Twenty-one Bowdoin student teachers help stage a multilingual shadow puppet performance in front of local elementary school children. It’s a part of a program to promote the study of world languages and cultures in schools.
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Professor of Education Doris Santoro praises the benefits doing “good work” in a commencement day address she delivered to graduating seniors at the University of Maine, Farmington, where she also received an honorary degree.
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Two alumni who have attracted a lot of attention recently for leadership in their respective fields both found themselves in the White House on the same day.
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The Bowdoin College Board of Trustees granted tenure to four faculty members during meetings held off campus February 9–11, 2023.
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The Department of Education this fall began a fellowship program to give graduates more teaching experience on campus before they enroll in its Bowdoin Teacher Scholars (BTS) program.
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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.
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.
Interested in a teaching opportunity the semester before Bowdoin Teacher Scholars? The Snow Family Teaching Fellowship provides recent graduates the chance to engage in teaching and mentoring at Bowdoin. Learn more.
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