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Faculty members from ISU’s Department of Communication and the College of Education who are working to ensure early career teachers in high-need schools have the training and support they need to be successful were recently honored with a 2005 Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence. Drs. Steve Hunt, Lance Lippert, and Brent Simonds (Department of Communication) and Drs. Maureen Angell, Penny Kolloff, and Marilyn Moore (College of Education) have worked to re-design and transform the way colleges of education and colleges of arts and sciences prepare graduates to teach in high-need Illinois K-12 schools as part of a $12.5 million, five-year Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) grant through the U.S. Department of Education. “We began as a group of faculty members interested in at-risk students and the teachers who teach them,” said Dr. Hunt. “After speaking with some of these teachers who deal with unimaginable situations in the classroom, we were inspired to develop practical teaching tools to prepare teachers before they go into the classroom and to support them once they are in the classroom.”

 

 

Smurlo was assigned to the Grosvenor Grant Program of the National Geographic Society Education Foundation, which supports efforts to engage K-12 students and teachers in the exploration of geographic skills and perspectives leading to an appreciation of the world, its people, and its resources. The program is designed to inspire students and teachers to be lifelong learners and agents of positive change, with the world as their classroom. Smurlo is the assistant to the program coordinator—serving as a proposal reviewer and making recommendations on funding.

Smurlo came to ISU to pursue a degree in Elementary Education. After taking Principles of Geology her first year, she decided to switch her major to Geography. At the conclusion of her internship, Smurlo plans to seek full time employment and eventually go to graduate school to obtain an MS degree in Earth Science Education.
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