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COE Faculty Members Receive NSF Grant to Support Culturally-Driven STEM Education in Rural Elementary Schools
Associate Professor of Secondary Science Kirsten Mawyer, of the College of Education (COE) School of…
COE Alumni are 2025 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year Finalists
Nine UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) alumni have been named complex area and charter…
COE Center on Disability Studies Program Included in National Education Playbook
Select lessons from the College of Education Center on Disability Studies (CDS) Growing Pono Schools (GPS)…
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COE School of Teacher Education Field Study to Japan
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LTEC Faculty Member Speaks on Computer Science Education in Hawaiʻi
Learning Design and Technology (LTEC) Associate Professor Dan Hoffman was featured prominently in a September…
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Make informed and wise decisions about educational problems and policy issues by gaining an understanding of the socio-cultural, historical, international, philosophical, and political contexts of education.
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🗣️REMINDER: RSVP for the October 25th info session for the Barcelona study abroad opportunity, brought to you by the Department of Educational Foundations in June 2025! This program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Next info session will be held online via Zoom from 4-4:30pm.
Visit our website to RSVP for an info session & more info! bit.ly/3YfKQef
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Are you a student in a UH Mānoa College of Education program and enjoy social media content creation?
Apply now for the $1000 Social Media Ambassador Scholarship!
This opportunity allows selected students to showcase and highlight their experiences as a student in our programs, be a leader in social media content creation for the UH Mānoa College of Education, and receive a $1000 scholarship!
To apply, students must complete an application form, submit an introduction video, and have a recommendation form completed by one of their instructors/faculty advisors.
The deadline to submit an application is October 10, 2024! Visit bit.ly/4h09xCQ for more information!
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The University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu and UH Mānoa College of Education have been awarded nearly $1.2 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch the “Culturally Responsive Education and Teaching Empowerment” (CREATE) project. The five-year initiative aims to develop culturally responsive secondary math teachers to serve Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students in high-need schools across Hawaiʻi.
Dr. Monica Smith, Associate Professor of the COE School of Teacher Education, is Co-Principal Investigator for the project.
Funded by the NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the grant will provide scholarships, stipends and support to STEM majors pursuing a career in teaching.
Scholarship recipients will be called Noyce Scholars and will commit to teaching full-time in the Kaimukī-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area in the Honolulu District or other high-need areas in Hawaiʻi for two years for each year that scholarship support was received.
CREATE will begin accepting applications in spring 2025.
Check out the full story & eligibility requirements: bit.ly/3TWxjG9
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🗣️ SPRING 2025 COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT!
The School of Teacher Education is offering a brand new course: STE 496 - Aloha ʻĀina Mathematics
This course emphasizes cultural relevance and environmental sustainability through interdisciplinary education, integrating mathematics with Indigenous STEM. By connecting ecological, cultural, and social dimensions, the course addresses real-world issues such as sustainability and resource management. By connecting mathematics to environmental science, history, and cultural knowledge, students experience a rigorous learning approach rooted in place and community. The course focuses on mathematical modeling, geometry, statistics, problem-solving, and learning theory. Students will design a unit plan that frames mathematics as a culturally grounded tool for understanding and solving real-world problems.
Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome!
Questions? Contact Dr. Stacy Potes.
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Learning Design and Technology (LTEC) Associate Professor Dan Hoffman was featured prominently in a September 16, 2024 Civil Beat article about Computer Science K–12 education in Hawaiʻi. Hoffman discusses the state mandate requiring all Hawaiʻi schools to offer computer science by the end of the 2024– 25 academic year, indicating that Hawaiʻi is making progress and that there is a need to assess the quality and accessibility of its classes.
Link to the whole article on our website! bit.ly/4eJtY5f
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Associate Professor of Secondary Science Kirsten Mawyer, of the College of Education (COE) School of Teacher Education (STE), was awarded a $643,359 continuing grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Mawyer, with co-director and Associate Specialist of Science Education Joanna Philippoff, will oversee Collaborative Research: Scientific Sensemaking about Place-Based Phenomena: Mobilizing Rural Elementary Teacher Learning to Propel School-Wide Transformation over the next four years.
Read more about this project! bit.ly/3XYPoFT
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