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College of Education to promote service learning in schools and communities
 Faculty from all six departments
in Georgia State University's College of Education will be working together
over the next three years to increase service learning throughout metro
Atlanta.
The college received a $654,000 grant this month from a non-profit
organization, Learn and Serve America. GSU's education faculty will use the
grant to integrate service learning activities into teacher preparation
courses. They will also increase students' civic engagement and academic
learning through service learning activities in metro Atlanta schools.
"I see this grant as a catalyst for increasing
community engagement across the College of Education and throughout K-12
schools in the metro-Atlanta area," said Caitlin McMunn Dooley, assistant
professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education who wrote the grant.
"Each department in the College of Education has at least one faculty member
who will participate in a professional learning community as we incorporate
service learning into educator preparation courses," she added.
The college will collaborate with Georgia State University's Center for
Teaching and Learning and Office of Community and Civic Engagement, K-12 school
districts, Hands on Atlanta and the Children's Restoration Network.
"We're trying to build the capacity for service learning in education," Dooley
said. "If we teach something on campus and the resources for it aren't present
in the schools or communities, then the service learning breaks down. I'm
hoping that this grant will prevent that breakdown by building strong ties."
Learn and Serve America is an organization that "offers support to K-12
schools, community groups and higher education institutions to facilitate
service-learning projects," according to the organization's website.
For more information on the grant, visit www.learnandserve.gov.
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Early Childhood Education faculty, students make first study abroad trip to Ethiopia
 This summer, a group of GSU
undergraduate and graduate students visited eight public and private schools in
Addis Ababa and Adama, Ethiopia, as part of a study abroad trip offered through
the COE's Department of Early Childhood Education. They observed classrooms and
spoke with teachers, administrators and students to gain a better understanding
of the Ethiopian school system and its similarities and differences to the U.S.
To read the entire story, click
here.
Photo caption: Assistant professor Shonda Lemons-Smith, second from
left, stands with the eight COE students who studied abroad in Ethiopia and
Bogale Tessema, the head of the International Office at Adama University
(kneeling), on the steps of the university.
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Why I give to the College of Education at Georgia State University
Sonya Prince Neal
Alumnus and Donor
(B.S.E '00)
"I give to Georgia
State University because I am so appreciative of the quality education I
received. There is a consistent belief and desire for excellence at GSU. As a
result, I was thoroughly prepared for my career in education."
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