Teacher Education

By Kashalah Robinson AUGUSTA, Ga. — This summer, Augusta University will again host Kids University, its annual summer camp. This enriching and entertaining camp specializes in STEAM education, which create classrooms that integrate science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics concepts across disciplines into all lessons. Dennis Dotterer, director of the …

AUGUSTA, GA – Deborah Wiles, renowned author of “Love, Ruby Lavender,” “Aurora County All-Stars” and “Each Little Bird That Sings,” visited Augusta University teacher education students embedded at Lake Forest Elementary School on March 12 to talk about using children’s literature to teach reading. The visit was part of the …

AUGUSTA, GA – Augusta University will bring Deborah Wiles, renowned author of “Love, Ruby Lavender,” “Aurora County All-Stars” and “Each Little Bird That Sings,” to visit 5th grade students and AU preservice teachers at Lake Forest Elementary on Monday, March 12. Wiles’ recent book, “Countdown,” a work of historical fiction …

Join Augusta University’s College of Education as it hosts the spring Dean’s Lecture Series on March 15 in the ballroom of the Jaguar Student Activity Center from 6-7 p.m. Dr. Patricia Alvarez McHatton, dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, will explore “Knowing is …

AUGUSTA, GA. – Drs. Niki Christodoulou, Darla Linville and Molly Quinn of the Augusta University College of Education are working to preserve the history of the Central Savannah River Area’s educational practices in the form of oral history recordings. Click the image below to read this story.

Photo Above: Credit to the Columbia County News-Times. Georgia Power Area Manager, Kerry Bridges (far right), presented New Teacher Assistance Grants to Taylor Thompson (second from left) and John Goldberg (second from right). Dr. Zach Kelehear (far left), dean of the College of Education, nominated both teachers for the $1,000 awards. …

AUGUSTA, GA – Augusta University College of Education alum Brigitte Holmes (B.S., 2002) has been named one of five finalists for Richmond County School System’s Teacher of the Year award. Holmes is a biology and forensics science teacher at Hephzibah High School. More than two dozen other Augusta University alumni …

AUGUSTA, GA – Students with special needs can sometimes be excluded from extracurricular activities and sports because teachers and caretakers may not know how to adapt to their needs. To combat this, students in Dr. Nai-Cheng Kuo’s Family and Community Engagement for Exceptional Children class, along with the department of …

AUGUSTA, GA – A video produced by Augusta University for the College of Education has won a Communicator Award of Excellence. The project was the first-ever marketing video created for the College of Education. Watch the video now. The Award of Excellence is given to those entrants who produce the …

Seeing the world through the eyes of someone with a learning difference or special need can be impossible. How do you mimic sensory overload or attention deficits, processes that happen entirely inside a person’s mind and body, for those who have never experienced it? Students and faculty within the College …