Tagged: education

A walk in the woods

NIU’s Project SLIDE couples lessons in biodiversity with preparation for teaching diverse learners

  • July 20, 2017
A chance to explore and learn in a natural, outdoor setting is uncommon for most fifth-graders at Golfview Elementary School in Carpentersville. But students and faculty from the NIU College…

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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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‘Who is going to make that breakthrough today?’

NIU alumna, grad student Ashley Van Sickle honored for excellence in teaching

  • April 20, 2017
Ashley Van Sickle loves foreign languages and cultures. While earning her NIU bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, she pursued a minor in Spanish. Her licensure endorsements include English as a…

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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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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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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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“Go Teacher” students from Ecuador at NIU’s Literacy on the Lawn event

The Languages of Learning

Ecuadorian educators at NIU prepare to renovate their teaching

  • July 22, 2015
While a mid-July blast of heat and humidity makes DeKalb swelter, a group of English teachers from Ecuador absorb a lecture on “learning strategy instruction” inside McMurry Hall. Metacognitive strategies….

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Beach chairs and umbrella

Summer Daze

Is ‘summer slide’ worth the price of summer vacation?

  • June 22, 2015
Millions of U.S. children and teens have packed up what’s left of their school supplies, turned in their textbooks and said their goodbyes to friends and teachers, all in dutiful…

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Stateline Quiz Bowl

Teenage Brains at Work

Rockford’s Stateline Quiz Bowl nears live finale, first champion

  • May 20, 2015
Sometimes the cool-as-cucumbers teens press their buzzers and answer before host Nick Toma can complete the question. And, darn it all, their haste usually doesn’t matter. More often than not,…

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