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Tag: middle level teaching and learning

Black students share COE experiences, offer recommendations for improvement

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, LEPF, SEED

Four Black students in the NIU College of Education joined the Jan. 7 spring all-college meeting to share their personal stories and offer guidance for how faculty and staff can better empower them during their academic journeys. The quartet included one undergraduate

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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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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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Keep learning, keep teaching – Part 2: Educators detail COVID-19 adjustments

April 12, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, SEED

Jeremy Rehmus works full time as the manager of a restaurant in Oswego, where he lives with his wife and their 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter. With many restaurants remaining “essential” and open during the stay-at-home order, his is one experiencing great

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Project CUP research illustrates challenge of managing tough home lives of students

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Jan Solano arrived at the home of virtual strangers to watch, like a fly on the wall, how they prepared themselves for the day. It was 6 a.m. The mother of the family knew that Solano, a junior Middle Level Teaching and

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Future middle school teachers at NIU hear expert advice from 13-year-olds, parents

April 30, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, LEPF

As a former middle school principal and assistant principal in the McHenry County towns of Woodstock and Cary, Joyce Laben knows well the value of listening to the “stakeholders” at those institutions. It’s something she stresses in the EPS 512: Principal, Family

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Educate Global travelers leave China with perspective from another’s shoes

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Educate Global 2.0 is history. China looms in the rearview mirror. A new semester of learning is underway in DeKalb. But the broadened perspectives Educate Global provided to NIU’s future teachers seem destined to persist in countless and unpredictable ways. Just ask

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Meet the Dean’s Achievement Scholars!

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

Congratulations to the newest group of NIU College of Education Dean’s Achievement Scholars! Chosen for stellar academic performance in high school, each receives a $2,000 scholarship for the 2017-18 academic year with the possibility of renewal for the next year based on

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College of Ed posts 99 percent passage on edTPA assessment for Spring 2018

June 13, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Ashley Grazutis has been thinking about the edTPA since she arrived at NIU. “The first time I heard about the edTPA was freshman year at a Secondary Education Organization meeting,” says Grazutis, a senior from Palos Park, Ill. “All the rubrics. All

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Research road show: Cohen, Strid collaborate with students

December 12, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, SEED

Six NIU students affiliated with the College of Education were among the presenters at the 41st Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers Serving Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students. Recently graduated master’s student Stephanie Eller and undergraduates Lorena Flores, Autumn Gathings, Christina Poe, Raven

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Replace judgment with curiosity: Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, SEED

After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a nearly empty airport in China, with none of the crowded hustle and

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Clinton Rosette seventh-graders ‘teach’ NIU Middle Level majors

October 30, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Would you rather have hands for feet – or feet for hands? Would you rather have the hiccups for the rest of your life – or the feeling that you’re about to sneeze? Would you rather eat brownies for the rest of

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