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Ruth Mason Teaching Award given to Deb Pitton
Deb Pitton was awarded the first annual Ruth Mason Teaching Award for ‘Excellence in January Off-Campus Teaching.’ Students from the January 2014 service learning course in Peru nominated Pitton for this award.
Sidonia Alenuma-Nimoh Delivers Lecture on Mulitcultural Education In Ghana
As I approach the end of my sabbatical, I am intrigued by how much I have accomplished and baffled by the possibilities and opportunities to do more. I am grateful for the invitation by my host department, Educational Foundations, to give the first departmental lecture on April 8, 2014. Here is a gist on the […]
Another Sabbatical Activity: Book Chapter
Sidonia Alenuma-Nimoh’s NAME (National Association for Multicultural Education) Book chapter proposal was accepted for the upcoming first book of the NAME Series. The Diversity, Equity and Social Justice Handbook for Practicing Educators is a four-book series. This first handbook, Leadership, will provide school leaders with practical steps for implementing multicultural education into schools. Here is the […]
Dr. Moos publishes with Amanda Miller (’13)
Dr. Daniel Moos co-authored an article in British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science with Amanda Miller, an Elementary Education graduate from Gustavus Adolphus College (’13). This study examined how epistemological beliefs (EB) and self-regulated learning beliefs (SRLB) affect pre-service teachers’ evaluation of lesson plans. The sample included 33 pre-service teachers, all of whom […]
Science Methods and MNCOSE
Some Elementary Science Methods students attended the Minnesota Conference on Science Education on Friday and Saturday February 21 and 22, 2014 despite the blizzard like conditions that prevailed on Thursday and part of Friday. Emilie, Jessica and Laura attended the Citizen Science workshop that was offered on Saturday. Their smiles suggest it was worthwhile!
Teaching Chemistry in EDU 247: Science for Elementary Educators 2
Students in EDU 247: Science for Elementary Educators 2 had the opportunity on Tuesday, March 4 to teach chemistry lessons to each other. They explored concepts of pattern and periodicity in Fabulous Periodic Eggs, concepts of selective membranes with Selective Service, concepts of solutions and solute with Involving Dissolving and reactions in powders with Mystery Reactions. The pictures speak to […]
Dr. Sidonia Alenuma-Nimoh presents at the 23rd annual NAME conference
Dr. Sidonia Alenuma-Nimoh presents at the 23rd annual NAME (National Association for Multicultural Education) international conference in Oakland CA, on November 7, 2013. The title of her presentation is Embracing the light and re/visioning multicultural education from a Ghanaian-American perspective. The abstract is as follows: “A perspective that requires the re-visioning of multicultural […]
Graduation 2013
Education majors from the class of 2013 gather on the steps of Old Main for a final photo.
Dr. Daniel Moos elected as the Jr. Chair for the SSRL Special Interest Group
I am honored to have been elected to serve as the Junior Chair for the SSRL Special Interest Group (SIG). SIGs support the mission of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The mission of the Studying and Self-Regulated (SSRL) SIG is to pomote “the development of theory and research in academic studying and self-regulated learning across […]
Chemistry in EDU 247
EDU 247 (Science for Elementary Educators II) is a content-based interdisciplinary science course with a focus on chemistry, earth and space science. For the first three weeks of the spring 2013 semester 27 elementary education majors learned about periodicity, chemical reactions, water chemistry, and pH with Assistant Professor of Chemistry Amanda Nienow. In […]