The public is invited to the PEERS® Friendship Boot Camps, led by Sarah Howorth and Deborah Rooks-Ellis, special education faculty members with the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.
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The University of Maine’s online graduate program in education is one of the best in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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Sherry Pineau Brown has received awards from the Linda N. Lancaster Professional Development Fund three times as a doctoral student in the PreK-12 Education program’s prevention and intervention studies concentration.
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Over 80 percent of teachers in the U.S. are white, despite an increasingly diverse PK-12 student population. This demographic imperative has prompted teacher education to respond in two diverging ways.
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The Penobscot Times reported that University of Maine student Julia Van Steenberghe of Old Town was crowned Miss Maine USA on Nov. 10 in South Portland.
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Preservice teacher candidates from the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development will put some of what they are learning in their literacy methods courses into practice 5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at literacy night at Old Town Elementary School.
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Augmented reality tools have the potential to help students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) improve their ability to read and understand texts, according to a new paper by three University of Maine scholars.
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Mary Gresham, interim dean of the College of Education and Human Development, is being recognized Nov. 7 for her service and leadership by a Buffalo, New York-based agency that helps families, schools and communities raise successful children.
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While understanding that trauma has significant consequences, it is equally important to remember that recovery is possible and that students can achieve successful and productive lives. School climate plays a significant role in helping all students to develop adaptively, including those who have faced trauma.
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When Stephanie Mulligan was a sophomore at University of Maine, she started writing a poem about her experience working on the Lucky Catch, a lobster fishing tour boat out of Casco Bay.
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