Welcome
The Curriculum & Instruction Department holds as its central mission the preparation and development of educators at all levels. The department ensures that its professional education programs are based on essential knowledge, established and current research findings, and sound professional practice.
The Department offers elementary and secondary teacher certification at the undergraduate and graduate levels and Master's and Doctoral level programs. Each year the Department certifies over 600 new teachers and awards over 200 Master's and Doctoral degrees. There are over thirty full-time faculty and sixty-five part-time faculty in the Department. Current enrollments include nearly 2,000 undergraduate and more than 900 graduate students.
Dr. Klecka Joins Association of Teacher Educator's Board of Directors
Dr. Cari Klecka, has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the national Association of Teacher Educators (ATE). She has served on a variety of national committees and commissions within ATE prior to her election as the At-Large Representative through 2013. Dr. Klecka has been a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction since 2004.
Student Teaching Opportunities in China, Fall 2009
Dear Senior Undergraduate or Graduate Students in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction:
We are inviting undergraduate students in their senior year and graduate students who will be enrolling in their student teaching during Fall, 2009, to participate in an international teaching and travel experience. You are being invited to student teach during Fall, 2009, in one of the major cosmopolitan cities in China: Shenzhen. This experience aims to help you enrich and develop the necessary skills and knowledge to be a successful educator in various future multicultural contexts.
To find out more, or to apply, go to: http://ci2.unlv.edu/china/
Drs. McKinney and Giorgis Publish New Article in the Journal of Literacy Research
Curriculum & Instruction faculty members Dr. Marilyn McKinney and Dr. Cyndi Giorgis have recently published a study about writing identities of literacy specialists in an article entitled, Narrating and Performing Identity: Literacy Specialists' Writing Identity in the Journal of Literacy Research (Volume 41, Issue 1).
Course Number and Title Changes Effective Fall 2009
Many of the departments 700 level courses will have new names and titles effective Fall 2009. If you need assistance determining equivelant courses, please view the course equivalency page or your program of study page.
Note that these changes are primarily limited to masters level courses.