Pictured are: (L-R) left to right: CMSD graduate students Rebecca Benson, Emily Campos and Madyson Feit and Alice Sanderson, CMSD Clinical Assistant Professor and Audiologist

A group of UGA College of Education students in communication sciences helped the UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic publicize International Noise Awareness Day on Wednesday, April 24 at the Tate Student Center.  Grady Newsource Channel 15 reports on the story.

CMSD graduate students Emily Campos and Madyson Feit with Hairy Dawg at Tate Center.

Cramond

Bonnie Cramond, director of UGA’s Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development, is interviewed on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” in the second of a three-part series about education and the arts which aired on April 17.

This hour-long show will feature a discussion with Red Clay Writing Project teachers Lois Alexander, Tonia Paramore, Kelli Bivins and Jaye Thiel.

Allen

The show will introduce the audience to the book, A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers, edited by College of Education faculty member JoBeth Allen and Lois Alexander. The book is a set of portraits from K-12 classrooms that illustrate how teachers used the U.N. Rights of the Child as a framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues.

The Red Clay Writing project, based in the University of Georgia’s College of Education, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, holds an annual summer institute in which nearly two dozen area teachers meet to expand their knowledge and share their experience in learning how to best teach writing.  See more on the Red Clay Writing Project.

Smagorinsky

Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of language and literacy education at the University of Georgia, who is among the world’s most authoritative and prolific voices for educational reform, called for authentic teacher evaluation in delivering the John S. Oehler Lecture for Educational Leadership at  Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Education  on April 10.

See video of the lecture.

Patterson

Christopher Patterson, a faculty member in the College of Education’s department of communication sciences and special education, received the 2012 Georgia Deaf Community Leader Award. Patterson, who is deaf, uses sign language to deliver his lectures, advise his students and communicate with others on and off campus.

Patterson and and his work are featured in an April 1 Columns story titled, “Grand Gestures.” The article also includes a link to a UGA multimedia piece on Patterson. In addition, the story is displayed as the “Teaching” feautre on the UGA Home Page this week.

AIRS was formed and is led by community volunteers, most of whom are University of Georgia graduates or students.

A UGA multimedia piece focuses on the non-profit organization Athens Inclusive Recreation and Sports, which is seeking members of the Athens and UGA community to participate in its first ever Beep Baseball team. College of Education sports management and policy master’s student John Dunne is the marketing consultant for the AIRS organization whose volunteers are mostly comprised of UGA graduate or students. Beep Baseball is an adapted sport for the visually impaired and legally blind. All players, with the exception of the catcher, pitcher and spotters are required to wear a blindfold and be guided by modified bases and balls that produce an electronic beeping sound.

See the multimedia piece, produced by Dorothy Kozlowski, on Beep Baseball featured on UGA Photography’s Home Page and UGA’s You Tube site.

Here is a sneak preview of a 4-minute multimedia presentation on the project by UGA photographer Dot Paul that will be published online with a story in the December 2012 issue of Georgia Magazine.

Torrance

E. Paul Torrance, the late professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Georgia and known internationally as the “Father of Creativity,” is referenced in a November 23 report on creativity on WNYC’s  radio show Studio 360.

The show includes interviews with professor and author Gary Marcus (Guitar Zero) about what science tells us about creativity. A researcher shoves jazz musicians into an fMRI machines and has them improvise; an intrepid reporter gets her creativity tested and scored; and a little girl introduces us to her imaginary friends (all of them).

Gray teaching in his Boston, Mass., classroom in 2011

Adam Gray (BSEd ’06), the 2012 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year who earned his bachelor’s in mathematics education from UGA, spoke on many issues relevant to those in a variety of disciplines and across the K-12 grade bands during this special colloquium on November 5 at Aderhold Hall.

During his talk Gray shared anecdotes and strategies that he used to overcome some of the challenges he and his fellow teachers faced daily while working at one of the lowest performing schools in his state. He also shared what he has learned from the unique opportunities afforded him as teacher of the year.

Video of colloquium

Ferrara

The University of Georgia Athletic Department’s “layered approach” to diagnosis and treatment of athletes who suffer brain concussions while participating in their sport is featured in a September 17 report on CBS Atlanta TV.  Associate Dean for Research, professor of exercise science and founder  of UGA’s Athletic Training Education program, Michael Ferrara was among those interviewed in the report.