Charles Dorn devises a new education course examining the question of how Americans came to develop their views of the natural world. “Over the century and a half,” he says, “we have largely taught through nature but not for it.”
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Matthew Bernstein ’13, a humanities and social studies teacher at Casco Bay High School in Portland, has been named Maine’s 2023 Teacher of the Year.
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Seven Bowdoin professors have been appointed to named chairs at the College in recognition of their achievements as scholars and educators.
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The Education Department has presented four teachers with its 2022 Education for the Common Good Award to recognize their collective effort toward achieving equity and excellence in the Portland Public Schools district.
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The Bowdoin College Library recently launched an exhibit featuring a newly acquired collection of Spanish language children’s books. It’s part of an initiative to help students teach language skills to local elementary school kids.
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After graduating from the Bowdoin Teacher Scholars program in May, Taylor Jorgensen Emery ’22 is preparing for her first job as a teacher at Saint Dominic Academy in Auburn, Maine.
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Elementary school education professionals from across the US gather for a two-week institute looking at identity and language learning. The event was sponsored by a $175,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities.
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Bowdoin College and the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance have received a National Science Foundation grant to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning for pre-k and kindergarten students and teachers.
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From political science to neuroscience, from climate change to computer science, Bowdoin faculty were tapped by the media for their expertise and insight along a broad range of topics over the past academic year.
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This academic year, Multilingual Mainers had its largest cohort of Bowdoin students volunteering to teach languages at the local elementary school. To celebrate, they threw a playground fiesta in May with live music and dancing.
Read moreStudents are able to coordinate studies in education with the liberal arts curriculum in a variety of ways—including research, community-engaged study, and teacher preparation.