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• Faculty presenting research at the 2006 AERA Annual Meeting
  
  Jan Bell, 2006/01/23 15:17:46

  April 7-11 in San Francisco

  "Beginning Teachers' Perceptions of Mentoring, Climate, and Leadership: Promoting Retention through a Learning Communities Perspective"
  Susan R. Wynn, Lisa Wilson Carboni and Erika Patall

  "We needed support and it was out there:
  Building an Electronic Community with Cooperating Teachers"
  Lisa Wilson Carboni and Jan Riggsbee

• Welcome to the start of a new year.
  Jan Bell, 2005/08/25 16:50:30

  
  We especially welcome our new faculty, Lisa Linnenbrink and Denise Friesen, and the new Project HOPE coordinator, Liz Henderson.

• 2005 Award Winners
  Jan Bell, 2005/05/17 10:02:16

  
  Jamie Frank
  Lauren Ruderman
  Katherine Bernstein

  D.T. Stallings Award
  Jamie Frank
  Lauren Ruderman

  This award is presented to deserving Duke seniors who have worked closely with faculty in the Program in Education to provide high quality tutoring to children in our local schools. This award honors sustained and dedicted service to school children.

  Winfred Quinton Holton
  Prize for Educational Research
  Lauren Ruderman

  This award is given to a Duke junior or senior for outstanding innovative or investigative research focused on education. Endowed in 1922 by gifts of Holland Holton and Lela Young Holton, Class of 1907, in memory of their son.

  Winfred Quinton Holton
  Award for Brussels Fellow
  Katherine Bernstein

  This award is given to the graduating senior chosen as fellow for the Duke University/International School of Brussels Fellowship Program. The fellow will spend a year at the International School of Brussels (Belgium) assisting in classrooms in its Early Childhood Center.

• Congratulations Graduates!
  Jan Bell, 2005/05/17 10:06:47

  The Program in Education honors the 2005 Graduating Class 2005 Graduating Class (pdf)

  2005 ELEMENTARY TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM

  STUDENT	MAJOR	HOME TOWN
  Lauren Bailey	Psychology	Avon, CT
  Vonda Chou	Psychology	Greenville, SC
  Rebecca Davis	Program II	Honolulu, HI
  Adrienne Duffy	Economics	Garden City, NY
  Tiffany Elbert	English	Flint, MI
  Anne Farland	Public Policy	Chapel Hill, NC
  Jamie Frank	Psychology	Plymouth, MA
  Julia Gelfand	Psychology	Bala Cynwyd, PA
  Emily Kolb	History	Houston, TX
  Michael Lamb	Public Policy	Chicago, IL
  Lauren Ruderman	Music	Maitland, FL
  Kimberly Schafer	Psychology	Morristown, NJ
  Colleen Schilly	Environmental Science	Cairo, Egypt
  Nick Woll	Psychology	Huntington, NY
  Kristen Zwiener	English	Hartford, CT

  2005 SECONDARY TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM

  STUDENT	MAJOR	HOME TOWN
  Lauren Abell	Psychology	Los Angeles, CA
  Laurel Cooper	Biology	Sterling, VA
  Cedric Dargan	Sociology	Mantua, NJ
  Lauren Jonas	History	Bethesda, MD
  Stuart Pierce	Biology	Pine Bluff, AR
  Vanessa Sanchez	Cultural Anthropology	Atlanta, GA
  Craig Seyfried	History	Spring City, PA
  Katherine Straka	Psychology	Barrington Hills, IL

  2005 EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES PROGRAM

  STUDENT	MAJOR	HOME TOWN
  Evan Davis	Psychology	Osprey, FL
  Benjamin Wolinsky	Psychology	Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
  Natalie Zervas	Psychology	Wakefield, MA

   

• Speaker Series in Applied Education Research
  Jan Bell, 2005/03/08 12:14:56

  
  Dr. Robert Slavin, Johns Hopkins University
  Tuesday, March 29
  
  Doing Education Research That Matters
  Erwin Square, Bay B 1:45-3:15 pm
  
  Cooperative Learning: How and Why
  Freeman Center for Jewish Life, 4-5:30 pm
  Directions to Freeman Center
  
  Dr. Robert Slavin is currently Director of the Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University and Chairman of the Success for All Foundation. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and 20 books, including Educational Psychology: Theory into Practice, Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice, Show ME the Evidence: Proven and Promising Programs for American's Schools, Effective Programs for Lationo Students, and One Million Children: Success for All. www.successforall.net
  
  

• Secondary Teacher Preparation Program
  Jan Bell, 2005/03/08 16:25:26

  Students in the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program have just begun the most exciting and challenging part of their program - the student teaching internship!
  Currently, eight students are working toward their science teaching certification through the Program in Education. For the next ten weeks these students will work full-time with a cooperating teacher in a local Durham High School. Best of luck!
  
  

• Revised Secondary Licensure Pathways
  Benjamin Kimmel, 2005/02/18 15:33:05

  To become eligible for North Carolina Level A Certification in grades 9-12, you must successfully complete * those courses required by Duke general studies * those courses required for the major (English, Math, your Science major, your Social Science/Civilizations major) * and certain courses in the area of professional knowledge. Your Long-Range Plan should indicate the courses you will use to meet the requirements for General Studies and the major.

• NCATE Accreditation
  Jan Bell, 2005/03/08 11:28:27

  All Teacher Preparation Programs receive full NCATE accreditation. The Unit and all of its component programs passed the NCATE and State accreditation visits, which ended October 29th, 2003. The Unit was formally accredited through 2010 by NCATE in April, 2004. Final state accreditation decisions will be made in the coming months.
  
  

• Congratulations Graduates!
  Benjamin Kimmel, 2005/02/18 15:37:52

  Program in Education honors the 2004 Graduating Class.