School of Education faculty member Steven Singer used to jump out of airplanes in the Army. These days he climbs mountains and teaches his students how to survive in the event of an apocalypse. We spoke to Singer about his first-year seminar course, “The Last of Us: A Study of Human Nature and Threats to… Continue Reading
Jeanne M. DelColle, Ph.D. Executive Director Center for Future Educators at TCNJ shares how the Center for Future Educators can work with middle and high schools across the state to get students thinking about entering the profession while they are still in school. Published in the May issue of the New Jersey Education Association magazine –… Continue Reading
MinSoo Kim-Bossard, Associate Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, has been honored by the New Jersey Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NJACTE) with the 2021 – Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award! This award recognizes excellence in educating early childhood pre-service and in-service teachers in 2 and 4-year institutions of higher education. The… Continue Reading
The School of Education – Supporting Teacher Education Programs and Center for Sensory and Complex Disabilities collaborated on a professional development workshop for 25 para professionals from South Hunterdon Regional School District On Friday, March 11, 2022,Danielle Sweeney and Kelly Reymann of the Center for Sensory and Complex Disabilities worked with Dr. Jerry G. Petroff… Continue Reading
Feel Good Video of the Day! Jersey Proud: Student with Down syndrome gets accepted to TCNJ Roscoe Roar to Mary, The ARC of Essex County and Stepping Stones in Roseland NJ. https://newjersey.news12.com/jersey-proud-student-with-down-syndrome-gets-accepted-to-tcnj Learn about the Career and Community Studies at: https://ccs.tcnj.edu/careerreadiness/ Continue Reading
Suzanne McCotter, dean of the School of Education at The College of New Jersey, discusses the challenges of the teacher certification process and how the NJ Department of Education plans to improve the process. https://www.nj.com/education/2022/03/on-hold-for-an-hour-aspiring-nj-teachers-say-getting-certified-can-be-frustrating.html Continue Reading
Karen Gordon and Maureen Connolly, professors in Educational Administration and Secondary Education, participated in the Center For Future Educators’ NJ Future Educators Association conference at Rider University. Karen co-taught with current TCNJ student taught “The Upside of Managing Stress as a Future Teacher and College Student”. The students are from SED 224 and are… Continue Reading
A safe drug treats opioid addiction. But most doctors can’t prescribe it. A new bill – Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act – would allow medical providers to treat addiction like the medical condition it is, rather than some moral failure. Learn about the hurdles facing patients and how the new bill will help them get the… Continue Reading
Learn about 34 recommendations for climate change education in “Report on K-12 Climate Change Education Needs in New Jersey”. The recommendations “…focus on the areas of professional learning, curricular resources, community-based climate change education and what boards of education can do to support (the) process.” Our own Dr. Lauren Madden, Department of Elementary and… Continue Reading
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