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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEWS Volume XI, Spring 2002 Three Week of Spring 2002 Education - 2/6/02 best viewed at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/020206.html on the WWW; for past issues - Education Department News Index

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A grant for the United Technologies/Hartford Public Schools Preschool Technology Project (http://www.tech4prek.com/) for $150,000 from United Technologies will be awarded in the first quarter of the year to a team of Education Department faculty lead by Professors Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, Hannah Sellers, Leah Barbuto, Sudha Swaminathan, June Wright, and Dean Patricia Kleine, and other staff from ECSU, and teachers and administrators in Hartford PreSchools.

This project serves preschool students and teachers in the following Hartford Public Schools - Barnard Brown Elementary School, Moylan School, Naylor School, McDonough School, Maria Sanchez School, Sand School, and West Middle School.

Congratulations, Jeff, Hannah, Leah, Sudha, June, Dean Kleine, and all of the Hartford teachers and administrators and project staff, on this accomplishment.

Congratulations to the entire Education Department and university community for their support of the recently approved Master of Science in Educational Technology.  Please see http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/edtech.html for details on the program.

Thursday, February 7 - WH 115,
12:30 - 1:15 - meeting to discuss assessment with Barbara Wright, ECSU Assessment Coordinator;

1:15 - 1:45 - working session on using assessment information for curriculum and practice revision - information provided by Mitch Sakofs, David Stoloff, and others;   to be joined by Dr. Deena Sue Fuller, our NCATE consultant - time for general questions on assessment and preparing for the NCATE process

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:

No registration fee required.  To register, please E-MAIL Marilyn Duran at marilyn.duran@po.state.ct.us, by February 22, 2002, with your name, phone number, institution.  To contact Marilyn by phone, call 860-713-6717.

Message from  Steve Kenton, Chief Marshal, email:  kenton@easternct.edu

"Each year, we ask the Honor Societies at ECSU to supply the name of an outstanding graduate to represent their respective society as a Student Marshal at Commencement. Please forward to me the name and contact information (phone, email, parole officer) of the person you are nominating from your department's honor society for this year's commencement.  The person you will nominate should be someone graduating at this year's commencement who is willing to represent your society."

Career Services will be having an Education Career Fair on March 19, 2002 from 4-6 pm in the Student Center BTR. Please share this information with students. Students can monitor the employers attending by checking out our web page at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/career/. Employers participating will be posted in about two weeks and will change weekly.

from Walter Diaz, Career Services

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"Please announce in your Core II and Graduate Classes that I have set dates and times for student teacher information sessions.  Students who plan on student teaching in the Fall of 2002 must attend one of these sessions.  Sign-ups can be found on the door to my office, Room 145 Webb Hall.

FYI, here are the dates, times, etc.

Mon, Feb 4, from 3-4 in Webb 115
Tues, Feb 5, from 3-4 in Webb 115
Weds, Feb 6, from 12 - 1 in Webb 115"

"Dr. Pachis has requested that all classrooms be scheduled on all days of the week.  I see that Webb 113 or 210 do not have any classes scheduled on Friday and there is no room to put a general lecture in MWF.  Can you relook at the schedule and see if any of the courses could be moved to WF or all Friday or whatever.   Thank you."

   Faculty members and students from Eastern Connecticut State University are participating in a US Department of Education grant to Prepare Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology with ThinkQuest
[ http://www.thinkquest.org] and 13 other universities throughout the US.  This project's homepage may be at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/pt3.html .

Long Term Announcements

Message from Barbara A. Butler, Interim Head of Technical Services and Collection Development Officer, J. Eugene Smith Library:

"The Library has obtained an online version of the Kraus Curriculum Development Library. The database is available from the Library's database site located at:

http://www.easternct.edu/library/library1/atoz.htm

Please use this resource and give us your reactions."

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.
 

Alumni news may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html.

News from Leah Barbuto -
"Jen Lillis has been offered a long term teaching position in a Kindergarten in Enfield.  She has 23 children and of these, 5 have special needs, and she has one aide.  She shared with me that as soon as her certification goes through, she will receive regular teacher's pay.  She said that she is glad that she took [the] advice and did the four-week practium in an inclusive kindergarten even though she could have been waived.  It helped her during her interview to have had recent experience in the area for which this school district was looking."

A goal of the Alumni News section of our Education Department website is to encourage our alumni to share their successes with our growing community.  We are striving to develop an alumni association for Education which would serve as a support group for our alumni as they continue their successful professional careers.  Please join us in this endeavor by responding to the Education Department newsletters and encouraging others to participate in the development of a community of educators who share a love of learning, teaching, and our evolving campus in Willimantic, CT - Eastern Connecticut State University.

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1st Thursday of the month - whole faculty meeting (required meeting for all, other committee membership are voluntary and selected by the committee of the whole)

2nd Thursday of the month - CARE Committee meetings

3rd Thursday of the month - unit meetings - 1) ECE and 2) the other programs

4th Thursday of the month - Graduate Studies Committee meeting.

Educational Department Searches for Tenure Track Faculty to Start in August 2002

The searches notices are also posted at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/search02.html, and available from The Chronicle.

Position: Educational Technology
Qualifications: Ph.D. or Ed.D. in educational technology or related field required. ABD near completion considered.
Position Description: The successful candidate will have at least three years of experience in teaching or coordinating educational technology instruction in PK-12 schools an/or in teacher education programs. Responsibilities include teaching preservice and inservice courses in computer applications in the classroom, curriculum development of online and on campus courses in educational technology, and leadership of outreach programs to regional schools. Duties will also include teaching other education courses, grant writing, and administration of leading edge project to prepare tomorrow’s teachers to use technology. Faculty members are expected to advise students and to engage in scholarly work and university service.
Respond to: Ken Dobush, Ph.D., Search Chair

Position: Reading/Literacy
Qualifications: Ph.D. or Ed.D. in reading/language arts or related field required. Emphasis on bilingual or ESL teaching preferred. ABD near completion considered.
Position Description: The successful candidate will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in reading/language arts; teach graduate coursed in the reading certification program; advise students at the graduate and undergraduate levels as well as supervise student teachers; develop professional relationships with area schools; and organize the summer reading clinic for reading certification students. Other qualifications include experience with miscue analysis and retrospective miscue analysis as evaluation and intervention tools; school teaching at the PK-12 and college levels; experience with diverse students populations; demonstrated interest in research, curriculum development, and school/university partnerships; and a commitment to a constructivist, meaning-based philosophical orientation and field-based collaborative approaches to teaching.
Respond to: Shirley Ernst, Ph.D., Search Chair

Please announce to potentially interested students and cooperating teachers in regional schools.

Faculty members in the Education Department at Eastern Connecticut State University are seeking certification candidates and middle school and high school teachers who would appreciate support for the development of Future Teachers Clubs or Young Educators Society (YES) Clubs in Eastern Connecticut and Hartford area schools.

We envision that certification candidates would visit schools about 10 hours a week during the Spring 2002 semester and collaborate with middle school or high school teachers and their students in the development or enhancement of these clubs.  Part of this involvement might be virtually, through a discussion board on a readily accessible website.  Participants will be selected for an early June weekend workshop on developing websites for curriculum support in the schools and for a late June weeklong residential Institute for Future Teachers using Technology at ECSU.

Certification candidates will earn a stipend for up to $1,500 for their efforts and their cooperating teachers will receive a stipend of $500 for their support of these projects.  Additional stipends will be available for participation in the summer workshop and institute.

If you might be interested in participating in this project, please contact Ms. Hannah Sellers (email: sellersh@easternct.edu) or Dr. David Stoloff (stoloffd@easternct.edu ).  Thank you for your consideration of this project.

Education, Computer Science, Mathematics, Management Information System/Science, and/or other majors interested in serving in the schools as technical assistants for 10 hours a week are invited to apply.  These students will consult in individual classrooms - setting up equipment, debugging procedures, demonstrating exemplary software, assisting in webpage development, and facilitating after school workshops.

Several school districts are interested in the services of Technical Assistants, including Lebanon, Salem, the Integrated Day Charter School in Norwich, and others. School site personnel and the student assistants will arrange the scheduling of the assignments of 10 hours per week.

Technical Assistants will be paid at the rate of $11.00 - $12.50 per hour, depending on experience.   Students will need to have their own transportation to participate.

Please complete the following application and return it to Professor David Stoloff, Education Department,
tel. no. (860) 465-5501, email:  stoloffd@easternct.edu.

This application is also on the WWW at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/projects/techies.html . 

Handbook of Teacher Education, developed by Dan Rothermel and a team of faculty consultants.

NCATE (2002).  Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education.

NCATE (2002).  Continuing accreditation & beyond.

Faculty Handbook.

Our Reading/Language Arts, Webb Hall 113, has been enriched with past issues of Phi Delta Kappan, Academe, Syllabus, Converge, Journal of Teacher Education, and other resources.  Please feel free to use and encourage your students to use these materials.

The Condition of Education 2001 in Brief.  National Center for Education Statistics, US Department of Education.

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

"Education happens everywhere and it happens from the moment a child is born -- and some people say before -- until a person dies. It is a far more complicated, overarching process than can ever be handled inside the walls of a school."

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Harvard educator as quoted by the Challenger Center http://www.challenger.org/cc/cc_body_we12.htm   
 

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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.   Please invite others to receive this newsletter and be added to the Education Department e-mailing list by contacting David Stoloff.