Education Department News
Eastern Connecticut State University
Charles R. Webb Hall Room 124
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226
please address questions or comments to David L. Stoloff, Education Department Chair
TEL:    (860) 465-5501        email:   stoloffd@easternct.edu
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Eleventh Week of Spring Semester, 2001
April 10, 2001
also found as http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/010410.html
on the WWW

Best Wishes to All for Happy Spring Holidays

Education Department Meeting Schedule This Week

Is it possible that there are no meetings this week???

Resources from the April Title II Teacher Quality Enhancement Project Workshop are attached for the email distribution list -  including

REFERENCE LIST COMPILED BY MARY DIEZ <<mary.diez@alverno.edu>>

Mary E. Diez (in print). Assessment’s Future in Teacher Education:  An Assessment Scenario from the Future.  Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mary E. Diez (in print). Assessing Student Competence in Teacher Education Programs

Please let David Stoloff know if you would like copies of these resources, originally shared by Dean Kleine and Marilyn Duran, Connecticut State Department of Education, Bureau of Certification and Professional Development.

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.

ThinkQuest Evaluator, Matt Russell, will be visiting ECSU and our T3P Project [http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/pt3.html] on Thursday, April 19.

Academic Computing Conference, WCSU, Saturday, April 21.  David has a state car and will be leaving ECSU at 7 am.  For more information about the conference, please visit http://web.wcsu.edu/acc2001 .

Spring Reception for Admitted Students - Sunday, April 22, 2001, 12 - 4.  Please consider joining David and Leslie in representing the department and congratulating the new students.

Advisement Meetings - Wednesday, April 25, 2001 -

Please announce widely -

To all who are

Seeking Advice
about Teacher Certification and Education Programs at ECSU

Here are two opportunities to learn more about Education at ECSU:

I.  Participate in an advisement meeting on certification programs at ECSU on

Wednesday, April 25, 2000, 3-3:55 pm
in the Johnson Community Room (LIB 204)
in the Smith Library, ECSU

This session will also include a presentation about scholarship support for Teacher Education candidates.

II.  Following this introductory session, from 4 - 6 pm, there will be a presentation on changes in certification requirements by a Connecticut State Department of Education official.  Refreshments will be served, sponsored by Dean Kleine, School of Education and Professional Studies.

III. Visit the Education Department Office, WH 124, and request general information about the certification program(s) in which you are interested.
 
For more information or to RSVP, please contact the
Education Department, ECSU, WH 124, (860) 465-4530, or
visit our website at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/edu.html


Save the Date -  School of Education and Professional Studies Student Exhibition - Saturday, May 5, 1-5

Save the Date - Mini-Conference for the Teacher Education Community - Thursday, May 10, 4-8

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.

Student Marshalls at Graduation

The Education Department has nominated Holly Mandes as our Undergraduate Marshall and Ann Auerlich as our Graduate Marshall.  We have also sent forward the name of Rachel Dio as an alternate marshall.

Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office

Milken, L. (2000) Teaching as the Opportunity:  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 Approach)

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.