Assistant Professor of Education and Certification Coordinator
Phone: 478.757.5262
Email: ppritchard@wesleyancollege.edu
Office: Tate 134
Address: Wesleyan College, 4760 Forsyth Road Macon, GA 31210
Subjects: Social Studies Education, Special Education
Education: B.A., B.S., Eastern Mennonite University; M.Ed., Ph.D., Clemson University
He has taught social studies and special education at the secondary, middle, and elementary level.
His major teaching and research interests are in classrooms as communities of learning, Multiple Intelligences Theory in the classroom, the role of the affective domain in teaching and learning, and the integration of language arts and social studies.
Courses taught include:
237: Geography for Teachers.
Goal: Progress from the small world theory of geography that is developmentally appropriate for the
young learner to the use of larger geographic and demographic phenomema as a way of understanding
the relationship between local and global.
Content: Students will complete local sense of place projects that reintroduces them to the spatial
viewpoint of children. Students will examine conflict and transition events, especially as they pertain to
the developing world, refugees and immigrants. These combined approaches to geography will facilitate
a global understanding of the earth and its peoples from a local and personal perspective.
Cross-cultural.
290: Exceptionalities in Children and Adolescents.
Goal: To understand exceptionalities and mainstreaming exceptional children into the regular classroom.
Content: An examination of the problems of children with evidence of mental, physical, emotional, and
educational difficulties in the classroom. Emphasis is given to finding and implementing specific adaptive
teaching techniques in the regular K12 classroom. Legal aspects related to P.L. 94-142, teacher and
parent participation, assessment, placement and facilities. A 15-hour field experience is required.
451: Directed Independent Study.
Goal: To conduct a detailed study in a particular area of interest.
Content: Varies.
Prerequisite: Open only to advanced students with permission of department chair.
452/199: Field Study.
Goal: To gain experience in an educational setting.
Content: Work, observation, analysis in an educational environment such as public or private schools,
churches, childrens organizations, etc. Students earn EDU 199 credit for participation in Wesleyan
Volunteers for Literacy.
Prerequisite: Open only to advanced students with permission of department chair.
490S: Student Teaching.
Goal: To demonstrate effective methods of teaching students and managing a classroom. To demonstrate
professional teaching behaviors.
Content: A minimum of twelve full weeks of teaching in the Bibb County public schools under the
direction of a classroom teacher and a college supervisor.
Prerequisites: EDU 201; admission to Teacher Education; completion of all methods courses; and
admission to the Student Teaching Program. Placement made only by Education Department.