1) Planning for the Tuesday, March 28, 2000 Teacher Education Faculty Council meeting, 12:30 - 2, Lib 204, lunch sponsored by Dean Kleine - working meeting with faculty from other departments on campus.

Topics to discuss:

Proposal for Integrated Science certification program

Proposal for World Languages certification program

Infusing Language Acquisition curricular into certification programs

Proposals for graduate secondary certification programs

Scheduling teacher education coursework

What is NCATE and how do we prepare for national accreditation??

Changes in State Department of Education regulations for 2003 and their impact on curriculum

Other topics??

Please let David know if you are UNABLE to attend this important meeting with our colleagues.

2) Planning for Thursday, April 6, 12:30 - 1:45 Full Faculty Meeting, WH 115.

Items for the agenda -

Approval of March 2 Minutes

Reports from Units and Committees

EDU 570, Comprehensive Exams - completion of coursework, summer options??, process of evaluation, distinction, ...

Process of selecting outstanding student teachers

Planning for April 27 Teacher Education Community Advisory Council

Planning for September Mini-Conference

Departmental Communications - strategies for more effective problem solving

Other items?? - please talk with David.   Thanks.

3) The 9th annual TLC Children's Literature Festival will be held in Webb 110
on Saturday, April 8.  The presentations will begin at 9:00, and
refreshments will be served from 8:15 to 9:00.  Lunch is included in the
conference fee which is $40.00 ($30.00 for full time students.)

Speakers this year are Joan Glazer, Kevin Hawkes, E.B. Lewis and Ann Turner.
Books by these presenters will be on sale and autographing will take place
at the end of the conference.  (3:00 pm.)

Can't attend but still want to purchase books for autographing?  (They make
wonderful Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. presents.)   The book display will be set
up around noon on Friday the 7th in Webb 113, and you can come make your
selections.  We'll put them in a bag and have them autographed for you.  You
can then pick the books up the following week.  Contact Shirley Ernst to
make arrangements.

Shirley B. Ernst
ECSU Education Department
860-465-4533

4) The resume Profile for NEASC will sent as a WORD attachment to this newsletter.  It may also be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/resume.doc .
The faculty members at our 3/2 meeting agreed to try to send David an email version of their resumes by April 3 for NEASC documentation.  Thank you very much.

5) Upcoming Events

a) 10th Annual Minority Teacher Recruiting Career Fair, Saturday, April 1, 2000, 8:30 a - 12:30 p, Conard High School, West Hartford
We have participated in this recruiting career fair for the past several years.  Please see Elsy or David for more information. [David has reserved a car which will leave ECSU at 7:30 am.]

b) Awards Reception for New Students, Student Center Tipton Room, Thursday, April 6, 6-8 pm.

c) What Beginning Educators Need to Know About Student Testing in Connecticut, April 12, 2000, ACES.  Sessions on the CT Mastery Tests and CAPT.
David has reserved a car that will leave at 7:30 am for the start of the meeting at 8:30 and return by 1:15 pm.  Please let David know if you are interested in attending.

d) Spring Reception for Admitted Students - Sunday, April 16, 2000.
Please join Amy and David in orientation sessions for admitted students for our class of 2004.  Please let David know if you are interested in attending.

6) Message from Mitch Sakofs:

Mitch has joined the PDS Conference Planning Committee and the PDS Forum Steering Committee, statewide committees.  He will keep the faculty posted when the conference theme is finalized and a call for presenters is announced.

7) Recently acquired media

In the Departmental Library in the Chair's Office:

Connecticut Framework for Preschool Curricular Goals and Benchmarks

State Department of Connecticut Department of Education (1999) Doing what's right in the middle:  Promising pracatifes in schools  with middle grades.

North Central Regional Education Laboratory (1999).  Issues of supply and demand:  Recruiting and retaining quality teachers.  (2 audio tapes).

Dan Rothermel's Sweet Dreams Robyn.

Proposal for The Child and Family Development Resource Center

Drugs Don't Work - Winter/spring 2000 Training Brochure and Technical Assistance Guide

Character Education Partnership's Teachers as Educators of Character:  Are the Nation's Schools of Education Coming Up Short? and Character Education:  The Foundation for Teacher Education.

Commissioner Sergi's Initial Report of the Secretary of Education on the Quality of Teacher Preparation (in Connecticut) - a table will be shared with the faculty.

Connecticut's Common Core of Teaching.

The Connecticut Framework:  K-12 Curricular Goals and Standards.

In-Service Training Course Catalog, Spring 2000.

Notes on the Eastern Connecticut Teacher Education Community Advisory Council Meeting, Thursday, September 30, 1999 may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/tecac93099.html

Comments Arranged by General Themes from a Survey of Eastern Connecticut Educators’ Impressions of ECSU Teacher Education Graduates – September 1999
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/tecac930responses.html

Notes from the Fall 1999 Teacher Education Faculty Council (Thursday, October 28, 1999, 11:30-1:30, WH 159) may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/tefc102899.html .

A copy of the outline of the Connecticut Common of Teaching is posted at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/ctcoreofteaching.html .

Connecticut's Common Core of Learning and
Connecticut Framework K-12 Curricular Goals & Standards are available for downloading at
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/brta/corefram.htm

Title II Reports on the Quality of Teacher Preparation
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/News/teacherprep/index.html
includes downloadable Annual Report of the Secretary of the US Department of Education on the Quality of Teacher Preparation.
 

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Please contact David Stoloff at (860) 465-5501, email: stoloffd@ecsu.ctstateu.edu if you have any questions or comments on this newsletter.