ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 16 among 392 institutions surveyed in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s graduate schools of education. Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 7, ahead of the University of Virginia and the University of California-Berkeley. This year’s USNWR survey solidifies ASU’s ascent to the top tier of colleges of education since 2012, when it ranked No. 35 in the survey.
Last August, the iTeachELLs Teacher Quality Partnership Project sponsored a visit from Kristen Hadeed, founder of Student Maid and author of the book “Permission to Screw Up.” Kristen gave a talk and facilitated a workshop on leadership, “Learning from Doing – Exploring the role of teachers as transformational leaders.” To capture the inspiring event, the iTeachELLs team assembled a story map which includes teacher resources, videos and participant responses.
iTeachELLs Project Director, Wendy Farr was recently featured in the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (AZTESOL) Newsletter where she shares information on materials that can help teachers become more deeply involved in practice and awareness when working in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
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iTeachELLs Project Director, Wendy Farr was recently featured in the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (AZTESOL) Newsletter where she shares information on materials that can help teachers become more deeply involved in practice and awareness when working in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
Click here to view the newsletter.
Late last month, 12 Herberger Young Scholars Academy students were recognized with prestigious awards from Cambridge Assessment International Education to acknowledge their outstanding performance in the Cambridge examination series. The Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education is the world’s most popular international curriculum for 14 to 16-year-olds. It’s internationally recognized by leading universities and employers.
EdBuild, a nonprofit studying education funding, recently published a report citing that nationwide and in Arizona, predominately white school districts get more money per student than non-white districts. The gap? A hefty $23 billion.
iTeachELLs Project Director, Wendy Farr wrote an article for Edutopia outlining the challenge teachers are facing supporting dually classified learners in the classroom. To address the challenge, she proposes the instructional model called Problem-based Enhanced Language Learning (PBELL) developed by the iTeachELLs team at ASU.
Arizona native Joan Ganz Cooney created the iconic children’s educational program “Sesame Street” and the Children’s Television Workshop when she worked in television in New York City in the 1960s. When educational television needed funding to keep going, she turned to the late Senator Barry Goldwater, who was a friend of her father’s.
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley — professor, associate director | Kevin Close — PhD candidate: Learning, Literacies and Technologies
The American Educational Research Association, the leading organization for advancing knowledge about education and promoting the application of educational research, is holding its 2019 Annual Meeting April 5-9 in Toronto.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is proud to have more than 90 of our scholars presenting, speaking or participating this year. See all their sessions below.