Pi-Sui Hsu is celebrating a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance her study of teaching scientific argumentation with technology. The federally funded, one-year project with teammate West Aurora School District 129 will examine challenges to that practice but also
Read moreNIU middle-level education curriculum earns national accreditation, recognition
NIU’s program in Middle Level Teaching and Learning has received accreditation and national recognition from the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE). The favorable review follows years of internal data collection and annual reporting to the university that began in 2018, which
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About 150 seventh-graders from Clinton Rosette Middle School came to an Anderson Hall gym in groups Oct. 19 and Oct. 26 to learn and practice concepts of teamwork. At the same time, 27 Middle Level Teaching and Learning majors in the MLTL
Read moreUruguayan teachers visit NIU, nearby schools to gather ideas for improvement
After two weeks of visiting schools in DeKalb, Rochelle and the Chicago suburbs, 20 teachers from Uruguay made their way to Rockford. Their destination – Lincoln Middle School, opened in 1927 and located adjacent to the city’s historic Midtown District – provided
Read moreMiddle Level majors practice teaching, team-building with seventh-graders
Seventh-graders from Clinton Rosette Middle School stood in a circle, each clutching a several-feet-long string tied to the same marker. Their task: cooperate to insert that marker into the mouth of a 20-ounce plastic bottle. First, they remained still as they pulled
Read moreClinical supervisor Megan Gerken finds bright workarounds for COVID’s puzzles
Megan Gerken had Monday, March 16, circled on her calendar. That was the day the clinical supervisor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction expected to welcome representatives from Deans for Impact, who were coming to observe a pilot round of their
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