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Best wishes to all for a successful Spring 2003 semester.
Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
Be a scrub in the valley—but be
The best little scrub on the side of
the hill,
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a highway just be
a trail
If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or
fail—
Be the best of whatever you are.”
From Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life
Delivered at New
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/words/completelife.html
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Announcements
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,
1. faculty
photo,
2. news
on semester opening,
3. chair
election for 2003 – 2004,
4. finalizing
Fall 2003 schedule,
5. planning
for April 9 mini-conference/student excellence expo/Teacher Education Community
Advisory Council meeting and dinner
6. outstanding
student teachers Fall 2002;
7. distinguished
faculty member award, other awards
8. definition
of clinical supervision, connections with curriculum, clinical practices in
specific topics, clinical coordinators,
on
An interesting
resource shared by Eloise Farmer of Connecticut Science Supervisors Association:
http://2000survey.horizon-research.com/
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Saturday, March 15, 2003, 8:30 am – 12 noon,
Two
http://www.crec.org/2rivers/index.shtml
Future Teachers Convention
Thursday, March 27, 2003
proposed date –
4)
17th Annual CSU Academic Computing Conference
http://so-mako.sysoff.ctstateu.edu/acc/acc2003.nsf
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Photos from the Diversity Seminar –
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A message from Dean Kleine and VP-AA Pachis on a rubric for online instruction –
From: Estela Lopez
Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs
(860) 4930073
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From Dean Kleine
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regulatory guidance on the
Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program
(formerly Eisenhower), attached in this email and posted on
our website
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.
Director
CT Department of
Higher Education
860/947-1801
860/947-1310
(fax)
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An interesting
resource shared by Dean Kleine –
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
early. Applications and seminar information can be
downloaded directly from
our website
at http://www.ciee.org/seminars
.
ifds@ciee.org or visit our website at http://www.ciee.org/seminars .
Manager
Faculty Seminars
CIEE: Council on
International Educational Exchange
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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
[ http://www.preservice.org]
and 13 other universities throughout the
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Long Term Announcements
Alumni
news may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html.
Planning
back to top
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
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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
Results of the
Open House –
Searches
back to top
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.
http://www.mansfieldct.org/MBOE/Employ/docs/Web%20Posting%206.02B.doc
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Position Announcement
The Summer Institute for Future Teachers grant and the Institute for
Future Teachers Using Technology grants have been refunded. David
Stoloff, Chair of the Education Department, 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 set
for Thursday, March 27.
Admission to a teacher education program preferred, enrollment or
completion of pre-requisite courses in our teacher education program
required. Please contact David Stoloff -
email: stoloffd@easternct.edu,
860- 465- 5501 for further details.
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!
Wynn, Charles M.
& Wiggins, Arthur W. (1997).The five biggest ideas in science.New
Folios
from the NCATE Professional Development Workshops, sponsored by CT State Dept
of Ed. – Fall 2003
Connections between
K-12 Student Standards and Teacher Preparation Standards.
CAPT Test handbooks in Science,
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.
Notes
from the 2002 Creative Advance - "Creativity Through Diversity" -
Thursday,
Evaluator's Report on the
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
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