Media report on UMF, UMaine Machias collaborating to prepare adult learners as teachers
The Bangor Daily News, the Livermore Falls Advertiser, the Sun Journal and Centralmaine.com reported that Patty Williams, an associate professor of early childhood education and chair of the Division for Elementary, Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education at the University of Maine at Farmington, has received a grant of $10,000 to create a “Pathways to Teaching for Adult Learners” program. Williams is collaborating with the University of Maine at Machias and Franklin County adult education to prepare adult learners as teachers to ease the current teacher shortage.