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"Our areas of specialization offer undergraduate and graduate students an array of courses to develop programs tailored to their interests."

The Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
is one of three newly formed departments within the College of Education. It is a union of former units Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI), Education Policy Studies (EDPS) and Organizational Leadership and Policy Studies (OLPS). Interrelated program areas currently include: Art Education, Curriculum Theory and Development, Education Policy, Elementary Education, English Education, Literacy Education, Mathematics Education, Middle School Education, Minority and Urban Education, Organizational Leadership, Reading Education, Science Education, Second Language/TESOL, Social Studies Education, Professional Development/Teacher Education, and Sociocultural Foundations of Education.

Additional departmental programs encourage thoughtful and responsive explorations of education policies, practices and related social issues. Graduate students are prepared to create and critique alternative courses of action to enhance the quality of education for all persons and to redress the social conditions that restrict collective democratic aspirations.

The department is being structured around three Divisions (Science and Mathematics; Language, Literacy, Culture and Social Inquiry; Education Policy and Leadership) housing the programmatic areas, which is where the web resources are placed as well. Please click on any of these three divisions of the department to navigate to the resources you need. Also,you will find side menus to locate the many useful links within the department.

Science, Technology and
Mathematics Education

Language, Literacy, Culture,
and Social Inquiry

Education Policy and Leadership

DEPARTMENT NEWS

FACULTY NEWS

Department Graduate Awarded Marian Greenblatt Education Fund Rising Star Teacher of the Year,

Eupil K. Muhn is an English teacher at A. Mario Loiederman Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was named the 2012 Marian Greenblatt Education Fund Rising Star Teacher of the Year, an award given annually to a first or second-year Montgomery County Public Schools Teacher who demonstrates exceptional promise. Since 1989, the Fund has recognized 74 teachers for excellence. Muhn will be honored along with three veteran teacher winners in April at the Champions for Children Gala, hosted by the Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education (MCBRE).

Former Graduate of The Department Appointed Chancellor of Montana State University- Northern

James Limbaugh who received his doctorate of philosophy in educational policy and leadership from the University of Maryland has been appointed as Chancellor of Montana State University-Northern. Dr. Limbaugh is currently vice president for strategy, planning and policy at Angelo State University in San Angelo,Texas, a position he has held since 2008.

Former Graduate of The Department Awarded
"Teacher of the Year"

The College of Education Alumni Association has honored one of our past graduates with the Teacher of the Year Award. Congratulations to Colleen O'Brien Everson who received her B.S. degree in Elementary Education in 2007 and a Master's degree specializing in Reading Education in 2011. Formerly a first-grade teacher in Prince George¹s County, Mrs. Everson now teaches first-grade in Harford County."

Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, has announced...

that one of the winners of its Culturally Responsive Teaching Award is UMD College of Education graduate, Tracy Oliver-Gary. The award was designed to recognize educators who have demonstrated excellence in teaching students from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

More News and Announcements...

Retirement Symposium Celebrating Dr. Steen Shelden:
May 11, 2012

In honor of his 35 years as a colleague, the College of Education is hosting a retirement symposium where Dr. Selden will present his ideas on what he has learned after 50 years in the classroom. For more information in attending this special event, please navigate to the following information page.

Sherick Hughes named 2012 Border Crossers Recipient, and MIMAUE Mission-Focused Honoree. More...

Hanne Mawhinney Receives a UCEA Distinguished Service Award
Hanne Mawhinney received a Distinguished Service Award from the University Council for Educational Administration. More...

Dr. Steve Selden's work and recently published book,“Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America,” are referenced in CNN report on court ordered sterilization in North Carolina.

Dr. Sherick Hughes has been nominated for two 2012 Early Career Awards by award-winning members of the American Educational Research Association (AERA): (1)the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education Early Career Award and (2)the Social Context of Education-Division G Early Career Award. More...

Dr. Jean Dreher, TLPL, received the inaugural Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Journal of Literacy Research. Her award was presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL in December. More...

Dr. Dennis Herschbach, was selected to receive the The Outstanding Manuscript Award for the Journal of sTEm Teacher Education, for his article: "The STEM Initiative: Constraints and Challenges."

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Programs Announced For Teaching Middle School Math and Science

"The Community and Diversity in American Life Colloquium SERIES"
featuring
Professor Michael W. Apple

"THE TASKS OF THE CRITICAL SCHOLAR/ACTIVIST IN EDUCATION"

The Department offers undergraduate and graduate study leading to the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Arts (M.A.) (thesis and non-thesis options), Master of Education (M. Ed.), Doctor of Education (Ed. D.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).