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EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT NEWS Second
Week,
Spring 2004 - Jan. 23, 2004 for past issues Ed. Dept. News Index - http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/newsindex.html |
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Words of Inspiration
the
collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html
"Groundhog Day, February 2nd, is a popular tradition in the United States. It is also a legend that traverses centuries, its origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and animals awakening on specific dates. Myths such as this tie our present to the distant past when nature did, indeed, influence our lives. It is the day that the Groundhog comes out of his hole after a long winter sleep to look for his shadow.
If he sees it, he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his hole.
If the day is cloudy and, hence, shadowless, he takes it as a sign of spring and stays above ground."
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January 30, 2004
Please
welcome Ms. Fran Tremblay as our department secretary until at least
Commencement.
Ms. Tremblay has served at Eastern for twenty years next week -
congratulations! - in the Learning Center and has been an integral part
of the coordination of the STEP/CAP program for 18 years.
Please
welcome Fran to our department.
1) First Spring 2004 Education Department meeting - Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 12:30 am - 2 pm, Webb Hall 115
Topics
for
discussion:
General
Education requirements for certification programs - 6 credits in
English, above College Writing??, mathematics requirements
Assessment timeline for graduate teacher candidates
Curriculum
initiatives
Committtee
initiatives
2)
Announcement
from Dr. Sudha Swaminathan
and the Early Childhood Education Faculty:
Please
announce to any ECE students (grad. and undergrad.) in your classes
that
the ECE faculty will hold a Portfolio Information Session on Feb 3,
2004 from 6-8 PM at Webb
110. Students
will receive the latest guidelines, tips on compiling the portfolio and
have
an opportunity to view finished portfolios. Light refreshments
will be served.
Thanks,
Sudha Swaminathan
4)
Message from Dean Kleine on the
4th Annual Excellence Expo:
The
4th Annual Excellence Expo will be the School’s best exhibition of
student excellence ever!
The School of Education and Professional Studies will be celebrating
its 4th Annual Excellence Expo on Wednesday, April 28, 2004, from 3:00
p.m.
– 7:00 p.m. in campus venues to be announced at the beginning of Spring
Semester 2004. The format of the Expo has been significantly
enhanced:
• Poster sessions (i.e., research posters,
professional business posters)
• PowerPoint sessions
• Demonstrations
• Portfolio presentations
• All Ears Radio Theatre
• Gallery-style shows (e.g.. photography)
All sessions will be juried; all student participants will be formally
recognized (i.e., acknowledgement of the quality and significance of
their
“presentations”). The Expo committee comprised of Drs. Bob
Horrocks and
Frank Hendrick (HPE), Dr. Delar Singh (EDU), Drs. Edmund Chibeau and
Terri
Toles-Patkin (COM), Dr. Ken Parzych (ECO), and Dr. Chiaku Ndu (BUS)
have
developed poster session guidelines, effective PowerPoint strategies,
and
judging criteria. Each faculty member will receive a packet of
information
regarding the Expo for distribution to students at the beginning of the
spring
semester.
5) Please welcome Mr. James J. Mello
as our newly appointed University Assistant for the Committee on
Admissions and Retention in Education. His desk will be in the
Education Department main office in Webb Hall 124. Mr. Mello is a
retired Kelly Middle School (Norwich) social studies and science
teacher, a Sayles Elementary School (Baltic) 7th and 8th grade teacher,
and has served as a university supervisor within our student teaching
programs. He is a graduate of Eastern CSU
with MS degrees in Language Arts and Social Studies, and BS in
Education.
Jim is also a veteran and is on reserve duty currently.
Welcome, Jim.
6)
Faculty opportunities -
a)
Please contact David Stoloff for more information on serving as a
BEST Program
Portfolio Scorer.
b)
Message from Pat Kucharski - The Office of the Dean has a color HP
DeskJet printer available for each of your departments. Who would
like it?
7)
Message from Hope Marie Cook, Curriculum Center Librarian, J.
Eugene Smith Library
The
Curriculum Center Computer Lab is available for use for Spring 2004.
Please contact Ms. Cook for reservations.
Faculty photo is posted at at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/faculty.html
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The 2002-2006 CSU AAUP-BOT
Collective Bargaining
Agreement is on-line at the usual URL:
http://www.easternct.edu/aaup/cba.html
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Alumni News
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html
News
from Alyssa (Fresa) & John Gwinnell:
Benjamin
Carter Gwinnell was born on Friday, November 28, 2003 at 2:57 p.m.
8lbs3.5oz, 20.5 inches.
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News
from Monica Sajkowska.
I
have been teaching 3rd grade since August in Bridgeport CT.
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Call
for Graduate News -
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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Faculty
members and students from Eastern Connecticut State University
participated 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 found
at http://www.preservice.org/ecsu/
or http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/pt3.html.
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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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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
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Research and Creativity Activities
chronicling the ongoing
progress of the Education Department at
also found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/rca.html
departmental searches pending
approval -
full-time tenure track faculty members to start in Fall 2004
in Learning and Teaching,
Reading/Language Arts, and for a Director of
Educational
Experience
The Career Counseling
Centers at
Saint
Joseph College
&
The
University of
Hartford
Presents:
EDUCATION
CAREER FAIR
2004
When: Thursday, February 26,
2004
4:00 – 7:00 PM
Where: Saint Joseph College’s
Gengras Center
Over 40 Connecticut Public School Districts
will be represented!
Don’t miss
this
Teacher Recruitment Opportunity:
REGISTER TODAY!
(860) 231 – 5503 or via
email mcarey@sjc.edu
Jeanne Wahl, Employment
Coordinator: University of Hartford
(860) 768 – 4168 or via email wahl@hartford.edu
Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office or on the Web
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Please contact David Stoloff at (860)
465-5501, email: stoloffd@easternct.edu if you have any
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