Grace+J.+Ward+Ed.D.

Dr. Grace J. Ward is an associate professor in the Secondary/Middle Education Department and the Educational Leadership Master’s Program at the University of Maine Farmington. She worked in public education in Maine for 25 years as a mathematics teacher and administrator (principal and superintendent). Her research interests include technology integration, mathematics education, and team teaching for pre-service teachers. Dr. Ward has co-authored six papers published in the //Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference Proceedings.// The paper “Technology Integration for Pre-Service Teachers in a Team-Taught Cohort Experience” was published in //Research Highlights in Information Technology and Teacher Education 2009.// By invitation, the paper was published in 2011 in the //Journal of Technology and Teacher Education//. In 2013, Technology Integration for Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers: A Time-Series Study and in 2015, iPads as an Approach For Teaching Technology Integration For Secondary Pre-Service Teachers were published in //Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference Proceedings//. Her teaching areas include curriculum, instruction, and assessment; middle level education; philosophy, history and cultural diversity of education; and methods for teaching mathematics. Dr. Grace J. Ward is a certified RYT 200HR with Yoga Alliance. She completed her 200HR teacher training in the methodology of Baptiste Yoga with Alice Riccardi at Scarborough Yoga School, May 2017. Her forty years of teaching in education has inspired her to teach and share her love of yoga to everyone willing to achieve optimal health. Teaching yoga to educators has become especially important to her since they are teaching the next generation of students and preparing them for the challenges they'll experience during their lifetime. She is now studying Energy Medicine Yoga with Lauren Walker and has completed two workshops (May 2017) and the DailyOM eight week online course; //Change Your Life with Energy Medicine Yoga// (June 2017). She loves teaching different types of yoga (Baptiste, Gentle Flow, Yin, Restorative, EM) and understands the power of integrating Energy Medicine into different types of yoga practices. She attended the EMYoga Level I Teacher Training (30 hours) with [|Lauren Walker] for four amazing days 10/27-10/31, 2017 in Portsmouth NH. Grace will be certified as an EMYoga teacher by April 2018. She plans on continuing her studies with Lauren Walker and will attend the next EMYoga Level II Teacher Training in 2018.