Department of Early Childhood Education, Special Education, and Reading   

ChuChu Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Reading
School of Education
Georgia Southwestern State University,
800 GSW State University Drive, Americus, GA 31709

Research Interests: Parental Involvement, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Quality

Office Location:  216 Education Center

Phone: (229) 931-2744     Fax: (229) 931-2163
Email: chuchuwu@canes.gsw.edu

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."    By John Cotton Dana.

 "Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."    --Northrup Christian
Georgia Southwestern State University

  BIOGRAPHY

  COURSES 

Graduate:

EDUC 8520 Promoting Learning in a Diverse Educational Climate (online)

EDUC 8620 Curriculum and Assessment (Hybrid)

EDEC 8220 Field Based Research (Hybrid)

EDEC 8120 Qualitative Research Method (Hybrid)

EDEC 8870 EdS Practicum II for EC

EDEC 8860 EdS Practicum I for EC

EDEC 8000 Advanced Graduate Seminar in ECE

EDUC 7010 Foundations of Education (online)

EDMG/ EDED 7420 Directed Studies

 

Undergraduate:

EDEC 4550 Assessment in Early Childhood Education

EDEC 3100  Early Childhood Education Math

EDUC 2130 Exploring Teaching and Learning

EDEC 3650 Integrated Curriculum

EDEC 3400 Teaching in ECE

EDUC 2010 Introduction to Education

EDUC 2030 Human Growth and Development

  PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 

• 04/2-4/2009 2009 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA
  Title: Home Environment, Literacy Practices, and Maternal Affect in Relation to Taiwanese Preschoolers’ Early Language Development (Research Poster presentation).
   
• 03/11-13/2009 The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarships of  Teaching and Learning, Statesboro, GA,  USA
  Title:  Supervising Student Teachers: Applying Technology to Generate Data-Driven Feedback to Improve Teaching Quality.
  Paper accepted.
   
• 07/15-19/2008 The 66th International Council of Psychologists Annual Conference, St. Petersburg,  Russia
  Title: Taiwanese mothers' beliefs about reading aloud with preschoolers: Findings from the Parental Reading Beliefs Inventory. (Research poster presentation, won the third place.)
   
• 03/28/2008 The 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference for Teachers of Undergraduates (Teaching Matters: But What Matters Most? Gordon College, Barnesville, Georgia, USA
  Title: The importance of routines and procedures for college students. (Oral paper presentation)
   
• 03/23/2008  2008 Chinese American Educational Research Development Association (CAERDA) International Conference: East Meets West: The Role of Chinese Culture and Language in Global Education , New York, NY
  Title: How do Taiwanese preschoolers begin reading? The role of gender and age. (Oral paper presentation)
   
• 04/17/2007 Georgia Psychological Society, Macon, Georgia, USA
  Title: Cross cultural perspectives: Taiwanese mothers’ interactive strategies with their preschoolers. (Oral paper presentation)
   
• 04/01/2007 2007 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  Title: Examining a mediation model: Reading beliefs and strategies of Taiwanese mothers in relation to preschoolers’ early language abilities. (Research Poster presentation)
   
• 11/10/2006 Annual Conference of National Association of Education for Young Children (NAEYC), Atlanta, GA
  Title: Taiwanese maternal beliefs about preschool children language learning through storybook reading. (Research Poster presentation)
   
• 11/09/2006 Annual Conference of National Council on Family and Relations (NCFR), Minneapolis, MN
  Title: We are the same and we are different: Taiwanese and American maternal beliefs about preschooler’s language learning through storybook reading.  (Oral paper presentation)
• 9/6/2006 Third World Seminar, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, GA
  Title: Asian American Immigration: Historical timeline, Asian American today, and Myth. (Oral presentation)
   
• 11/19/2001 National Council on Family and Relations (NCFR), Rochester, NY
  Title: What parents know about emergent writing: Parents make a difference. (Oral paper Presentation)
• 05/01/2000 Child and Family Studies Research Poster Presentation, College of human Development, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
  Title: Parental beliefs, involvement, and young children emergent writing (Research Poster presentation)
• 10/24/1998 Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children (IAEYC) 1998 Fall Conference, Des Moines, Iowa
  Topic title: Preschoolers as authors: The role of writing in emergent literacy (Oral paper presentation)

  PUBLICATIONS

• Wu, C., & Honig, A. S. (2008). Taiwanese preschoolers' emergent reading in relation to gender and age. In review. 
• Wu, C., & Honig, A. S. (September, 2008). Taiwanese mothers' beliefs about reading aloud with preschoolers: Findings from the Parental Reading Beliefs Inventory. Child Development and Care, 178 (8). ISBN: 0300-4430 (paper).
• Wu, C., & Honig, A. S. (September, 2008). Taiwanese mothers' beliefs about reading aloud with preschoolers: Findings from the Parental Reading Beliefs Inventory. Child Development and Care, 178 (8). ISBN: 1476-8275 (electronic).
• Wu, C. (2007). Reading beliefs and strategies of Taiwanese mothers with preschoolers in relation to the children's emergent literacy. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 68(5-A), 1808. 
• Wu, C.(1999). Maternal beliefs and practices and their preschoolers’ emergent writing. Unpublished master thesis, Iowa State University, Ames.

  GRANT & AWARDS 

• 03/06/2009 The Faculty Development Grant (report turned in)
  Georgia Southwestern State University ($ 700.00 USD)
   
• 02/25/2008 The Faculty Development Grant (report turned in)
  Georgia Southwestern State University ($ 606.10 USD)
   
• 05/13/2007 Award of Certificate in University Teaching, The Future Professoriate Project, Syracuse University. 

• 04/15/2007  Nominee of Distinguished Dissertation Award, College of Human Ecology, Syracuse University
   
• 02/26/2007 The Faculty Development Grant (report turned in)
  Georgia Southwestern State University ($ 558.80 USD)
   
• 10/30/2006 Distinguished Professor Research Grant
  Georgia Southwestern State University ($3090 USD)
   
• 4/15/2005  Award of Annual Graduate Student Competition for Research and Creative Work, Syracuse University
   
• 04/03/2005 Alice Sterling Honig Award, College of Hunan Services and Health Profession, Syracuse University
   
• 07/2004-2005 Award of Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA). Grant amount: $15,000 USD/Year