The School of Teaching and Learning and the School of Art awarded its inaugural Legacy Flame Award to Sharon Eide, the Elementary Visual Arts Coordinator at Fargo Public Schools. The award is given to an Art Educator who has left a lasting legacy on the visual arts teaching profession through mentoring and leadership. A career educator is recognized for being unselfish […]
Thursday, Dec. 5 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | Lommen 101 Dr. John Benson, School of Teaching and Learning, will be giving a talk on his recently published book, “Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity: Two Generations on Two Continents,” published by Lexington Books, on Thursday, December 5, from 1:30PM – 2:30PM in Lommen 101. The book explores the […]
John Benson, School of Teaching and Learning, presented a paper entitled “An In-Between People: Exploring the African and American Identities of Long Term Missionaries to Tanzania and their Children” at the African Studies Association Annual Conference in Boston on Thursday, November 21, 2019. The talk was based on His book MISSIONARY FAMILIES FIND A SENSE OF PLACE AND IDENTITY.
Two MSUM students, Edmund Buscho (Spanish and English Education) and Hannah Edwards (Art Education), presented at the National Association of Multicultural Education alongside Dr. Sheila Marquardt, former professor in the School of Teaching and Learning. Their first session, The language that binds us: Decolonizing language for LGBTQIA+ students led participants through an interactive workshop. Their second session, Decolonizing LGBTQIA+ experience, […]
Keri DeSutter, School of Teaching and Learning and Kyena Cornelius, Assistant Professor, Special Education, Minnesota State University, Mankato presented at the Minnesota Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (MACTE) on October 25. Their presentation was titled Aligning High Leverage Practices with MN Standards of Effective Practice.