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Best wishes to you and yours for a happy
and healthy holiday season and a peaceful and fulfilling 2003.
Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
A
quote for the shortest days of the year -
"There
are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects
it." -- Edith Wharton http://www.creativequotations.com/one/50.htm
Posted
on December 23, 2002
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Announcements
Wintersession 2003 classes start on Monday, December 26, 2002 and end on
January 17, 2003. The Spring 2003
Semester starts officially on Monday, January 13, 2003 with the University
Meeting on Thursday, January 16 at 10 am.
The University is closed for Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January
20. Classes begin on Tuesday,
January 21, 2003.
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A
proposal to the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium to develop online
coursework in graduate special education was awarded $15,000 by the CTDLC and
$15,000 from the CSU System Office.
Congratulations to Delar Singh, Ken Dobush, and Ann Gruenberg for this
initiative.
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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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Education Department Faculty Meetings
usually on Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:45 in Webb Hall 115.
Next faculty meetings on Thursday, January 23, 2003 –
Tentative agenda – news on semester opening, chair election for 2003 –
2004, definition of clinical supervision, connections with curriculum, clinical
practices in specific topics;
clinical coordinators, finalizing Fall 2003 schedule
and on Thursday, January 30, 2003 – news on opening, towards a unified admission GPA waiver policy for CARE & Graduate Division
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Save these Dates!
1) Minority Teacher Recruitment Fair,
Saturday, March 15, 2003, 8:30 am – 12 noon,
Two Rivers Magnet School, East Hartford
http://www.crec.org/2rivers/index.shtml
2) 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
3) Showcasing the Education Department Mini-Conference
proposed date – Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 4 to 8 pm
4) Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 8:30 A.M.
17th Annual CSU Academic Computing Conference
http://so-mako.sysoff.ctstateu.edu/acc/acc2003.nsf
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The 17th Annual CSU Academic Computing Conference
will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 8:30 A.M. at Southern Connecticut
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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 Dean Kleine and VP-AA Pachis on a rubric for online instruction
–
“Vice Chancellor
Lopez has shared with the VPAAs a very useful assessment instrument (Rubric for
Online Instruction) developed by faculty at CSU Chico. Please share this information with
departments offering online courses.
Faculty might wish to adopt it for their own uses.
Please review
this instrument and let me know if you think that it would be better to bring
faculty together to discuss its merits.
Thank you.
D. Pachis”
-----Original
Message-----
From: Estela
Lopez
Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs
Connecticut
State University System
(860) 4930073
“Enclosed you
will find web page address for CSU Chico Rubric for Online Instruction. Let me know if you need any other
information.
http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/webct/rubric/
“
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From Dean Kleine
–
More information
on a grant opportunity due on January 10, 2003 –
Subject: Teacher
Quality Partnership Grants: Final Federal Guidance
Just in time for the holidays, USDOE on Friday issued its final
regulatory
guidance on the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program
(formerly
Eisenhower), attached in this email and posted on our website
As you may
recall from an earlier memo that accompanied our RFO, we had
hoped to have
this document in hand in late summer.
Nonetheless, please
make sure to
distribute copies or forward this email to any of your
faculty members
who are considering applying for a grant.
Many folks
are preparing
applications now given our due date of January 10. We
apologize for
this late curve ball and, of course, will be happy to
answer
questions.
Constance Fraser
Director
CT Department of
Higher Education
61 Woodland
Street
Hartford,
CT 06105-2326
860/947-1801
860/947-1310
(fax)
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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:
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/
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Long Term Announcements
Alumni
news may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html.
Planning
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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
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
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
Searches
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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.
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.
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
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
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to the Education Department e-mailing list by contacting David Stoloff.