Fifth Week of Summer 2003 - June 13, 2003, Education Department Newsletter, Eastern Connecticut State University

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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEWS
Volume XV, Summer 2003

Fifth Week of Summer 2003 – June 13 Edition

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Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html

For a web version of the poem, A Brave and Startling Truth", delivered by Dr. Maya Angelou at the Eastern CSU Commencement on May 18, 2003,

please visit http://www.theinspirationplace.com/poems/p10.htm

Posted June 13, 2003

Announcements

1) Great news relayed by Dr. Sudha Swaminathan on June 5, 2003 -

Nancy Hines and Kathleen Piquette, teachers at Naylor Elementary School in Hartford and partners in our Tech4 PreK program within the UTC-Hartford Public Schools-Eastern CSU consortium "have been selected to receive the first Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-Based PK Education. We would like to thank Sudha Swaminathan who nominated you, as a team, for this award citing the creative integration of technology in your classroom at Naylor Elementary School."

"This award will be announced by our [ISTE's] CEO, Don Knezek, at his Keynote Presentation at the 2003 National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in Seattle, Washington on Tuesday, July 1st. We sincerely hope that you are going to be attending NECC to receive this award. If not, we realize that this notification may have come too late for you to make plans and we will certainly send your $500 check and award to you immediately following the Conference if you cannot be there to accept it.

We are so pleased to be able to honor the work that you are doing in a PK setting and look forward to meeting you. If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at any time.

Kind regards,

Chris Traver
NETS Project Manager

and

Christine Traver, CMP
ISTE Professional Development
Voice: 541-349-7572"

2) Message from Dean Kleine -

"You did it!!! Eastern’s history/social studies program has been recommended for national accreditation by NCSS! "

Special congratulations to Dr. Leslie Ricklin and Dean Kleine for all of their efforts in making this dream possible.

3) Help from the Graduate Division and Continuing Education -

Grace Cipriano, School of Continuing Education, has assigned Continuing Education student assistants to work in the Education Department when you do not have pressing duties for them in your office.

We have lots of tasks needing to be completed here now that our departmental secretary, Paulette Mares, has retired and Alies Kelly, our UA for educational experience records left for summer break on June 12..

We are thankful that Sara Stockton, a graduate assistant on loan from the Graduate Division, is also available to coordinate and assist in these tasks.

Victoria (Tori) Straub, a rising junior in Business Administration, jumped right into the tasks when she joined the office this morning.

Please greet Sara and Tori when next you are in the office. Thanks to the Graduate Division and Continuing Education.

4) The Summer Institute for Future Teachers has accepted 30 high school students for the program based on EDU 101 - Teaching in the 21st Century seminar, from July 7- 25. Theresa Picard plans to present a workshop on literacy resources. Please let David know if you would like to also present during the institute.

5) The Reading/Language Arts clinic will be at Chaplin Elementary School from July 2 - August 8th, 8 am – 1 pm. RLA consultant candidates seeking certification should enroll in RLA 519 – Clinical Experience in Reading/Language Arts. Linda Rogers will be the supervisor of this experience.

There will be an orientation meeting for the summer school/clinic on Wednesday, July 2, 8:30 - 12.
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Mitch Sakofs reports that Kathy Rosen has been asked to teach summer school at Mohegan Elementary School.

Dan Rothermel, Jeanelle Bland, and Mitch Sakofs report that Vicenza Benoit that she has just been hired in South Carolina as a 4th gr classroom teacher in the Varennes Elementary School, Anderson District 5 Schools, Anderson, South Carolina, Dr. Mary Paul, Principal.

Dan Rothermel reports that "one of our core III secondary student, Maggie Tarbox, has just accepted a position to teach 7th grade language arts at Bloomfield's Carmen Arace Middle School.

                              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 Eastern Connecticut State University are participating in a US Department of Education grant to Prepare Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology with ThinkQuest
[ http://www.preservice.org/] and 13 other universities throughout the US. This project's homepage may be at http://www.preservice.org/ecsu/ .
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Long Term Announcements
Alumni news may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html.
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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 - November 15, 2002
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
October 20, 2002
Results of the Open House – Sunday, October 20, 2002
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 Sunday, October 20, 2002 at the Fall 2002 University Open House.
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.
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Searches

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searches pending approval - we had request an additional faculty member in Elementary Education.

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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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