Department of Teaching and Learning News
The Department of Teaching & Learning holds as its central mission educational research and the preparation 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.
Current Teaching and Learning News
Through a nonprofit she founded, alumna Erica Mosca helps low-income high school students get to — and then succeed — in college.
UNLV faculty and students honored with Service-Learning, Community-Based Research, Faculty/Staff Outreach, and Student Service awards.
UNLV assistant professor encourages teachers-to-be to keep diversity front and center in the classroom.
Helping engineering students channel their inner Shakespeare
Awards recognize those on campus who demonstrate a commitment to community partnership
Commencement speaker Marissa Nichols embraces the anxiety of public speaking as she accepts her doctoral degree.
Teaching and Learning In The News
Most children begin the reading journey with their parents reading them bedtime stories. For a lot of children a crucial bonding moment occurs when the child is introduced to the page turn and the excitement of stories.
Sophie Ladd used a book about love and loss to help her undergraduate UNLV students open up about their feelings after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. She read “The Heart and The Bottle,” by Oliver Jeffers.
Nathan Carter played football for four years at Las Vegas High, four years at UNLV and even one year on an independent-league indoor football team in Kansas before he realized he wanted to be a teacher.
