Nancy Darden Child Development Center
The mission of the Nancy Darden Child Development Center in the Department of Child Development in the College of Human College is: 1) to serve as a model training facility […]
12.17.2014
Elementary and Middle Grades Education
December 2014
Lucretia Smith – Ready to Start her Career as an Elementary School Teacher
As a child, Lucretia Smith’s favorite game was playing school with her two sisters, and she was always the teacher. “Teaching is something I’ve always wanted to do,” said Smith, […]
12.12.2014
November 2014
ECU to Participate in Global Day of Giving
‘Tis the season for giving! In honor of #GivingTuesday, East Carolina University is inviting alumni, friends, parents, students, faculty, and staff to join the movement by giving a charitable gift* […]
11.26.2014
Abby Colley – A Pirate Who Does Us Proud
On November 6, 2014 at the NCSTA conference in Winston-Salem Abby Colley received the Outstanding Student Teacher Award. Abby is a well-deserving graduate from the Elementary Science Concentration and is currently teaching […]
11.24.2014
ICYMI: Implementing edTPA in Small Teacher Prep Programs
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
ICYMI: Now What? Using edTPA Data to Drive Program Improvement
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
Emeritus Professor Awarded “The Order of the Long Leaf Pine”
Dr. William B. Martin, College of Education Professor Emeritus, recently, received one of the most prestigious honors the Governor of North Carolina can award The Order of the Long Leaf […]
11.3.2014
October 2014
Math Club Receives an “Insider’s View of Getting a Job”
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, the Gamma Student Chapter of NCCTM hosted a 12 person panel consisting of principals, math department chairs/lead grade level math teachers, and a director of […]
10.31.2014
ICYMI – Co-Teaching, “A New Model for Student Teaching.”
The fall 2013 issue of ECU’s East magazine featured the Co-Teaching initiative in the ECU College of Education as an exciting and innovative new practice, “A New Model for Student […]
10.31.2014