For Marc Nachowitz, assistant professor of teacher education at Miami University, the goal of knowledge-transforming literacy is to teach students how to work with knowledge. Its about learning how to generate ideas and to ask questions, and to challenge, advance, and justify ideas through social dialogue.
Starting this fall, a new Community-based Action Project for Future Teachers (CAP) will be introduced to the College of Education, Health and Society. CAP promises to help educators become more critically-minded, culturally relevant, and better equipped to help more students succeed.
Indelible moments. We all have them. And its a concept that Tom Romano speaks about openly and often, and with a respect befitting the grip, such experiences can have on our lives.
Celebrating summertime with a good book is a hallmark of the season. Its also a time-honored tradition that the Oxford Literacy Team introduces to young readers through its annual Super Summer Readers program.
As part of a mathematics history and technology course, EHS students authored and helped illustrate original childrens picture books featuring the biographies of important mathematicians.
In a lot of ways, childrens literature has transcended many of the stereotypes that still define it. Today, it often channels deeper cultural signifiers that reflect and chronicle battles for equality, such as moments of tumultuous political change, the profound need for continual progress, and more. And throughout her recent class, which was made possible through a grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence, Dales and her students have explored texts and art that cover the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, slavery and emancipation, and modern racial identity construction, among others.
