Florida Times Union 4-04-2012 Don Pemberton (Lastinger Center) Two articles on the Florida Times Union website featured Don Pemberton of the UF Lastinger Center for a new partnership between the center and Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville. The school was given an F on the state’s grading scale and is facing closure if it doesn’t […]
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the second year in a row, a teacher who receives training from the University of Florida Master Teacher Initiative has been named teacher of the year in Pinellas County. Pinellas County Schools recently chose UF Lastinger Center Teacher Fellows Facilitator Stephanie Whitaker, a fifth-grade teacher at Dunedin Elementary, as Pinellas County’s […]
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Florida Voices April 2012 Pilar Mendoza (higher education administration) An opinion piece by Pilar Medoza, assistant professor in higher education administration, was featured in a discussion about whether tuition increases hinder the competiveness of Florida’s work force. Mendoza wrote that it would. “Higher education is a public good. But the prevalent ideology insists on seeing it as […]
Tampa Bay News Weekly 3-29-2012 Lastinger Center The Lastinger Center was mentioned in an article about the Pinellas county teacher of the year for its Teacher Fellow Facilitator program. Teacher-of-the-year winner Stephanie Whitaker is involved with the program that gives teachers in Pinellas county support and feedback regarding their classroom practices.
The Chronicle of Higher Education 3-25-2012 Linda Cronin Jones (science education) In a letter to the editor published in The Chronicle, UF science education professor Linda Cronin Jones and co-author Francis Putz, a biology professor, warn of the consequences of STEM educators not having sufficient experience in teaching before going into a classroom.
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Kacy Mixon, a third-year doctoral fellow in UF’s counselor education and supervision program, has been selected as a Chi Sigma Iota international leadership fellow. CSI is the worldwide academic and professional honor society for the counseling field. Mixon was selected from a pool of more than 14,000 counselors in 267 university-based counselor training programs. While […]
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Gainesville Sun 3-13-2012 Dean Glenn Good Education writer Nathan Crabbe penned an article about UF’s graduate school rankings in the recent U.S. News and World Report. The College of Education made the largest improvement on campus, moving up 18 spots in the rankings to number 34. Dean Glenn Good said the college’s “jump reflected its focus on […]
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After a brief downturn, UF’s College of Education has reclaimed its long-held spot in the Top 50 national rankings of America’s best graduate schools, which were announced March 13 by U.S. News and World Report. UF’s 106-year-old education college didn’t merely crack the Top 50 benchmark—it obliterated it, climbing 18 spots to No. 34 among […]
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida and its K-12 laboratory school, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, have a long history of collaboration dating back to 1934, and now each will benefit from a $100,000 gift from one of the lab school’s former teachers. Stephanie Wester, P.K. Yonge’s only fifth-grade teacher when she taught there […]
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To start each semester, Colleen Swain, an associate professor in curriculum and instruction, spends about 15 minutes with every student in her two classes, asking about their lives and goals as future educators and using their feedback to help her create tailored, real-world examples of teaching situations to model and discuss in class. “I probably […]
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FLORIDA TIMES UNION: Don Pemberton
Florida Times Union 4-04-2012 Don Pemberton (Lastinger Center) Two articles on the Florida Times Union website featured Don Pemberton of the UF Lastinger Center for a new partnership between the center and Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville. The school was given an F on the state’s grading scale and is facing closure if it doesn’t […]
Participant in UF master-teacher program receives top honor in Pinellas
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the second year in a row, a teacher who receives training from the University of Florida Master Teacher Initiative has been named teacher of the year in Pinellas County. Pinellas County Schools recently chose UF Lastinger Center Teacher Fellows Facilitator Stephanie Whitaker, a fifth-grade teacher at Dunedin Elementary, as Pinellas County’s […]
FLORIDA VOICES
Florida Voices April 2012 Pilar Mendoza (higher education administration) An opinion piece by Pilar Medoza, assistant professor in higher education administration, was featured in a discussion about whether tuition increases hinder the competiveness of Florida’s work force. Mendoza wrote that it would. “Higher education is a public good. But the prevalent ideology insists on seeing it as […]
TAMPA BAY NEWS WEEKLLY
Tampa Bay News Weekly 3-29-2012 Lastinger Center The Lastinger Center was mentioned in an article about the Pinellas county teacher of the year for its Teacher Fellow Facilitator program. Teacher-of-the-year winner Stephanie Whitaker is involved with the program that gives teachers in Pinellas county support and feedback regarding their classroom practices.
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: Linda C. Jones
The Chronicle of Higher Education 3-25-2012 Linda Cronin Jones (science education) In a letter to the editor published in The Chronicle, UF science education professor Linda Cronin Jones and co-author Francis Putz, a biology professor, warn of the consequences of STEM educators not having sufficient experience in teaching before going into a classroom.
Honor society taps counselor ed student as international leadership fellow
Kacy Mixon, a third-year doctoral fellow in UF’s counselor education and supervision program, has been selected as a Chi Sigma Iota international leadership fellow. CSI is the worldwide academic and professional honor society for the counseling field. Mixon was selected from a pool of more than 14,000 counselors in 267 university-based counselor training programs. While […]
GAINESVILLE SUN: Dean Glenn Good
Gainesville Sun 3-13-2012 Dean Glenn Good Education writer Nathan Crabbe penned an article about UF’s graduate school rankings in the recent U.S. News and World Report. The College of Education made the largest improvement on campus, moving up 18 spots in the rankings to number 34. Dean Glenn Good said the college’s “jump reflected its focus on […]
COE ranking jumps 18 spots to 34th in U.S., four programs cited
After a brief downturn, UF’s College of Education has reclaimed its long-held spot in the Top 50 national rankings of America’s best graduate schools, which were announced March 13 by U.S. News and World Report. UF’s 106-year-old education college didn’t merely crack the Top 50 benchmark—it obliterated it, climbing 18 spots to No. 34 among […]
Gift honors long College-PKY lab school partnership
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida and its K-12 laboratory school, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, have a long history of collaboration dating back to 1934, and now each will benefit from a $100,000 gift from one of the lab school’s former teachers. Stephanie Wester, P.K. Yonge’s only fifth-grade teacher when she taught there […]
Colleen Swain is Undergraduate Teacher of Year
To start each semester, Colleen Swain, an associate professor in curriculum and instruction, spends about 15 minutes with every student in her two classes, asking about their lives and goals as future educators and using their feedback to help her create tailored, real-world examples of teaching situations to model and discuss in class. “I probably […]