by kaylasharp | Nov 6, 2014 | Headlines
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Education researchers say the elementary school curriculum is moving away from traditional blocks of math, science, social studies and language arts, and evolving into project- and problem-based teaching and learning. Children are now learning...
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 3, 2014 | Faculty Laurels
Tim Jacobbe believes you’re a mathematician at heart—you just might not know it yet. Forget the rote memorization of tedious formulas you may recall from your high school math classes. For Jacobbe, associate professor of mathematics and statistics education at the UF...
by kaylasharp | Mar 23, 2014 | COE in the News
Gainesville Sun 3-23-14 Evaluating education COE math and statistics education professor Tim Jacobbe submitted an opinion column on the topic of “teaching for the test” vs. “teaching for understanding” that ran in the Gainesville Sun. Jacobbe’s column calls for...
by kaylasharp | Nov 27, 2013 | P.K. Yonge
As Florida schools prepare for the official implementation of the Common Core standards next school year, UF mathematics education associate professor Tim Jacobbe and P.K. Yonge, UF’s K-12 developmental research school, have been teaming up since 2009 to ensure the...
