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Tag: Jennifer Johnson

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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COE offers free, online tutoring services to NIU employees’ elementary children

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

NIU faculty and staff can receive free, online tutoring for their children in first- through sixth-grades, thanks to a new partnership between the College of Education and the Employee Assistance Program. Mission Possible Tutoring and Homework Help connects elementary school students with

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Clinical supervisor Megan Gerken finds bright workarounds for COVID’s puzzles

November 17, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

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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College launches Educators Rising, members find development, support

October 6, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Abigail Wright honestly can’t remember wanting to become anything but a teacher. “My mom has videos and picture of me playing school when I was in preschool, and all of my friends had to be the students. I was always the teacher,”

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Teacher-licensure candidates thrive, grow amid COVID-impacted clinicals

September 28, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

For future teachers, the professional semesters of their higher education provide the classroom immersion and real-life, hands-on experience that apply the icing to the cake. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, most schools simply aren’t operating as usual. Some are all face-to-face, some

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College enrollment continues to climb

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

One year ago, the NIU College of Education found reason for celebration in rising enrollment numbers compared to the fall of 2018. That upward trend continues this fall as the college welcomes 2,539 total students, of whom 1,319 are in bachelor’s degree

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Perfect! COE licensure-candidates post 100% pass rate on edTPA despite waiver

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Chris Gomes submitted his edTPA Feb. 23, two months before the Illinois State Board of Education decided this spring to waive that requirement for COVID-19. Passage of the edTPA, which measures a teacher-candidate’s competence in planning, instruction and assessment, is usually necessary

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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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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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Online teacher-prep resources available to model best practices during COVID-19

August 12, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

As students of all levels return to class this fall while the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the format for delivery varies from town to town, district to district and school to school. Some are online only. Some are strictly face-to-face. Some are

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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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Food for thought: Special Ed faculty tap technology to maintain early clinicals

May 3, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Faculty from the Department of Special and Early Education (SEED) knew that their technological pivot of early clinical teaching requirements during COVID-19 was making lemonade from lemons. Among the things they learned from the abrupt shift from actual K-12 classrooms to Blackboard

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