Tag: Experiential Learning

Bearing Witness: Weeklong Immersion Takes Atrocity Studies Off the Page

No classroom lecture can replicate the experience of being face-to-face with the evidence of genocide. That is the premise behind a School of Education (SOE) immersion course that brings students...
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Photo Essay: Globetrotter and Future Teacher Mason Burley ’27 Embraces Study Abroad and Study Away

As a freshman, Mason Burley ’27 made himself a promise: experience as much of the world as possible and “put myself out there.” In fact, his first trip over the...
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Meghan Hallihan Joins the Center for Experiential Pedagogy and Practice as Program Manager

Expanding in both operations and personnel, Syracuse University School of Education’s Center for Experiential Pedagogy and Practice has hired Meghan Hallihan as its new Program Manager. Hallihan joins a team...
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Smithers, and Planes, and Bears—Oh My! Reflecting on a Clinical Simulation with EDU 304

“Don’t poke the bear!” Professor Ben Dotger tells his class. EDU 304: The Study of Teaching is meeting in Huntington Hall 070B for group reflection on its final clinical simulation...
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School of Education Faculty Publish “Lesson Study with Mathematics and Science Preservice Teachers”

Lesson Study with Mathematics and Science Preservice Teachers: Finding the Form (Routledge, 2023) is a new overview of the fundamentals of lesson study edited by Syracuse University School of Education...
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“Learning in Action”: What Alumni Are Saying About the School of Education’s Experiential Learning Opportunities

Experiential learning, applied learning, hands-on learning—no matter what you call it, it means one important thing. By the time they graduate, Syracuse University School of Education students are prepared to...
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From Academic Advising to Multicultural Affairs: Practicums Help School of Education Students Explore Higher Education Careers

Far from asking students to fend for themselves with little oversight, the mentoring and self-reflection at the core of student practicums in the School of Education’s M.S. in Higher Education...
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Inside Higher Ed Features School of Education Clinical Simulations

Scaling Up: Syracuse Expands Learning Simulations Clinical simulations give students a hands-on, safe learning environment to engage in interactions with a trained actor. Syracuse University just added to its 60-plus...
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“So Cool”: Clinical Simulations Expand to Help Train Future Art Therapists

Continuing his pioneering work adapting clinical simulations (SIMS) across a spectrum of pre-professional and professional contexts, Professor Benjamin Dotger is collaborating with Emily Goldstein Nolan, Professor of Practice in the...
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