Meet Heather Schock
Assistant Professor, Education
Email: hschock@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Building:
PH
Room: 513
Education
1995 Emory University, B.A.
1996 Georgia State University, M.Ed.
2022 Baylor University, Ed.D.
Courses Taught
Educational Assessment
Reading Diagnostics
Instructional Lab I and II
Career Specialties
New teacher attrition is one of the primary challenges facing teacher educators today. Schock's primary research interest is exploring how relationships with faculty, supervisors and cooperating teachers impact preservice teachers’ preparedness to determine how to best equip graduates to enter and remain in the teaching profession.
Professional and Community Activities
Professional Presentations:
Schock, H. & Franco, Y. (accepted). Unleashing the power of collaboration to respond to the truth. Paper to be presented at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Oxford, UK (2023).
Schock, H. & McCall, M. (accepted). Instructional design to introduce practical self-care strategies to elementary preservice teachers. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educators National Conference, Chicago, Illinois (2022).
Schock, H. (accepted). Introducing practical self-care strategies to elementary preservice teachers. Paper presented at the Baylor Emerging Research Conference, Virtual Format (2022).
Honors and Awards
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Outstanding Dissertation Award (2022 nominee, winners TBD). This award recognizes excellence in doctoral dissertation research that contributes to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation.