Meetings this week - Units' meetings are schedule for Thursday, Sept. 21, 12:30 - 1:45.

Faculty who teach courses in the Elementary, Middle Level, Secondary, Reading/Language Arts, and other
programs, other than ECE, are planning to meeting in WH 115 on 9/21.

Some  topics for the agenda -

Revision of the Elementary Certification/Master of Science in Education Student's Plan of
Study

1. Revise and implement all of the Education Department programs in alignment with NCATE and
national, professional organizations standards and changes in certification regulations.

2. Explore, enhance and develop Professional Development School (PDS) formal agreements with 2 to 4
regional school districts.

3. Fully develop portfolio assessment in all programs that are aligned with national teaching standards and
the Connecticut Common Core of Teaching.

4. Enhance technology applications within the Teacher Education and graduate studies program.

5. Enhance the quality of the field experience using new supervisory models.

6. Develop MS in Education in Children’s Literature, Mathematics, and Educational Technology and begin
the development of an MS in Special Education.

7. Recruit students that better represent the diversity of the state’s population.

8. Refine policies and processes for admission and retention of students in the teacher education programs.

More planning for NCATE

Please send other topics for discussion to David.

                              Announcements from  Dean Kleine

1) All practicium/internships/independent studies/field studies must be processed by Wednesday,
September 27 at 11 am - to avoid the Third Week Freeze - the enrollment census date.  Please see David
if you have any questions on this important deadline.

2) Multi-media lecterns have been placed in Webb Hall 113, 114, 215, 216, 313, 315, Media 103, 145,
Goddard 202, Shafer 209, Sports Center 221, Media 203, Shafer 113.  If you are planning to be teaching in
these rooms and don't plan to use technology, please let me know so that we might arrange a room
exchange.  If you would like to be scheduled in these rooms, please let David know also.

                                    University Participation

Please consider participating in the Open House for New Students and their families on Sunday,
October 8, 1 - 3 in the Student Union.   More information to follow.

Please consider participating in the Open House for Prospective Students on Sunday, October 22,
1 - 3 in the Student Union.  Join Joan Culpin, our new UA for CARE, and David to meet and greet parents
and students interested in entering the class of 2005.

Please consider joining the University Hour Committee - the committee that plans the University Hour
presentations, usually on Wednesdays, 3-4 pm.  Please forward your nomination or self-nomination to
David so that he might forward the name of our department representative to Ms. Kathy Atkinson in
Academic Affairs by October 1, 2000.
 

                              Opportunity for Project Involvement

Leslie Ricklin, Shirley Ernst, Dan Rothermel, Ken Dobush, and David Stoloff are planning to participate in
the ThinkQuest International Conference in Cairo (Thursday, November 9 - Wedneday, November 15,
including travel time) as part of our Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers Using Technology (US Department of
Education grant) with ThinkQuest (http://www.thinkquest.org) and 4 other teacher education programs -
Western Michigan, Knox College in Illinois, City College of New York, and the University of the Pacific.
Ken Dobush and David Stoloff will be attending a training program near Chicago on September 22-24
(Friday - Sunday) to plan this project further with consortium members.

                                  Opportunity for Contribution

David Stoloff and family will be participating in the Relay for Life, a fund-raiser for the American Cancer
Society on Saturday-Sunday, October 14-15, 2000 at Windham High School.  If you would like to contribute
to this fund-raiser, please talk with David.

The Stoloff Boys will also be participating in the ECSU Bowlathon on Saturday, November 4 at 2 pm.
Please consider contributing to the ECSU Foundation for Scholarships by supporting the team.

                             Upcoming Meetings and Conferences

1) A message from Mitch Sakofs --

"Please announce in your classes that I will be holding information sessions for students eligible and
wanting to student teach during the spring of 2001.

Two sessions have been scehduled as follows:

Tuesday, Sept 19 from 3 to 4, Rm 159 Webb Hall
Weds, Sept 20 from 1 to 2, Rm 159 Webb Hall

Attending one of these sessions is required in order to student teach.

Students should contact me if they have questions."

2)  Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium conference on Friday, October 6 at Manchester
(CT) Community College - for more information, please see http://www.ctdlc.org/faculty/index.html

3) MEDIA, CHILDREN AND CULTURE
A one-day conference at Quinnipiac University, Saturday, October 21st, 2000
For more information about this conference please call 203-582-8313 or
email  Rebecca.Abbott@quinnipiac.edu

4) "Engaging Learners" - Connecticut Consortium for Enhancing Learning and Teaching
conference, Friday, October 27, 2000, Waterbury, CT, for more information, please email Jerry Allen,
UNH, allen@charger,newhaven.edu

5) Connecticut Educators Computer Association conference on Monday, November 6 in
Cromwell, CT - for more information, please see http://www.ceca-ct.org/CECA2000/index.html .
 

                             New Documents in the Chair's Library

Excellence that Delivers - the 2000 ECSU Viewbook and Application - featuring Jeff Trawick-Smith and
Wendy Ernst.

Notes from the 2000 Creative Advance - "Attracting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest in a Public
Liberal Arts University for the 21st Century."

Self-Study for Reaccreditation, NEASC Report.  Fall 2000.

                                     Searches for Fall 2001

The Education Department has been authorized to begin the process of searching for 3 tenure
track faculty members for Fall 2001.  The announcements for these positions  - Early Childhood Education, Science Education, and Special Education are posted at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/search01.html.

A message about searches from Dean Kleine:

"Please announce to your faculty: The advertisements for faculty openings Fall Semester 2001 have already
appeared in the Boston Globe and will appear in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Black Issues (in
Higher Education) next week.  The Boston Globe is online and in print.  The early placement of the
advertisements and the recent flurry of recruiting conferences/events should produce a viable pool of
candidates.

Thank you for your assistance in moving the School of Education and Professional Studies searches
forward.  Please convey my appreciation to your colleagues who have assisted in completing search plans
and advertisements in a timely manner.  I look forward to meeting your candidates."

                  A Tentative List of Education Department projects 2000-2001

Besides all of the courses that faculty facilitate on campus and online and all of the oncampus
governance and search committees we are involved in, Education Department faculty and staff
are planning to be involved in the following projects during the next academic year.  Please
send David additional projects that are not listed here:

1) Preparation for NCATE accreditation

2) Design of the Child and Family Resource Center

3) Hartford Pre-School Technology project with UTC and Hartford public schools.

4) Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology (PT3) grant project to use constructivist approaches
and technology with ThinkQuest to create classroom applications

PDS relationships with
5) Norwich,
6) Killingly,
7) Lebanon,
8) Windham, and
9) Region 11 - Parish Hill High and its feeder schools.

Curriculum development -
10) MS in Educational Technology program,
11) MS in Mathematics Education,
12) revisions of the ECE programs,
13) RLA 520,
14) EDU 110 and as a GER course.

15) Curriculum development discussions - GST, UNI, and CAP/STEP

16) Teacher Cadet program in Hartford Public Schools

17) Summer and
18) Winter Institutes for Future Teachers and other outreach to high school students during the academic
year.

19) Young Educators Society's webpages and online course

20) 10th annual Children's Literature Festival in Spring 2001

21) BEST Portfolio assessments

22) Aero*Space and Environmental Education Resource Center (part of the Connecticut NASA Educational
Consortium)

23) Spring 2001 Mini-Conference on Constructivist Teaching

24) Establishing database for Title II reporting

                                Progress on NCATE Preparation

The second meeting of the NCATE Writing Group was heldon July 18, 1-2:30 in WH 159;
notes on that meeting may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/ncate718.html.

Notes on the first NCATE organizational meeting - Wednesday, June 21, 12 - 2, in WH 159 may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/ncate621.html .

A selection of documents describing how we spent our time during the summer vacations.  Faculty,
students, and staff are invited to send in items to be posted in this seasonal news setting.

a) Preliminary ThinkQuest Implementation plan
 http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/thinkquestplan8200.html

b) Notes on the STEP/CAP Program and the Education Department's involvement this summer may be
found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/stepcap062600.html .

c) Notes on the visit of Ed Harris, Superintendent of Schools, Region 11 - Chaplin, Hampton, Scotland - on
Wednesday, June 28, 11 - 2 may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/region11062800.html .

d) Notes by David Stoloff on a visit to Louisiana Tech University may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/latechvisit.html .

3) Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office

Jonathan Kozol's Ordinary Resurrections (departmental gift to the Chair's Library - thank you).

Other available documents are listed on the Education Department Documents page at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/documents.html

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

Other available documents are listed on the Education Department Documents page at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/documents.html

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