Three graduate students from Costa Rica abandoned the tropics for Albion's frosty first week of February. The students' visit marks the next step in a relationship between their school and Albion, begun by education professor Kyle Shanton.
A 10-day trip to Oahu and Hilo gives first-year students a firsthand experience with the culture, history and geography they studied all fall semester in Education professor Suellyn Henke's first-year seminar, Mauka and Makai.
Jon Cannell, an English major with a secondary education concentration, created a unit for Maymester that helped ninth-grade students at Albion High School explore how assumptions and perceptions can create beliefs that shape realities.
Maymester, supported by Albion College’s Fritz Shurmur Center for Teacher Development and underwritten by a grant from the State Farm Insurance Companies Foundation, is a unique program developed jointly by College education faculty and administrators, education students, and Albion Public School teachers.
Albion College's Education Department was recently recognized as a Model of Excellence by the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE). Albion was cited as the 2012 Liberal Arts College division winner.
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