December 2008
Rupley Journal Articles
12/17/08William Rupley, professor of reading education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, published two co-authored articles. The first, “Language and Culture in Literacy Instruction: Where Have They Gone?” appeared in The Teacher Educator. It was co-authored with William Nichols and Timothy Blair. The article explores how accommodation of cultural and language diversity in the classroom helps reading development. A second article, “Two Essential Ingredients: Phonics and Fluenc ...
December 2008 DHG
12/17/08 Eight TLAC graduating seniors, Emily Attaya, Erin Belsher, Jamie Bereyso, Laura Erben, Cassidy McKinney-Caddell, Julie Miller, Sarah Plagens and Amanda Whittington, were recognized as December Distinguished Honor Graduates at a ceremony in their honor on Friday December 12. Those honored are Emily Attaya, an early childhood education major from Denton, Texas; Erin Belsher, an early childhood education major from Houston, Texas; Jamie Bereyso, an interdisciplinary studies ma ...
Lewis Guest Co-Editor
12/17/08Chance Lewis, associate professor of urban education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, was a guest co-editor of a special issue of the journal Multicultural Learning & Teaching titled “African American K-12 education in an era of No Child Left Behind: Implications for educational stakeholders.” Lewis also published two articles in this special issue with colleagues Patricia Larke, professor of multicultural education; Lisa Bowman-Perrott, assistant professor of spe ...
Graduate Students Present at Science and Math Conv
12/15/08Mathematics education graduate students Xi Chen and Song An made two presentations each at the School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA) annual convention, which was held in Raleigh, N.C., from Nov. 13-15, 2008. SSMA is a national organization that promotes research, scholarship and practice to improve school science and mathematics. ...
McTigue Literacy Grant
12/15/08Erin McTigue, assistant professor of reading education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, received a grant for her proposal, “Increasing the Extent of Multicultural Integration within Content Area Literacy.” The funds were awarded by the Center for Teaching Excellence Incentive Grant Program for the purchase of materials for a class-research project in RDNG 649 for spring 2009. ...
Walters Education Conference
12/11/08 Lynne Masel Walters, associate professor in multicultural education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, presented a paper at the Moving Beyond Mobility conference in Berlin, Germany. The paper was called “Tension and Teaching: Pre-service Teachers, International Experiences and Changing Professional Identities.” Walters was the lead author, and Barbara Garii of State University of New York at Oswego and Timothy Walters of American University of Sharja ...
Education Students Create Podcasts
12/3/08Who doesn’t like using an iPod? They’re fun, sleek and trendy. They also fit easily into a kindergartner’s small hand and serve as a learning tool.That’s right—a learning tool.Recently, Robin Rackley, clinical assistant professor in early childhood education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture (TLAC) in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, challenged education students in her language-arts methods class to create a podcast based on a ...
