College of Education holds open house

Associate Professor Jesus Abrego allows Griselda Garcia, a fifth-grade teacher from Peña Elementary School and UTRGV alumnus, to try out the simulator.

Interdisciplinary and early childhood junior Bianca Espinosa demonstrates the mixed-reality simulator for the younger students.

Jesus Abrego, an associate professor in Organization and School Leadership, demonstrates how to interact with the simulator. The simulator is programmed to help the user practice being in a classroom environment and how to deal with certain situations.

Associate Professor Jesus Abrego explains to the students about the mixed-reality simulator, a multi-purpose training program. The simulator was programmed for a middle school classroom setting.

Students from Garden Park and Peña elementary schools engage in a chalk drawing activity.

Fifth-graders from the Brownsville Independent School District’s Garden Park and Peña elementary schools examine free books offered to them by UTRGV students and staff.

Pamela Groves (third from left), an assistant professor in practice for biology, runs the UTeach table and demonstrates how circuitry works to attendees of the Open House.

Ricardo Bolivares, Kappa Delta Pi president and UTRGV graduate student under the Border SPICES (Special Interventionists in Childcare and Educational Services) grant, along with Irma Jones, UTRGV teaching and learning professor and sponsor for KDP, showcase their free books for attendees of the College of Education’s Open House event last Saturday April 1.

Education senior Vanessa Cavazos of UT Cares helps students with an arts and crafts activity.

Isis Rivera (left), a professor for Human Development and School Services, offers free children’s books to parents and their children during the College of Education’s Open House.