Dr. Barbara Hong is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Penn State Altoona. Her research areas are self-empowerment, leadership, ethics of caring, and dispositions of educators.

(See my biography page for more information).


Publications:
Engaging Reluctant Learners through the Web: Where do Teachers Start?

Technology can be a “catalyst for learning” when used effectively. We will show teachers how to use Web resources to engage students who are either bored or experiencing difficulty learning.

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$US10.00

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$US5.00
Dispositions for Special Educators: Cultivating High-Quality Traits for Working with Students with Special Needs

Working with students with special needs requires teachers to demonstrate competency in appropriate mannerism, persona, and temperament. This paper explores developmental profiles of exemplary, acceptable, and unacceptable traits of teachers.

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$US5.00
Impact of Teacher Dispositions on Student Self-determination

Through the interconnecting arrays of quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study examined the relationship between students’ perceptions of teachers and students’ level of self-determination.

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$US10.00

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$US5.00
Leaders Exerting Pressure for Positive Change: Leverage for Educational Leadership Reform

We will introduce a leadership analogy on how one can apply the leverage of leadership to decrease negative organizational life and ineffective administrative process which exist in many districts.

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$US10.00

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$US5.00
The Cost of Leadership for Social Justice: The Price is “RIGHT”

This article aims to inform individuals pursuing credentials in educational leadership of the real costs in transformational leadership through an open dialogue between two of the authors.

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$US10.00

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$US5.00