Kleinfeld, J. S. and Parrett, W. (1988). The inventive mind: Portraits of rural Alaska teachers. Fairbanks, Alaska: Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Alaska.
Kleinfeld, J.S., McDiamid, G. W. and Hagstrom, D. (1986). Alaska's small high schools: Are they working? Fairbanks, Alaska: Center for Cross-Cultural Studies and Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska.
Publications: Journals
Miller, M, McDiarmid,  G.,  and Luttrell-Montes, S. (2006). Partnering to prepare urban math and science teachers: Managing tensions. Teaching and Teacher Education 22, 848–863.

Kelly, P. & McDiarmid, G.W. (2002) Decentralisation of professional development: teachers’ decisions and dilemmas. Journal of In-Service Education 28, 3, 409-426.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1992). What to do about differences? A study of multicultural education for teacher trainees in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Journal of Teacher Education, 43(2), 83-93.
McDiarmid, G.W., and Wilson, S.M. (1991). An exploration of the subject matter knowledge  of alternate route teachers: Can we assume they know their subject? Journal of Teacher Education, 42(2), 93-103.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1990). Tilting at webs: Early field experiences as an occasion for breaking with experience. Journal of Teacher Education, 41(3),12-20.
McDiarmid, G. W. (1990). The liberal arts: Will more result in better subject matter understanding? Theory Into Practice, 29(1), 21-29.
Kleinfeld, J.S., McDiarmid, G.W., and Hagstrom, D. (1989). Small local high schools decrease Alaska Native drop-out rates. Journal of American Indian Education, 28(3), 24-30.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1988). Values and liberal education: Alan Bloom and the education of teachers. NCRTE Colloquy, 2(2), 9-16.
McDiarmid, G.W., and Ball, D.L. (1988). “Many Moons”: Understanding teacher knowledge from a teacher education perspective. The Journal, 2(2), 23-37.
Ball, D.L., and McDiarmid, G.W. (1988). Research on teacher learning: Understanding how teachers’ knowledge changes. Action in Teacher Education, 10(2), 17-23.
Ball, D. L., and McDiarmid, G.W. (1987). Understanding how teachers’ knowledge changes. NCRTE Colloquy, 1(1), 9-13.
Kleinfeld, J.S., and McDiarmid, G.W. (1987). Teacher expectations as a political issue in rural Alaska. Research on Rural Education, 4(1) 9-12.
Kleinfeld, J.S., and McDiarmid, G.W. (1987). Living to tell the tale: Doing research on politically controversial topics and communicating the findings. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 8(4), 393-402.
Kleinfeld, J.S., and McDiarmid, G.W. (1986). The occupational values of rural Eskimo compared to urban white adolescents. Journal of American Indian Education, 15(3), 22-29.
KIeinfeld, J.S., and McDiarmid, G.W. (1986). The satisfaction of Alaska’s isolated rural teachers with their work life. Rural Education.
McBeath, G., Kleinfeld, S., Coon, D., McDiarmid. G.W., and Shapiro, C. (1985). Decentralized education in rural Alaska. School Organization.
Kleinfeld, J.S., McDiarmid, G.W., Grubis, S., and Parrott, W. (1983). Doing research on effective cross-cultural teaching: The teacher tale. Peabody Journal of Education, 61(l),86-108.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1983). Community and competence: A study of an indigenous primary prevention organization in an Alaskan village. White Cloud Journal, 4(l), 53-74.
McDiarmid, G.W. (1981). Youth in control: How young people in a small Alaskan village create their own activities. Listening Post, 4(l),36-40.