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New Full-Time Faculty Member
 Dr.
Rommel J. Miranda, Assistant Professor of Science Education, has over
nine years of professional experience working in urban, public, parochial
and special education school settings, as well as with students identified
as emotionally disturbed and at-risk. He also has extensive experience
consulting, designing and facilitating professional development programs
in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for school
systems and institutions in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan
area. Prior to working at Towson University, Dr. Miranda served as
the Director of Student Internships at Columbia Union College and
provided oversight to all graduate and undergraduate pre-service teacher
interns, mentor teachers, content area methodology faculty, supervisors,
professional development school liaisons, and school of graduate and
professional studies liaisons. Dr. Miranda has also served as the
Program Facilitator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
High School Internship Program (NASA-SHIP) from 1999-2002 at the Center
for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Education at Morgan State
University. Notably, Dr. Miranda was awarded "Best Doctoral Dissertation"
in 2006 from Morgan State University for his thesis titled: Highly
Qualified Does Not Equal High Quality: A Study of Urban Stakeholders'
Perceptions of High Quality in Science Teaching. Dr. Miranda was also
honored and recognized as "Teacher of the Year" in 2004
by the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School in Maryland. Recently, Dr.
Miranda was appointed to serve as chair of the American Heart Association's
Logistics Committee for the 2007 Heart Walk in Baltimore. Moreover,
Dr. Miranda aspires to combine his range of experiences, his passion
for teaching and his research agenda, which focuses on science teaching
and learning in urban settings, to make a positive contribution to
Towson University and the community.
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