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Panther GIVEN NAME/ PRÉNOMS/ NOMBRES
Roary NATIONALITY/ NATIONALITÉ/ NACIONALIDAD
United States of America DATE OF BIRTH/ DATE DE NAISSANCE/ FEDCHA DE NACIMIENTO
31 – AUG – 1987 SEX/ SEXE/ SEXO
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Miami, Florida. U.S.A.
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A Message from Delia C. Garcia, Ed.D. Dean, College of Education Thank you for learning more about our international and domestic initiatives in FIU’s College of Education. I am very proud of our faculty and students and the global and local engagement they provide in communities around the world and here in Miami. Roary saw some of these initiatives on his trip around the world, but there is so much more that we do here in the College of Education. I would like to recognize the creative vision and hard work of the entire 2014 College of Education Homecoming Committee led by Marilyn Vincson, Katie Pereyra, and Pierre Schoepp.
Don’t forget to look for our FIU College of Education faculty, staff and students in each of the locations!
And Roary, of course!
Mission International Rescue (MIR) Charities is a non-profit organization that works to supply the Dominican Republic’s most marginalized people with a variety of life-altering services. Since 1990, MIR has served the women, youth and children of La Romana and the Eastern region of the Dominican Republic by partnering with and providing funding for social programs. With the help of benefactors and individual contributions, the programs provide a home, medical assistance, education and technical preparation for the people that are most in need in the community. Our FIU team works directly with various MIR schools to provide teachers with professional development, sharing pedagogical best practices with the instructional staff and effective leadership strategies with the administrative team. Consistent evaluations, coupled with participant feedback, allows for tailored trainings that are personalized for optimum effectiveness.
FIU has been delivering off-campus degree programs in Kingston, Jamaica in partnership with the University College of the Caribbean (UCC) since 1999. In 2006, FIU entered into a contractual agreement with UCC to begin offering the Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction (MSCI) in Jamaica. UCC serves as FIU’s agent and assists in the recruitment of prospective students, provides lodging and meals for program faculty and administrators, and provide the facilities for the instructional program site in Jamaica. Â
Professor David Chang’s summer course studies art and art education in France, from ancient to modern times, and satisfies a Global Learning (GL) requirement. It is designed for students who wish to learn about art on-site and, in return, incorporate these new learning experiences into the established curriculum. The course begins with three seminars on campus prior to leaving on a guided study tour of France. The course will be complemented by on-site art education while in France and concludes with a seminar and presentations upon returning home. No prior experience is required.
It is FIU’s most unusual study abroad program. College of Education Professor Alexis McKenney took 10 students to Europe this summer not to expose them to art and culture. Rather, she wanted the group to encounter firsthand the hardships of navigating foreign destinations while dealing with disabilities. Although all of the students on the trip were fully abled, McKenney had them acting the roles of paraplegic and blind tourists.
Visible Thinking South Florida is a Florida International University community engagement initiative integrated by preservice teachers, graduate students, alumni and early childhood practitioners from over 20 schools from Miami-Dade and Broward counties. It came together in 2006 under the leadership of Dr. Angela K. Salmon with a few of her early childhood students who were interested in creating cultures of thinking in their early childhood classrooms through action research. Dr. Salmon is currently on sabbatical working with the Independent Schools Victoria in West Melborne, Victoria. She is a member of the “Thinker in Residence Program� and is engaged in teacher professional development and research in Visible Thinking and Habits of Mind for preschool through first years of school.
DPI is a six-week English Teacher Training and Certificate program developed by COE to provide 50 High School English teachers from Brazil intensive English language instruction at FIU's English Language Institute and a noncredit English Language Teaching Pedagogy course. Participants will have the opportunity to improve their English language skills in all areas by taking part in a series of classes provided by the institute and were exposed to teaching methodologies that encouraged classroom participation, best practices in student assessment and evaluation and exposure of online and other technical resources for teacher development and lesson plan preparation.
Eric Dwyer, a 2010 Fulbright Scholar to the National University of Rwanda, worked with new teachers to uncover ways in which their own knowledge could contribute to the construction of their own curricula and materials. The results of the research and work with college interns, later entitled Lessons from the Children of Genocide, indicated not only numerous obstacles imposed from post-colonialist powers -- especially those generated by expatriates and reappropriated by older, local fat cats -- but also exuberance, artfulness, and optimism of young people willing to look at their post-conflict society with a fresh, modern, and multilingual lens, while simultaneously building onto an ancient yet successful cooperative system.
Dr. Joyce Fine has been partnering with North Miami Senior High to deliver a practicum in the fall and spring with Masters of Science in Reading Education for striving adolescent readers for six years. Now, Dr. A. Michelle Digirolamo, Assistant Principal of North Miami High School who has a Doctorate in Reading from FIU’s College of Education, and Dr. Fine will be working together to conduct a research project. This effort creates a Teacher Learning Community to work with teachers of English Language students (Els) on implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). While the CCSS apply to everyone equally in preparing student to become “College and Career Ready,” there is no regard for different language and cultural backgrounds. These standards offer a unique challenge for teachers of ELs. The Teacher Learning Community‘s aim is to identify strategies that accelerate vocabulary learning and develop a depth of understanding when reading and writing to support ELs in meeting the new rigorous standards.
Dr. Chuck Bleiker and his students developed a program, Math Ways, which teaches five specific number competencies (naming, writing, comparison, sequence, and bonds) which are known to predict later match achievement. These competencies are all taught by playing many of the 30 games developed by the Math Ways team. At the end of four months the children who received the Math Ways curriculum scored on average 11 out of the possible 18 while the children who did not received on average only 8 out of a possible 18. This statistically significant result demonstrated that this small group of at-risk, Hispanic children, most of whom spoke little English, had improved their Pre-K math scores by simply playing games.
FIU After-School All-Stars is a national non-profit organization that provides free comprehensive after-school programs that keep children safe and help them succeed in school and in life. The FIU chapter is currently running programs in 8 middle schools throughout Miami-Dade County, including Hialeah Gardens Middle School. FIU ASAS provides at risk, low-income children with free afterschool programs and summer camps to enrich South Florida’s underserved youth, academically, emotionally and physically. Other Schools: Brownsville Middle, Charles R. Drew K-8,k Glades Middle, Hialeah Gardens Middle, Kinloch Park Middle, Norland Middle, North Dade Middle and West Miami Middle.
Funded by the Early Learning Coalition, the Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) project provides technical assistance3 and accreditation support to early care and education centers south of Flagler Street to the Monroe County line. The project reviews early learning programs according to clearly defined, high quality standards using a five star method of evaluation and offers support and incentives to help providers reach their goals.