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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEWS Twelfth
Week of Spring 2003 - 4/14/03 Edition best
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Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
The American Educational Research Association
conference begins during this week. Here
is a segment from the AERA Position Statement Concerning High-Stakes Testing in
PreK-12 Education - http://www.aera.net/about/policy/stakes.htm
“Protection Against
High-Stakes Decisions Based on a Single Test
Decisions that affect individual students' life
chances or educational opportunities should not be made on the basis of test
scores alone. Other relevant information should be taken into account to
enhance the overall validity of such decisions. As a minimum assurance of
fairness, when tests are used as part of making high-stakes decisions for
individual students such as promotion to the next grade or high school
graduation, students must be afforded multiple opportunities to pass the test.
More importantly, when there is credible evidence that a test score may not
adequately reflect a student's true proficiency, alternative acceptable means should
be provided by which to demonstrate attainment of the tested standards. “
Announcements
A relayed message
from Dean Kleine on
Here's a course that might be of interest to teachers and teacher
candidates.
-----Original Message-----
Subject: [NAME-MCE] EDU 563: Anti-Bias and Multicultural Perspectives in
the Classroom,
SOUTHERN
SUMMER SESSION "A" COURSE
EDU 563: Anti-Bias and Multicultural Perspectives in the Classroom,
Grades Pre-K
through 12: A Professional Training Workshop (3
credits)
Dates: Fri., June 13 (
June 15(
p.m.
Are you ready for the challenges and opportunities of teaching an
increasingly diverse student population? Do you want to prepare your
students to live in a diverse world by infusing multicultural perspectives
into your curriculum? In this course, you will engage in activities to
evaluate and confront teacher and student bias. You'll add to your own
appreciation of cultural diversity and develop ways to teach respect for
differences and build bridges of understanding among your students.
Interactive methods will bring alive problems that
teachers really
encounter. You will learn about existing multicultural curriculum, including
the nationally recognized A World of Difference project, and learn
strategies for developing new curriculum experiences. This workshop
includes group discussions, simulations, guest speakers, case studies,
videos, and sharing of multicultural resources. For Education majors,
this
course counts as an Education Department elective. The course is open to New
Haven Cohort students and all other graduate students.
*Required readings must be completed prior to
the first class and will
be available at the bookstore. For further information, call Judith
Buzzell, Professor, Education
Department, 203-392-6431 or e-mail
Buzzellj2@southernct.edu.
William A. Howe, Ed.D.
Education Consultant for Multicultural Education and Gender Equity
Connecticut State Department of Education Bureau of Certification &
Professional Development
165 Capitol Ave. Rm 243, Box 150471
Hartford, CT 06115-0471
Telephone: 860-713-6737
Fax: 860-713-7453
email: william.howe@po.state.ct.us
CSDE Conferences & Workshops
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/calendar/index.htm
<http://www.state.ct.us/sde/calendar/index.htm>
CSDE Multicultural Education
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/cert/gndrequt/mcintro.htm
<http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/cert/gndrequt/mcintro.htm>
CSDE Title IX,Gender Equity & Sexual Harassment
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/cert/titl9/titl9a.htm
<http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/cert/titl9/titl9a.htm>
8th Annual Connecticut Conference on Multicultural Education
Thurs.Oct.16, 2003
Keynote Speaker: James Loewen, author of "Lies
My Teacher
details go to website:
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/calendar/index.htm
<http://www.state.ct.us/sde/calendar/index.htm>
13th Annual NAME Conference
Sheraton Seattle,
14th
Hyatt Regency Crown Center
Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
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1) Draft notes
from the Teacher Education Faculty Advisory Council lunch discussion -
2) Education
Department Faculty Meetings – CARE meeting,
3)
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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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 -
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
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searches pending approval - we had request an
additional faculty member in Elementary Education.
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
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
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