Dr. Ji艡铆 Stelzer
Professor
- Ph.D. Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
University of New Mexico (2000) - M.S. Physical Education
University of New Mexico (1997) - B.S. University Studies
University of New Mexico (1995)
Professor Jiří Stelzer is a native of the Czech Republic and holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He has been working at Valdosta State University in Georgia since 1999. Professor Stelzer teaches courses for master's and Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) students in the Teacher Education department and has taught a variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 23+ years of teaching at the university level, he has taught 7 graduate and 8 undergraduate-level courses. From these 12 courses, he developed 9 of them to be taught entirely online.
Dr. Stelzer conducts research and publishes in the areas of general well-being, multicultural education, motivation, and behavior, utilizing physical activity (PA) and PA monitoring.
Recent Publications or Presentations
Stelzer, J., Batts, W., Green, R., Kim, D., Truby, W., & Klimešová, I. (2022). The impact of school organization and school performance. Proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Education, Teaching, and E-Learning (pp. 32–38). Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies.
Batts, W., Green, R., Stelzer, J., Truby, W., Kim, D., Lyons, M., & Dreger, K. (2022). The race to leadership effectiveness: A study on school organization for high- and low-performing Georgia schools. Journal of Organizational & Educational Leadership. Advance online publication.
Růžička, M., Baslerová, P., Přibylová, T., Stelzer, J., & Sedláčková, D. (2021). The functioning of schools for pupils with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic from teachers’ perspective and regarding their cooperation with pupils’ families in the Olomouc Region in the Czech Republic. In SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts: Psychology and Psychiatry (Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 471–478). Sofia, Bulgaria.
Klimešová, I., Elfmark, M., & Stelzer, J. (2020). Food craving intensity and gender differences. American Journal of Health Education, 51(3), 179–185. https://doi.org/10.1080/19325037.2020.1744489
Růžička, M., Stelzer, J., Urbanovská, E., & Baslerová, P. (2019). Teacher and assistant teacher in joint education in the Czech Republic. In Proceedings of EDULEARN19 Conference. Palma, Mallorca, Spain.