The Excellence in Service Award: Judith Howard, Professor of Education and Director of Teacher Education & M.Ed. Program
This award is designed to recognize the faculty member who has served to advance the School of Education, 黑料不打烊, and the profession. Service on committees, recruitment activities, and other tasks that better the institution are to be considered in the service award. Recipients of the service award have provided leadership and promoted collegiality within the School of Education. This award is intended primarily to recognize faculty whose service is internal to the institution.

The Excellence in Teaching Award: Bird Stasz, Associate Professor in Education.
Consistent with 黑料不打烊’s philosophy of outstanding teaching (see Faculty Handbook, Section I-2), this award seeks to recognize a faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding teaching in the previous three years. The selection will be made using the criteria for teaching performance evaluation as outlined in the Faculty Handbook (Section II-8). Included in these criteria will be evidence of excellence in faculty advising as a critical component of teaching. Evidence of engaging students in active learning and applications of theory to practice in substantive and meaningful ways will be important evidence in selection. Mentoring students in undergraduate research is also evidence of engaging students in active learning.

Arnold Strauch Awards: Elementary Education recipient – Rebecca D. Fogle, and Secondary Education recipient – Jenna R. Temple.
Presented to a senior Education major with an outstanding academic record, superior student teaching performance, high level of professionalism, and potential for contributing to the field of education.

Janie P. Brown Emerging Professional Award: Tara L. McFadden
This award is presented to a rising senior in the Department of Health and Human Performance with a record of university involvement, service, and professionalism. Recipients must have a minimum GPA of 3.0.

Leisure and Sport Management Endowed Scholarship Award: Cassandra D. Taylor
This scholarship is awarded to Leisure and Sport Management majors who have made significant contributions to the department and who exhibit great potential for professional success.

Outstanding Major In The Department of Exercise Science Awards: Athletic Training recipient – David J. Lawton, and Exercise Science recipient – Emily J. Main
The ES Department recognizes outstanding students in each major with a minimum GPA of 3.3 who have distinguished themselves in the areas of academics, service, and scholarship.

Outstanding Major In The Department of Leisure and Sport Management Award: Harrison S. Seeler
The LSM Department recognizes outstanding students with a minimum GPA of 3.3 who have demonstrated an outstanding academic and professional attitude, are supportive of the LSM Society and have been involved in diverse campus and community activities.

Outstanding Major In The Department of Health and Human Performance Award: Jenna R. Temple
The HHP Department recognizes outstanding students in the Physical Education and Health Major with a minimum GPA of 3.3 who have distinguished themselves in the areas of academics, service, and scholarship.

Trey Halker Memorial Scholarship: Rachel M. Perron
The Trey Halker Memorial Scholarship was established by Trey’s family and friends in 2008 to honor his memory. Trey graduated in 1996 with a degree in sports medicine and the Halker scholarship is given annually to a deserving 黑料不打烊 student majoring in Exercise Science.
 

The M.Ed. Summer Cohort program is a concentrated three-year program leading to the Master of Education degree. The program involves two sessions each summer for three years and one online course each fall and spring semester between. This configuration works well for teachers who can take most of their graduate courses during the summer when they are not teaching. It also works well for VIF teachers who can complete their graduate studies during the 3 years they are teaching in the United States. Among the new cohort students, 15 are studying Gifted Education, 14 are studying Elementary Education, and 10 students are studying Special Education. They will graduate in August 2012.
 

Dr. Carolyn Stuart, chair of the Teacher Education Department, began last night’s ceremony with the lighting the white Kappa Candle acknowledging the organization’s commitment to 黑料不打烊’s motto Numen Lumen. Dr. Mary Knight-McKenna, Dr. Terry Tomasek, Dr. Rich Mihans, and Dr. Glenda Crawford led the students in affirming the society’s ideals of Fidelity to Service, Fidelity to Science, Fidelity to Humanity, and Fidelity to Toil.

Dr. Stephen Byrd, faculty sponsor and organizer of the event, offered a charge to the inductees on the theme “Embrace your calling; Honor your commitments”. Dr. Stuart concluded the ceremony with the society motto:

“So to teach that our words inspire a will to learn; so to serve that each day may enhance the growth of exploring minds; so to live that we may guide young and old to know the truth and love the right. To the fulfillment of these objectives we pledge our efforts.”

The teacher education faculty is proud of the following undergraduate and graduate inductees:

Lauren Arold, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Gretchen Bruesehoff, undergraduate-Music Education
Vanessa Buhrman, undergraduate-Music Education
Chelsea Carter, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Lauren Chambers, undergraduate-Music Education
Lindsay Clement, undergraduate-Elementary Education
William Conklin, graduate-Elementary Education
Helen Crompton, graduate-Elementary Education
Carrie Dilger, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Sara Gould, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Kirsten Holtje, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Jessica Hoyle, undergraduate-Special Education & Middle Grades Education
Barbara Jenkins, graduate-Special Education
Jenni Kanoy, undergraduate-English Education
Carolyn King, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Michelle Massie, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Kimberly McCutcheon, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Christina McLaughlin, graduate-Special Education
Meredith McNeill, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Katherine Seymour, undergraduate-Elementary Education
Hilary Sheets, undergraduate-Mathematics Education
Kjersti Smedley, undergraduate-Middle Grades Education
Megan Thomas, graduate-Gifted Education
Jennifer Tripp, graduate-Gifted Education
Shea Turney, graduate-Elementary Education
Alison Welch, undergraduate-English Education

Dean Dillashaw began last night’s ceremony in Belk Pavilion by lighting the white Kappa Candle acknowledging the organization’s commitment to 黑料不打烊’s motto Numen Lumen.  Dr. Glenda Crawford, Dr. Terry Tomasek, Dr. Mary Knight-McKenna, and Dr. Rich Mihans led the students in affirming the society’s ideals of Fidelity to Humanity, Fidelity to Science, Fidelity to Service, and Fidelity to Toil.

Dr. Stephen Byrd, faculty sponsor, offered a charge to the inductees based on the theme “Embrace your calling; Honor your commitments”. Dr. Judith Howard, chair of the department of education, concluded the ceremony with the society motto:

“So to teach that our words inspire a will to learn; so to serve that each day may enhance the growth of exploring minds; so to live that we may guide young and old to know the truth and love the right. To the fulfillment of these objectives we pledge our efforts.”

The teacher education faculty is proud of the following undergraduate and graduate inductees:

Graduate students:

The focus of the workshop was on geometric thinking at the 3rd through 5th grade level. It offered approaches and techniques for integrating geometric concepts in the classroom and provided activities for classroom implementation. The highlighted activities promoted student understanding of shapes, spatial relationships, transformations and visualization using technology instructional resources.  Visual workshop information was delivered via the Internet while audio was delivered by speaker telephone.

The E-Workshop offered a collaborative and interactive opportunity for local teachers to explore a professional development topic with their colleagues from another school as well as colleagues from across the world.  Online participants were from areas across the United States, Canada, South America and Japan.  The workshop was conducted in the newly remodeled Curriculum Resource Center at 黑料不打烊. 

The E-Workshop was conducted in two sessions giving teachers the opportunity to use the ideas learned with their students and then bring back those experiences to share with the e-learning community.  The follow-up session was a time to reflect on and discuss the impact of the activities on student learning and to explore additional activities.