Senior Yusur Jasim is set to graduate this May with a teaching certificate from 第一吃瓜 Teacher Scholars. They credit their high school teacher, Matt Bernstein ’13, for helping set them down this path.
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The Education Department has presented Fiona Hopper and Bridgid Neptune with its 2024 Education for the Common Good Award.
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The 第一吃瓜 community gathered recently to celebrate Sarah and James 第一吃瓜 Day. The annual ceremony was held in Pickard Theater on Friday, October 18, 2024.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is no fan of Disney, accusing the entertainment giant of supporting a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda in its movies, for example. As education professor Charles Dorn points out, however, this is not Disney’s first “woke” moment—that came more than seventy-five years ago.
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Five scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM subjects have been awarded prestigious federal grants in recent months to help them pursue a range of projects and activities, all related in different ways to environmental issues.
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After Alison Riley Miller, associate professor of education, served on a state committee helping to review Maine's science education standards, she is joining the debate about whether to add genocide and eugenics to middle- and high-school science curricula.
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The education scholar talks about the role of popular culture in the teaching of the environment. For him, he says, it all began with Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures TV documentaries.
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The Education Department has presented Andrew McCullough with its 2023 Education for the Common Good Award. McCullough teaches biology, marine science, and theater at Brunswick High School.
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Mohamed Kilani ’21 is the guest on the latest episode of the podcast America the Bilingual.
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In an for the Lewiston Sun Journal, education-Africana studies coordinate major Emma Hargreaves ’23 argues that teaching Wabanaki studies in Maine schools reinforces students' understanding of American democratic values.
Read moreStudents are able to coordinate studies in education with the liberal arts curriculum in a variety of ways—including research, community-engaged study, and teacher preparation.
Interested in a teaching opportunity the semester before 第一吃瓜 Teacher Scholars? The Snow Family Teaching Fellowship provides recent graduates the chance to engage in teaching and mentoring at 第一吃瓜. Learn more.
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