Outreach and More
New Projects
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The Listening Project
The
Listening Project, starting in 2017-18, is an
ambitious effort funded by the
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute's initiative for Inclusive Excellence. It focuses
on introductory science courses at Tufts, based on the idea
that a key part of supporting inclusion and excellence is
instructors' recognizing and engaging with the diverse
strengths and productive intellectual resources students
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Tisch College Social-Emotional Learning, Civic
Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative
Associate Director:
Deborah Donahue-Keegan
This is a year-long Faculty Fellows program aimed at
integrating social-emotional learning into core teaching,
research and education activities at Tufts. It is funded
through the Zussman Fund for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, and it is
facilitated in collaboration with the Center for the
Enhancement of Learning & Teaching (CELT). 17 faculty are
participating, in 2017-18, from across the university. |
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Tufts Ed MAKER Internship Program
Brian Gravel
The Tufts Ed MAKER Internship Program is funded by the
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program at the National
Science Foundation. Interns are developing makerspace for a
local K-8 school and run summer workshops for children.
Children make animations, interactive digital sculptures,
e-textiles, and objects out of wood and paper. They use 3D
printing technologies, low-cost high-tech electronics (e.g.,
Arduino, Makey Makey), craft technologies (e.g., sewing,
wood burning). |
Continuing Projects
Here is a sampling of the outreach currently going on by faculty
and staff in the department. Take a look, and feel free to get in
touch with any of us for more information, with questions, and with
ideas for collaboration.
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Global Partnerships for Education
Linda Beardsley and
Pearl Emmons Since 2008, Senior Lecturer Linda V. Beardsley
has been working with the Maranyundo Initiative, a group of Boston area women
who has collaborated with the Benebikira Nuns of Rwanda to build and develop the
Maranyundo School in Nyamata, Rwanda. Colleagues at the Center for Engineering
Education and Outreach and in the Education Department - including media
specialist Pearl Emmons, who has visited and filmed the school and has worked
with the teachers at the school on using video and technology to enhance their
teaching - have also been involved in this ongoing work. |
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Journal of Museum Education
Cynthia Robinson
Museum Studies Program director Cynthia Robinson is editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Museum Education, keeping in touch with museum educators all over the
country, informing her teaching, and allowing her in turn to help shape the
field. The fall 2014 issue of the Journal
of Museum Education devotes a section to teen engagement in museums,
guest-edited by local museum educator Gabrielle Wyrick, who works at the
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. |
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SPARC
Silas Pinto
SPARC (School Psychology Awareness and Recruitment Committee) is a student
committee in the school psychology program designed to raise awareness and
educate our campus and community about school psychology as an viable career in
education and schools. The committee
is composed of current students, usually in the first and second year, who meet
on a regular basis to plan activities and events for the academic year, such as
the school psychology Open House/student panels, the School Psychology Awareness
day, and interview day.
The committee also serves as the Liaison between the program and Tufts Graduate
Students Council. Student volunteers are also available to discuss career
options in school psychology as well as talk about their experience in the Tufts
School Psychology Program. |
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Student Centered Teaching at Tufts
David Hammer and Phil Gay (and participating faculty)
With Professor David Hammer in the interviewer seat and videographer Phil Gay
behind the camera, Tufts University faculty members from across disciplines and
departments are captured on video while teaching in their classrooms and later
interviewed as they observe themselves in real time and reflect on specific
moments of interaction with their students. |
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Students Write at Malden High School
Sean Walsh, the Lead Teacher of the English Department, and several other
faculty at Malden High School developed a space for students
interested in writing called the Writers' Den. The Tufts
Education Department supported setting up the space through
sharing resources and creating an internship for a Tufts
Senior to work closely with teachers and students to promote
literacy activities and publish student work. Larry Evans,
the first Writers' Den intern, describes the space as one in
which "young writers are not judged at first by their
grammar usage. All writers, including ELLs, need a place where
they feel a sense of acceptance and the importance of self-expression." |
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Urban Mathematics and Science Teacher Collaborative - (Noyce)
Todd Quinto, PI Phase I; Bárbara Brizuela, PI Phase
II
We have been awarded two Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship
Program grants, through the National Science Foundation. In
Phase I, the department and project partners prepared two
cohorts of math and physics teachers, who are now working in
middle and high schools around the country. Phase II
Teaching Fellows will begin their programs in fall 2015,
working in Malden Public Schools, in math, science, and
elementary teaching. Both projects include community and
professional partnerships as well as ongoing professional
development for several years after graduation. |
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