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March 31, 2017

Highlights for the Department of Education in the School of Education and Social Work

Teacher Education Highlights:  

  • NEW Roberts chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education. Teacher Education inducted 39 members in March. Alumni have the option to join as well and enjoy great benefits.

  • Teacher Education signed a partnership with RIT for a 4+1 in Education. RIT does not have any education programs, so this allows their graduates who are interested in teaching to finish out their undergraduate degrees at RIT in a content area and then join the College’s Initial Certification Master’s Program to become a teacher. The program is completed in 16 months. For more information, click here.

  • The Department launched the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) undergraduate major last year – one of only a few in New York State!

  • Pending New York State approval, our Master of Education in Literacy will offer literacy certification in ages birth- grade 12. The 30 credits may be completed in only 12 months.

  • Teacher Education has a referral program. Alumni can help current and future teachers receive $1,000 toward an adult or graduate degree in education and, in return, if the referred student enrolls the alum will get a branded Eddie Bauer fleece for free. We also have an alumni survey that we would love graduates to complete so we can stay in touch.

  • The Department recently revamped its Pathway to Teaching program. This unique, accelerated, teacher certification degree completion program is the only one of its kind in our area with class one night a week and completion in 21 months.

  • We have a Facebook group for Teacher Ed Alumni. Share in exciting information about the career of education, Roberts, jobs, success stories, and memes of course. Click here for the Facebook site.

 

Teacher Education Alumni Highlights:  

  • Rob Arrendell ’00 and ’13 (Biology and Master of Education) has had an exciting career teaching in the Rochester City School District. Rob is currently at The School of the Arts and was recently featured in a series of videos highlighting former Roberts athletes who are making an impact in their communities. Click here to see the video.

  • Lora Finney ’16 (Childhood and Special Ed.) is one of our awarded graduates who landed a job working at Rochester Prep right out of college. She also just enrolled in the Special Education online master’s program at Roberts and is loving it.

  • Nicole Lute ’13 (Childhood and Special Ed.) is currently working in the Office of Instructional Practice helping to launch a brand new weekly cycle of school based professional learning (called LEAP). She moved to Washington DC after accepting the job in DC public schools. Prior to that, she completed a Master's in International Education Policy and Management at Vanderbilt. As part of her time there, she worked on a federal 10 million dollar research grant aimed at building reading comprehension programs for students in severe risk of developing learning disabilities.

  • Steve Metzger ’09 and ’14 (Physics and Master of Education) teaches at Victor High School and was honored with a News 8 Golden Apple Award.

 

Faculty Updates: 

  • Kristen Driskill – Promoted to Program Director for Pathway to Teaching

  • Rachel Adams Goertel: publishing "Classroom comprehension assessments," "Course design," "Critical thinking and reading," "Sight word vocabulary," " Michigan English Language Assessment Battery." In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (Vol. 1-8). New York, NY: TESOL & Wiley. Forthcoming 2017.

  • Katie Heath – Promoted to full-time faculty

  • Denise Johnson – Promoted to Associate Professor

  • Elizabeth Stevens: publishing “Beginning Literacy Specialists’ Helping Discourses: ‘Helping Teachers Help Kids’” in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of Literacy Practice & Research

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