New York to Yosemite
Jay Shuttleworth has a knack for balancing work and leisure. This summer, the third-year doctoral student took over student teacher coordination for the program. He also returned to his home state of...
View ArticleSeeing the Big Picture with Ashley Taylor
“How do we teach students what it means to see the big picture in curriculum design?” Third-year doctoral student Ashley Taylor grappled with that question this summer as she prepared to teach her...
View ArticleWhat Do You Do With All Those Blackboards? Ellen Livingston Knows
For the second year in a row, Ellen Livingston took a summer trip to Africa. For three weeks, the TC doctoral student and instructor traveled South Africa and Zimbabwe, specifically Matabeleland South....
View ArticleInsights on INSTEP, with Melinda Sloan
According to TC, the Intensive Summer Teacher Education Program at Teachers College (INSTEP) provides in-service teachers the opportunity to conveniently gain their professional certification. It seems...
View ArticleSummer Project Citizen Opportunity
The 2011 Project Citizen Summer Institute application is now available online at http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=project_citizen_regional_institutes These institutes serve as a wonderful...
View ArticleContent Area Literacy Conference 2010 Proceedings
How can social studies and science teachers help address student deficiencies in content literacy? Low disciplinary literacy brings a host of academic, social, and economic burdens. The Content Area...
View ArticleCLASS: Teaching in the Netherlands
A new summer course is being offered through the HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands! Teaching in the Netherlands: A Summer Course on Dutch Culture and Education, takes place May 13 –...
View ArticleVisual Sources: Using Library of Congress Archives in the Classroom
This summer, Teachers College will host 25 in-service secondary social studies teachers from the greater New York City area in a week-long workshop on incorporating Library of Congress Archives into...
View ArticleINSTEP: Action research projects and voices of change
Students in their third year of the Social Studies INSTEP program recently gathered at TC in an intensive workshop focused on fine-tuning their Action Research Project. With two summer sessions down...
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