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Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
Excerpts from
Educators undeterred by loss of Columbia
By Natalie Singer
Just 11 days before the
shuttle was destroyed, NASA kicked off — for the second time in its
history — a nationwide recruitment campaign to find teachers to join its
next astronaut class, the Class of 2004. The first program, in which New
Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe flew, was shuttered after
the loss of her shuttle, the Challenger, in 1986.
As of yesterday, more than
3,600 teachers had applied, including 95 from
The wave of responses to
the program after last weekend's shuttle accident reflects the resilient spirit
of Americans and the resolute desire to explore the last frontier, said NASA
spokesman Bob Jacobs. "Now more than ever, teachers and students want to
be involved," he said. "You'd be hard-pressed to find many students
who don't dream of being an astronaut."
"Learning science by doing science is a
way to get teachers excited about it," said Wayne Sukow,
who works with the National Science Foundation to develop teacher training
programs. "It's the ultimate opportunity to teach," said Gerry Wheeler,
executive director of the National Science Teachers Association. Wheeler helped
form the guidelines for the new NASA program. "These teachers are going to
bring life to the textbooks."
Dr. Lani Guinier, professor of law at
“I use the
metaphor of the miner's canary. The experience of those black and Chicano--or
in
And my argument
is that the experience of those black and Mexican American students at the
And my argument is, heed the canary. It is
signaling us that we are not doing much good for the society focusing simply on
fixing the canary. We have to fix the atmosphere in the mines.”
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Some
notes from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education meetings
in
Friday,
January 24 –
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/aacte2003.html
Announcements
News from Dean Kleine on
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/circ/circ02-03/C-16.pdf
You will need Adobe Acrobat
to read this file.
The fuller memo, dated
January 31, was not on the web yet, but should be there shortly. The
emphasis on standardized testing detailed in that memo will also have an impact
on what train teachers and administrators will need to know and be able to
do. This memo is listed as Circular Letter C-24, Series 2002-2003.
You can find the file of all Circular letters, including several dealing with
NCLB, on the State Department of Education Website http://www.state.ct.us/sde . Click
on the "Commissioner" button on the left hand side of the screen and
select the icon for "Circular Letters."
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will be
held on
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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
Unit
meetings this
Items should
include –
2.
curriculum development and revision
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Faculty
representation needed for the
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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New faculty photo at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/faculty.html
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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
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
–
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
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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.
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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