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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

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

Wilkins, Quinzio-Zafran co-edit guide offering advice, support to new teachers

October 27, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, SEED

Elizabeth A. Wilkins, coordinator, Graduate Career and Professional Development for the NIU Graduate School and professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Anna M. Quinzio-Zafran, an adjunct instructor in the department and 2015 alumna of the Ed.D. in Curriculum Leadership

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

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

CoE’s Altus partnership blooms with El-Ed major Jamal Murphy

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Jamal Murphy is not a typical NIU College of Education teacher-licensure candidate. Raised on the West Side of Chicago, Murphy encountered an eighth-grade teacher who told him he would drop out by his sophomore year. What? Not finish high school? “Once you

A look behind the College of Education’s edTPA numbers

October 4, 2016 Mark McGowan Alumni eNewsletter, enewsletter, KNPE, LEED, SEED

Laura Tuma felt uneasy when she first heard about the edTPA, the new assessment she would need to pass before receiving teacher licensure in Illinois. “It was very intimidating at first. It was very scary not knowing what to expect,” says the