On Friday, Nov. 6, Dr. Lisa Stewart, School Psychology, presented to Moorhead schools’ preschool Jumpstart, ECFE, and other teachers and staff on the topic “How to Choose your Repeated Read Aloud Book.” The teachers applied anti-bias book selection criteria, practiced selecting vocabulary including early numeracy vocab and discussed other factors related to selecting books that work well for an interactive […]
Keri DeSutter, Shirley Johnson (School of Teaching and Learning) and Courtney LaLonde (University of Jamestown) presented at the NExT Virtual Summit on Friday, November 6, 2020. Their presentation, titled Assessing the Efficacy of Utilizing NExT Digital Handbook Tools to Gauge Beginning Teacher Effectiveness, focused on preliminary results of their research using two NExT Digital Handbook Tools (Student Work Sampling Interviews […]
Seven planetarium student staff and the director, Dr. Sara Schultz, presented this week for the annual GLPA conference, this year held virtually. Senior English Education major, Callie Tescher, presented on the shows she has developed based on astronomy and mythology, entitled Mythology and the Milky Way: Celebrating the Stories of the Sky in the Planetarium.Junior Chemistry major, Abigail Bormann, presented […]
Karisa Gratton, preschool teacher at the Early Education Center, was selected as one of this year’s recipients for the James Patterson Book Club grant. This essay-based grant, in the amount of $500, is issued to individuals each year through the Scholastic Book Club, allowing teachers to provide new literature for the students in their care. Karisa plans to use the […]