Meetings this week - CARE - Thursday, Oct. 12, 12:30 - 1:45, WH 115.

NCATE Writers' Group - Thursday, Oct. 12, 2-3, WH 115.

Online Educational Department meeting minutes at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/deptminutes0001.html

1. Revise and implement all of the Education Department programs in alignment with National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and national, professional organizations standards and changes in certification regulations.

2. Recruit additional faculty to fully support the academic excellence of our current programs and offerings.

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

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

5. Integrate technology applications within the coursework and field experiences of the Teacher Education and Graduate Studies programs.

6. Enhance the quality of field experiences by implementing a supervisory model that reflects the department's goals and conceptual framework.

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

8. Recruit students and faculty who better represent the diversity of the state’s population.

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

10.  Improve departmental systems for gathering and reporting student data, and advise the registrar on departmental data needs as the CSU-BANNER system is developed.

1) Promoting Academic Excellence - All departmental goals

2) Financial Stability - goals 1, 3, 8, 9, 10

3) Faculty, Staff, and Student Diversity - particularly goals 2, 8

4) Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - particularly goals 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9

5) Integration of Technology - particularly goals 5, 7

6) BANNER Installation - particularly goals 8, 9, 10.
 
 

Please spread the word that there will be open group advisements on the certification programs on Tuesday, October 17, 3 pm in WH 110.  All students are invited to attend.

1) 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 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.

Thank you, Education Department, for your  contribution totaling $182 to the Relay for Life, American Cancer Society, on Sat.-Sun. 10/14-15/00.

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) Charter Schools Presentation

From Meredith Gavrin and Greg Baldwin
Project Managers

Connecticut Charter Schools Network
171 Willow Street
New Haven, CT  06511
(203) 787-7819 phone
(203) 787-1658 fax
mgavrin@aol.com / gbaldie@aol.com

"We are the Project Managers for the Connecticut Charter Schools Network.   As
part of our outreach efforts this year, we are interested in addressing
students and faculty from education departments around the state to answer
questions about the charter schools in Connecticut, to present information
about the charter school movement both in this state and nationally, and to
answer some of the common questions about charter schools (How are charter
schools funded?  How do they differ from other public schools?  How do they
differ from vouchers?).

We would very much appreciate an opportunity to speak with interested
students and faculty at  Eastern Connecticut State.    We can also bring or
send a packet of printed information, and our website
(www.ctcharterschools.org) provides some basic information as well.

Please feel free to contact us, via email or phone, at your earliest
convenience -- or we will call you within the next week.  We look forward to
speaking with you."

1)  Connecticut Campus Compact on Service Learning conference, Sacred Heart University, October 13, 2000.  David has reserved a car and will be leaving from campus at 7 am.

2) Early Reading Succes Kick Off Symposium - Monday, Oct. 16, 2000, Waterbury, 8:15 am - 2:30  pm.
If you would be interested in attending, please contact Dean Kleine or David.

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.  David has reserved a car and will be leaving from campus.

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 .

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.

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)
 

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.