This October was the second time Bowdoin presented the Education for the Common Good Award to one Maine educator who thoughtfully integrates common good into their work: this year, Mallory Haar from Casco Bay High School.
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In her book, "Demoralized," education professor Doris Santoro asks why so many teachers are quitting and asks: What can be done to reverse this worsening teacher shortage in the US?
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A recently published book co-authored by Bowdoin Professor of Education Charles Dorn looks at the role of patriotism in American schools and civic education through a historical and philosophical lens.
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“Demoralization happens when educators face persistent challenges to their professional values,” argues Associate Professor of Education Santoro.
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Ben Ray ’20 jumped at the chance to help launch the inaugural CCLIMB (Creating Compassionate Leadership in Maine Boys) group. “I’m an education student and I’m a student of gender and women’s students,” he said. “I believe gender is not talked about enough at schools, and ignoring it is actively causing problems in our society.”
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Being aware of your own cultural background as well as that of your students is critical to more effective teaching and learning—that was the message explored recently by faculty taking part in the first day of the College’s four-day May Institute.
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Lecturer Jamie Rankin of Princeton kicked off the series of events with a lecture underlining how there’s no substitute for knowledge of vocabulary when it comes to learning and teaching a foreign language.
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A pioneering research project, involving education and computer science faculty, has now processed more than 1.2 million teacher tweets in an effort to get the true measure of what America’s educators are saying about their jobs.
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The six Bowdoin Teacher Scholars in the Spring 2017 cohort began their student teaching experience on January 3rd.
Read moreStudents are able to coordinate studies in education with the liberal arts curriculum in a variety of way—including research, community-engaged study, and teacher preparation.