13915. Interview with Tchin, New Jersey (05:54)

Date:
2020-10-19
Main contributors:
Tchin
Summary:
Tchin (New Jersey) Tchin (pronounced ‘chin) is a nationally known, multi-award-winning artist. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia and lived in rural Virginia and Rhode Island where he received his early schooling. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. He is an accomplished metalsmith, author, flutemaker, educator, lecturer, folklorist, musician, entertainer, and clothes maker. His awards for performance and cultural work include Best of Show in Schemitzun, Connecticut, and Kituwah, North Carolina; Best of Division in the Southwest Museum, California, and Red Earth, Oklahoma; and first prize in the National American Cultural Art Festival, Maryland, as well as the SWAIA Indian Market, New Mexico (6). He lives with his wife and looks forward to many visits from his four daughters and nine grandchildren. Interviewed by Tamar Sella, 10/19/2020.

13916. The great gamble: Cyrus W. Field (20:00)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
Teaching Film Custodians
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television episode, "The Great Gamble" (season 3, episode 1), which first aired October 12th, 1954 on ABC-TV. Presents the work of Cyrus W. Field in organizing and directing the project to establish a system of rapid communications between Europe and America by means of the Trans Atlantic Cable, and his courageous perseverance to succeed in spite of several unsuccessful attempts.

13918. Introduction to Annela Teemant & Her Work (03:28)

Date:
2023-03
Main contributors:
Teemant, Annela
Summary:
English learners make up 10.4% of the U.S. student population. Professor Annela Teemant’s research focuses on preparing teachers for these learners using critical sociocultural perspectives on teaching and learning. Using quasi-experimental, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs, she studies how teacher pedagogy, job-embedded coaching, and in-service teacher credentialing impact student (language) learning. In this short video, Professor Teemant goes into further detail about her research.

13919. Reframing Teacher Learning as a Mirrored Process of Becoming (50:30)

Date:
2023-03-24
Main contributors:
Teemant, Annela
Summary:
English learners make up 10.4% of the U.S. student population. Professor Annela Teemant's research focuses on preparing teachers for these learners using critical sociocultural perspectives on teaching and learning. Using quasi-experimental, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs, she studies how teacher pedagogy, job-embedded coaching, and in-service teacher credentialing impact student (language) learning.

13920. Nancy Weaver Teichert, BA'76 (02:42)

Date:
2013
Main contributors:
Teichert, Nancy Weaver
Summary:
Nancy Weaver Teichert, BA’76, spent her career as a beat reporter and investigative journalist at the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, the Denver Post and, for the last 20 years of her career, the Sacramento Bee. She retired in 2006. At the Clarion-Ledger, she was part of a reporting team that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a campaign supporting the Mississippi governor’s efforts to reform the state’s education system. Also at the Clarion-Ledger, she won other national journalism awards, including the 1978 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize for Outstanding Coverage of the Problems of the Disadvantaged, and she contributed to the paper’s winning the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting and the Roy W. Howard National Journalism Public Service Award. While at the Bee, she received the 1993 Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Media Award. She contributed to a series called “A Madness Called Meth,” about methamphetamines, which won the 2001 Nancy Dickerson White award for reporting on drug issues. In 2004, Teichert received the American Society on Aging Media Award for her work on issues related to aging. At the school’s centennial banquet in 2011, Teichert’s husband surprised her by announcing the establishment of a scholarship at the school in her name. The Nancy Weaver Teichert Scholarship in Journalism, which supports students who specialize in investigative journalism, was first awarded in 2012. As an IU journalism student, Teichert won numerous awards, including the Women in Communication Scholarship, the Scripps Howard Ernie Pyle Scholarship, the Sally Cooper Scholarship and the Poynter Fund Scholarship. Teichert said in a school report shortly after the scholarship was announced that she had planned to create a scholarship at the School of Journalism as part of her estate, and was touched and gratified by her husband’s surprise. “I wouldn’t have made it through college without the scholarships I received,” she said.