The Marketing and Communications Office designed a new T-shirt for the Mary Frances Early College of Education!
If you wish to procure a free T-shirt, please fill out this form after signing in with your UGA MyID.
In partnership with the UGA Office of Service Learning through Experience UGA, the Mary Frances Early College of Education hosts kindergarten field trips for Athens-Clarke County students on various Fridays throughout the fall and spring semesters.
This semester, there will be seven field trips on:
Students enter on the ground floor of Aderhold Hall around 9:30 a.m. and will participate in learning activities on the first floor until around 11 a.m. While we will do our best to minimize disruptions, you may notice increased activity and some joyful noise during these times. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding as we welcome some of our youngest learners to the College. Your support helps create a memorable experience for them!
The UGA Office of Faculty Affairs provides career advancement and leadership development programs for faculty and academic leaders. For more information and registration links, please click on the program titles below.
Keys to UGA is a year-long series that provides incoming and early-career faculty with resources and information valuable to success. Open to all faculty.
Nuts and bolts of sponsored projects administration
Advice from successful faculty and tips for documenting faculty productivity
The UGA Office of Faculty Affairs provides workshops on promotion and tenure. Sessions are recorded and posted to the promotion and tenure workshops webpage. Open to all faculty.
Promotion and tenure procedures
Promotion and tenure dossier preparation
Lecturer appointment and promotion guidelines
Academic professional promotion guidelines
The Faculty Leader Series provides opportunities to learn both fundamental and more advanced leadership skills and knowledge. The below workshops are open to faculty in titled leadership roles.
Showcase your department’s impact with UGA Elements
Faculty annual evaluation best practices
This luncheon series brings together academic leaders for peer networking and mentoring. Due to the limited availability of seating, advanced registration is required. Deans, department heads, directors, and other leaders in titled roles are welcome to register. Please email FacultyAffairs.Programs@uga.edu.
Leadership Luncheon, speaker TBD
Join the UGA qualitative research program for a Pedagogy Brown Bag event to build community around the teaching of qualitative research and connect faculty with the qualitative research program. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch.
The first brown bag will focus on “Cultivating Qualitative Thinking in Online Courses.” Participants are invited to bring questions, challenges, and strategies from their own online qualitative teaching, and join colleagues in an informal conversation about fostering engagement, dialogue, and qualitative thinking in online learning environments.
Current affiliate faculty as well as UGA faculty interested in qualitative research and teaching or in becoming involved with the qualitative research program are encouraged to attend.
To recognize high-achieving Mary Frances Early College of Education students, the Marketing and Communications Office features “Amazing Student” profiles on the College’s website and social media channels.
We encourage faculty and staff members who work closely with students to submit a nomination using the Mary Frances Early College of Education Amazing Student nomination form. If the criteria are met, a marketing and communications team member will contact the student about how to submit the profile.
Note: Students must be majoring in the College of Education to qualify.
Nominees can be amazing students for a variety of reasons, but we’re looking for well-rounded students whose accomplishments extend beyond the classroom. There needs to be something—preferably multiple factors—that makes the nominee stand out. The nominator can provide details in the nomination form, but the primary criteria are:
Abe Flanigan, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was recently quoted as a content-area expert for an article in The Athletic on the science and benefits of note-taking processes, as well as on why taking and reviewing team meeting and film-study notes is useful for NFL players.
“Just taking notes isn’t enough to promote deep, meaningful, long-term attention,” said Flanigan. One theoretical reason, he added, is that taking notes by hand creates a more meaningful and deeply processed record of information from a class lecture or meeting. This serves as a better trigger—or mental prompt—for students when they review them later.
Instead, Flanigan said research has found that the best practice for using notes is to write them by hand first and then engage a strategy he calls “retrieval-based learning.”
Read the full story in The Athletic.
A.J. Naatz, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education, was recently featured in the Council for Exceptional Children’s Special Education TODAY blog for developing the AI Planning Companion.
The tool helps special and general education teachers use artificial intelligence to support individualized instructional planning.
“The goal is not for AI to replace teacher decision-making and instructional planning,” Naatz said. “Instead, the AI Planning Companion is designed to help educators bring their knowledge of their students and classrooms into a guided process that allows them to use AI more intentionally, efficiently, and responsibly to support students with disabilities.”