COE Faculty Profile

Kim Song
Assistant Professor
Division of Teaching And Learning

Education and Experience
Professor Song received a B.A. from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea with majors in English literature and Language. She taught English language arts and social studies in a middle school in Korea for five years. She had her M.A in Linguistics and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and went back to Korea and taught EFL at Daejeon College for a year. She had her Ed.D in Instructional Process at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She was a director of English Language Institute at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois for three years. She was an assistant professor in Teacher Education Program at Harris-Stowe State College for six years before she joined UM-St. Louis. She is a board member of the Missouri Council for Social Studies (MCSS) and the Center for Human Origins and Cultural Diversity (CHOCD). She is a Center Fellow of International Studies at UM-St. Louis. Professor Song is a member of the National Council for Social Studies, Missouri Council for Social Studies, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and the American Educational Research Association.

Teaching and Research
I routinely teach social studies methods courses for elementary and middle school majors, and occasionally teach an introduction to instructional methods course. I redesign my courses every semester with the goal of teaching more effectively with hands-on activities. A current challenge is to integrate the social studies curriculum into the other disciplinary areas such as reading, mathematics, and science. The self-regulated learning is my goal for the students to achieve through structured reflection and evidence-based teaching and learning. 

I have made numerous presentations in National and International Conferences. Major focus of my research includes  backward assessment, urban education, teacher’s belief, reflective practice, multicultural education, service learning and education in Korea.

Representative Presentations and Publications

Paper Presentations

Hoewisch, A., Song, K., & Ozturgut, O. (2006). Children and teachers in an urban elementary school use photography to learn about themselves, others, and their community. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, April 6-11.

Song, K., & Ozturgut, O. (2006). Impact of Japanese colonial missions on Korean education.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, April 6-11.

Song, K. (2005). History ofKorean education.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for Social Studies, Kansas City, Missouri, and November 7-9.

Song, K.  (2005). Urban preservice and inservice teachers’ beliefs on teaching and students: Pilot study. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Montreal, Canada.

Song, K. & Lewis-Harris, J. (2004). Multicultural education techniques for pre-service education students: Social studies methods courses, Paper presented at the 11th International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Havana, Cuba,  June 27-June 30.

Kemp, L., Song, K., O’Brien, E., & Johnson, P. (2004). The association between student teachers' cognition and effective teaching competence.  Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), Chicago, Illinois, February.

Song, K., Johnson, P. & Kemp, L. (2003, January). Content competencies of teacher education candidates:  A  framework of standards-based performance assessment.  Paper presented at the 55th annual meeting of American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Song, K. (2003, November). Peace education: How teachers and students perceive the present situations in Korea. Paper presented at the 83rd annual meeting of National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), Chicago, Illinois.

Publication

Foster, B., Walker, M., & Song, K. (2006). A beginning teaching  portfolio handbook. New Jersey: Merrill-Prentice-Hall. 

Song, K. (2006). Urban teachers’ beliefs on teaching, learning, and students: A pilot study in the United States of America, Education and Urban Society, 38(4), 481-499.

Song, K. (2006). Conceptual model of assessing teaching performance and intellectual development of teacher candidates: A pilot study in the United States of America. Teaching in Higher Education, 11(2), 175-190.

Catapano, S., & Song, K. (2006). Let’s collaborate and infuse citizenship education in primary classrooms.  Social Studies Practice and Research, 1(1), 55-66. Available at http://www.socstrp.org/issues/viewarticle.cfm?volID=1&IssueID=1&ArticleID=5

Song, K. (2005). Improvement of content knowledge, pedagogy, and technology skills through a purposefully designed course: Implementing electronic portfolios, International Journal of Learning, 12(2), 123-130.

Song, K. H., & Lewis-Harris, J. (2004). Multicultural education techniques for pre-service education students: Social studies methods courses. International Journal of Learning, 11, 293-300.

Song, K. (2004).  Conflict resolution strategy in a South Korean middle school class: Revisiting “the three little pigs.”  Peace Research, 36(2), 77-86.

Song, K. (2003). Preparing tomorrow’s teachers through developing performance and standards-based electronic portfolio. In J. Price, D. A. Willis, N. Davis, & J. Willis. (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, 3844-3846.

Ding, C., Song, K., Richardson, L. (2006). Do mathematical gender differences continue?  A Longitudinal study of gender difference and excellence in mathematics performance in the U.S. Educational Studies, (in press)

Song, K. (2006) Impact and implication of Japanese colonial education on Korean education:  Liberalization, decentralization, and globalization.  In R. K.. Hopson, C. C. Yeakey, & F. M. Boakari (Eds.), Power, Voice, and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in Globalized Societies (in press)