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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Improving teacher prep in mathematics
October 1, 2015
Researchers in UD’s Department of Mathematics Education received grants to explore how to strengthen teacher preparation curriculum, to improve students’ understanding and instruction of math concepts.
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Coteaching strengthens learning
September 22, 2015
UD has adopted coteaching as the primary approach to student teaching in their ECE and ETE teacher preparation programs. Coteaching in student teaching involves two adults with different expertise actively collaborating from the first day of student teaching to meet the needs of the learners in the classroom.
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All College Meeting
September 21, 2015
CEHD faculty and staff are invited to our Fall All-College meeting and reception. Please join us on October 9 for a discussion on how to keep our college moving forward, followed by award presentations and refreshments.
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CEHD embraces coteaching model
September 20, 2015
This fall, 300 ECE and ETE students began their student teaching experience. But they are getting more guidance in their classrooms thanks to the coteaching model implemented last year.
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Interpreting disabilities studies classes
September 19, 2015
Marisa Kofke, UD a third-year doctoral student in UD’s College of Education and Human Development, noticed that students in the disabilities studies minor learned new ways to think about disability issues as they take their courses. She wanted to know if there are differences in the way they understood and applied …
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Women, families in a globalized world
September 18, 2015
As our global society diversifies and becomes more racially, ethnically and religiously complex, and as socioeconomic disparities grow, there are more and more variations on “traditional” family life. Single parent and dual-income families have become the norm, and now are more common than the once prevalent two-parent, single-earner households of the …
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Starting at Home interventions
September 15, 2015
Starting at Home will examine the impacts and outcomes for Early Head Start parents and children to determine if participation in Promoting First Relationships parenting intervention reduces stress levels in children.
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