College Hosts Delegation from Tanzanian Ministry of Education On April 15, 2009, the College's Director of International Initiatives Jim Greenberg (left) and Interim Associate Dean Steve Koziol (right) met with (l. to r.) Tanzanian Minister of Education Jumanne Maghembe, IREX Director Dennis Wood, Permanent Secretary of Education Hamisi Omary Dihenga, and a Phelps-Stokes Foundation representative Tanzanian Minister of Education Jumanne Abdallah Maghembe, accompanied by his Permanent Secretary of Education Hamisi Omary Dihenga, recently visited the College of Education under the auspices of IREX–a non-profit organization with which they are working on a long-term educational information technology program for Tanzanian secondary schools. The group met to discuss ways in which the College might assist the Ministry of Education with their plan to reform education and teacher education in Tanzania. The Ministry is planning massive professional development for teachers, especially in underserved rural areas, and needs help with technology infrastructure development, curriculum development, and teacher education enhancement. The Tanzanian delegation also met with President C.D. Mote and other campus faculties to discuss their development plan.   Grants: Professor Barbara Finkelstein (left) with Director of International Initiatives Jim Greenberg and President Elizabeth Davis-Russell of Tubman Technical College in Liberia Professor Barbara Finkelstein (Education Policy Studies) was awarded a Study Abroad Development Grant from the Office of International Programs. The competitive grant was established to facilitate the development of short term study abroad courses taught in new locations, to new students, with unique academic foci not currently covered by existing University of Maryland study abroad programs. Finkelstein will use her grant to develop a study abroad course to Liberia during winter term 2010. Maryland has a deep historical relationship with the West African country. In the 19th century, free Black Marylanders helped to settle Liberia. In August 2007, this relationship expanded with the establishment of the Maryland-Liberia Sister State Program–Maryland's first and only sister state relationship in Africa. Recently, in February 2009, the College of Education hosted president of the Tubman Technical College in Liberia, Elizabeth Davis-Russell, who expressed a strong desire to develop an exchange of faculty and students in mutually beneficial ways. [More]   In 2008 the College of Education established an International Travel Fund award program, administered by the Office of International Initiatives, to encourage and support international dimensions of scholarship and program development by members of the College. This spring, the program attracted a large number of faculty and graduate student proposals of high quality. Following are the selected winners and a summary of their proposed international projects/activities: Curriculum and Instruction Professor Peter Afflerbach will present a research paper as part of a symposium entitled "Multi-method approaches in research on self-regulated learning" at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) being held August 25-29, 2009, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jennifer Bacon will give an invited presentation of her work on gender studies and special needs at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. Summer Clark will present her research study, 'Exploring the Influence of Teacher Educators' Diverse Identities and Structural Factors on Student Learning in a Diversity Course,' in Upsalla, Sweden, this June. Chien-Yu Lin will present her critical review of existing literature regarding how independent learners use digital language learning strategies (DLLS) to facilitate their learning, at the Independent Learning Association Conference (ILAC) being held June 3-5, 2009, in Hong Kong, China. Human Development Associate Professor Natasha Cabrera will engage in a collaborative research program and present a talk at a two-week program at Cambridge University with faculty member Michael Lamb. Lamb is a renowned specialist in the study of social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood; the determinants and consequences of adaptive and maladaptive parental behavior, and applied developmental psychology. Candise Chen will conduct research in summer 2009 in Beijing, China, to examine the development of tone sensitivity in young Chinese children and its influence on their literacy acquisition. Distinguished University Professor Nathan Fox will engage in a series of collaborative research and teaching activities at the invitation of Zhejiang University in Hongzhou, China. The Department of Psychology has invited Fox to set up a collaboration with their Infant laboratory and his own laboratory, the Child Development Lab at the UM College of Education. Professor Melanie Killen will travel to the U.K. (Canterbury and London) and Switzerland (Zurich) to work on two collaborative international research projects designed to understand processes related to social exclusion in school settings. Education Leadership, Higher Education and International Education Professor Nelly Stromquist will present two papers at conferences in Europe this summer. The first conference, in Athens from June 22-26, is being organized jointly by the International Association for Intercultural Education and the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute. Stromquist will discuss, 'Immigrants and the Educational Experience in the US.' The second conference, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, is June 29-July 3 in Tryavna, Bulgaria. Stromquist's presentation is entitled 'Higher Education and the Search for Excellence: US Strategies.' [View full project descriptions]		INSIDE: Upcoming events & Important dates A Global Perspective Faculty/Staff/Student News Alumni News Campaign Update Tech Talk CoE In The News CB front page CB archives College home page
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