Fitness Institute of Texas Opens Doors to Math & Science Teachers
The Fitness Institute of Texas, a state-of-the-art fitness assessment center at The University of Texas at Austin, recently welcomed junior high and high school science and math teachers to tour the facilities. The teachers are participants in Skillpoint Alliance’s 3-day Summer Education Institute....

Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching Conference Focuses on Alignment, Balance and Connection
This year?s Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching conference, held June 27-29, celebrated the power of the ongoing research-based professional development the Collaboratives offer science and mathematics teachers around the state....

Guzmán named Faculty Member of the Year
Dr. Michele Guzmán, an assistant professor in the College of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named Faculty Member of the Year at the Hispanic Faculty/Staff Association’s end-of-semester celebration luncheon....

College of Education Faculty Offer Training to New Teachers at Ann Richards School
Faculty members from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction participated in a recent training session for teachers at the newly-formed Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders....

Curriculum and Instruction Professors Create Interactive, High-Tech Resources for Schools in Mexico
The National Council for Community and Education Partnerships has enlisted technology-in-education experts Dr. Walter Stroup and Dr. Guadalupe Carmona to help implement classroom-based math and science initiatives in Mexican schools....

Exceptional College of Education Graduates Named AISD's Teachers of Promise
Fourteen University of Texas at Austin teacher education graduates were named Teachers of Promise by AISD in a March 22 honors reception. Principals and mentor teachers from each AISD campus selected one first-year teacher as a Teacher of Promise....

Words Fail Me: Foreign Language Anxiety Crippling for Some Students
According to Dr. Elaine Horwitz, around one-third of university students have experienced some degree of "foreign language anxiety," a distinct variable in the language learning process that has specific, detrimental effects on learning....

Dr. Svinicki Receives AERA Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Marilla Svinicki, a professor in the College of Education?s Department of Educational Psychology, has been honored with the Wilbert J. McKeachie Award for lifetime contribution to the study of faculty evaluation and development....

UTeach Celebrates Collaboration with AT&T, Demonstrates New High-Tech Resource
Representatives from UTeach Natural Sciences and AT&T gathered in the Sanchez Building on April 27 to celebrate a successful, longstanding partnership and to formally inaugurate a new, high-tech classroom that will better-prepare future science and math teachers....

Dr. Steinhardt Awarded Murff Excellence Award
Dr. Steinhardt, a professor in the College of Education's Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, has been awarded the 2007 Robert Murff Excellence Award for her outstanding support of career services at The University of Texas at Austin....