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Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
Quotes on
Education by Abraham Lincoln - http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/quotes.htm
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to
dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the
most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
--From the
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has
already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the
already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a
relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
--From the
from African Fundamentalism, an editorial by Marcus Garvey
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/lifesamp.htm
“No
one is ever too old to learn. Therefore, you should take advantage of every
educational facility. If you should hear of a great man or woman who is to
lecture or speak in your town on any given subject and the person is an
authority on the subject, always make time to go and hear him. This is what is
meant by learning from others. You should learn the two sides to every story,
so as to be able to properly debate a question and hold your grounds with the
side that you support. If you only know one side of a story, you cannot argue
intelligently nor effectively. As for instance, to
combat communism, you must know about it, otherwise people will take advantage
of you and win a victory over your ignorance.
Anything
that you are going to challenge, you must first know about it, so as to be able
to defeat it. The moment you are ignorant about anything the person who has the
intelligence of that thing will defeat you. Therefore, get knowledge, get it
quickly, get it studiously, but get it anyway.
Knowledge
is power. When you know a thing and can hold your ground on that thing and win over
your opponents on that thing, those who hear you learn to have confidence in
you and will trust your ability.
Never,
therefore, attempt anything without being able to protect yourself on it, for
every time you are defeated it takes away from your prestige and you are not as
respected as before.
All
the knowledge you want is in the world, and all that you have to do is to go
seeking it and never stop until you have found it. You can find knowledge or
the information about it in the public libraries, if it is not on your own
bookshelf. Try to have a book and own it on every bit of knowledge you want.
You may generally get these books at second hand book stores for sometimes
one-fifth of the original value.”
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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
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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
Meeting
of the CARE & Graduate Studies Committee this
Items should
include –
1.
developing a unified GPA waiver policy
for CARE and graduate program admission
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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
2) The Office of Career Services is pleased to announce the
upcoming Education Career Fair 2003 scheduled on
This year the hours of the Fair have expanded, in order to
accommodate more students. It is expected that approximately 35 schools
state-wide will be represented on the ECSU campus. All students, alumni,
faculty and staff are cordially invited to attend Education Career Fair 2003!
Future Teachers Convention
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Performance
through Partnership
Tentative
Schedule
4
– 4:30 – Opening greetings
Two
from Reading/Language Arts
Two
from undergraduate Early Childhood Ed. and two from graduate ECE
Two
from undergraduate Elementary Ed. and two from graduate Elem.
Two
from undergraduate Secondary Education
Two
from Physical Education
5
– 6 – Interest group, roundtable discussions
6
– 6:30 –
Presentation
on Online Learning and Teaching
Tour
of the Aerospace Environmental
Introducing
revised Conceptual Framework
Keynote
presentation on Performance through Partnership
Roundtable
discussions on meeting the challenge of change
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
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.
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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