Meetings this week - Graduate Studies Committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 28, 12:30 - 1:45, WH 115.

Review and Additions? to Departmental Goals for 2000-2001

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.

News from Richard Reynolds and Marge Cambre in Australia appears at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/australia.html .

Please review the Frequently Asked Questions website at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/questions.html
for revisions.

1) All practicium/internships/independent studies/field studies must be processed by Wednesday, September 27 at 11 pm - 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.

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.

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.

1)  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 .

Milne, A.A. (1926) Winnie-the-Pooh.  New York:  Puffin Books. (used to illustrate models of learning and teaching - particularly the Guiding Partner Model)

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (2000).  Engage discoverers:  Kids constructing knowledge with technology.  Austin, TX.  A VIDEO.

Gibson, G. W. (1992) Good start:  A guidebook for new faculty in liberal arts colleges.  Bolton, MA:  Anker Publishing Co. (gift from the Center for Educational Excellence - thank you, Dr. Rhona Free)

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

The second meeting of the NCATE Writing Group was held on 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 .

Special Section - How we spent our summer vacations

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

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.

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.