Category: Education

Five ways to make sure tech benefits your kids

How can parents capitalize on the lure of phones and tablets?

  • March 27, 2017
Parents can’t help but worry. Phones, tablets and apps galore are competing for the undivided attention of their children and teens – and chances probably seem good to many moms...

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NIU Physical Education major Brandon Palmer helps fifth-grader Yvonne Chanda learn how to start a fire.

Taking it outside

P.E. majors flock to Lorado Taft for intense hands-on experience in teaching outdoor education

  • March 20, 2017
Bright sun peeked through mist and bare trees just after 10 a.m. on a late February day as the first hints of record warmth boldly unleashed an early spring. For...

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Social justice, service learning

NIU counseling students gain ‘life-changing’ perspectives during mission trips to Guatemala

  • March 13, 2017
Many service-minded NIU students are spending this week’s Spring Break on the road, volunteering their time and labor to improve the lives of people in faraway places. But that sort...

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Shooting for the moon

NIU pre-service teachers encourage young children with big dreams

  • November 21, 2016
Nakeya wants to be a ballet dancer. Jamari wants to be a train conductor. Isabel wants to design fashions for famous people. Deandre wants to be an astronaut. Phillip wants...

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Z Nicolazzo

When educational spaces pose ‘a hostile climate’

NIU professor Z Nicolazzo talks about impacts of bullying on gender expansive youth

  • November 15, 2016
Z Nicolazzo, an assistant professor in the NIU Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education, recently spoke to K-12 educators about “Expanding Our Approach to Gender-Based Bullying.” Nicolazzo, who is...

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‘Teachers have such power’

Career-changers chart new paths via NIU Master of Arts in Teaching

  • November 10, 2016
Erin MacDonald just wanted to find some joy. Since graduating from college in Iowa, she had worked in marketing, first at a law practice and later for a private consulting...

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Imagine that

NIU offers immersion in U.S. education to Taiwanese high-schoolers

  • October 13, 2016
“There are many differences between Taiwanese education and American education. However, we shouldn’t just see the advantages of them and ignore the disadvantages. (Open Imagination) allows me to experience both...

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Bridging oceans

NIU joins Macedonian university in promoting peace

  • September 27, 2016
Deep and influential thinkers from around the world will convene this December in Macedonia at the State University of Tetovo’s Center for Peace and Transcultural Communication. As they share their...

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An NIU student reads to Cortland Elementary School second-graders.

Apples all around

NIU teacher-candidates crush mandatory edTPA assessments

  • September 15, 2016
Hey, future teachers! Want a virtual guarantee of acing your mandatory edTPA assessment, something required to gain licensure to teach in Illinois and several other states? Come to NIU. One...

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Josiel Marrufo

Leading by example

Program encourages students from underrepresented groups to pursue grad school

  • May 19, 2016
Josiel Marrufo considers himself fortunate to enjoy the presence of mentors in his life. The first-year graduate student in the NIU Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education (CAHE) paid...

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