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Welcome to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I)! We offer high quality learning programs to prepare education professionals for positions in schools, higher education, and the workplace. Undergraduates in C&I may enroll in programs leading to teacher licensure in elementary education or social studies education. At the graduate level, students may pursue advanced degrees in education disciplines including curriculum studies, education for work and community, educational technology, literacy and language education, mathematics education, science education, and social studies education. Our faculty conducts research that links theory to practice leading to new discoveries in many aspects of the teaching and learning process across a wide variety of educational contexts. C&I serves the needs of society through engagement with our local, state, national, and international communities. We value collaboration, community, diversity, global perspectives, inquiry, and reflection, and we aspire to provide educational leadership in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and technology-rich world. Sincerely, James D. Lehman Head of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction |
James Lehman, C&I department head and professor of educational technology, is part of a team that is developing a new program to prepare computer science teachers for high schools. Dubbed CS4EDU, the project is funded by a 3-year National Science Foundation grant. More Anatoli Rapoport is hosting 26 teachers from 10 countries as part of a Teaching for Excellence and Achievement program funded by IREX. The teachers will be on campus for a 6-week program. Professor Rapoport will host Russian teacher this summer as part of a newly awarded Teachers to Teachers grant. Phillip VanFossen, James F. Ackerman Professor of Social Studies Education, has been chosen as a fellow in the 2009-10 Academic Leadership Program sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). This program develops the leadership and managerial skills of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise. Purdue’s new licensure program with a focus on teaching English language learners was approved by the state of Indiana. The English Language Learning (ELL) licensure program will provide pre-service and in-service teachers with the professional preparation needed to add English as a New Language to existing teaching licenses. The main focus of the program is the development of current and appropriate skills to effectively accommodate the needs of English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream classrooms. The program will use a hybrid-course delivery format, with courses offered online and face-to-face in different semesters, to address the needs of teachers who are from diverse regions within Indiana. Program requirements include 12 credit hours of course work, participation in a professional conference, and completion of an electronic portfolio. For questions about this new program, contact Dr. Luciana C. de Oliveira, ELL Licensure Program Director, at luciana@purdue.edu or (765) 494-2358. To submit an application, go to https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=purduegrad. The National Council on Teacher Quality (www.nctq.org) released a report, What Indiana's Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading, highly critical of the state's preparation of teachers to teach reading. However, Purdue University's programs (at West Lafayette, Calumet, and North Central) constituted 3 of the 6 programs (out of a total of 41) that were cited as ensuring that all elementary teaching majors have adequate exposure to the science of reading. John Staver and Mary Nakhleh were inducted in the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). They were recognized at the AERA annual meeting. |