Education News

• Education Award Winners Congratulations to all of our winners! Kim McCallum won the DT Stallings award! Jennifer Herring and Michele Farber won the Holton Prize! Elizabeth Kelly won an honorable mention for the Holton prize. The DT Stallings award honors a Duke senior who has shown sustained and dedicated service to tutoring local school children. The Holton Prize is given to a Duke junior or senior for outstanding innovative or investigative research focused on education. The winners papers are: Michele J. Farber “How Expectancy-Value and Possible Future Self Perceptions Impact Motivation to Study Science” Jennifer L. Herring “Situational Interest in Gifted Science Classrooms: The Influence of Teacher Practices on Student Interest”
• NC Regional Education Career Fairs are happening in May and June. Please visit the Teacher Preparation Program page to learn more.
• Annual Awards 

  Congratulations to the following students who have won the Program in Education's annual awards for  2007:
  

  
  D.T. Stallings Awards: Anna Jacobi
  
  Winfred Quinton Holton Prize for Educational Research:
  Miho Kubagawa
  
  Winfred Quinton Holton Prize for Educational Research,
  Honorable Mentions: Joiselle Cunningham, Rachel Saperstein, and Danielle Wilfong.
  
  Also a big congratulations goes to our very own Dr. Jan Riggsbee who has been awarded this year's Robert B. Cox Undergraduate Teaching Award!
• New PiE Programs 

  Program in Education (PiE) in collaboration with Duke TIP initiates an innovative teacher preparation program in Gifted Education, K-12.  PiE has a long-standing partnership with the Durham Public Schools to prepare highly qualified teachers at the elementary and secondary level.   http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/gifted.html
  http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/537523.html.
  

  In addition to the new AIG program we are making progress with our Center for Teacher Learning and Collaboration Program (TLC). Last Spring Durham Public Schools Superintendent Ann T. Denlinger and Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead  announced the expansion of their longstanding partnership with three new initiatives designed to significantly boost support for classroom teachers. TLC is one of these initiatives.   http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/DPS_teachers.html

• ATTENTION SOPHOMORES AND JUNIORS 
  Do you want to make a difference in the lives of children?
  Have you considered teaching?
  
  You can earn state licensure to teach during your undergraduate studies at Duke.
  
  For information about teaching high school, grades 9-12,
  contact Dr. Susan Wynn at swynn@duke.edu; 660-2403
  

                          For information about teaching elementary school, grades K-6,                 contact Dr. Jan Riggsbee at jrigg@duke.edu; 660-3077
  

  
  Enrollment capacity is limited; application process is competitive.
   Don't miss out on this unique opportunity!