education
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Education faculty members win research award
Education faculty members Kerry Bostwick and Jill Heinrich and former Cornell College Librarian Jean Donham were awarded the Iowa Association of College and Research Libraries’ 2012 Research Award. The IACRL grants one award every two years for original scholarship and was presented in May at the Association’s spring conference held at Luther College. The award was given for their article “Mental Models of Research: Generating Authentic Questions” which was published in the Journal of College Teaching.
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“The Devil is in the Details: Can I Really Say God in School?”
On Jan 19th, Associate Professor of Education Jill Heinrich will give a lecture titled “The Devil is in the Details: Can I Really Say God in School?” This presentation will examine conflicts regarding the separation of church and state in our nation’s public schools.
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SIG lecture: Developing the Three Dimensions of Information Literacy: It Takes a Whole Campus
Mary Iber, consulting librarian for the sciences, will present work completed during her sabbatical. Her talk will focus on three dimensions of becoming information literate: the knower, the process of knowing, and the known.
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What is Understading? Who Needs Art Education Now?
Lois Hetland ’75, professor of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and research associate for Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education will return to campus October 14th and 15th to give a series lectures on various aspects of art education.
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Rachel Tjaden ’08
Inspired by her student-teaching experience in Numazu, Japan as a Cornell Fellow, Rachel Tjaden spent two years as a first-grade teacher at an international school in Bahrain. She’s planning to continue her international adventure by returning to Japan to teach at the school where she student taught.
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Jeffrey McCune ’99
Jeffrey McCune ’99 credits his Cornell experience for “planting the seed” that led him to become a professional scholar. His research examines closely the interrelatedness and intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Zgraggen teaches HS math in the Swiss Alps
Franziska Zgraggen ’04 teaches high school math at the Gstaad International School in the Swiss Alps after majoring in math, secondary education, and German at Cornell. As an undergrad, she spent a semester studying in Basel, Switzerland.
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Strains demonstrates opportunities for Cornell German students
After majoring in German, mathematics, and secondary education at Cornell, Jessie Strains will pursue a master’s in German at Bowling Green State University, including studies at the University of Salzburg. Her eventual goal is to teach at a German immersion school in the states, though she is also considering teaching abroad in a German-speaking country.
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Mackler book rethinks American educational system
MOUNT VERNON — A new book by Cornell College education professor Stephanie Mackler claims that higher education emphasizes knowledge over meaning, and must be rethought outside of job training and knowledge acquisition.
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Burke teaches art to at-risk students
Mike Burke ’01 majored in secondary education and art at Cornell. From 2002 through 2006, he taught at-risk students at Colorado High School Charter in Denver before moving into a district-wide technology role.
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Nicole Chilla ’03
In 2004, Nicole Chilla ’03 won Washington D.C.’s Outstanding First Year Teacher Award. An English teacher at a diverse, inner-city high school, Chilla was also nominated twice for “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.”
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Katie Preston ’02
As a first-year, second grade teacher at a bilingual elementary school in Buckeye, AZ, Katie Preston says she relied heavily on materials and lessons from Cornell education courses to suggest changes almost immediately.
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Darius Ballard ’07
Just weeks into his career as a biology and environmental studies teacher at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids, Darius Ballard ’07 reported two major highlights.
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Nate Frangella ’04
A first-year course gave Chicago native Nate Frangella ’04 a glimpse of elementary school teaching, and he never looked back. He had planned to become a high school history teacher, but says his early exposure to classroom teaching in Educational Psychology changed his mind.
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Mark McDermott ’95
In 2009, Mark McDermott ’95 transferred his love for teaching high school science to a new venue: training future science educators as a professor at Wartburg College. McDermott teaches science methods courses, elementary education science content courses, and biology lab courses.