Ann Monroe is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. Monroe's research focuses on how teachers can promote pride and minimize shame in their classroom activities and lessons.
She also investigates how math anxiety and shame are interrelated and how the focus on productive struggle in the mathematics classroom can lesson these negative emotions.
Biography
Ann Monroe is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Mississippi. Before her time at UM, Dr. Monroe was a third grade teacher with the Hamilton County School System in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She comes from a family of educators and believes wholeheartedly in the transformative power of teaching and learning.
Dr. Monroe has received multiple honors from the School of Education, including Outstanding Doctoral Student in Elementary Education, the Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Outstanding Student Service Award. She was named the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher for the University of Mississippi in 2018. Dr. Monroe is proud to be on the faculty at UM, where she and her colleagues prepare Mississippi’s next generation of teachers.
Dr. Monroe teaches a variety of courses, including education foundations, curriculum development, and assessment. Her research focuses on how teachers can promote pride and minimize shame in their classroom activities and lessons. She serves on numerous thesis and dissertation committees, is the UM representative on IHL’s Educator Preparation Collaboration Committee, and is a member of the 21 United Mississippi Board.
Courses Taught
Education
B.S. Elementary Education, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (1996)
M.A. Elementary Education, The University of Mississippi (2003)
Ed.D. Elementary Education, The University of Mississippi (2007)