The College of Education and Human Development has incorporated literacy nights at area schools into the curriculum for education majors for more than 20 years. It’s an opportunity for UMaine students taking their literacy methods courses to apply some of the knowledge and skills they have picked up in the classroom and to gain hands-on experience working with K–12 students and families.
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Ming-Tso Chien is the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture Award.
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University of Maine College of Education and Human Development alumna and 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year Kelsey Stoyanova will give the keynote talk at the annual UMaine Student Symposium (UMSS), a celebration of student research and creative work, April 14 at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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Sarah Collins (’08, ’14G), a fourth-grade science teacher at Patricia A. Duran School in Hermon, will get a $25,000 unrestricted cash prize from the Milken Family Foundation, which hands out the awards — sometimes called the Oscars of Teaching — to educators who inspire and uplift, and make a profound difference for students, colleagues and communities.
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Timothy Reagan, University of Maine professor of foreign language education and former dean of the College of Education and Human Development, has received a Distinguished Scholar and Lifetime Achievement in Language Studies award from the International Society of Language Studies.
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The Dublin Inquirer cited a book by Timothy Reagan, professor of foreign language education at the University of Maine, in a report about South African citizens being refused passage without a visa on the airline Ryanair because they are not able to complete a quiz in Afrikaans.
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The 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting is taking place this week in San Diego and virtually. Here’s a look at some of the presentations, panels, and other events featuring UMaine researchers.
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Kelsey Stoyanova remembers when it hit her that she’d been named 2022 Maine Teacher of Year. It was when she was entering the gym at Hampden’s Reeds Brook Middle School for an assembly where the big announcement was taking place.
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News Center Maine noted that Kelsey Stoyanova, who was recently named 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year, is a student and alumna of the University of Maine.
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Penobscot County Teacher of the Year Kelsey Stoyanova and Waldo County Teacher of the Year Hillary Hoyt, both graduates of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, have been named finalists for 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year.
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