Contributions for the VanDornick Scholarship
November 30, 2015
Contributions are being accepted for the newly created Barbara G. VanDornick Scholarship, created to honor Barbara’s dedication to UD’s teacher education students. The fund will help supplement teacher tests and certification costs.
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Student Spotlight: Daniel Owen
November 30, 2015
Daniel Owen Career and Life Studies Certificate Student Hometown: Overland Park, Kansas Classification: Second Year in Career and Life Studies Certificate (CLSC) program Completion Date: May 2016 Extra Curricular Activities: Best Buddies WVUD: Two Guys and a Sound System Podcast: Tune the World Out SCPAB: Take the Mic Avid Concert-Goer Shadowed baker at Caesar Rodney Dining Hall …
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Faculty searches
November 25, 2015
CEHD is looking to hire 2 faculty positions for Fall 2016: SOE Education Policy and Leadership and HDFS- Tenure Track Asst/Assoc Professor (specialization in program evaluation/ issues related to people with disabilities.
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UD highlights women in research
November 15, 2015
Liz Farley-Ripple, SOE, was featured in UD’s Research magazine, representing Women in Research. Click on her video to learn what drew her to becoming a researcher and what she hopes to accomplish.
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Grocery stores can incentivize healthy shopping
November 9, 2015
In the United States, 47 million people participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ensure they have enough food on their table. To make their food dollars stretch further, they frequently grab the first thing they see on the shelf that’s on sale and satisfies their family’s preferences. Unfortunately, these alternatives …
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Bug in the Ear helps student teachers
November 6, 2015
The Laboratory Preschool’s unveils their new technology, called Bug in the Ear, that allows their classroom teachers to coach student teachers remotely from the adjacent observation booth.
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Number Sense Screener to help Pre-K, K and 1st graders
October 30, 2015
Nancy Jordan has received funding through IES to refine and extend work on a Number Sense Screener for identifying children at risk for mathematical difficulties.
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Zoo program to model healthy eating
October 30, 2015
Alison Karpyn, CRESP, is partnering with Christiana Care and Nemours to introduce a healthy eating program, “Evaluating the lmpact of Healthy Food Product Offerings and Tastimals Marketing at the Zoo.”
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Building vocabulary of low-income children
October 30, 2015
Roberta Golinkoff and collaborator Kathy Hirsh-Pasek designed an intervention study to test a new approach for fostering vocabulary development among preschool children from low-income homes.
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Congratulations to our CEHD awardees
October 13, 2015
At our CEHD All-College meeting, Oct. 9, we recognized two colleagues for their dedication and service. Jennifer Gallo-Fox was presented with the CEHD Excellence in Teaching award, and Deborah Ziomek received the Rita Fillos Award.
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Bringing computer and programming skills into the classroom
October 8, 2015
An interdisciplinary team of UD researchers has developed Partner4CS to help teachers integrate computational thinking into the classroom. The initiative has two components: a summer professional development institute for middle and high school teachers and a field experience course at UD designed to support those teachers.
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Improving reading comprehension through text structure instruction
October 2, 2015
Sharon Walpole, SOE, is partnering with Kasualai Wijekumar on a grant designed to enhance classroom-based text structure instruction for 4th and 5th graders in high poverty schools in TX and PA.
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