Jones Institute for Educational Excellence

7 p.m., April 18, 2013 Lecture

Topic: Sliding Toward Inquiry: Using the Essential Features of Inquiry to Improve Learning in the Laboratory Environment

Location:
Greek Room,
Memorial Union,
Emporia State University

FREE and Open to the Public

Lecture Sponsors: Jones Institute for Educational Excellence, ESU Departments of Physical Sciences, Phi Delta Kappa

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In recent years, there has been a repeated call for science instructors to improve learning in the laboratory environment by modifying laboratory activities to make them less “cookbook” and more inquiry-oriented. But what does that mean? What is “inquiry?” What does it look like in a laboratory learning environment, and what can an instructor do to make a laboratory activity more inquiry-oriented? In this interactive lecture, we will discuss four historical laboratory instructional styles, their relationships to inquiry, variations of inquiry, and how instructors can use the “Five Essential Features of Inquiry” to make their laboratory activities more inquiry-oriented. 

MaryKay Orgill is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA). After a high school teacher told her that girls couldn’t “do chemistry,” she entered Brigham Young University as a chemistry major (BS '95). She was surprised to find that she actually liked chemistry—and loved teaching it; so she enrolled in a graduate program at Purdue University to study both biochemistry (MS '99) and chemical education (PhD '03). As a first-year faculty member with a joint appointment in biochemistry and science education at the University of Missouri-Columbia, she took on the extra challenge of teaching a high school chemistry class. In 2004, she moved to UNLV, where her research focuses on using qualitative methods to examine students’ understandings of chemistry and biochemistry concepts.

Spring 2011 - Yong Zhao, Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon; Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Education; Fellow, International Academy for Education

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February 23 Lecture

Topic:
American Education in the Age of Globalization

Lecture Sponsors:
ESU Special Events Board, Academic Enhancement Grants, Phi Delta Kappa, & the Department of Instructional Design & Technology

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Presentation Event Program

Topic:
Linking Aesthetic Principles to Teaching the Standards

Sponsors:
JDL Series and Department of Special Education & School Counseling

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In an age of accountability, it is not uncommon to see aesthetics dropped from consideration in teaching to the standards. This lecture will focus on how to treat the arts as partners in developing cognitive skills in all areas of the curriculum. By merging the intent of the arts standards for appreciation and performance with core subject areas, we can illuminate deeper understanding of concepts and higher level skills of thinking and problem-solving. Illustrations of these ideas will be shared, using the visual arts and literature as key examples.

Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary in Virginia where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. She is the author and/or editor for numerous publications, including the Critical Issues in Equity and Excellence in Gifted Education Series published by NAGC. Her major research interests are on the talent development process and effective curricular interventions with the gifted.

Topic:
A New Deal for the Nursery: Golden Books and the Democratization of American Children’s Book Publishing

Sponsors:
JDL Series and ESU Archives

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What should children read? This wide-ranging illustrated talk highlighted the key moments in a lively 300-yearold debate that has often made allies—or enemies—of the nation’s publishers, librarians, religious leaders, parents, and educators. Along the way, the genteel backwater that was once children’s book publishing somehow morphed into big business.

Special Exhibit
In conjunction with Mr. Marcus’ s lecture, there will be a special exhibit of original Caldecott-winning artwork from the ESU Archives’ May Massee collection.

Book signing, exhibit viewing & refreshments following the presentation. (Reception hosted by Phi Delta Kappa, Flint Hills Chapter.)

Additional Lecture for Educators: Leonard Marcus also presented a free lecture entitled, "Minders of Make-Believe: or, Children’s Book History in Ten Giant Steps from the New England Primer to Harry Potter."

Topic:
Joy and Sadness in Children's Sports

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Sponsors:
JDL Series

This event was for coaches, parents, and youth sport administrators interested in and concerned about youth sports. The focus will be on children from the earliest ages of participation to about 14 years of age. The presentation examined the pros and cons of youth sports programs, including:

• What are the benefits and the risks of participation in all types of youth sports programs?
• At what age should children begin playing sports?
• How much should they practice and play?
• Is intense competition psychologically healthy or the root cause of bad behavior?
• Do sports develop character in our youth or create “characters”?
• What is the risk of physical injury?
• Are parents part of the problem or part of the solution?
• Are coaches prepared to meet the demands of coaching our youth?

As president and founder of Human Kinetics (the world’s largest publisher of information about the sport sciences, physical education, sports, and fitness) Martens has spent more than 30 years publishing books, journals, videos and online courses. His book, Successful Coaching, is the best-selling coaching text ever published, with more than 1 million copies sold. Martens is an Emporia State University graduate, a former professor of kinesiology at the University of Illinois and a former sports psychologist for numerous U.S. Olympic athletes. Martens is also an avid athlete, having earned All-American status as a member of 15 National Senior Slow-Pitch Softball Championship teams.

Topic:
JD Lecture -
Effective Teaching and the Structure of Elementary Schools: What the Research is Telling Us

Public Lecture -
The View From Space: What's it like, does it change your perspective, and why do we go?

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JDL Series

12:15 - 1 p.m. - Jones Distinguished Lecture: "Effective Teaching and the Structure of Elementary Schools: What the Research is Telling Us"
7 p.m. - Public Lecture: "The View From Space: What's it like, does it change your perspective, and why do we go?"

Dr. George "Pinky" Nelson, a space shuttle astronaut and nationally known advocate for science education reform , will speak at Emporia State University in October. Nelson, the Fall 2006 Jones Distinguished Lecturer, will speak to a variety of audiences while he is in Emporia.

He is the former director of AAAS Project 2061. His publications include articles in a variety of astronomy, astrophysics and education journals.

Nelson believes the challenge for all teachers is not just teaching a subject, but teaching students how to learn, especially those in primary and secondary grades. Because the world is changing so fast, teachers can’t hope to provide the knowledge and skills that will be needed 20 years from now. Their best hope is to “help students learn how to learn things quickly and continuously.”

At the evening's public lecture Dr. Nelson discussed the unique physical experience of spaceflight, from launch to landing. He also discussed training for and flying in space and how it impacts those who have done it. Finally, Nelson talked about the risks and expenses involved in space travel and why exploration is important.

Topic:
Kids Today! Using Current Research On Student Learning and Brain Function to Define Educational Goals

Sponsors:
JDL Series

October 13, 2003 - Roberts T. Jones

Topic:
Education and Workforce Policy

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Sponsors:
JDL Series & The Teachers College

Topic:
Driving the Impostors from the Temple: The Accountability Movement in American Higher Education

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Sponsors:
JDL Series & The Teachers College

Topic:
Living on the Future Edge

Sponsors:
Department of Instructional Design & Technology, School of Library Information Management, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Jones Institute for Educational Excellence

Topic:
Discipline-based Research on Learning and Teaching: The Key to Moore Effective Instruction in Physics and Other Sciences

Sponsors:
Department of Physical Sciences

Topic:
How National Board Certification Impacts Teacher Preparation Programs

Sponsors:
Jones Institute for Educational Excellence

Topic:
Learning Transfer: The Importance of Context, People, and Power

Sponsors:
ESU Department of Psychology & Special Education

Topic:
Performance-Based Teacher Education: Blueprint of Fantasy?

Sponsors:
The Teachers College and Mathematics & Science Education Center

Topic:
Where is Mary's lamb to go? Models of Alternative Education

Sponsors:
Department of Psychology & Special Education

Topic:
Preparing for the Next Century

Sponsors:
The Teachers College

Topic:
National Board Certification: Reforming Teaching from the Heart Out

Topic:
Taking the Measure of a Teaching Career

Sponsors:
Jones Institute for Educational Excellence and ESU Presidential Inauguration Week

Sponsors:
Department of Social Sciences

Topic:
The Improvement of Teaching: The Proper Focus on Education Reform

Sponsors:
Jones Institute for Educational Excellence

Topic:
Functional and Performance Assessment: A 'Hot' Old Topic

Sponsors:
Department of Counselor Education & Rehabilitation Programs

Topic:
Peer Harassment in Schools

Sponsors:
The Teachers College

Topic:
Changing Dreams into Reality Through Strategies, Choices, Changes, and Connections as We Confront the Agenda for the Year 2000

Sponsors:
Department of Health, Physical Education & Recreation

Topic:
A Worldscape of Music and Its Transmission

Sponsors:
Department of Music

Educator, First African American woman to head the public school system of a major city (more info...)

Topic:
Safeguarding the Integrity of the Teaching Profession

Sponsors:
Kansas-National Education Association and Emporia-NEA

Topic:
Some Recent Trends in Discrete Mathematics

Sponsors:
Department of Mathematics & Computer Sciences

Topic:
Reading, Writing, and Ritual

Sponsors:
Department of English

Topic:
The Regulative Theory of Temperament

Sponsors:
Department of Counselor Education & Rehabilitation Programs

Topic:
Science Education Reform: Its Connections to Research and Development

Sponsors:
Department of Administration & Teacher Education and Department of Physical Science

February 1991 - Dr. Norene Daly, Dean of the College of Education at Iowa State University

Sponsors:
The Teachers College

Topic:
Mathematics: A Time to Wonder

February 1990 - Dr. Rainer Martens, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana

Sponsors:
Department of Health, Physical Education & Recreation

September 1987 - Dr. Mary Budd Rowe, Professor of Science Education at the University of Florida

Science education innovator Mary Budd Rowe, whose mission was to put the wonder of exploration into science courses, died Thursday, June 20, in a Monterey, Calif., hospice. Rowe, 71, suffered a stroke June 14 while attending a conference in Monterey.

A visiting professor at Stanford's School of Education since 1990 and a professor at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Rowe perhaps was best known to teachers for her research on "wait time," in which she found that the average teacher doesn't wait long enough for students to answer questions in class. She found that increasing the wait time from one second to at least three seconds produced remarkable improvement in the language and logic of students.

Teaching to improve test performance produced textbooks that were "as dull as dictionaries," she said, and led children to learn facts by rote rather than understand scientific concepts. She contrasted this approach with the impromptu science lesson that Albert Einstein gave her when she, as a 7th grader, encountered him staring at a fountain on the Princeton campus. Einstein asked her if she could stop the water long enough to see the individual drops and showed her how to move her hands until she could create the strobe effect that appeared to slow the stream of individual drops.

Topic:
The Type T Personality and Risk Taking

Sponsors:
Department of Psychology & Special Education

Topic:
Tactics for Teaching Thinking

Sponsors:
Department of Administration & Teacher Education

Topic:
New Developments in Teacher Education

Sponsors:
Department of Administration & Teacher Education

Topic:
Educational Reform

Sponsors:
The Teachers College

Dr. Ernest L. Boyer had a long and distinguished career in education. Since assuming the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1979, Boyer helped shape the national education debate. He is consistently cited as one of the foremost educators in the nation and in 1990 was named Educator of the Year by U.S. News and World Report. Boyer was Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School and education columnist for The London Times. He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and a Distinguished Fulbright scholar to India and Chile. He came to the Carnegie Foundation after serving as U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Carter. Prior to this appointment, Boyer served for seven years as Chancellor of the State University of New York, with its 64 campuses and 350,000 students. Boyer has written landmark books, including “High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America,” “College: the Undergraduate Experience,” “Campus Life,” “Scholarship Reconsidered,” and “Ready to Learn: A Mandate for the Nation.”