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Contact Information:
Dr. Margaret Cohen
Associate Provost for
Professional Development and Director, Center for Teaching
and Learning.
University of Missouri
- St. Louis
421 Woods Hall
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121
Phone: (314) 516-5308
Email: peggy_cohen@umsl.edu
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Margaret W. Cohen 
Dr. Margaret Cohen is the Associate Provost for
Professional Development and Director, Center for Teaching
and Learning.
Professor Cohen received an A.B.
from Washington University with majors in elementary
education and psychology. She taught autistic
children for 3 years before earning a Ph.D. in
educational psychology from Washington University in
1979. Dr. Cohen held a joint appointment in
educational psychology and teacher education for 2
years at the State University of New York at Albany
and a similar appointment at the University of
Houston for a year before her appointment to the
School of Education in 1980. She has been a fellow
in the Public Policy Research Centers. Professor
Cohen is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the American
Educational Research Association, and the
Association of Teacher Educators, and the Board of
Directors of the Gifted Resource Council. She is
co-chair of the Joint Task Force on the Elementary
Education Curriculum, a working committee with
faculty representatives from the School of Education
and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Research
and Teaching
I routinely teach undergraduate and graduate
sections of the foundational educational psychology
courses and feel an enormous responsibility to
facilitating the growth of tomorrow's teachers. I
redesign my courses continuously with the goal of
engaging my students in the learning process. A
current challenge is to integrate curricula by
including the study of exceptionalities into the
study of psychology. Research questions about
professional development guide the evaluation of my
efforts.
Motivation theory was the
focus of my early research and continues to be a
current flowing through other topics in which I have
a research interest: the professional development of
teachers, the school reform agenda, the Missouri
Accelerated Schools Project, and reform in higher
education. The influence of psychology on my
thinking is apparent in my interest in the
differences that make us individuals. My thinking
about education is an obsession: I want all teachers
and learners to benefit from what we know about
psychology.
Representative
Publications
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Cohen, M.W. (1986).
Intrinsic motivation in the special education
classroom. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 19,
258- 261.
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Cohen, M.W. (1986).
Research on motivation: New content for the
teacher preparation curriculum. Journal of
Teacher Education, 37, 23-28.
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Cohen, M.W. (1994).
Accelerated schools: Missouri's response. The
Kansas Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development Record, 12(20), 24-30.
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