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Pamela Roggeman, EdD

Dean

College of Education

About Roggeman

Dr. Pamela Roggeman is the College of Education Dean at University of Phoenix. There, she has led the work of preparing thousands of teacher-candidates in numerous states satisfy credentialing requirements. This experience has included national partnerships helping to advance thought-leadership in the field of education. 

She has spent over a decade and a half in higher education teacher preparation in both the public and private sector. Dr. Roggeman also serves as the president of the Arizona Educational Foundation’s Board of Directors.  

It is an honor to get to do work to prepare educators to improve the lives of their students, their families, and their communities.

Pamela Roggeman
Dean

It is an honor to get to do work to prepare educators to improve the lives of their students, their families, and their communities.

Before Dr. Roggeman’s second career in teacher preparation, she was an award-winning high school English teacher for 18 years in Arizona. She was also a 1999 AZ Educational Foundation’s Ambassador of Excellence as a Top Five Finalist for Arizona Educational Foundation’s Teacher of the Year. She is a lifetime supporter of and believer in AZ Public Education.

 

  • EdD, Education Leadership and Innovation, Arizona State University  
  • MEd, Educational Psychology, University of Arizona  
  • BA, Secondary Education, English major, Communication minor, University of Arizona

 

It is an honor to get to do work to prepare educators to improve the lives of their students, their families, and their communities.

Pamela Roggeman
Dean

It is an honor to get to do work to prepare educators to improve the lives of their students, their families, and their communities.

Research interests: 

  • Current trends in teacher preparation and P-12 education 
  • Teacher performance assessment 
  • Teacher preparation 

Recent conference presentations: 

  • NASDTEC 2022: The 93rd Annual Conference June 12-14, 2022 in Boston, MA 
    • Presentation Title: Re-thinking Clinical Practice: What 2020 Taught Teacher Preparation 
  • OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference November 14-17, 2022 in Orlando, FL
    • Presentation Title: Re-thinking Professional Learning Experiences: How 2020 Accelerated Virtual Teaching and Learning
  • OLC Innovate 2023 Conference April 18-21, 2023 in Nashville, TV 
    • Presentation Title: Professional Learning in My PJ’s? Professional Learning Experiences for Distance Learners 

Past conference presentations:  

  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (September 2020) Are you prepared to be your child’s teacher? All State Insurance. Online 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (July 2020) Are you prepared to be your child’s teacher? Kelly Temporary Services. Online 
  • Ghormley, L. and Januse, J.  (June 2020) Key learnings for mastering edTPA. EnCorp’s Virtual Summer Institute.   
  • Ghormley, L. (April 2020) How to keep your kids busy at home. Webinar for UOPX. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2020) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA:  An out of state provider’s journey to preparing teachers in the online modality.  National edTPA Implementation Conference, Austin, TX.  Canceled due to Covid-19 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (February 2019) A dispositional approach to addressing teacher retention.  AACTE Conference, Atlanta, GA. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (June 2019) A dispositional approach to addressing teacher retention.  NASDTEC Conference, Denver, CO. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (February 2019) A dispositional approach to addressing teacher retention.  AACTE Conference, Louisville, KY. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Bullock, D. (October 2018) Supporting edTPA faculty and cooperating teachers: An online provider preparing faculty and cooperating teachers to support preservice teacher with edTPA.  National edTPA Implementation Conference, San Jose, CA. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (January 2018) Measured efforts toward teacher retention in alternative certification.  Ted Andrews Winter Symposium, San Diego, CA. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (April 2017) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA: an out of state provider’s journey to preparing teachers. Southeastern edTPA Implementation Conference, Raleigh, NC. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2017) Measured efforts toward teacher retention and alternative certification.  NAAC Conference, San Antonio, TX. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (December 2016) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA: an out of state provider’s journey to preparing teachers in GA. GA edTPA Implementation Conference, Macon, GA. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (June 2016) Not all alternative certification students are created equal: Creating a pre-assessment portfolio of effective teaching. NASDTEC Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2016) edTPA and the community college transfer.  NACCTEP Conference, Chicago, IL.  
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2016) Not all alt cert students are created equal.  NAAC Conference, New Orleans, LA. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (December 2015) Pre-assessment and the alternative certificate.  University of Phoenix, Honolulu, HI. 
  • Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2015) Alternative route educators: Impacting school and student success. NAAC Conference, Chicago, IL. 
  • Ghormley, L. Smith, S. and Roggeman, P. (October 2014) Linking programmatic accreditation to the development of teacher performance assessments. CAEP Conference, Washington DC.

Years of teaching experience:

  • K-12: 18 
  • Higher Education: 16 

Teaching at University of Phoenix:

  • College of Education – Practicum Faculty Supervisor supporting students in P-12 schools who are doing their student teaching
  • Master of Arts in Education – Adult Education and Training faculty member 
  • General Studies – faculty member

Teaching at Arizona State University: 

  • Content Area Reading
  • English Teaching Methods
  • Classroom Management
  • Action Research
  • Trends in Education  

Awards:

  • The Carolyn Warner Legacy Award , 2020 
  • Arizona Forward Leadership Award, 2017, in recognition for contribution to Statewide Sustainability Agenda 
  • University of Arizona Alumni Council Outstanding Educator Award, 2004  
  • AZ Educational Foundation Teacher of the Year Ambassador, 1999  
  • Pima County Crystal Apple Award, 1999  

Licenses:

  • Held an AZ Teaching Certificate for 23 years

Active professional memberships: 

  • Board President of the Arizona Educational Foundation  
  • Member of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year
  • Member of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE)
  • Member of the Online Learning Consortium

Pro bono: 

  • AZ Educational Association Board

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