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Tag: teacher licensure

Here We Grow: Elementary Education

November 17, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

One year after Sally Blake arrived to lead the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, she joined in the August 2019 “grand opening” celebration of a new partnership with Elgin Community College to offer NIU’s B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education there. And she’s still

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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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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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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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Ace! College of Ed licensure students nail 100 percent passage on Spring 2019 edTPA

August 27, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Anna Morrison loves interactions with children. “Being around them brings a lot of joy into my life – just with certain things kids say, and the way they act, they’re a lot of fun,” says Morrison, a May 2019 graduate of the

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NIU Early Childhood Education program earns renewed Gateways credential nod

October 30, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

NIU’s Department of Special and Early Education (SEED) has earned another five years of approval from the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies as a Gateways to Opportunity Entitled Institution. The designation allows NIU’s Early Childhood Education majors the

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College of Education maintains nearly perfect edTPA pass rates

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

When Sarah Paver began her student-teaching class last August, the graduate student in Physical Education quickly became concerned. “I was very nervous when the edTPA came up,” says Paver, who graduated in December. “A lot of my classmates had said that they

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College of Ed continues to post nearly perfect edTPA pass rates

July 18, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

Nicollette Wlodek knew that the video camera was rolling, but she didn’t mind. Wlodek, an Elementary Education major from NIU, stood confidently before a classroom of Huntley School District fifth-graders to teach a literacy lesson on comparing and contrasting characters in a

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edTPA encore: COE students post great results for Fall 2016

February 2, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, LEED, SEED

NIU College of Education students rocked the edTPA last semester – again. One hundred percent of graduate students and 98 percent of undergraduates passed the mandatory assessment required to obtain teacher licensure in Illinois and several other states, continuing the college’s success

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