Wyberg and Billington Featured in Fall Issue of Connect

STEM Education Center Teaching Specialists, Terry Wyberg and Barbara Billington are featured in the fall issue of the CEHD Connect Magazine for their excellent work with CEHD’s Teacher Education Redesign Initiative (TERI).

TERI is a year-long collaboration between select elementary schools and CEHD Teaching Specialist designed to a provide professional development to teachers in the participating schools, to expand the Teacher Specialist’s experience in elementary education and specialty areas, and to ultimately enhance the quality of education for K-6 students and teacher candidates across grade-school to university settings.

Both Barbara Billington and Terry Wyberg committed half of every school day for the year to working in their partner classrooms. Billington was partnered with a science specialist at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus in St. Paul while Wyberg worked at Barton Open School in Minneapolis.

The experience proved rewarding for both parties “I’ll help him with the math, but then we’ll work together with the pedagogy,” says Wyberg. “It’s been a nice connection for both of us.” Barbara Billington plans to invite her co-teacher to guest teach her UofMN methods class next year.

Billington and Wyberg express their gratitude to the college, TERI, and their department for the support and opportunity to work side by side with their co-teachers. They look forward to starting this school year with their new knowledge and understanding of effective elementary education.