9:15 - 9:45 Reaching consensus on conceptual framework - overview of revising conceptual framework, mission, research base, proficiencies, performance assessment - facilitated by Hari Koirala

9:45 - 10 Unit approval, break

10 - 11 - Connections to curriculum - matrices- (strands on top bar, programs horizontal) towards alignment with dept goals, proficiencies, assessment, working groups, break

11 - 12 Dispositions - strategies for enhancing 2-page syllabi with dispositions, enhancing teaching syllabi, listing of disposition goals

12 - 1 Lunch discussion, planning for Spring 2003

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The Master of Science in Secondary Education with certification program has been accepted by the State Department of Education. Please contact Ms. Hazel Gage at gage@easternct.edu for paper information on this new program. Please see http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/msseced.htm for general information about the program.

Congratulations to all for their persistence and patience as this program was finally approved.

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Alumni News

from Sarah Jensen (via Jeanelle Bland) - “I just got a new job as a paraprofessional/tutor at Hopewell School in Glastonbury.”

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Save these Date!

1) Young Educators Society

Future Teachers Convention

Eastern Connecticut State University

Willimantic, CT

Thursday, March 27, 2003

8:30 am to 3 pm

presentation proposal forms are available at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/sift/yespresenters.doc

2) Showcasing the Education Department Mini-Conference

proposed date – Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 4 to 8 pm

3) Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 8:30 A.M.

17th Annual CSU Academic Computing Conference
http://so-mako.sysoff.ctstateu.edu/acc/acc2003.nsf

The 17th Annual CSU Academic Computing Conference will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 8:30 A.M. at Southern Connecticut State University.

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Photos from the Diversity Seminar – September 4, 2002 - http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/photosf02/photosfall2002.html

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A message from Hope Cook, Curriculum Center Librarian -

“Hi David and Education Faculty,

Just wanted to let you know that the Curriculum Center Computer Lab, Room 145 of the Eugene Smith Library is now open for your use!

Here are some of the highlights added to the Computer Lab:

·6 new PC's with Internet Access and equipped with educational and presentational software titles

·1 of the 6 PC's is setup as an instructor station. This station includes a projector that will allow the instructor the opportunity to project information to a screen, or if one prefers to the white board.

·We have also retained 1 Macintosh machine that is loaded with software and has Internet access.

·The computer lab also includes a VCR, Slide Projector, and Overhead Projector

·Additionally, students can use this room to work on classroom projects as we now have 2 Ellison Machines and several dies to cut letters, borders, etc. The lab is also equipped with a sink.

·The lab can seat up to 20 people and would be ideal for those teaching courses that contain some component of children's literature or the use of educational software.

Thank you!

Hope”

Dr. Jeanelle Bland has been appointed Curriculum Center Computer Lab liaison from the Education Department.

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An interesting resource shared by Dean Kleine –

Dear Colleagues,

The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is pleased to offer

18 International Faculty Development Seminars in June and July of 2003.

These 1-2 week intensive overseas programs are specifically designed for

university faculty and administrators in an effort to help stimulate

initiatives towards internationalizing curricula. The seminars are hosted

by overseas academic institutions and feature lectures, coordinated study

tours, and opportunities to meet with scholarly communities abroad. More

than 2,200 academics have participated on the seminars since 1990.

We have updated the seminars to reflect current global issues and added four

new seminars in Costa Rica, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. Other

seminars being offered include: Australia, Brazil, China, Croatia, Cuba,

Hungary and the Czech Republic, India, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland,

Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, and Vietnam.

The application deadline is March 15, 2003, and space is limited, so apply

early. Applications and seminar information can be downloaded directly from

our website at http://www.ciee.org/seminars .

For a new brochure or further information, please contact us by telephone at

212-822-2782 or toll free at 800-40STUDY ext. 2782, by e-mail at

ifds@ciee.org or visit our website at http://www.ciee.org/seminars .

Sincerely,

Kraig Walkup

Manager

Faculty Seminars

CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange

633 Third Ave, 20th Fl.

New York, NY 10017

A message from Professor Ross E. Koning, PhD
Chapter President ECSU-AAUP
Biology Department - Goddard Hall
email: Koning@EasternCT.edu
http://Koning.EasternCT.edu/

Greetings ECSU-AAUP Faculty,

I am pleased to announce that our on-line (html) version
of the 2002-2006 CSU AAUP-BOT Collective Bargaining
Agreement is on-line at the usual URL:

http://www.easternct.edu/aaup/cba.html

This version is, of course, unofficial...but we have worked
hard to make it identical with the printed version in content,
and have hopefully corrected most of the printed version's
flaws.

We encourage you to try it out. All internal and some external
references are linked so navigation is better than in the print
version. You can also use the find and find-again feature of
your browser to search for words in the contract...so finding
items is perhaps easier. On the down-side, the contract is now
in a single file that is sometimes slow to open if you are on a
modem connection...but we think your patience will be rewarded.

I also encourage you to right-click (PC USERS) or click-hold-drag
(Mac USERS) on the CBA link on the home page to DOWNLOAD
the contract to your hard-drive for improved loading times. Our
home-page is:

http://www.easternct.edu/aaup

Best wishes for the fall semester.

ross

Professor Ross E. Koning, PhD
Chapter President ECSU-AAUP
Biology Department - Goddard Hall

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Call for Graduating Senior Information

A request from Institutional Research -

Please share news about the plans of graduating seniors.

If they are going on to graduate school, please provide the graduate's name, undergraduate major,
graduate university, location (city, state), field of study and degree program sought, and any information
on scholarships and/or fellowships.

If they have been accepted for employment positions, please provide the graduate's name,
undergraduate major, company, location (city, state), position, salary.

Please email the information to David, who will compile it for the department. Thanks.

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Other Events

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ECSU - ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers Projects

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.preservice.org] and 13 other universities throughout the US. This project's homepage may be at http://www.preservice.org/ecsu/ .

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

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Past surveys of our graduates are available on the WWW -

an analysis of the survey of teacher education program graduates 1996-98
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/survey9698.htm

results of the survey of teacher education program graduates - 1996-1998 -
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/surveyresults9698.htm, and

results of the survey of teacher education program graduates - 1998-2000 -
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradsurvey2001.htm

survey of interests in graduate programs -1999,
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradinterestsurvey1999.htm

survey of interests in graduate programs - 2001
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradinterestsurvey2001.htm

Planning forms for field experiences and student teaching for Spring 2003 are now posted at

http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/stinfo.doc

and

http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/stpreferencefall2003.doc

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rca.html

Seventh Report – November 15, 2002

During Career Day at Putnam High School, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2002, David Stoloff met with 41 students to discuss their interests in teacher education. Of this group, 12 were interested in Secondary Education, 8 in Elementary Education, 7 in Early Childhood Education, 1 Elem/ECE, 6 in Special Education, 2 in HPE, 1 in Music, 1 in Art, and 3 were undecided.

Sixth Report
October 20, 2002

Results of the Open House – Sunday, October 20, 2002

Leslie Ricklin, Richard Reynolds, Delar Singh, Cathy Tannahill, and Ingrid Enniss and David Stoloff met over 121 students interested in coming to Eastern for teacher certification on Sunday, October 20, 2002 at the Fall 2002 University Open House.

The majority expressing interest in elementary education (68), early childhood education (17), secondary education (24), special education (3), and middle level (2), with the remainder uncertain.

Another 15 students/family may not have signed in but received information about the programs.The information sheet at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/questions.html was distributed.

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searches pending approval - we had request an additional faculty member in Elementary Education.

Opportunities

Coordinator for the website of Children's Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (now at (http://venus.twu.edu/~f_vardell/index.html) sought.

Dr. Shirley Ernst plans to propose at the CLA’s board meeting on November 22nd that, under her leadership, a revised organizational website would be developed.Dr. Ernst seeks individuals in the Eastern community who might be interested in assuming the web development and maintenance tasks for this proposed website.Benefits – national recognition in the field of Children’s Literature and a stipend that will be negotiated.Please contact Dr. Ernst (email: ernsts@easternct.edu) before November 20 if you might be interested in assuming this position.

Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program

The new Title II, Part A of ESEA creates Improving Teacher Quality State Grants to strengthen teacher quality and increase the number of highly qualified teachers and principals. In Connecticut, the higher education component of this initiative is known as the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program. It replaces the Eisenhower Professional Development Grant Program and the Connecticut Collaborations for Teaching the Arts and Humanities.

For 2003, the Connecticut Department of Higher Education is authorized to award $663,199 in competitive Teacher Quality Partnership Grants for professional development projects for teachers, paraprofessionals and principals across 10 core academic subjects (English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, the arts, history and geography). Preference will be given to proposals which address at least one of several priorities, among them projects that seek to:

·increase teacher mastery of subject matter, especially in mathematics, science and the essential themes which define the American experience

·recruit and prepare minority teachers, and

·improve the leadership skills of principals.

Applicants must be partnerships consisting of at least:

1)the division of a Connecticut public or independent institution of higher education that prepares teachers and principals,

2)one or more schools or departments of arts and sciences at that institution, and

3)one or more high-need schools or school districts in Connecticut.

Other schools, colleges, education groups and non-profit organizations may serve as additional partners. Please note that no single participant in an eligible partnership may use more than 50 percent of the partnership grant award.

Project periods may vary over a period of 17 months. Multi-year activities are allowed based on available funds and progress in meeting goals. Requested project amounts depend on the scope of the activities proposed; there are no minimum or maximum award limits. Proposals are due January 10, 2003 and grant awards will be announced February 7, 2003.

For more information about this grant program, please see

http://www.ctdhe.org/RFP/default.htm

The Summer Institute for Future Teachers grant and the Institute for Future Teachers Using Technology grants have been refunded. David Stoloff is seeking student assistants who would contact local school principals and teachers to plan and implement the formation of more Future Teachers Clubs/Young Educators Societies in our region and to help plan for a future teachers convention here at Eastern tentatively set for Thursday, March 27. Please contact David Stoloff - email: stoloffd@easternct.edu, 860- 465- 5501 for further details.

Jamie Hendricks shared this link to the Mansfield Schools employment website -
http://www.mansfieldct.org/MBOE/Employ/docs/Web%20Posting%206.02B.doc

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Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office or on the Web

Rothermel, Dan (1996). Starting points: How to set up and run a writing workshop - and much more!

Columbus, Ohio: National Middle School Association. ISBN 1-56090-109-8

Wynn, Charles M. & Wiggins, Arthur W. (1997). The five biggest ideas in science. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-13812-6.

Jacobik, Gray (2002). Brave disguises. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5788-4

Mama, Raouf & Romney, Mary (2001). Pearls of wisdom. Brattleboro, VT: Pro Lingua Associates. ISBN 0-86647-134-0

Folios from the NCATE Professional Development Workshops, sponsored by CT State Dept of Ed. – Fall 2003

Graduate Elementary Education Program Self-Study for NCATE visit.

Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child-Care and Family Providers. (2002) Early Childhood-Head Start Task Force, US Dept. of Education and US Dept. of Health and Human Services.

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2002. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

Notes from the 2002 Creative Advance - "Creativity Through Diversity" - Thursday, August 22, 2002, Eastern Connecticut State University.

Evaluator's Report on the May State On-Site Review of ECSU's Teacher Education Programs. Received May 31, 2002.

Institutional Overview and Response to Standards, Self-examination report on Teacher Preparation
Programs at ECSU, March 2002.

Portfolio Responses for BEST program, 2001-2002.

Precondition Report for the Education Unit - April 2002, NCATE document

General Education Committee's General Education Program Proposal

Wednesdays - A Compilation of Short Stories written by Eastern Connecticut State University
Graduate Students

Faculty Handbook.

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

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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.

Words of Inspiration the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html

Announcements

Future Teachers Convention

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Research and Creativity Activities – chronicling the ongoing progress of the Education Department at Eastern Connecticut State University also found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/rca.html

Opportunities

Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office or on the Web

Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html

Research and Creativity Activities –
chronicling the ongoing progress of the Education Department at Eastern Connecticut State University
also found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/rca.html