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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEWS Sixth Week of Spring 2003 Semester
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Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
"Historically,
teaching and nursing are among the few professions that have not been dominated
by men. If you're going to choose someone to represent teachers as a whole . .
. choose a woman." -- Christa McAuliffe, 1986
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/bleducation1.htm?terms=education
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Announcements
Dr. Jeffrey Trawick-Smith’s Illness
Last week, our colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Trawick-Smith
suffered a mild heart attack. He is
currently resting at home and recovering well.
Our prayers are
with Jeff and his family for a full recovery.
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From Mitch Sakofs, Director,
Educational Experience –
OUTSTANDING STUDENT TEACHING AWARD
– Fall 2002
It is my pleasure to
announce that, as result of the faculty balloting, the following individuals
will receive an Outstanding Student Teaching Award for their exceptional work
during the Fall 2002 semester.
Brandon Bilodeau, Graduate,
Elementary Education
Michele Glinski, Undergraduate,
ECE
Melissa Kagerer, Graduate,
Elementary Education
Susan Leser, Graduate,
Elementary Education
Amy Niblett, Undergrad,
ECE
Sarah Ververis, Undergrad,
ECE.
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News from Dean Kleine on
-----Original
Message-----
From: Georgette Nemr [mailto:georgette.nemr@po.state.ct.us]
Sent:
Subject:
FW: The Title II Site is Live
Greetings,
I
just wanted to let you know that the Title II state report website is now open
to the public. It was opened on
The
U.S. Department of Education has decided not to do issue a press release on the
state reports this year.
For
your information, the web address is: http://www.title2.org/Title2DR/
If
you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks.
Georgette
Nemr
Title
II Project Director
Bureau
of Certification and Professional Development Connecticut State Department of
Education 860-713-6716
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Education Career
Fair 2003
will be
held on
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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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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 Education Dept. faculty this
Items for the
agenda –
1)
Approval
of the minutes of February 6, 2003 meeting
2)
Announcements
– comprehensive portfolios
3)
Unit
reports, committee reports
4)
Planning
for the April 9th mini-conference
5)
Planning
for the April 8th Teacher Education Faculty Advisory Council
6)
Progress
on curriculum mapping
7)
Curriculum
development initiatives
a)
team
teaching courses
b)
pre-requisite
courses limited to sophomore level
c)
World
Language certification program
d)
University
recognition in Educational Technology
8) Progress on assessment, NCATE
preparation
Please contact David Stoloff with
additional agenda items.
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Save these Dates!
Faculty
representation needed for the
1) Minority Teacher Recruitment Fair,
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!
3) Young Educators Society
Future Teachers Convention
Eastern
Thursday, March 27, 2003
4) Showcasing the Education Department
Mini-Conference –
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 –
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
The application
deadline is
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
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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 –
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
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.
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
Kushner, Harold
S. (2001) Living a life that matters.
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.
Jacobik, Gray
(2002). Brave disguises.
Mama,
Raouf & Romney, Mary (2001).Pearls of wisdom.
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
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.