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Debra Ward

Faculty Member

Debra Ward

Teaching

MATH 2000

Algebraic Reasoning with Modeling QL, Spring 2025

MATH 2010

Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I, Spring 2025

Presentations

Ward, Debra D (Co-Presenter), Gerber, Lindsey N (Co-Presenter), 2024 UMATYC Conference, "Improving Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge and Affect", UMATYC (Utah Mathematical Association for Two Year Colleges), Salt Lake Community College. (October 12, 2025)
Ward, Debra D (Co-Presenter), Gerber, Lindsey N (Co-Presenter), NOSS (National Organization for Student Success) 2025 Conference, "Jazzing up Your Pre-service Teachers’ Math Courses", NOSS (National Organization for Student Success), New Orleans, LA. (February 22, 2025)
Gerber, Lindsey (Co-Presenter), Ward, Debra (Co-Presenter), 49th AMATYC Annual Conference, "Home Run for Teacher Preparation", American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Omaha, NE. (November, 2023)
Ward, Debra (Co-Presenter), Gerber, Lindsey (Co-Presenter), 48th AMATYC Annual Conference, "Improving Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Teacher Affect ", American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Toronto. (November, 2022)
Ward, Debra D (Presenter & Author), 2022 Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Summit, "A Multi-Requisite Mathematics-Intensive Summer Program for Pre-service Elementary Teachers", National Science Foundation (NSF), Washingtonton, D.C.. (June 2, 2022)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Ward, Debra D, Gerber, Lindsey N, "Elementary Teacher Preparation_ A Model University Mathematics Program to Promote Pre-Service Teacher Retention and Completion" .

Awards

Academic Innovation Award

UVU Office of Academic Affairs - March, 2025

This award recognizes and encourages academic innovation to help UVU students succeed through increasing retention and completion rates, in-career job placement, decreasing time to completion. The awards will be given based on initiatives or interventions that have been developed and implemented to provide innovative pedagogy, opportunities that connect students with the community, engagement with potential employers, etc.
Nominees will be evaluated on the following criteria.
- Ingenuity
- Large number of students impacted and potential scalability
- Focus on underrepresented student populations or a specific population that is underrepresented in the discipline
- Strong assessment methodology such as pre- and post- surveys, retention data, pass rates, etc.
- Overcoming challenges and lessons learned
- Interdisciplinarity (this will generally only apply to group awards)
- Specific indicators of success