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Tag: Educate and Engage Program

Best of both worlds: Educate U.S. takes virtual trip to Houston during pandemic

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

COVID-19 could not cancel the NIU College of Education’s January 2021 edition of Educate U.S. with the Houston Independent School District. Even as the pandemic did prevent travel to Texas for the 14 teacher-licensure candidates chosen to participate in the real-world learning,

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Educate Global reaches Spain via Zoom, participants will join in online seminars

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

As the initial dust of COVID-19 settled in the spring, Laurie Elish-Piper and David Walker began mulling what the virus meant for the near future of the college’s signature hands-on learning programs. “It became pretty apparent that our entire Educate and Engage

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No picnic, no problem: College welcomes new students during ‘reception’ on Zoom

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

During a normal year, new students to the NIU College of Education are invited to a Sunday-before-classes picnic each August where they meet new people, make new friends and match names-and-faces of some of the faculty and staff who will guide them

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All-College Meeting goes virtual, shares optimism for a ‘modified’ fall semester

August 20, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Laurie Elish-Piper opened Tuesday’s All-College Meeting by quickly acknowledging the elephant in the virtual room. COVID-19 continues to impact the world, and returning to a new semester of teaching and learning will bring “challenges and situations that are quite different than what

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CI, College of DuPage ink 2+2 agreement for seamless Elementary Education path

July 13, 2020 Mark McGowan Uncategorized

Future B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education majors who want to start their studies at the College of DuPage can transfer seamlessly into the NIU College of Education. Thanks to a newly signed, non-cohort-based 2+2 agreement between COD and the Department of Curriculum and

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Houston, we have liftoff! Two COE alums reach stars with Texas teaching awards

April 5, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, SEED

Jessica Dyra and Aimee Zepeda are proof of the power of positive role models. “I’ve always liked school, and as I grew up, I saw how much of an impact my teachers had on me,” says Dyra, who is from Crystal Lake.

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Jenn Jacobs nets federal grant to create national women’s sport summit in Belize

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Alternative Spring BAE 2.0 will touch down in Belize in Spring 2020 with a different mission than its Engage Global debut in 2019, thanks to a $10,000 award from the U.S. Department of State. Jenn Jacobs, an assistant professor of Sport and

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First cohort of Finland travelers return, minds open to innovative philosophies

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, SEED

Amanda Surrusco hadn’t expected the freedom. Maria Almeida hadn’t expected the differentiation. Kyle Conway hadn’t expected the trust. Surrusco, Almeida and Conway, three of the four NIU College of Education student-travelers on the inaugural Educate Global trip to Finland this May, witnessed

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Educate U.S., Engage U.S. celebrate second year of journeys to North Dakota, Colorado

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

Sometimes the second time around is just as sweet as the first. May 2019 saw the return of Educate U.S. in North Dakota and Engage U.S. in Colorado and Nebraska; both new options of the NIU College of Education programs debuted in

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Alternative Spring BAE travelers absorb life lessons in teaching Belizean coaches

April 16, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

NIU’s inaugural travelers in the Alternative Spring BAE program arrived in Belize with a good idea that they would learn as much as would the 24 youth sport coaches they’d gone to teach. What they hadn’t realized was that their true objective

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Educate Global travelers to visit Finland

March 13, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

Educate Global will send its first group of travelers to Finland this May for a two-week immersion in the Finnish Comprehensive School Curriculum, Content and Language Integrated Learning Method. Students will learn Finnish philosophies in classroom management, lesson planning and project work

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New Educate Local program transports Special Ed majors to try literacy projects in alternative Chana Education Center

December 11, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

For years, Mary Gardner has required her LTCY 300 students to create theoretical “listening center” projects on paper. Gardner, an instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, expects these assignments to propose good nonfiction texts to read aloud to children. She

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