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Inspiring Teachers Stepping off the elevator onto the floor where the Department of Early Childhood Education conducts many of its Best Practices training sessions, you might at first wonder if you are in the right place. Is that the B-52's "Love Shack" you hear?
Yes, it is. That's just one of the many tunes facilitators might use throughout the day to keep the atmosphere lively as they lead Georgia Pre-K and daycare teachers from one hands-on activity to the next.
But just as it is for children, what looks like play is actually serious business - learning. The overall goal is to ensure that early childhood education in Georgia goes well beyond compliance to quality.
Since 1996, the COE's Best Practices Initiative, sponsored by the state of Georgia's Bright from the Start program, has secured more than $20 million in funding to design and deliver mandatory training modules to approximately 8,000 lead and assistant teachers a year - in effect touching the lives of more than 80,000 children statewide.
In addition to conducting sessions at Georgia State, trainers travel several days a week, blanketing metro Atlanta and hitting all corners of the state, carting hundreds of boxes of materials and logging thousands of miles over the course of a training season.
To read more about Best Practices, click here.
Photo caption: Best Practices trainees Tan Dukes and Rosanna Henderson play a simple game of toss that becomes increasingly complex to reflect the demands of their roles as early childhood educators.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
Research Wednesdays Speaker Series
Oct. 5, 2011
12 p.m.
College of Education, room 1030
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Presenter: Thomas Carroll
Topic: "Improving teaching quality by empowering educators to transform their schools into 21st century learning organizations"
Thomas Carroll leads the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future's (NCTAF) efforts to improve teaching quality by empowering educators to transform their schools into 21st century learning organizations. He founded the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) program and created the Technology Innovation Challenge Grants Program at the U.S. Department of Education. He served as the first director of technology planning and evaluation for the E-Rate program and was the U. S. Secretary of Education's liaison to the Corporation for National Service during the launch of the AmeriCorps Program. He also was deputy director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, prior to which he was director of the National Research Centers and Regional Laboratories program at the National Institute of Education (NIE).
Research Wednesdays is held every Wednesday of the month. A light lunch will be provided to those who confirm their attendance to Erin Whitney in the COE's Educational Research Bureau at (404) 413-8090 or ewhitney@gsu.edu.
For more information about Carroll or the Research Wednesdays Speaker Series, click here.
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Why I support the COE...
Anita Jefferson
COE Alumnus
(M.Ed. '78)
"I became a charter lifetime member of the Georgia State University Alumni Association because I value the education I received as a College of Education student while earning my master's degree in educational administration and supervision. The leadership curriculum at GSU contributed directly to the opportunities that opened to me in my professional career and as a community leader. For that, I am a proud Panther who knows that my time in the COE was priceless."
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