Education Department Chair; University-Wide Curriculum Committee Chair; Associate Professor
Department of Education
Biography
Dr. Perrotti has 15 years of public school teaching experience at the secondary level. He is a Quality Matters Master Reviewer, and a Diversity Leader-National SEED Project.
Research, Publications and Presentations
- “Predicting Achievement on State Tests Based on School Health and Teacher Self-‐Evaluation.” (Dissertation, 2011)
- “Download This!: Making Social Studies Instruction Relevant In the Age of Social Networking and Online Instruction.” Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies State Conference, October 2012.
- “The Classroom Detective: Using Investigation and Debate to Enhance Literacy in Social Studies Classrooms.” Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies State Conference, October 2013
- “The Classroom Detective: Using Primary Sources in the Era of Common Core Accountability.” Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies State Conference. October 2013
- Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-
“Social Studies in the Era of the Common Core State Standards,” 2014 - Middle States Council for the Social Studies State Conference”-
“Service Learning in the Social Studies Classroom-Cultivating our Future Community Leaders,” 2014 - Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-
“Lifelong Learning: Teaching and Promoting a Conceptual View of Social Studies in the 21st Century Classroom,” 2015 - Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-
“Citizenship and the Social Studies in a Diverse Society-A Lesson Based Perspective,” 2016 - Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference, 2017
- Panelist-Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-"Teaching and Learning in the Era of #metoo. Gender and Power in Teaching and Learning Social Studies," 2019
- "Yearning to Breathe Free: The Immigrant Experience and Building Unity in the Classroom and in our Curriculum." Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference, 2019
Research Interests
- Improving teacher retention
- Building teacher-community partnerships
- Content-based literacy
Grants Written
Co-Investigator/Researcher: PASSHE Innovation in Teaching Grant: 2014 "Creating a
Teacher Education Model of Common Core State Standard Profession Development"
University Responsibilities
- Member of the General Education Committee
- Member of the Faculty Professional Development (FPDC) Grants and Contracts Subcommittee
- Secondary Education and Administrative Leadership Department webmaster
- Chair of the University-Wide Curriculum Committee
- Member of the General Education Committee
- Department webmaster
Community and Professional Service
- Member of the Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies Board of Directors
- Member of the Comprehensive Planning Committee at California Area School District
- United States Track and Field Level I Coach
- B.S Secondary Education: Mansfield University
- M.S. Education: Social Studies, Wilkes University
- Ph.D.: Human Development and Instruction, Marywood University