Fall 09 Career Fair

11/6/09 Texas school districts value Aggie teachers, not only because of the quality of the students themselves, but because of the learning and field experiences provided by their teacher preparation program. On Monday, Oct. 26, approximately 75 recruiters visited Texas A&M University for the Fall Education Career Fair hosted by the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture in the College of Education and Human Development. Approximately 400 education students attended. Held in Reed A ...

Reads and Counts

11/6/09Paige Melancon enrolled at Texas A&M University intending to become a doctor. A tutoring job through the Read & Counts program made her think twice about her career path. "My mom has been a kindergarten teacher for more than 23 years, and I always said I wasn't going to be a teacher," she says. "I started as a biology major and got a job with Reads & Counts. My mom said, ‘Maybe this is God's way of telling you to be a teacher.'" Paige, now a junior education major, wor ...

Athletics Task Force

11/4/09 Three members of the Department of Health and Kinesiology have been selected by interim president Dr. R. Bowen Loftin as part of the Athletics Task Force. The formation of this task force, as part of a new imperative of the Vision 2020 initiative, will take into account the role of intercollegiate athletics at Texas A&M. Key areas of consideration by this Athletics Task Force will be: (1) the role of the student-athlete at Texas A&M, (2) a comparison of our athletics program wi ...

Plant IT

11/2/09 They are all around us-in our houses, our yards and on our dinner plates. But we often overlook these helpful green organisms known as plants. And now they also have a classroom use. Plants are an integral part of the ongoing project "Plant IT: Careers, Cases and Collaborative," headed by Carol Stuessy, principal investigator and associate professor of science education and technology in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture. Plant IT is designed to integrate the use and s ...

Making the Grade

11/2/09 Courtesy The Houston Chronicle Texas is among the first states to toughen its standards for colleges of education and other teacher-training programs amid criticism that too many are "cash cows" that produce weak instructors. Under a proposed new rating system, the programs would be held accountable for their graduates' effectiveness on the job - especially regarding student achievement. Teacher programs that repeatedly fall short of the standards could lose their state accreditation. ...

Olympic Committee Speech

10/29/09 The Center for Sport Management Research and Education is proud to welcome Eduardo Palomo, president of the El Salvador Olympic Committee, for a special lecture in the Sport Business Seminar Series. Mr. Palomo, Aggie class of '82, is president of the El Salvador Olympic Committee and has served in that position since 2007. The discussion will include Palomo's career path to president of the ESOC, major obstacles in the field of the international sport, and how his time at Texas prepa ...

NSF Top 20

10/23/09 The National Science Foundation has named Texas A&M University as the only new member of the NSF's annual list of the Top 20 Academic Research Performers in the United States. Texas A&M joins an elite list including such standouts as the Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State, Penn State, Duke University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - and is the only Texas institution to rank in the NSF's Top 20 for 2009. Each year, the NSF surveys 69 ...

Aggies Are We

Who is Matt Johnson? Courtesy The Battalion 10/22/09 Matt Johnson, a senior education major, is using his ability to make videos to promote Aggie values. "Matt Johnson has taken his passion and figured out how to bless the Aggie community with what he is good at," said Bryan Sims, a senior industrial distribution major, Johnson's friend and president of Brothers Under Christ. >> Read more on Who is Matt Johnson? ...

Turkmenistan Delegation

10/20/09 Eight College of Education and Human Development faculty members hosted a delegation of four education officials from Turkmenistan as part of the Open World Program funded by the Library of Congress. Fred Bonner, Jennifer Ganz, Roger Goddard, Constance Fournier, Joyce Juntune, Jean Madsen and Anthony Rolle were among the education faculty who helped facilitate the international visit. Ping Xiang, director of international initiatives for the college, coordinated the series of educatio ...

Scheurich AERA Council

10/19/09 Jim Scheurich, professor of public school administration in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, is a nominee for the office of Member-at-Large of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Council. The council is the legislative and policy-making body of AERA, with the power to review and direct the general affairs of the association. A 20-year member of AERA, Scheurich has been highly involved in the organization, from participating ...

African American Student Success

10/16/09 Chance Lewis, associate professor of urban education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, released his third book, titled An Educator's Guide to Working With African American Students: Strategies for Promoting Academic Success. The book is a guide for educational practitioners to assist African-American students to reach their full potential in school by providing evidence-based recommendations and teaching strategies to improve their academic performance. "This book ...

Schools in China

10/15/09 The United States and China share some of the same difficulties in educating their young people, says Roger Goddard, professor of K-12 administration in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development. "Both countries face similar challenges in serving populations of students that have been traditionally disadvantaged in school settings," Goddard says. "In China, it might be rural migrant workers coming into urban centers, such as Beijing, Shanghai or Tianj ...

Millennial Muddle

10/14/09 Courtesy The Chronicle of Higher Education Kids these days. Just look at them. They've got those headphones in their ears and a gadget in every hand. They speak in tongues and text in code. They wear flip-flops everywhere. Does anyone really understand them? Only some people do, or so it seems. They are experts who have earned advanced degrees, dissected data, and published books. If the minds of college students are a maze, these specialists sell maps. To read more on this story an ...

ERC 500K Grant

9/29/09 The State of Texas Education Research Center at Texas A&M (ERC) was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to establish the Texas A&M Educator Preparation Collaborative for Enhancing College and Career Readiness in Texas Schools (A&M Collaborative). Hersh Waxman, ERC director; Jackie Stillisano, ERC associate director; Larry Kelly, director of the Secondary Graduate Certification Program in the College of Education and Human Deve ...

Castillo APA Fellow

9/29/09 Linda Castillo, associate dean for research in the College of Education and Human Development, was named a Fellow by the American Psychological Association. Fellow status is awarded to an APA member who has demonstrated outstanding contributions or performance in the field of psychology, and whose work has had an impact at the national level. The APA is a scientific and professional organization for psychologists to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological ...

Fall 09 Awards

9/16/09 The College of Education and Human Development will honor outstanding faculty, staff and alumni at its fall awards ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday (Sept. 18) at the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. Outstanding Alumni honorees include Eddie J. Davis '67, '73, '80; Celia R. Goode-Haddock '72; Gertrude B. Henry '95; and Deanna F. Yates '91. The Outstanding Alumni Early Career honoree is Jo Ann Bludau '94. The honorees of the Association of Former Students College-L ...

Headphones 4 Hope

9/16/09 In the same spirit of Farm Aid, The Concert for New York and Live 8, a new student group coordinates benefit concerts in Aggieland for people in need around the world. "Headphones 4 Hope is a student organization that we're hoping to make into an actual nonprofit at some point," says Chris Thomas, a technology management major in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development. "We do benefit concerts for nonprofit organizations, charities and other causes." ...

Community Plunge 09

9/11/09 Students at risk of not graduating from high school can benefit from a little encouragement to stay in school. And this is just what College of Education and Human Development faculty, staff and students are aiming to do next Thursday, Sept. 17, as part of the Dropout Community Plunge Initiative coordinated by Bryan ISD and Bryan/College Station Family Solutions. "We are very excited that Texas A&M University will be joining in the community's effort to reach out to students who ha ...

Koliba Scholarship

9/2/09 Incoming freshman and chemical engineering major Kyle Koliba was awarded the 2009 College of Education and Human Development Peggy J. Ritchey Endowed Scholarship. The annual scholarship is open to Texas A&M University students who are children or grandchildren of college support staff or retired support staff. Koliba is the grandson of Kathy May, certification officer in the Dean's office. The scholarship rewards students who have demonstrated the qualities of caring for others, pe ...