Traditionally, student teaching has involved the pairing of one teacher candidate (intern) with one experienced classroom teacher (clinical teacher). Gradually, the intern takes on more and more responsibility in the […]
11.13.2014
The Senior Year Internship is a required clinical experience for teacher education majors at East Carolina University. It is a two-semester experience within a public school classroom, under the mentorship […]
11.11.2014
At the North Carolina Professional Development Institute this weekend in Winston-Salem, Science Education faculty set up a stylish booth where they could disseminate information about our degrees and certificate programs. […]
11.10.2014
The Science Education Against Drug Abuse Partnership (SEADAP) Program recently invited educators and administrators from Pitt and Martin county public schools to participate in four professional development sessions. The participants […]
11.9.2014
In small teacher preparation programs, the issue of implementation and scale-up of using a standardized performance assessment, like edTPA, can be challenging. Peck and McDonald (2013) found one of the […]
11.7.2014
The Educator Preparation Provider (EPP) Unit at East Carolina University is hosting an accreditation visit by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) on February 8-10, 2015. The […]
11.6.2014
With edTPA implementations growing nationwide, it is imperative that teacher preparation programs explore meaningful ways to feed that data back to faculty for program and unit improvement. Key to this […]
11.5.2014