Learning and Teaching

2+2+2=More Teachers in Maryland
In what could be called the educational equivalent of a major league baseball team's scouting and farm club system, UMBC is helping a Maryland school system grow its own teacher talent. (more...)

An Award-Winning Program Keeping Kids in School
The Shriver Center's Choice Middle Schools program, which reaches out to young people at risk of dropping out of school, was honored with the Crystal Star Award of Excellence in Dropout Recovery, Intervention, and Prevention this year. (more...)

Sending College Students Back to High School
It wasn't easy explaining the technical fine points of "Functional Biomaterials" to high-school students, but the UMBC seniors in professor Julia Ross's Introduction to Biomedical Engineering figured out a way. (more...)

Student Teaching--Online
UMBC interdisciplinary studies major Jill Hutchison knows that children learn best by doing, and she's taken that concept to heart in her own work. Hutchison has created a multimedia, interactive tutorial for Maryland middle-school students and teachers, and in the process, she has learned to combine educational theory with practice and meld research in several disciplines. (more...)

Gifted Young Students Find a Home at UMBC
Compared to their classmates, they're a little short, and their voices a bit high-pitched, but otherwise, they're very comfortable as UMBC students pursuing their undergraduate degrees. They are UMBC's Young Scholars--some, like David Dalrymple (above), are only 10 years old, others in their early teens--but all are academically gifted and ready for college-level classes. And they are drawn to UMBC as a place that makes them feel welcome. (more...)

Ideas in Focus: Interactive Theatre
Moving its educational message off the podium and onto the stage, CLEARCorps/USA, the national program to reduce childhood lead poisoning, based at UMBC's Shriver Center, has developed an exciting new traveling interactive theatre presentation that's wowing audiences. (more...)