Tagged: early childhood education

‘Replace judgment with curiosity’

Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

  • December 4, 2017
After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a…

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A passport to transformation

Educate Global provides ‘world of opportunity’ for NIU students flying to teach in China, Taiwan

  • June 26, 2017
Thirty-seven NIU College of Education students are traveling to teach in Asia this summer, a “business trip” guaranteed to enrich and shape their professional lives in amazing ways. Part of…

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Bailey Fisch (left), Special Education major, and Nycol Durham (right), Early Childhood Education major

Lone Star lessons

Educate U.S. travelers celebrate another successful trip to Texas

  • June 22, 2017
One by one, the names of Farias Early Childhood Center students are called as the morning attendance is taken. When there is no response – no “Here!” or “¡Aquí!”– a…

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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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Photo of a kindergarten girl and a chalkboard covered in algebra

Kindergarten, 2.0

Parents, elementary school rookies encounter ‘mini first-grade’

  • September 23, 2015
One short month ago, millions of 5-year-olds began their academic journeys in those unique and beloved classrooms not identified by ordinal numbers attached to the word “grade.” Should their grandparents…

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