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  CI 578: Bilingual & Biliteracy Development of Young Children

  Apr 28, 2014 9:15 am24 views

  CI 578:  Bilingual & Biliteracy Development of Young Children

  Instructor: Dr. Eurydice Bauer, ebbauer@illinois.edu

  Time: Monday 4-6:50pm, Fall 2014

  Location: 385 Education Building

  Credit: 4 hours

  CRN: 53602

  C&I 578 section EBB is a graduate-level course for students in the PhD degree program. However, highly interested master level students may participate in the course. This course is offered on a 2-3 year cycle. The purpose of C&I 578 is to help students better understand the language and literacy development of young bilinguals. Students will engage in reading, writing, and discussion of various research articles and chapters. In addition, students will be given the opportunity to observe young children as they engage in learning to read and write across their two languages. Students are expected to: (a) develop a general understanding of the major issues in biliteracy research; (b) explore and appreciate the diversity of research topics, issues, trends, and perspectives in biliteracy research; and (c) learn to think and write critically and analytically about research on early biliteracy development. 

• CI 590: Metaphors, Models, and Analogies and the Development of Understandings

  Jul 18, 2016 3:45 pm7 views

  CI 590 MMA, Fall 2016
  Professor: David Brown
  When: Wednesdays, 5:00 to 7:50 pm
  Where: 4F Education Building
  CRN: 66094

  Traditional views of metaphor and analogy see them simply as linguistic figures of speech, such as “He was a wolf” or “The car was like a battering ram,” used to spice up otherwise literal discourse.  More recent views see metaphorical and analogical thought as central in both discourse and cognition.  Constructivism is currently the dominant paradigm on learning in the content areas, drawing on the idea that students construct new understandings based on existing understandings. If this is the case, then a primary engine of such construction must be analogical and metaphorical reasoning – drawing on existing understandings of ideas and extending those to other ideas perceived as similar. This course will explore recent perspectives on metaphorical, model-based, and analogical thought and discourse, how these views apply to the development of understandings in content areas, and how instruction can take advantage of these new perspectives to better help students develop understandings of new ideas.

• CI 590 MMA - Metaphors, Models and Analogies and the Development of Understandings

  Oct 28, 2013 10:19 am88 views

  Metaphors, Models, and Analogies and the Development of Understandings

   

  CI 590 MMA, Spring 2014

  Professor: David Brown

  When: Wednesdays, 4:30 to 7:20 pm

  Where: 17 Education Building

  CRN: 52335

   

  Traditional views of metaphor and analogy see them simply as linguistic figures of speech, such as “He was a wolf” or “The car was like a battering ram,” used to spice up otherwise literal discourse.  More recent views see metaphorical and analogical thought as central in both discourse and cognition.  Constructivism is currently the dominant paradigm on learning in the content areas, drawing on the idea that students construct new understandings based on existing understandings. If this is the case, then a primary engine of such construction must be analogical and metaphorical reasoning – drawing on existing understandings of ideas and extending those to other ideas perceived as similar. This course will explore recent perspectives on metaphorical and analogical thought and discourse, how these views apply to the development of understandings in content areas, and how instruction can take advantage of these new perspectives to better help students develop understandings of new ideas.

• C&I alumna receives Fulbright Scholarship

  Jul 7, 2016 4:15 pm58 views

  Fulbright Scholarship recipient Avanti Chajed ’13 C&I will travel to Finland in August to pursue a master’s degree in education, according to a July 7 article in The News-Gazette.

• C&I graduate attending AERA conference with help of international award

  Apr 25, 2017 11:00 am6 views

  Utilizing the Travel Support for International Scholars funding he received, Andrew Anthony Hunte, Ph.D. ’16 C&I, will attend the April 27-May 1 AERA Annual Meeting in San Antonio.

• C&I Graduate Student Pair Awarded Global Intersections Grant

  May 15, 2023 1:45 pm79 views

  Citlalli Garcia and Brian Acosta were awarded the Global Intersections Grant, a campus initiative by the University's Center for Global Studies to encourage multicultural, international, transnational, and global perspectives that promote understanding and aid in solving global problems through developing new research areas and projects of global importance. 

• C&I graduate student receives CADRE Fellowship

  Oct 17, 2017 8:30 am4 views

  Curriculum & Instruction graduate student Gabriela Vargas has been selected as a recipient of the highly competitive Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) Fellowship.

• C&I Professor Gloriana Gonzalez and Alum Saad Shehab Awarded $1.375M NSF Grant

  Jul 5, 2023 1:00 pm99 views

  Congratulations to Curriculum & Instruction professor Gloriana Gonzalez, PI and C&I alumnus Saad Shehab, Co-PI, who have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, Engaging Teachers in Integrating Human-Centered Design for Geometry Problem-based Instruction. The $1.375M award is effective August 1, 2023, and the work is in collaboration with the campus' Siebel Center for Design, where Shehab serves as associate director of assessment and research.

• C&I professors to collaborate on NSF-funded grant

  Sep 20, 2016 8:30 am6 views

  Emma Mercier and Luc Paquette, both assistant professors in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, have received a $1.35 million National Science Foundation Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies grant for a study that will explore how tools to manage the teaching of collaborative activities can be developed and used to support collaborative problem-solving in core engineering courses.

• C&I's Asif Wilson Selected as Summer 2022 Vivian Harsh Research Society Fellow

  Mar 29, 2022 4:15 pm19 views

  Congratulations to assistant professor Asif Wilson on receiving the 2022 Timuel D. Black Jr. Short-term Fellowship in African American Studies, a summer research fellowship with the Vivian G. Harsh Research Society in Chicago.

• C&I scholar Rochelle Gutiérrez interviewed by American Mathematical Society

  Aug 15, 2018 3:30 pm13 views

  Scholar Rochelle Gutiérrez of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction was recently interviewed by the American Mathematical Society.

• C&I's Gloriana Gonzalez Accepted to 2020 New Leadership Academy Fellows Program

  Nov 29, 2019 3:15 pm38 views

  Congratulations to associate professor Gloriana Gonzalez, who has been accepted into the 2020 New Leadership Academy Fellows Program, a partnership between the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good (National Forum) and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)

• C&I's Idalia Nuñez Cortez Recognized by Literary Research Association

  Dec 2, 2020 3:00 pm34 views

  Assistant professor in Curriculum & Instruction Idalia Nuñez Cortez has been recognized for her co-authored paper "We Believe In Collective Magic: Re‐claiming the Future(s) of Literacy Research". Her work has been selected to receive an award in the 2020 Literacy Research Association (LRA) Annual Conference.

• C&I's Idalia Nunez Wins AERA Early Career Scholar Award

  Jan 30, 2023 8:30 am19 views

  Congratulations to Idalia Nuñez, assistant professor of Curriculum & Instruction, who is the 2023 recipient of the Early Career Award from the AERA Language and Social Processes special interest group (SIG).

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  C&I's Krist, Hug Awarded Nearly $1M from NSF's Division of Research on Learning

  Aug 21, 2023 3:30 pm78 views

  Congratulations to Curriculum & Instruction assistant professor Stina Krist, PI, and teaching professor Barbara Hug, co-PI, who are leading a team of researchers developing A Professional Development Model for High School Teachers to Adapt Curricula Toward Students' Knowledges and Resources thanks to a four-year, nearly $1M grant from the National Science Foundation.

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  C&I's Monica Gonzalez Ybarra Wins 2020 Award from NCTE

  Oct 21, 2020 8:00 am135 views

  The National Council of Teachers of English have recognized C&I's Monica Gonzalez Ybarra with a 2020 Alan C. Purves Honorable Mention award for her article “We Have a Strong Way of Thinking…and It Shows through Our Words”: Exploring Mujerista Literacies with Chicana/Latina Youth in a Community Ethnic Studies Course.

• C&I's Rachel McMillian Awarded OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship

  Sep 15, 2022 2:30 pm40 views

  Congratulations to Rachel McMillian, assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction, who has been awarded an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship.

• C&I's Rochelle Gutierrez Awarded Spencer Foundation Grant

  Apr 6, 2020 4:30 pm182 views

  Professor Rochelle Gutierrez is a principal investigator on a $500,000 project funded by the Spencer Foundation, titled, "Political Conocimiento in Teaching Mathematics: Preparing Teachers to Advocate for Students."

• C&I's Rochelle Gutierrez Keynote Speaker at NCTM 2020 Virtual Conference

  Nov 9, 2020 3:00 pm109 views

  Professor Rochelle Gutierrez will give a keynote address, "What Kind of Mathematics Do We Need Now?" at the largest annual math education conference. The combined events of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and climate change have opened the door for many teachers to question what is happening in the world and what is our place in it? This session supports teachers to reflect on what is considered “normal” in mathematics teaching and learning and what it will take to rehumanize mathematics. More than just rethink the ways we teach, I will engage us to reconsider mathematics itself and how it can be in the service of connecting us with each other and the natural world. 

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  C&I's Sara Verma Awarded 2021-2022 Fulbright Grant

  Jun 15, 2021 11:00 am178 views

  Sara Verma, '21 ElEd, is among nine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates offered an opportunity to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences via Fulbright grants.

• C&I's Stephanie Smith Receives 2021 Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award

  Oct 7, 2021 3:30 pm107 views

  Stephanie Smith, assistant professor of Curriculum & Instruction, has been named the 2021 Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator from Taylor and Francis and the NAECTE Foundation.

• C&I student receives prestigious Presidential Award for STEM teaching

  Aug 15, 2018 3:15 pm10 views

  Curriculum & Instruction student Kevin Frederick was named a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

• CITL’s Newest Podcast Series Features SPED's Kary Zarate in 'Ungrading'

  Jun 9, 2022 4:00 pm53 views

  Teach Talk Listen Learn is a podcast featuring conversations about teaching and learning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Join host Bob Dignan and his guests as they shine a spotlight on the innovative and creative ways faculty and instructors across campus are shaking up the hallowed halls of academia to engage traditional and nontraditional students in all modalities and create transformative learning experiences for them.

• CME Group Foundation Awards Nearly $3 Million in Grants to Support Kindergarten Readiness and K-12 Programming in Chicago and Illinois

  May 20, 2021 3:00 pm14 views

  CME Group Foundation today announced that it has awarded nearly $3 million in grants to further support kindergarten readiness and K-12 programming across Chicago and Illinois.

• CMN 496/AFRO 498 (CRN 37940): African American Rhetoric - Revolution, Resistance, & Transformation

  Apr 29, 2014 1:30 pm7 views

  Course meets: June 16 - August 7, 2014
  Registration closes: April 30, 2014
  Instructor: Anita Mixon

  We will explore how African Americans carved out a space for revolution, resistance, and transformation using speeches, protests, and music in their quest for social change.

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• CoE Course Project Allows Students to Exlpore Campus and Community Connections

  Jun 9, 2016 6:45 pm0 views

  During the 2016 spring semester, 13 UIUC students, enrolled in EPS 199: Community Engagement, participated in a university-community engagement initiative that resulted in the production of a dynamic website. The website shares their experiences volunteering in our local communities and how those experiences are shaping their growing identities as future educators and practitioners. In addition to chronicling their own journeys, the students also hoped that the website could serve an additional purpose, namely as a resource for university students interested in volunteering with local community organizations and/or learning more about trends and topics impacting the nation's public schools. 

  The students enrolled in EPS 199 worked very hard to construct this website. The process began with brainstorming website pages. It then turned to determining data sources and collecting all of the information presented on the website (which included interviewing CoE faculty and current educators in the field). Finally, it concluded with rounds of editing. With the guiding hand of their course instructor, they produced a resource that will hopefully be of value to collectives outside of this class.

  VIEW THE SITE

• COE/EPSY Subject Pool

  Aug 12, 2016 3:30 pm0 views

  The Bureau of Educational Research is no longer overseeing the College of Education Subject Pool. Educational Psychology was asked to assume oversight of the subject pool.  We have developed a website in order to provide students in the COE with a centralized location for finding studies in which to participate for course credit/extra credit. In addition, we have reached a reciprocal agreement with Linguistics, whereby students in several of their classes can receive credit for participating in COE studies and COE students can receive credit for participating in LING studies. 

  The website for the COE subject pool, with information for both students and faculty is: http://education.illinois.edu/edpsy/subject-pool

  If you require study participation or offer extra credit for participation, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the website and include the URL in your syllabi. A mechanism for students to document their participation to instructors is provided on the website, but of course, you can ask your students to document their participation to you in any way you prefer.

  If you are PI on a study that requires participants, please send Julie Kellogg the information described on the website.

  If you have any questions, please contact Kiel Christianson <kiel@illinois.edu>.

• CoE Graduate Student Conference - Call for Proposals

  Sep 30, 2014 7:30 pm0 views

  The Program Committee invites proposals on all topics relevant to the field of education in any time period or nation, including papers or panels that cross cultures, time periods, or national boundaries.

  The Committee defines ‘education’ broadly, to include all institutions of socialization—mass media, voluntary organizations, and so on—as well as schools and universities. We invite proposals for individual papers, works in progress, or panel sessions, which could consist of several works in progress. Consider sharing your proposals from AERA, CREA, AESA, ASHE, and other conferences. This is also a great way to become comfortable sharing your research before submitting a proposal to a national or regional conference.

  Proposal Deadline: Friday, December 5th

  http://conferences.education.illinois.edu/

• CoE Graduate Student Conference is Looking for Committee Members

  Aug 25, 2014 2:15 pm72 views

  Are you... Creative, looking to expand your skills and marketability, would like to enhance your CV, or enjoy event planning?

  Join the College of Education Graduate Student Conference Planning Committee! We are seeking enthusiastic and innovative grad students interested helping to plan the 2015 Graduate Student Research Conference.

  Informational/Planning meeting Friday, September 19th at 12:00pm in Room 192 EDU.  For more info contact Megan Dino or Alisha Johnson at mdino2@illinois.edu or adjohns2@illinois.edu

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  #COEManyVoices New Directions

  Feb 23, 2015 2:30 pm2 views

  We invite all COE students, faculty, and staff to a week-long informal forum on diversity and inclusion efforts in the College of Education

• Coffee break webinar series to focus on implications of microaggressions

  Jan 2, 2018 8:30 am6 views

  This webinar series will feature three 30-minute webinars designed to educate higher education professionals on the nature of microaggressions and how to address them inside and outside of the classroom.

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  Colbert Named Regional Elementary Principal of the Year

  Feb 6, 2024 2:15 pm85 views

  Lori Colbert, principal at Barack Obama School of Leadership & STEM, was honored by the Illinois Principal's Association.

• Collaborator in ECE Discusses How VR is Transforming How her Students Learn

  Oct 28, 2019 10:00 am0 views

  Meet Raluca Ilie, a professor in the University of Illinois’ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is transforming the way her students learn by using virtual reality to help them better understand complex electrical-engineering concepts.

• College Award Nominations | Deadline is February 18

  Jan 21, 2020 11:45 am26 views

  The 2019-2020 College awards competition is underway. College awards are located here. All awards are listed on this page and link to application details. We encourage you to nominate faculty, academic professionals, staff, and teaching assistants for excellence by the deadline. For 2020, a a new award has been added, Excellence in Online Teaching.

• College hosting book drive to support bookstore

  Aug 16, 2016 8:45 am13 views

  The College of Education is hosting a book drive to support a local non-profit bookstore, Orphan’s Treasure Box. Orphans Treasure Box collects donated used books and sell them online and in their retail outlet to support orphans and vulnerable kids both locally and internationally.

• College Mourns the Loss of Stafford L. Hood, Sheila M. Miller Professor Emeritus

  Jan 19, 2023 8:30 am678 views

• College of Applied Health Sciences Joining IT Partners

  Mar 8, 2023 4:00 pm10 views

  The College of Applied Health Sciences (AHS) is joining Information Technology Partners, a collaborative partnership between college IT units at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IT Partners, formed in 2018 as a partnership between Gies College of Business and the College of Education, is excited to welcome AHS as its third member.

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  College of Education Alumni Top Fundraisers for Special Olympics Illinois

  Feb 20, 2024 11:15 am45 views

  The group, made up of Urbana School District teachers and Education at Illinois Alumni, raised over $20,000 for Special Olympics Illinois.

• College of Education Attracts Top Talent

  Aug 25, 2017 2:15 pm40 views

  The College of Education continues to attract top scholarly talent to campus and is excited to welcome five new faculty members in Fall 2017. A sixth faculty member, Rebecca Hinze-Pifer, will join the College in 2018 as an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership.

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  College of Education, Community Choices, Experience Champaign Urbana, Launch Accessible CU Guide

  Aug 9, 2023 3:00 pm269 views

  The project, first launched in 2018, helps users find local businesses that meet their accessibility needs, outlining the physical, sensory, cognitive, and accommodation-ready characteristics of local businesses.

• College of Education Convocation 2017

  Jun 30, 2016 4:45 pm22 views

  Education Convocation 2017 will be held Saturday, May 13, 1:30 p.m., in Huff Hall.

• College of Education COVID-19 Research Seed Funding: Spring 2021 Call for Applications

  Mar 26, 2021 3:45 pm24 views

  The Bureau of Educational Research and the College Research Committee, honoring faculty research and scholarship in these areas, invite College of Education researchers to apply for this third call for COVID-19 Seed Grants.

• College of Education Dissertation Workshop

  Feb 2, 2018 11:15 am0 views

  College of Education Dissertation Workshop

  Working on your dissertation proposal or dissertation now?

  Planning to work on your proposal or dissertation soon?

  This workshop is for you!

  Emily Wuchner from the Graduate College Thesis Office will be here:

  Thursday February 15
  11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
  Education building, Room 333

  Come learn about:

  Formatting and proofreading
  Dissertation copyright deposit
  IDEALS release options
  Online resources

  A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP.

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  College of Education Faculty Awarded $800K NSF Grant For Collaborative Project with Grainger College of Engineering.

  Aug 30, 2023 9:30 am52 views

  Faculty members Jennifer Cromley, co-PI, and Cherie Avent, evaluator, are members of the research team. The grant was awarded to a project called Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practitioners (DEEP).

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  College of Education Faculty, Graduate Student, Published in Engineering Education Book

  Sep 27, 2023 9:15 am25 views

  Faculty members Emma Mercier and Molly Goldstein and graduate student Robin Jephthah Rajarathinam published chapters in the new book, The International Handbook of Engineering Education Research.

• College of Education Fall 2015 Welcome Celebration

  Jul 15, 2015 4:15 pm456 views

  Celebrate the beginning of the new academic year at the 2015 College of Education Welcome Celebration on Friday, Aug. 21!

• College of Education Graduate Student Conference CALL FOR PAPERS

  Sep 11, 2014 12:45 pm4 views

  pro·pos·al

  noun: proposal; plural noun: proposals

  a plan or suggestion, especially a formal or written one, put forward for consideration or discussion by others.

  “The graduate student put forward a convincing proposal for curricular reform.”

   

  We invite proposals for individual papers, works in progress, or panel sessions, which could consist of several works in progress. Consider sharing your proposals from AERA, CREA, AESA, ASHE, and other conferences. This is also a great way to become comfortable sharing your research before submitting a proposal to a national or regional conference.  http://education.illinois.edu/gradconference 

  We encourage graduate students to consider submitting proposals on topics as they relate to this year’s theme: From Research to Praxis: Scholarship Today for the Society of Tomorrow.

   

• College of Education Highly Involved in Chancellor's Call to Action Research Projects

  Sep 13, 2022 4:45 pm44 views

  The College's faculty, staff, and graduate students are part of nearly a third of all the projects selected for the 2022-23 Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program.

• College of Education hosts, with Illinois Theatre: "Gandhi, King, and Our World Today"

  Sep 19, 2019 1:30 pm308 views

  Mark your calendar for October 2, 7:30pm at Spurlock Auditorium, a two-part evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. Illinois Theatre presents a staged reading of Unexpected Contact written by Rajmohan Gandhi, followed by "Is the Dream alive?" a panel discussion with: James Anderson (Dean, College of Education), Ronald Bailey (Chair, African-American Studies), Cynthia Oliver (Professor of Dance & Associate Vice Chancellor), and moderated by Rajmohan Gandhi (Research Professor, College of Education).

• College of Education launches new online instructional design certificate

  Mar 21, 2018 9:15 am13 views

  The online program offerings at the College of Education at Illinois continue to grow. A new MOOC created with Coursera offers an in-demand instructional design certificate.