Points of Pride
There are so many great things happening in the School of Teaching & Learning. Celebrate with us!!!
STL Faculty Elected to Prestigious Committee
Dr. Danling Fu has been elected to the NCTE Steering Committee! Congratulations Dr. Fu on this prestigious national role!
2007 Graduate Volusia County's First Year Teacher of the Year
Tim Huth, a 2007 Social Studies ProTeach graduate, has been named the 2007-2008 Volusia County School District's First Year Teacher of the Year. Congratulations to Tim--we are so very proud of you!
STL Faculty Named as one of the College of Education's B.O. Smith Professors
Dr. Kara Dawson has been named as a B.O. Smith Professor for a 2-year term. Dr. Dawson's work will build on a study she conducted for Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Instruction and Innovation on the impact of laptop technologies and professional development on student achievement. Way to go Dr. Dawson!!
STL Faculty Receive Outstanding Paper Award at SITE Conference
Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh, Dr. Kara Dawson, and Dr. Albert Ritzhaupt (at UNF) received the SITE 2008 Outstanding Paper Award for their manuscript "Conditions, Processes and Consequences of 1:1 Computing in Classrooms: The Impact on Teaching Practices and Student Achievement". Congratulations to Dr. Cavanaugh and Dr. Dawson!!
STL Student Honors
Tiffany Weyel, a STL specialist (Ed.S.) student, was named the Teacher of the Year for Florida Virtual School!
Ms. Emma Humprhise, a STL doctoral student, was a featured member for the Florida Education Association. You can watch her speak about education on YouTube.
Former STL Doctoral Student Receives a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award
Dr. Rosnani Hashim, a 1994 Ph.D. graduate in Social Foundations of Education, will be at Montgomery County Community College, as a Fulbright visiting specialist under the program "Direct Access to the Muslim World." Dr. Hashim is a professor of education at the International Islamic University in Malaysia. Dr. Hashim has taught educational philosophy, history, and sociology from the Islamic perspective since 1987 at the Internationa Islamic University. She has published six books and written more than 30 articles, book chapters, and papers. Dr. Hashim has also served as the vice president of Women's Affairs for the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia. Congratulations to Dr. Hashim!
National Science Foundation Grant Awarded
Dr. Rose Pringle (PI), and Dr. Thomasenia Adams and Dr. Cirecie West-Olantunji (co-PIs) received a 4 year National Science Foundation grant for a project entitled "An Investigation of African American Girls' Positionality in Science and Mathematics." Congratulations to Dr. Pringle and Dr. Adams --who are both faculty members in the School of Teaching & Learning!
Mathematics Education Doctoral Students and Adjunct help develop Standards
STL Mathematics Education doctoral students and an adjunct instructor diligently worked in the development of the newly adopted Florida Sunshine State Standards in mathematics. Paula Cifuentes and Emily Peterek served as framers while Kristen Weller served as a writer.
STL Doctoral Students with New Jobs (for 2007-2008 academic year)
Cheryl Kmiec: University of South Florida
Jennifer Graff: The University of Georgia
Sophia Han: University of Louisville
Haekyoung Kim: University of Texas at Brownsville
ESOL/Bilingual Education Students and Faculty SHINE at the Sunshine State TESOL Conference
At the recent Sunshine State TESOL Conference in West Palm Beach, 16 of the ESOL/Bilingual Education students presented in 15 different presentations. In addition to these 16 students, seven other graduate students and five UF faculty members gave presentations. Also, of the seven Sunshine State TESOL Travel Grant recipients (selected through competitive application) who were introduced to the general membership at the conference luncheon, three were UF College of Education students. Thanks for an impressive showing at the Sunshine State TESOL Conference ESOL/Bilingual Education students and faculty!!!!!
Dr. Ruth Lowery Appointed to NCTE Commission
Ruth McKoy Lowery was recently appointed to serve as a member of the Commission on Reading for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Her three-year term will begin after the 2007 Annual Convention scheduled for November 15-20, in New York City.
The Commission on Reading is a deliberative and advisory body which each year identifies and reports to the NCTE Executive Committee on current key issues in the teaching of reading; reviews what the National Council of Teachers of English has done during the year to improve the teaching of reading at various levels of education; and recommends new projects and persons who might undertake them. It monitors current NCTE publications on reading, suggests topics for future NCTE books and pamphlets on this aspect of English, and performs a similar role of review and recommendation for NCTE Convention program content. Occasionally, the Commission on Reading undertakes further tasks and projects, in answer to needs of teachers, elementary school through college.
Sanibel Leadership Scholarship
Congratulations to Joel Davis, M.Ed. student in ESOL/Bilingual Education, for receiving the first Sanibel Leadership Scholarship offered in the College of Education.
Undergraduate and Graduate College of Education Teachers of the Year in STL!!
Dr. Linda Jones was awarded the Undergraduate COE Teacher of the Year
Dr. Danling Fu was awarded the Graduate COE Teacher of the Year
Doctoral Students Receive Awards
Fatma Aslan-Tutak and Vasa Buraphadeja were recognized at this year's Outstanding International Student Awards Ceremony.
Philip Poekert was recognized at the University of Florida Multicultural Awards Ceremony.
Faculty Serving the National Educational Community
Dr. Danling Fu was appointed to serve as a member of the Commission on Composition for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Dr. Nancy Dana named Chair of the Research Committee for the Association of Teacher Educators
Doctoral Student Awarded Major Grant
Dianna Miller, a STL doctoral student in social studies education, recently received a "Teaching American History" grant in the amount of $999,945.00 over the next 3 years to improve American History teaching in Clay County. Dr. Yeager and Dr. Swain will be working with Dianna on this grant. This is a huge undertaking and we are so proud of Dianna as the Director of this major grant! Congratulations!!
STL Plays a Large Role in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
We're pleased to announce that the School of Teaching & Learning will be a key player in a major campus wide initiative. The project, involving $1.5 million in grant support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and $3.8 million in leveraged funds from multiple colleges across the UF campus, promises to help the College of Education address the critical gap in science education in both K-12 and higher education.
Dr. Troy Sadler will be leading some of the science education initiatives and will help develop the curriculum for the Literacy in the Life Sciences component, which is aimed at effecting a fundamental change in the teaching of the life sciences to undergraduates at UF.
Dr. Sadler will also develop a new graduate level course in College Science Teaching & Mentoring, specifically designed for students pursuing graduate degrees in the sciences.
Congratulations to Dr. Troy Sadler for his major contribution to the large grant for UF, the College of Education, and STL!!!
College of Education CRIF Grant Recipients
Dr. Christie Cananaugh
Dr. Ester de Jong
Dr. Danling Fu
Dr. Troy Sadler
Scholarship of Engagement Winners in STL
College of Education: Dr. Diane Yendol-Hoppey (faculty member)
Graduate Student: Jennifer Jacobs (doctoral student in STL)
School Board of Alachua County: Jim Brandenberg (works with our PDC schools)
AERA Division K Graduate Seminar in San Francisco
Two STL doctoral students were selected to attend the prestigious AERA Graduate Seminar. Congratulations to Hakan Dedeoglou and Madeline Ortiz-Rodriguez!
Awards to STL Faculty
Troy Sadler was honored with the 2006 Journal of Research in Science Teaching Award for best research article in 2005!
Diane Yendol-Hoppey received the 2006 Kappa Delta Pi/AERA Division K (Teacher Education) Early Career Award! Read the Press Release.
Grants
Linda Lamme has been awarded an Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant to infuse international issues into children's literature courses.
Linda Jones is the recipient of a development travel grant from the Center for African studies.
National Organization Service
Thomasenia Adams will serve on the Fourth Monograph Editorial Board committee of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). This appointment begins officially in March 2006 and end with the monograph's publication in fall 2007.
STL Doctoral Students Serving on Editorial Boards
Ugur Baslanti: Science Education Review
Dennis Beck: British Journal of Educational Technology
Aisha Wood Jackson: Editor for the International Journal of Leadership in Education's Graduate Student Manuscript Contest
Jennifer Graff: Dragon Lode and Florida Reading Quarterly
Jennifer Sanders: Dragon Lode
STL Doctoral Students with New Jobs (2006-2007)
Sebnem Cilesiz: The Ohio State University
Karen Kuhel: Kennesaw State University
Matt Pinder: Kentucky Christian University
Courtney Zmach: American Institute for Research
Brian Lanahan: College of Charleston
Jennifer Sanders: Oklahoma State University
Bryan Duff: The Berkshire School
Teri Adkins: Towson State University
Diane Marks: Appalachian State University
