by kaylasharp | Jul 29, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News
Virtually all 33 UF ProTeach dual certification students who tutored youngsters with reading disabilities during a special four-week summer camp staged by the UF Literacy Initiative say their investment will reap huge benefits in their future teaching practices. And,...
by kaylasharp | Jul 28, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News, Press Releases
Brett Walker spent a summer morning wearing a boa constrictor as — well, as a boa. Dina Zinni, an aspiring astronomer from Jupiter (no, really, it’s true), spent her afternoons gazing at indoor stars. Not to be outdone, Ashleigh Tucker fist bumped a giant ground...
by kaylasharp | Jul 17, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News, Press Releases
Thanks to a summer teacher development program sponsored jointly by the UF College of Education and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, more than 70 youngsters filled the Boys and Girls Club of Gainesville recently for a fun-filled summer week of StarTalk, a...
by kaylasharp | Jul 9, 2014 | Faculty Laurels, Headlines, Research News
Griff Jones, a clinical associate professor of science education in the UF College of Education, knows only too well that the laws of physics apply to everyone. “I was a high school physics teacher, and I lost a lot of students to car crashes,” said Jones, who spent...
by kaylasharp | Jun 17, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News
While St. Thomas Episcopal Parish School in Coral Gables, Fla., was designing its STEM laboratory three years ago, the University of Florida’s College of Education was expanding its K-12 STEM teacher preparation programs in several Florida school districts. The two...
by kaylasharp | Jun 16, 2014 | Headlines
Thanks to $2 million from the Florida Legislature, about 1,000 Duval County rising 10th-graders who failed the high-stakes Algebra 1 end-of-course exam have a chance to pass it this summer. The University of Florida is piloting its Algebra Nation summer program in...
