Last Week of Classes, Fall Semester 2005 - 12/5/05, Education Department, Eastern CSU

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Last Week of Classes, Fall Semester 2005 - 12/5/05

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

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Three quotes shared by Dr. Pamela J. Starr, Coordinator/Counselor, Office of AccessAbility Services

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. - Michael Carr

also posted at http://rushservices.com/Inclusion/inclusion_vocabulary.htm

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

also posted at http://www.cognitivebehavior.com/theory/quickconcepts.html

Patience and perserverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish - John Quincy Adams

also posted at http://www.houseofquotes.com/authors/John_Quincy_Adams.htm

Announcements

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Upcoming Events

1) The Education Department faculty photo is posted at

http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/faculty.html

Education Unit meeting on December 8, 12:30 - 1:30 on proposed changes to certification regulations, organized by Dean Kleine, who will kindly sponsor lunch.

CARE meeting, immediately after the unit meeting, 1:30 - 2:30.

2) Save the Date - Celebrating Reading and Shirley Ernst, Monday, December 12, 3:30 - 6, Curriculum Center and Johnson Room, Smith University Library, Eastern CSU. Dean Kleine and her staff will be supporting the celebration by sponsoring the printing and mailing of the invitations, printing the program, and the reception. Thank you very much for your support.

3) Sixth Annual Excellence Expo: April 26, 2006.

4) Up-coming Events from the Office of Educational Experiences:

1) Mandatory Student Teaching Orientation session for Spring 2006 – Part I –

December 9^th, 2005, 1 – 3 pm, Johnson Community Room, Library.

^{2) For Fall 2006 student teaching applicants, the Student Teaching Information
Sessions will be offered on Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 3:30 – 4:30 PM, Webb
Hall 110 or Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 7 – 8 PM, Webb Hall 110.}

^{3) CORE I and II orientation sessions for elementary and secondary teacher
candidates –}

^{January 24 OR
January 25,
2006, 9 – 10 AM, Webb 110.}

^{4) Diversity Seminar for all teacher candidates prior to student teaching,
Friday, January 29,
3:30 – 6 PM
(snow date: February 3, 2005, 3:30 – 6 PM), Johnson Community Room, Library.}

5) Report on the Connecticut Council for Exceptional Children conference, Saturday, November 5, 2005

The Connecticut Council for Exceptional Children met in Webb Hall on Saturday, November 5, 2005 for their annual conference. Drs. Delar Singh, Ann Gruenberg, and David Stoloff helped to plan and support the conference. Dr. Singh is President-elect of the organization. The keynote speaker was Dr. Melissa Storm, from the Access Center, who spoke on "using research-based strategies, supports, and tools to promote access to the general education curriculum." The conference included sessions on evidence-based instruction, early childhood advocacy, and research studies to promote access to general education curriculum. The after-lunch speaker was Dr. Joseph Renzulli, from UCONN, who spoke on "using technology to provide differentiated enrichment opportunities for students with special needs" and introduced the conference participants to the Renzulli Learning System - which one may visit be linking to http://www.renzullilearning.com .

The conference was also an opportunity for Summer Institute for Future Teachers (SIFT) alumni to have a reunion. About 10 of the over 350 alumni from the first nine years of this program planned to participate in the conference and the reunion; alumni from 1999, 2001, and 2005 attended. Ms. Barbara Tatro, the project's CREC liaison, and Ms. Michele O'Neill, SIFT Program Director, also participated in the conference.

6) News about Dr. Robert Levin.

Dr. Rob Levin has accepted a job with TeachFirst™ http://www.teachfirst.com/teachfirst/, a professional development organization that "provides a model for professional development that increases the skill set of K-5 mainstream teachers and ELL specialists." He will be working out of Cambridge, MA.

If you would like to contact him, please use his email - writingrobert@yahoo.com.

Congratulations, Rob.