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COE Program to Provide Eighth Round of Tuition Stipends for Teacher Licensure
The UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) is thrilled to announce the Grow Our Own…
COE Introduces New Academic Advisor
The College of Education (COE) Office of Student Academic Services (OSAS) welcomed their newest academic…
COE Alumni are 2025 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year Finalists
Eight UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) alumni have been named complex area and charter…
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The Behaviour Speak Podcast: Autism in Serbia
Special Education Assistant Professor Marija Čolić is the featured guest of The Behaviour Speak Podcast.…
Progressive Philosophy and Pedagogy Blog: Building a Community of Social Justice Educators
Dr. Jingwoan Chang, who recently earned her PhD in Education (Curriculum and Instruction), has written…
COE Blood Drive
The College of Education is hosting a Blood Drive at Campus Center on October 25,…
JUSTEC 2025 Call for Proposals
The Japan-U.S. Teacher Education Consortium (JUSTEC) is pleased to announce its 34th international conference, taking place…
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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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Help children PK-3 form a foundation for lifelong learning! The COE prepares new early childhood educators and offers graduate programs for continuing professional development.
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Connect learning with the community and students’ sense of place. The COE offers unique credit and non-credit, place-based programs for educators in areas such as ethnomathematics, sustainability, STEM and interdisciplinary education.
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The COE is equipping teachers, researchers and specialists to advance the areas of literacy and curriculum. Our faculty invite you to join one of our many cutting-edge programs!
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Do you want to develop skills in program evaluation, advanced statistics or psychometrics? Our COE faculty have the expertise to help you gain these valuable skills!
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Are you interested in working with people with disabilities? Explore our programs in the areas of disability studies, rehabilitation science and special education.
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These COE programs are designed to equip educators and other professionals to use the latest technologies and explore strategies in STEM education.
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Teach what you love, love what you teach. We offer teacher preparation programs for those who want to become a licensed teacher, and many more for those already in the teaching profession!
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Facebook Posts
The COE spotlight is on Candide Krieger, a M.Ed. student in the Curriculum Studies department!
Kreiger is the creator of the EduKits program, which provides place-based STEM kits to Title I schools and the first place winner of the Duke Kahanamoku World Foil team competition for Lift foils!
Check out her full story on our website: bit.ly/4cRXoNe
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The College of Education (COE) Office of Student Academic Services (OSAS) welcomed their newest academic advisor, Michelle Tagorda-Kama, on August 19, 2024. In addition to providing services related to OSAS’s core functions of recruitment, admission, advising, retention, and graduation, she will lead the Pu‘uhonua Program by developing initiatives for Native Hawaiian Students.
As part of the OSAS advising team, Tagorda-Kama says she will continue contributing to diversity, building community, and increasing the number of underrepresented students in higher education who have the skills to be successful at the university and beyond.
Learn more about her story on our website! bit.ly/4cTcJNi
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Eight UH Mānoa College of Education alumni have been named complex area and charter school finalists for the 2025 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year award. Annually, one exceptional teacher is selected from more than 13,000 Hawaiʻi Department of Education (HIDOE) educators for the special recognition.
The winner will be announced in October and will go on to represent Hawaiʻi in the National Teacher of the Year program!
Read more about who they are on our website! bit.ly/4dHTuYd
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Looking for a Graduate Assistantship? The COE has 1 position available with the Center on Disability Studies!
Duties will include supporting program evaluation work, with a focus on qualitative data collection and is a great opportunity for any students interested in developing skills related to qualitative data collection and analysis.
View the job advertisement & apply now: bit.ly/4cJIOHl
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The Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (KRS) is hosting a physical activity program for children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and their neurotypical peers. P.L.A.Y. for All (Physical Literacy and Activities for Youth) will include 10 weeks, between September 16, 2024 and November 26, 2024, of instruction on gross motor skills/sport-oriented skills. All sessions are hosted in Klum Gym on UH Mānoa’s campus. Evaluations to determine program effectiveness will occur at two different time points throughout the program. Children will also receive a t-shirt!
More info and link to apply: bit.ly/3X4x6RR
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The UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) is thrilled to announce the Grow Our Own Teachers Initiative is recruiting its eighth cohort of students for the 2025–2026 academic year. Thanks to the generous support of Senator Michelle Kidani and the Hawaiʻi Department of Education (HIDOE), scholarship stipends will again be available.
Eligible students include those who have been admitted into the collegeʻs PBCTE in Secondary Education and Master of Education in Teaching (MEdT) programs and students who have applied to the PBCTE in Elementary Education and Bachelor in Elementary Education & Hawaiian Language Immersion programs.
While priority is given to HIDOE emergency hires, subtitutes, and educational assistants who are in secondary and elementary school settings, as well as to those seeking licensure in HIDOE Federal Teacher Shortage Areas (FTSA)*, applicants who are not HIDOE employees or seeking licensure in shortage areas are also encouraged to apply. The new cohort of candidates will be eligible to apply for teacher licensure from the Hawai‘i Teacher Standards Board (HTSB) upon graduation and will be required to teach full time for at least three years for the HIDOE or charter schools in Hawaiʻi.
More information, info session dates, & the link to application: bit.ly/4e2QAgr
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