Stories About Our Students
What prompted teacher Corrin Shulze to go back to school?
Corrin Shulze walked into the room where the School of Education’s Centennial Marathon’s presentation on Hip Hop Culture was taking place and by the time she left, she knew she was going to make a career change.
Chavva Coordinates Farmer Water Schools in India
Konda Reddy Chavva, a CIE doctoral student, spent this past summer in Southern India working with World Education project staff and farmers to design participatory methodology for collection of baseline data on climatic variability. World Education assists the Andhra Pradesh Farmer Managed Groundwater Systems Project in the design and im
Recruitment for college doesn’t have to wait until high school
It isn’t everyday that a student-teacher has the opportunity to share her love for her alma mater with nearly 70 fourth graders.
“Career-changer” leaves corporate for classroom
With a B.A. in English literature from Elmira College and some time travelling after graduation behind him, Christian Austin was ready for his first job. He set out on an insurance career path. Then, feeling that there was something else in store for him, and remembering how he had enjoyed being a writing tutor while in college, he decided to “leave insurance and go back to school.” To be a teacher.
When teacher Mindy Eichhorn went to India to teach abandoned women life skills, her own life changed.
Her interest in India started when she was at the University of Tennessee where she earned a B.S. in Special Education and an M.S. in Education.
“I took a class about women and cross-cultural perspectives and something about India was a magnet. I felt pulled to the women of India,” said Mindy Eichhorn, a SOE student currently working on her doctorate in international education. Upon graduation from UTenn, she moved to Hartford and started teaching for Hartford Public Schools in the summer of 2002. But her interest in India never flagged.
SOE student mentors and elementary school pupils go to a Writing Party
Graduate and undergraduate students in Education 497I, Tutoring in Schools, recently joined pupils from Mark’s Meadow Elementary School’s After School day care program in a Writing Party.
“A writing party is an interactive, cross-age writing experience where individuals of different ages write together,” said Dr. Robert Maloy, senior lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies. Dr. Maloy and lecturer Sharon Edwards have held writing parties at schools and after-school programs all around the state.
Harmony in her classroom
Amanda Woolley has had music on the mind since she was 7. Today, the 22-year-old award-winning teacher is spreading her passion for rhythm and harmony to students at the Dorman and Lincoln elementary schools.
2009-10 SOE Scholarship Recipients Named
The School of Education awarded scholarships to 14 graduate students this year. They are:
