Michelle Marchant, special education professor, will be presenting the University Devotional Tuesday, April 2 in the Marriott Center.
Marchant has been a professor of special education at BYU since 1999. In 2009, she was appointed director of the Brigham Young University Special Education undergraduate program. Her research interests include prevention of behavioral and emotional disorders and teacher education strategies.
Marchant has served in various church capacities including serving in the Haiti, Port-au-Prince …

Hundreds of talented young scientists will share their projects at the BYU Conference Center at this year’s Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair (CUSEF). Presented and supported by the McKay School and the BYU-Public School Partnership (BYU-PSP), this event will host over 850 students from grades 5-12 who have been selected by their schools to compete with others from Alpine, Jordan, Nebo, Provo and Wasatch school districts, including charter schools and …

Many studies have attempted to explain how the human voice works, but vocal cords can be difficult to observe in a living human being.
Stephanie Shaw, a former graduate student in Communication Disorders (ComD), worked with Scott Thomson from the BYU Department of Mechanical Engineering to develop physical models that mimic the structure of human vocal cords, or vocal folds as scientists call them. Professor Christopher Dromey from ComD, Shaw’s thesis …

Richard Sudweeks, a professor in the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology, was recently awarded the Steven M. Rose Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship is given to professors who have worked to enhance student learning, especially efforts designed in support of the “Aims of a BYU Education.”
Sudweeks was awarded the fellowship for continued efforts to improve teaching and learning. “To be perfectly honest, when the letter came I …

As they prepare teacher candidates, professors in the McKay School of Education emphasize improving the outcomes of students in the classroom via teacher praise. Michelle Marchant and Darlene Anderson, professors in the Counseling Psychology and Special Education Department, along with other colleagues and students published three different articles on this use of praise in the classroom.
Giving teachers the resources they need, as well as suggestions for activities in the classroom, …

Did you know when teachers ask students to exclaim “eek!” after taking a “peek” in a box, they’re doing more than engaging them in a fun activity? They’re teaching them to listen for and identify sounds they hear in words.
Barabra Culatta, Kendra Hall-Kenyon, and Sharon Black of the McKay School recently published engaging teaching ideas in a book on early literacy. The book, Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy, is targeted …

Human rights are not realized without proper implementation of human rights policies. Professor Macleans A. Geo-JaJa, from the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations, recently shared his research on promoting and enhancing human rights during his presentation at the annual Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Conference.
His research explored the intersecting dynamics of human dignity, humiliation, and human rights in the context of self-development education to enable reconstructed development. He presented …

Teacher education professor Stefinee Pinnegar and National Professional Development Grant participants Carol Solomon, and Linda Turner are deeply committed to training elementary and secondary school teachers and teacher candidates to teach second language learners. They recently received a five-year national professional development grant of over a million dollars from the US Department of Education to support their work.
The number of students who do not speak English as their native language …

In an effort to expose their students to great social studies instruction, teacher education professors Amy Miner and Lynnette Erickson organized the Social Studies Strategy Fair to bring expert teachers on and off campus to work with their students. They initiated the fair three years ago to give their students opportunities to see how successful teachers integrate visual arts, dance, music and additional curricular areas into social studies teaching.
Students in …

Social studies professors Lynnette Erickson, Amy Miner, and Janae Oveson teach their elementary education students not what social studies content to teach, but how to teach that content. These instructors are committed to modeling real democratic practices by giving students a voice. Erickson explains that she and her colleagues set up their methods class based on their theory that “We learn more when everyone gives input and teaches each other, …