The two first-grade students Adrianna Parker was tutoring in math were flying through the math problems she assigned them. "They looked at me like, 'We want a challenge,'" Parker said. a math word problem that was slightly above their level. The USF Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) student watched them think and guided them with questions until she recognized a light bulb had gone off in one of the girls' heads.

At the Colegio Monterrey private school in Costa Rica, USF English education student Sara Palczynski plays volleyball against a team of seniors and a team of seventh-graders. Meanwhile, English Education and Linguistics major Ennis Cruz Gonzalez observes a French classroom at the same school. These are some of the scenes the two USF seniors recounted during their two-week long stay in San José, Costa Rica this summer as part of a College of Education study abroad program.

The Mona Lisa. Designs for a chariot with scythes to cut off the legs of enemy troops. An intricate analysis of how the human eye perceives light. These were some of the many diverse achievements of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci, and the Italy of his time were center stage for a workshop in April titled "Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius in a Consumer Culture."

At least one wand was seen protruding from the pockets and bags of local teachers as they arrived at the Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise and Economic Education on Feb. 23 for a workshop on "Magic, Markets, and Morality: Using Harry Potter to Teach Creativity, Economics, and Ethics." Teachers, some of whom were dressed in shirts and scarves representing Hogwarts houses, characters and quotes from the series, gathered to discuss how to tie the world of witches and wizards into their lesson plans — in subject areas ranging from creative writing to economics.

PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman visited the Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise and Economic Education to share with teachers from across the Tampa Bay region about the growing trend of fake news in the media and how they can increase the media literacy of their students. After winning PolitiFact's 2016 Lie of the Year award, fake news took the spotlight once again for "Fake News: What are the economic, social, historical, and political implications?

Because her dad was a commercial airline pilot and her sister was studying abroad, she was able to travel to numerous countries across the world. In high school, she continued to stamp her passport with trips to England, Spain, and Morocco. Now, as a USF senior who is about to graduate with a degree in elementary education, her journey to different parts of the world continues with an appointment to South Africa in the Peace Corps program.

after spending a year researching and publishing — Bradley's presenting his work on the subject, and was the recipient of a Student Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Science and Teaching Learning Special Interest Group. Bradley said he has realized there was more to the question that his mentor, College of Education faculty member Dr.

"Some of us welcome the idea of one world in which each country celebrates both its own cultural identity and its role as a good neighbor to all others," she said. "Others of us wish to revive and invigorate the view of our country as a great nation — generous but superior to all others." While Noddings prefers the first view, she pointed to the contrast between these two ideas as proof that there is intense polarization in today's society.