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COE at a Glance

The College of Education is ranked 41st in the nation's graduate schools in education in U.S. and World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools 2010.
More than 85 College of Education faculty and students made over 170 presentations at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
The College of Education provides more than 189 scholarships, resulting in $345,000 in direct student support -- the most awarded of any college in the FSU.
The College of Education is only college on the FSU campus that provides a wide range of instructional support services as well as computer labs with more than 125 computers. The college supports technology enhanced classroom facilities, multimedia equipment, and videoconferencing for faculty, staff and students.
Teacher education students spend up to 100 hours working with teachers and adolescents in classroom settings in the two years prior to their semester-long internships in middle and high schools.
The Institute of Education Sciences, a division of the U.S. Department of Education is supporting research by associate professor Patrice Iatarola (Educational Leadership & Policy Studies) to study the effects of high school course enrollment on readiness for college-level coursework.
Sherry Southerland of the college's School of Teacher Education earned the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and was honored in a February 2008 ceremony.
FSU's Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR), one of only three U.S. Department of Education designated centers nationally to provide assistance to all states for the National Reading First Initiative, draws heavily on the COE's professional faculty. "There is a natural synergy among reading research, teacher training, reading policy, leadership, and program evaluation," states Dr. Stephanie Al Otaiba, a COE faculty specializing in special education and early literacy.
One of the faculty members in the College of Education is a pioneer and leader in scientifically based research in reading interventions (Barbara Foorman).
One of the nation's top statisticians in education, whose work focuses on teacher quality and its effectiveness on student learning, is on the faculty of the College of Education (Betsy Becker).
The College of Education is home to the inventor of "pedagogical agents," innovative computer animations that simulate human professors and can adapt to a student's skill level in a given subject and provide cognitive and emotional feedback (Amy Baylor).
Briley Proctor, associate professor in the department of educational psychology and learning systems was recently awarded the National Association of School Psychologist's Government & Professional Relations Certificate of Appreciation.
The College of Education's Professor Jeff Milligan is an internationally known expert in ethno-religious conflict. He recently received a Fulbright award to conduct research in Malaysia.

Last updated 06/01/2009


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