They say that if you want to advance in your job, you should work on the problems that keep your boss awake at night.
If that’s true, Luis Ponjuan has a bright future. His research addresses the dilemmas that vex college administrators. How do we hold on to our best professors? How do we build a diverse faculty?
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School is the last place some kids want to be. For Mary Brownell, the best place on earth is a classroom full of precisely those kids.
“Students with disabilities have often experienced years of failure both academically and behaviorally before they enter the special education classroom,” said Brownell, a professor of special education at the University of Florida’s College of Education. “School is not a pleasant place for them, and their attitude and behavior can show it.
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In the 1960s, University of Florida education researchers helped pioneer the middle school movement, recommending that educators handle a child’s critical formative years in a transitional setting, rather than in the regimented, departmentalized junior-senior high school system.
Intensive reading intervention classes are supposed to help struggling readers master the fundamentals before moving to higher level work. But many Florida educators worry that the state system is dooming these students by exposing them to the same instructional approach again and again – even when it isn’t working. P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School is looking for a way to break the cycle with Project CHOiCE, which researches new approaches to teaching struggling readers.
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The College of Education at the University of Florida is pleased to announce the 6th annual “Scholarship of Engagement” award competition for faculty, graduate students, and community members. These awards are adapted from Ernst Boyer’s vision that research-oriented universities need to broaden their concept of scholarship to reflect the issues and concerns of society at large. As he noted:
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UF’s College of Education had to look no further than its own academic leadership team to find its next head of academic affairs.
After an internal, faculty-led search, Dean Catherine Emihovich has named Tom Dana as associate dean for academic affairs, the college’s penultimate executive post. Dana currently directs the college’s School of Teaching and Learning (STL).
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GAINESVILLE, Fla.— A lawyer turned teacher, an outside-the-box science instructor and an innovative principal were among the educators honored as University of Florida Distinguished Educators at the fall commencement ceremony Dec. 15 in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
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Luis Ponjuan: Finding solutions for a diverse faculty
They say that if you want to advance in your job, you should work on the problems that keep your boss awake at night.
If that’s true, Luis Ponjuan has a bright future. His research addresses the dilemmas that vex college administrators. How do we hold on to our best professors? How do we build a diverse faculty?
Mary Brownell: Exploring the hearts and minds of special education teachers
School is the last place some kids want to be. For Mary Brownell, the best place on earth is a classroom full of precisely those kids.
“Students with disabilities have often experienced years of failure both academically and behaviorally before they enter the special education classroom,” said Brownell, a professor of special education at the University of Florida’s College of Education. “School is not a pleasant place for them, and their attitude and behavior can show it.
coE-News: January 15, 2008, VOL 3 ISSUE 4
VOL. 3, ISSUE 4
Jan. 15, 2008
Middle-school reform efforts at UF receive $600,000 boost
In the 1960s, University of Florida education researchers helped pioneer the middle school movement, recommending that educators handle a child’s critical formative years in a transitional setting, rather than in the regimented, departmentalized junior-senior high school system.
PKY research to create new options for struggling readers
Intensive reading intervention classes are supposed to help struggling readers master the fundamentals before moving to higher level work. But many Florida educators worry that the state system is dooming these students by exposing them to the same instructional approach again and again – even when it isn’t working. P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School is looking for a way to break the cycle with Project CHOiCE, which researches new approaches to teaching struggling readers.
2008 Scholarship of Engagement Awards
The College of Education at the University of Florida is pleased to announce the 6th annual “Scholarship of Engagement” award competition for faculty, graduate students, and community members. These awards are adapted from Ernst Boyer’s vision that research-oriented universities need to broaden their concept of scholarship to reflect the issues and concerns of society at large. As he noted:
Why we will thrive—through thick and thin
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Catherine Emihovich
COE taps one of its own as associate dean-academic affairs
UF’s College of Education had to look no further than its own academic leadership team to find its next head of academic affairs.
After an internal, faculty-led search, Dean Catherine Emihovich has named Tom Dana as associate dean for academic affairs, the college’s penultimate executive post. Dana currently directs the college’s School of Teaching and Learning (STL).
Top public school educators honored by UF
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— A lawyer turned teacher, an outside-the-box science instructor and an innovative principal were among the educators honored as University of Florida Distinguished Educators at the fall commencement ceremony Dec. 15 in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
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