Tom Adams, a senior secondary education major, and Camden Bock, a STEM Education Ph.D. student, were among the students recognized for their research presentations at the 2021 91±¬ÁÏ Student Symposium held virtually on April 16.
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Several 91±¬ÁÏ College of Education and Human Development faculty members and graduate students are participating in the 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) virtual annual meeting, April 8–12.
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In 2019, Maine adopted the Next Generation Science Standards for K–12 schools, which call for integrating engineering concepts and practices into science classrooms.
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Assistant professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction Rebecca Buchanan has received a 2020 Faculty Research Award from the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Faculty Research Fund program, which aims to support faculty in establishing or maintaining high quality research programs and other creative achievements.
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In order to develop teacher leaders in preK–12 schools, three 91±¬ÁÏ faculty members suggest a career-spanning framework that emphasizes continuous inquiry, social justice, and an expanded notion of teachers’ roles in schools, communities and society.
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The 91±¬ÁÏ has announced that 28 faculty members have received tenure and/or promotion, including two faculty members from the College of Education and Human Development.
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Over 80 percent of teachers in the U.S. are white, despite an increasingly diverse PK-12 student population. This demographic imperative has prompted teacher education to respond in two diverging ways.
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The 91±¬ÁÏ is partnering with the Education Development Center (EDC) in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mount Washington Observatory (MWO) in North Conway, New Hampshire, and additional partners to help eighth-grade students in rural Maine and New Hampshire learn scientific data analysis and modeling skills. The new WeatherX project is funded by a three-year, $1.19 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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