Language Education Department
A national advocate of immigrant students will address an Indiana University group completing certification for English-as-Second-Language teaching. Roger Rosenthal, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Migrant Legal Action Program Inc., will address the annual Tandem Certification of Indiana Teachers (TACIT) summer retreat on Friday, June 27.
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Around 200 of the top literacy researchers in the U.S. and world will be at the Indiana University School of Education in Bloomington this weekend for the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research's mid-winter conference.
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The Indiana University School of Education has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will fund a partnership between the School of Education at IUPUI and the Indianapolis Public Schools to implement a five-year project to better prepare teachers of English Language Learners before they begin their careers, develop skills of current teachers, and revise teaching methods of IU faculty.
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Learning Matters discusses faculty and student research involving the rights and responsibilities of college students, why children's books need not always have happy endings, and culturally-relevant group counseling techniques that could help residents in an African country cope with the AIDS epidemic.
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Learning Matters for May discusses faculty research involving college students' needs to inform their instructors as early as possible about a learning disability, challeges faced by immigrant students who speak little English and ways to keep girls out of jail.
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Learning Matters for April discusses research by Indiana University Bloomington education faculty involving how African American girls handle stifling classroom situations, gender differences in art students, teachers' cultural biases and professional development for teachers. Full story
