Professional conferences are a part of networking and education in virtually every field, and participation in these conferences is an important part of any student's professional development. Three senior Education majors from Ozarks experienced their first professional conference in October when they and Assistant Professor of Education Dr. Shelli Henehan attended the 50th annual Arkansas […]
It was mid-September, and the Arkansas Association of Teacher Educators would soon be coming to the Ozarks campus for their fall conference.?Janie Chappell thought to herself, "We need some bulletin boards!" Making the bulletin boards would be a quick, simple project for Dr. McManus’ "Developing Content Readers" class - or so Chappell thought. But when […]
Many of us have similar memories of middle school: fidgeting in our desks as the teacher wrote things on the blackboard or directed us to the assignments in our textbooks. Listen, read, memorize, regurgitate. Whitney Berg and her students explored how water quality affects the ecology of a community. For 90 or so middle-school students […]
Almost anyone who loves to write can point to a favorite teacher who encouraged their work and made them work harder at it. For some lucky 11th graders at West Side High School this year, that teacher may have been Natalie Grove. Natalie, a senior and English/Secondary Education major from Huntsville, Ark., took part in […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- The University of the Ozarks' Pat Walker Teacher Education Program recently received a glowing testament to its preparation of future teachers. Three of the program’s early childhood education majors received a rare perfect score on the Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching Test this summer. The three students who scored 200 […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- All education majors go through some form of teacher training during their college years, typically a semester working in a real school classroom environment ? or, in the case of Ozarks' outstanding education program, double that amount. Pedagogy: The study of being a teacher. Students in the Ozarks teacher education program got […]
Clarksville, Ark. -The University of the Ozarks served as host for two organizations last week, as the Arkansas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (ArACTE) and The Southern Association for Admission Counseling (SACAC) each met on campus on Thursday, April 10. ArACTE held its annual spring conference in Walker Hall, as members from across the […]
Clarksville, Ark. -- The University of the Ozarks on Friday dedicated the Pat Walker Teacher Education Program in honor of the Northwest Arkansas philanthropist who has donated almost $10 million to the University since 2001. The ceremony took place in front of more than 300 students, faculty, staff, trustees and friends of the university in […]