June 2008
Switzerland Student Teachers
6/10/08 This past spring, Anna Sauvageau, an early childhood education major, stepped out of the box - or country - to student teach in Switzerland. Anna is one of four education students to make the overseas trip. She and three middle school education majors, Ashley Broll, Megan Malnar and Andrea Smith, were the first Aggies to student teach at the International School of Lucerne in Switzerland, says Dennie Smith, head of the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture. "I wanted to k ...
Algebra Seminar
6/23/08 The College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University is hosting an International Seminar on Mathematics Education July 1, 2008, at The Center for Distance Learning Research (CDLR). The seminar is intended to encourage international exchange of mathematics teaching, learning and teacher education with a special focus on algebra by bringing in ideas and practices from China. The Chinese master teacher who taught the algebra lessons will be available to share and ...
Study Abroad 08
6/5/08 At first it was easy for Megan Jones, senior interdisciplinary studies major, to walk down the streets of Auschwitz viewing the two tons of human hair, thousands of suitcases, shoes, pots and pans, and other items confiscated by the Germans and now displayed in the city as something she would see in Ripley's Believe It or Not. As reality sunk in, Megan recognized how immune she had become to the atrocities that happen around the world, a realization made possible by a special spr ...
ERC TEA Grant
6/5/08 The State of Texas Education Research Center (ERC) at Texas A&M was awarded a $222,000 grant from the Texas Education Agency to assist in conducting a solutions-based study on the feasibility and cost of converting the state assessment program to a computer-based format. Collaborators in the project include the Educational Measurement Group of Pearson Education and the Texas Association of School Administrators. The study is a result of Senate Bill 1031, in which the Texas Legis ...
