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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
The State University of New York announced honorees of the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships for the State of New York – including two recent Fredonia graduates, Caitlyn Roe and Megan E. Little.
Julianna Owczarczak’s third and final student teaching placement was curtailed when public schools were shut down in mid-March due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions, so the Fredonia senior launched a project that will help nourish children in another way.
Graduating seniors in the College of Education completed their student teaching experiences virtually, and celebrated its ending.
Seniors majoring in English: Adolescence Education at Fredonia are completing their student teaching placements in Western New York schools on schedule amid the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to Fredonia alumni who didn’t want to see them miss out on their student teaching experiences.
Starting as a babysitter, Kaleigh Vogan has always worked with children, but she can trace her “ah ha” moment – when she knew she destined to become a teacher – to an experience in high school. She “interviewed” a class of kindergartners and fifth graders for an art project and made an astute observation.
School leadership training at Fredonia has been redesigned to create a single direct path for educators already working in K-12 school districts to attain advanced certifications that lead to becoming a school building principal and school district superintendent.
Every spring semester at Fredonia, about 25 prospective elementary school teachers nurture American chestnut seedlings that could contribute to long-term efforts to restore the American chestnut tree in the Eastern United States.
Associate Professor Guangyu Tan of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education is a co-author of “Investment in Early Childhood in a Globalized World: Policies, Practices and Parental Philosophies in China, India and the United States,” recently published by Palgrave MacMillan.
Dr. Michael Jabot, a faculty member at Fredonia since 2001, was appointed a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its Nov. 20 meeting.
Founding Dean of the College of Education Christine Givner received the Charles C. Mackey, Jr. Excellence in Service Leadership Award from the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE) at a reception at the organization's annual conference in Saratoga Springs on Oct. 17.