Rate My Professor Stephanie Richards

Richards teaches methods courses in mathematics, science, and social studies, along with assessment and edTPA courses, supervises residency and practicum students, and serves as the Tennessee Tech liaison at her 2+2 site. Her expertise includes developing empathy to address bullying, using readers' theatre to increase reading comprehension, and working with students of poverty. Committed to promoting education, she sponsors teacher clubs, attends recruitment and career fairs, presents at career fairs, chaperones field trips, and creates promotional items like onesies stating 'Future difference maker - Future teacher!'. In 2015, she received the College of Education and Human Sciences Faculty Award for Service. Richards serves as higher education representative for middle Tennessee on the Tennessee Association for Middle Schools Board and editor of the TAMS Journal, and sits on the College of Education and Human Sciences Recruitment and Retention Committee. She co-authored 'Bibliotherapy to prevent bullying' with Kristen Pennycuff Trent in J.U. Gordon's 2018 edited volume Prevention of Bullying (Springer, pp. 37-52).