Yesterday Alfredo J. Artiles, dean of ASU’s Graduate College and Ryan C. Harris Memorial Endowed Professor of Special Education, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Education.
Danah Henriksen, assistant professor, says using creativity in the classroom can help a teacher be more effective. “We tend to think creativity is something that people either have or they don’t have and that’s really one of the long-held myths of creativity,” she says. Below, Henriksen tells us how creativity helps students learn and offers tips on how to be creative in the classroom, such as making cross-disciplinary connections. Watch more:
Michelene Chi has tackled one of the thorniest problems in education: finding a way to get children to learn complex concepts.
Chi, a cognitive and learning science researcher, has been working for years not only on theories of how students learn science concepts and why they struggle, but also on ways to improve classroom teaching.
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has jumped from No. 36 to No. 13 in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of online graduate education programs.
Last fall the U.S. Department of Education awarded a grant of $2.3 million to a unique collaboration between Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and Childsplay, the Tempe, Arizona-based professional theater for young audiences.
“For each man sees himself in the Grand Canyon.”
— poet Carl Sandburg.
Feb. 26 marks the centennial of Grand Canyon National Park and the sesquicentennial of John Wesley Powell’s expedition down the Colorado River. Literally and figuratively, it’s Arizona’s biggest attraction. Naturally, it draws the attention of artists, faculty, and scientists from Arizona State University, the state’s biggest university.
On Sunday, Jan. 6, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College welcomed to the ASU campus 18 fellows of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers. Fulbright DAI brings international primary and secondary school teachers to the U.S. to observe, pursue individual and group projects, and take courses for professional development.
This month, 46 visiting scholars from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia returned home after a year of professional development in Phoenix, Arizona.
“We weren’t meeting all of our students’ needs,” says Erica Mitchell, executive director, academic services. Mitchell is referring to the former MLFTC retention and engagement team, which comprised a manager and a handful of retention specialists who had a wide range of duties, from housing to student engagement to retention activities to supervision of peer leaders.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Dean Carole Basile talked with Ted Simons on PBS’ “Arizona Horizon” about how Arizona’s teacher shortage is a symptom of a larger problem.