News and updates from the College of Education and Human Development
How do young children make sense of the world around them? A partnership between our College and the University Children’s Learning Center (UCLC) is exploring how nature, movement, and everyday experiences help preschoolers build skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since 2024, CEHD faculty members Drs. Elizabeth Suazo-Flores, Amber Adgerson, and Chris McGrail […]
Categories: Events, Human Interest, News
We go to college to attend classes, get a good education, graduate to an awesome career, and ride off into the sunset. But there’s so much more to the college experience. There are many opportunities to learn cool things outside of class, socialize and network with fellow students and faculty, and celebrate and show school […]
Categories: Awards, Events, Human Interest, News, Research
Pictured: a teacher at Lake Agassiz Elementary in her classroom. Credit: UND. UND has offered degrees in teacher education since its founding in 1883 – meaning we’ve been producing and supporting teachers in North Dakota before North Dakota was even a state! (That came six years later.) The point is that we love teachers […]
Putting together a professional wardrobe on a student budget isn’t easy. That’s why for the second year in a row, the Future Educators of UND (FEUND) are sponsoring a clothing drive for students who are about to begin student teaching or working in career environments. “The students had expressed perhaps a need or interest in […]
SEA OTRR event drew future education majors to UND’s campus Teacher education and education careers were front and center at this fall’s See Education in Action for Outreach in Teacher Recruitment and Retention (SEA OTRR) event on October 9. The event drew over 100 high school students from within a 90-mile radius of Grand […]
Categories: Events, Research, Student Recognition
CEHD students experienced place-based science learning focused on bird migration Science learning is an important part of the curriculum for all PreK-12 students. That foundational learning begins at the elementary level. Recently, a group of future elementary school teachers took an extra step towards expanding their own science understanding through place-based learning in the Red […]
November was surprisingly busy for students and faculty alike. Check out CEHD’s Month In Review. Nov. 30: Dr. Ryan Summers and CEHD future educators used liquid nitrogen to offer stone-cold instruction to middle schoolers From banana splits (flash frozen) to splitting atoms Nov. 30: UND Today’s story about online student Muhammad Nasir put […]
Last September, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum created the Task Force for Teacher Retention and Recruitment to address the critical and ongoing teacher shortage in the state. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, Burgum released the names of the 15 appointees who will represent the education community in this initiative. The only appointee from an institute […]
Room 5 in the Education Building was packed Tuesday night with future educators and other UND students who were there for…trauma. UND Teacher Education worked with the National Center for Safe Supportive Schools (NCS3) to present “Trauma-Informed Practices”, an enlightening and interactive presentation that challenged how attendees understood and perceived trauma. Dr. Tali Raviv, a […]
On Thursday, Aug. 10, educators and education professsionals from North Dakota and Minnesota gathered at UND’s Memorial Union…to play with toys. Throughout the day, they got to play with KEVA planks, learn tabletop games, experience robotics, operate drones, and even build mini Martian rovers. Most importantly, they got to ignite a creative spark that they […]