College of Education
College of Education
College of Education
College of Education
College of Education
Ted Neal, PhD

Ted Neal, PhD

Clinical Professor of Science Education, Program Coordinator
ted-neal@uiowa.edu

Current Positions

  • Clinical Professor of Science Education

College of Education Affiliations

Education

  • PhD in Teaching and Learning (Science Education), University of Iowa
  • MS in Science Education, Drake University
  • Certificate in 7-12 Science and Social Studies Endorsement, University of Iowa
  • BA in Environmental Science, Economics and Business, Cornell College

Professional Memberships

  • American Geophysical Union, 2019
  • Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, 2016
  • National Association of Research in Science Education, 2014
  • American Educational Research Association, 2009
  • Association for Science Teacher Education, 2009
  • National Science Teachers Association, 2009
  • Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1999

Selected Publications

Selected Presentations

  • Neal, T. (2020, December) STEAM Institute 2020 Career Day. Guest Speaker presented at Workplace Learning Connection - Kirkwood, Mount Vernon.
  • Dunkhase, J. & Neal, T. (2020, December) Successfully Teaching an Online Field Geology Lab Course to Teachers During a Pandemic. Conference Presentation presented at AGU American Geophysical Union, Mount Vernon.
  • Stainer, C., Spak, S. & Neal, T. (2017, December) The Iowa K-12 Climate Science Education Initiative: a comprehensive approach to meeting in-service teachers' stated needs for teaching climate literacy with NGSS. Conference Presentation presented at AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Neal, T. (2017, November) Phenomena Bundling: Using real data to engage students in learning. Conference Presentation presented at Best of Both Worlds, South Africa.
  • Tierney Cramer, K., Cramer, B., Kosloski, M., Witzke, B., Neal, T. & Tassier-Surine, S. (2017, October) Integrating Levelled 'Non-Field Camp' Field Courses into Departmental Curricula to Achieve Awareness, Engagement, and Professional Preparation: Expanding the Geoscience Student Pipeline. Conference Presentation presented at GSA2017, Seattle, Washington.
  • Ziemer, S. & Neal, T. (2017, October) Iowa Students Engaging in Real Science in their Community: Contextualizing Iowa's Science Standards through Local Inquiry. Conference Presentation presented at ISTS Fall Conference, Ankeny, Iowa.
  • Malek, A. & Neal, T. (2017, October) Using Iowa Data to Implement Standards: A Flexible Curriculum. Conference Presentation presented at ISTS Fall Conference, Ankeny, Iowa.
  • Nichols, D. & Neal, T. (2017, September) Early Learners' Multimodal Representational Competence: the Intersecting Roles of Argument-based Inquiry, Science Education and Teacher Experience. Poster presented at Biologiedidaktik als Wissenschaft, Germany.
  • Neal, T. & Nichols, D. (2017, September) Argument-Based Inquiry, Multimodal Representations, and Young Children's Growth in Informational Text Use. Poster presented at Biologiedidaktik als Wissenschaft, Germany.
  • Neal, T. (2017, July) National push to adopt Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Conference Presentation presented at IML-CZO, Champaign, Illinois.
  • Ziemer, S., Malek, A. & Neal, T. (2017, July) CGRER & College of Education K-12 Climate Science Initiative. Poster presented at Earth Educators' Rendezvous 2017, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Neal, T. (2016, May) Macro/Micro Writing Features Impact on Cohesion: Early Childhood Argument-Based Instructional Techniques Impact on Effective Communication of Science Content. Conference Presentation presented at International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology (ICEMST), Turkey.
  • Quarderer, N. & Neal, T. (2016, May) Cohesiveness in Young Children’s Multimodal Science Representations: The Separate and Interacting Roles of Content and Organization of that Content.. Conference Presentation presented at International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology (ICEMST), Turkey.
  • Neal, T. (2016, April) ICARUS: Space: an obtainable frontier. Explore how to collect real data, including temperature, altitude, rates of accent/decent, CO2, O2, and more. Conference Presentation presented at NSTA National Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Neal, T. (2015, October) Iowa Standards Middle School Alignment. Guest Speaker presented at Iowa Standards Adoption Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.
  • Weld, J., Greenbowe, T., Armstrong, M. & Neal, T. (2014, June) Math and Science Teachers for Iowa. Poster presented at Noyce National Conference, Washington D.C., District of Columbia.
  • Armstrong, M., Greenbowe, T., Weld, J. & Neal, T. (2013, May) Math and Science Teachers for Iowa. Poster presented at Noyce National Conference, Washington D.C., District of Columbia.
  • Flynn, L. & Neal, T. (2013, March) Living with Floods: Interdisciplinary Flood Institute for Teachers. Conference Presentation presented at Living with Floods, Ames, Iowa.
  • Gorsh, J. & Neal, T. (2013, February) Elementary Science Methods through School of the Wild and Ropes Courses.. Conference Presentation presented at International Conference of the Outdoor Learning Environment (ICOLE), Israel.
  • Neal, T. (2013, January) Mysterious Hovering Paperclip. Exhibit presented at IExploreSTEM, Des Moines, Iowa.

Selected Grants & Contracts

  • Neal, Ted (Senior Personnel), Villarini, Gabrielle (Principal Investigator), Zhang, Wei (Co-Principal) Grant Program Project Grant. Quantification of the Impacts of Urban Areas on Heavy Rainfall and Flooding from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones. NSF. Funded. April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2022.
  • Neal, Ted (Co-Investigator), Villarini, Gabriele (Principal Investigator) Grant Continuing Education. Temporal Clustering of Hydro Meteorological Extremes. NSF. Funded. May 1, 2014.
  • Neal, Ted A, McDermott, Mark Andrew, Becker, Nicole Grant Graduate Scholarship or Fellowship. Encouraging undergraduate STEM students to become secondary science educators: The Noyce Scholarship program at Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa. NSF - Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. Funded. July 1, 2016 - June 1, 2021.
  • Witzke, Brian (Co-Principal), Bradley, Cramer (Principal Investigator), Tierney, Kate (Co-Principal), Neal, Ted (Co-Principal), Kosloski, Mary (Co-Principal) Grant Continuing Education. GP-IMPACT: Leveraging Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Improving Geoscience Education in the State of Iowa. NSF. Funded. August 1, 2016 - July 31, 2019.
  • Anders, Alison (Co-Principal), Bettis, Elmer (Co-Principal), Filley, Timothy (Co-Principal), Neal, Ted (Co-Principal), Papanicolaou, Thanos (Co-Principal), Kumar, Praveen (Principal Investigator) Grant Program Project Grant. Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO). NSF. Funded. November 1, 2016 - November 1, 2018.
  • Panther, Cassandra (Collaborator), Quarderer, Nathan (Collaborator), Neal, Ted (Principal Investigator), Bolkom, Joe (Senior Personnel), Stainer, Charles (Senior Personnel), Spak, Scott (Senior Personnel), Malek, Andrea (Collaborator), Herder, Susie (Collaborator) Contract Program Project Grant. Iowa K-12 Climate Science Education Initiative. Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER). Funded. July 1, 2017 - May 1, 2018.
  • Herder, Susie (Collaborator), Stainer, Charles (Senior Personnel), Spak, Scott (Senior Personnel), Neal, Ted (Principal Investigator), Malek, Andrea (Collaborator), Bolkom, Joe (Senior Personnel), Quarderer, Nathan (Collaborator), Panther, Cassandra (Collaborator) Contract Program Project Grant. Iowa K-12 Climate Science Education Initiative. Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER). Funded. July 1, 2016 - August 1, 2017.
  • Neal, Ted (Co-Principal), Greenbowe, Thomas (Co-Principal), Armstrong, Marc (Co-Principal), Weld, Jeffrey (Principal Investigator) Grant Graduate Scholarship or Fellowship. Mathematics and Science Teachers of Iowa. NSF. Completed. June 1, 2009 - May 1, 2015.

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