Despite a tight job market and a slowed economy, recent University of the Ozarks teacher education graduates continue to be in high demand to fill teaching jobs. Why is this so? Depth of training and advanced preparation, says Ozarks’ Education Division Chair Dr. Glenda Ezell. "The education field is always on the move, and we […]
One of the most gratifying experiences for a university can be hearing back from its successful graduates. It's good to know when you're on the right track. One example of this came in the form of an email from Lara Maddox, a special education elementary teacher who graduated from Ozarks in 2011 and is now […]
Elodie Adams has a true love for teaching. A senior education major from Belgium, she recently won a competitive grant to attend the national meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, which will take place in Indianapolis.? NSTA is a member-driven organization aimed at helping science teachers connect with one another, and at promoting excellence and innovation […]
Thanks to a grant from the Arkansas Department of Education, the University of the Ozarks' Pat Walker Teacher Education Program is ready to take on the task of helping improve ACT scores for area high school students. The University’s teacher education program was informed in November that it had received a $24,182 grant from ADE […]
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 […]