Northern prof gets national teacher education award

Special to the Daily News

Fred Smiley, recently promoted to the rank of full professor of education by Montana State University-Northern, has received a national award,

He has been nominated for the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education, named after the former director of the American Association for Teacher Education. 

The annual award recognizes distinguished service for the development and promotion of outstanding practices at the collegiate, state or national level, and it will be announced in March 2015. Smiley teaches Northern’s courses in foundations, educational psychology, content area literacy, culture and special education, and he does so in both traditional and online formats. 

This past year, besides maintaining his own online journal, started four years ago, and completing some sponsored research in teacher compassion fatigue, he has co-authored a chapter in a text and edited for four journals in teacher education. 

At the end of the fall 2014 term, he set up and edited a series of student-authored annotated bibliographies for Native American Studies, which has just been accepted for use by the Montana Office of Public Instruction and is now being readied for book submission and publication.