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  • Internationalizing the College of Education (15:56) College of Education leadership and faculty are actively involved in  efforts to internationalize the work of the College. Such work includes programming, research, curriculum and pedagogy. The video highlights some of these efforts and examines ways the College can further the goal of embedding international themes and concepts into its work.
  • PK Yonge Civics Class on the evening news Jackie Sirmopoulous and her seventh grade Civics/Comparative Government class at PK Yonge were featured on Gainesville’s local news station TV 20. Sirmopolous’ class is one of only two in the state teaching civics and government to middle school students.
  • Norman Hall: Renovation and Innovation (15min) Renovation and innovation are the hallmarks of the College’s capital fundraising campaign that promises, at once, to restore the 1934-vintage Norman Hall to its former grandeur and upgrade its classrooms and laboratories with the latest instructional technology. A key feature of the planned improvements is the addition of a beyond-state-of-the-art educational technology complex, to be called the Experiential Learning Complex, where researchers from multiple disciplines would adapt the latest information technologies to transform how education has been traditionally defined and delivered. Relive the illustrious history of Norman Hall and the College of Education, and experience a thrilling animated fly-through of the envisioned ELC technology annex.
  • Experiential Learning Complex: Animated Fly-through (3 minutes) If you’re short on time, this animated excerpt from the video above sends you flying through this proposed instructional technology building addition. Creating this Experiential Learning Complex, or ELC for short, is part of the overall Norman Hall renovation-expansion project that stands as the College’s top fundraising priority in UF’s visionary Florida Tomorrow capital campaign.
  • Teachers Teaching Teachers (2 minutes) More than 400 K-12 educators and prospective teachers across North Central Florida converge upon P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Gainesville every spring for the annual Teaching, Inquiry and Innovation Showcase, where they share with each other what they have learned individually about school improvement through the process of teacher research. The showcase is staged by the Center for School Improvement at the UF College of Education. Co-sponsors are P.K. Yonge (UF’s laboratory school) and the North East Florida Educational Consortium (NEFEC). Instead of traditional professional development relying on outside experts, this novel professional-development showcase features an emerging inquiry-oriented approach in which practicing educators and UF education students collaboratively assess their own teaching practices and share new knowledge among themselves. This video features a brief television news report (from Gainesville’s ABC affiliate, WCJB TV-20 ) of the 4th annual Teaching Inquiry Showcase, held April 18-19, 2008.
  • Hispanic students perform better in colleges with larger Hispanic communities Hispanic students at community colleges with large Hispanic populations are more likely to earn higher grades and complete their courses, according to a study headed by COE professor. Educators have long believed that a “critical mass” of like students is vital to making minority students feel at home on college campuses. In this video excerpt, Professor Linda Serra Hagedorn talks to a WUFT-TV news crew about her study, which may be the first to find statistical evidence of “critical mass”.
  • Good readers formed before first day of kindergarten Teachers often say they can tell, as early as kindergarten, which students are likely bound for college and which are headed for a 12-year struggle to finish school. UF researcher Anne Bishop explains how parents can help children acquire the pre-literacy skills they need before they reach school age.
  • Centennial Lecture: DAVID BROOKS, NYT columnist (1hr 45min) New York Times: On January 24, 2006, the College of Education kicked off its 100th year celebration with a presentation and panel discussion on “Education, Class and the Future of America,” featuring nationally syndicated op-ed columnist David Brooks. Brooks writes for the New York Times and is a regular analyst on National Public Radio and PBS television’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.