Click here for a video from the 2013 Gifted and Talented Shakespeare Class. This year’s theme was Witches and Fairies and Clowns…Oh My! Shakespeare’s Weirdest Characters.  Many thanks to Education Department Student Assistant Aurora-Marie Bamba for editing and uploading the video segment.

Click here for an article by Cate Donald (MAT 2010) on her experience teaching science to  Grade 2 students at Shanghai Community International School.

News from Shanghai

The Colorado College Education Department is pleased to announce the launch of a new Education Major, as well as a new Education Minor for Secondary and K-12 Teaching.

What Students Want

The major is designed first and foremost to meet the needs and desires of students. In 2009, 24% of alumni considered themselves in the field of education. A 2010 Education Department survey of 161 undergraduates revealed that 77% were interested or very interested in “social justice through education,” and 83% in “educational policy.”

Empirical Support and Legislative Trends

Peer institutions such as Skidmore, Brandeis and Beloit offer education as a discipline to study the political, historical, psychological and cultural forces that shape perspectives on learning and development. These institutions are aligned with 2012 Colorado standards that embrace the idea of future teachers majoring in education. The education major will help Colorado College to align with this important legislative shift: providing a liberal arts context to the study of how people learn, while supporting students who want to get a license after graduation.  Continue reading →

Last day of class at Kris Stanec’s house to view digital storytelling movies.

Kris Stanec’s ED220 class

Elementary MAT candidates Mickelle Spendlove and Ronit Pitrone were elated to drop off their MR papers at Mierow House yesterday. Congratulations!

Mickelle Spendlove with her completed MR paper

…and Ronit Pitrone with hers

Congratulations to K-12 Music Supervisor Joyce Hanagan on the completion of her first half marathon race! Pictured: Joyce (right) and daughter Rebecca Atkinson after the Disney’s Princess Half Marathon at Disney World Orlando, Florida on February 24, 2013.

BSCS is still accepting applications for field-test teachers for Energy: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Teachers (EMAT), an NSF-funded, graduate-level professional development course for teachers that is focused on energy-related concepts.

Application Deadline March 31, 2013

For more information, visit http://bscs.org//emat.

Visit http://www.bscs.org/ematftapp for the application. 

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Gerri Anne Reed and Diane Comstock represented Colorado College’s Education Department’s WhizBang Science Children’s Summer Program on New Year’s Eve at the “Noon Year’s Eve” celebration at the City Auditorium in Downtown Colorado Springs. The turn-out was amazing. The children were so excited and Diane and Gerri Anne had as much fun as anyone helping children create their own science experiments. Check out the Ed. Dept. web pages for all of the Ed. Dept. children’s summer programs at http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/education/childrens-summer-programs for full information and registration details and pass it on!

Education Department math supervisor Sandie Gilliam was appointed the new editor of the Colorado Math Teacher journal, published four times a year by the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Congratulations, Sandie!