Unit Meetings - Thursday, March 15, 12:30 - 1:45, WH 115.  Please discuss first draft of SPRING 2002 schedule - it is past due to the Dean and Registrar and will be submitted on Friday, March 16.

Some items for discussion by the Elem/ML/SEC/RLA/other Unit - curriculum revision of graduate courses, planning for Faculty Teacher Education Council, equipment requests, ...

Time certain (1:30) - Dean Kleine will join the Unit to discuss the Middle Level Program

Please send David other agenda items for this meeting.

Faculty Teacher Education Council - Tuesday, March 27, 12-2, LI 204 - Johnson Room.

Topics to be discussed at our meeting might include:

1) Undergraduate teacher education programs at ECSU - Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education,
Middle Level Education and Secondary Education in English, History/Social Studies, Mathematics, Sciences - the present operations and future planning

2) Planning for future programs - World Language certification, integrated science certification, proposed MS in Educational Technology, proposed MS in Mathematics Education

3) Ways that we might collaborate more effectively

4) Title II reporting

5) Curriculum development initiatives.

Please feel free to contact David Stoloff with other agenda items.

Educators Mini Career Fair on Tuesday April 17, 2001, 4-6 p.m. in the Johnson Room of the Library

I hope that you will encourage your students to attend our first Educators Mini Career Fair on Tuesday April 17, 2001, sponsored by Career Services and the Department of Education. Representatives of public and private schools will be there from 4-6 p.m. in the Johnson Room of the Library. Please drop by to meet colleagues from the K-12 environment. A listing of the schools will be on line shortly (www.easternct.edu/depts/career) and will be updated at least twice weekly until the event. If you have any questions, please contact us at 465-4559. Thanks for your support.

Planning for the School of Education and Professional Studies Student Exhibition - Saturday, May 5, 1-5

Dean Kleine and the Department Chairs in our School are developing a Student Exhibition for Saturday, May 5, 1-5.  While reviewing the comprehensive exams, please be on the lookout for

1) nominees for Outstanding Comprehensive exam - perhaps 3 from ECE, 3 from R/LA, 3-4 from Elementary Education and Science Education.  These nominees would be invited to present their portfolios before a panel of external judges on May 5 who would select the Outstanding Portfolio for each of the graduate programs for 2001.  We should consider including outstanding portfolio from Fall 2000 in this selection process.

2) evidence of our graduate students' classroom children's achievement for inclusion in our NCATE document - particularly for the Elementary Education folio.

Please let's discuss further these plans for the Student Exhibit in our Unit meetings and at the Graduate Studies Committee.

Online Educational Department meeting minutes and Departmental Goals for 2000-2001 are available at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/deptminutes0001.html

The notes from the NCATE Writers' meetings have been posted at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/ncate/ncatenotes.html.
The Teacher Education Organizational Chart is available as a WORD document in the NCATE folder in the faculty COMMON folder on the Z: drive.

Please visit http://www.virtualcommunity.intranets.com/ to see the potential of threaded discussions.

Please review this revised Teacher Education Mission Statement

The mission of the Teacher Preparation Programs of Eastern Connecticut State University is to recruit and prepare, in accordance with state and national standards, undergraduate and graduate students of diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds to be reflective teachers and leaders in our nation's schools.   Teacher Education faculty initiate basic, applied, and collaborative research which relate to problems and issues in education and provide professional services and consultation to public school centers, community and state agencies, and professional organizations.

Please review this revised list of Education Department Committees:

The standing committees of the department shall be:

- Departmental Evaluation Committee (DEC)
- Committee for Admission and Retention in Education (CARE)
- Committee on Excellence and Diversity in Education
- Budget Committee
- Educational Experience/Professional Development Schools Committee
- Educational Technology Committee
- Graduate Studies Committee
- Library and Curriculum Center Committee

and let David know if you have any suggestions or comments.

"Jeanne Kincaid, a leading Attorney and expert in the field of Disability Law and Education Settings, will be coming to Eastern on Wednesday, March 28th.

I have scheduled an Open Forum with faculty from 9:30 to 11:30 in the Library Community Room, and am soliciting your support. Please encourage your faculty to attend this forum for the entire 2 hours, or any portion of this time. Jeanne is a dynamic speaker and will be here to answer specific questions regarding working with and accommodating students with disabilities. Faculty have been sent an invitation, so they have been informed of this session specifically set aside for faculty. I am also hoping you will be able to attend this forum.

If you have any questions, please contact me at 55573, or Kathy Ivey 54436.

Thank you for your time and support."

Please nominate a student member of Kappa Delta Pi to serve as the Student Marshall at Graduation.  Nominations with name, telephone number, and email address, are due by March 26, 2001.  Thank you.
 
 

Milken, L. (2000) Teaching as the Opoortunity:  The Teacher Advancement Program.  Santa Monica, CA:  Milken Family Foundation.

Print-out of Connecticut Minority Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program website at
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/der/info/minorityteacher/index.htm

Braus, N. and Geidel, M. (2000) Everyone's kids' books:  A guide to multicultural socially conscious books for children.  Brattleboro, VT:  Everyone's Books. [A gift from the Education Department Sunshine Fund to the Chair's Library - THANK YOU!!]

Connecticut Guidelines for the Issuance of Continuing Education Units Required for Certification.

Student Teachers' Poetry - ECE 465:  The Role of the Teacher.

In-Service Training Course Catalog, Spring 2001.

CT's Blueprint for Reading Achievement, CSDE, 2000.

CT Mastery Test Forum, Connecticut Public Television video.

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.