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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEWS Volume XXIII, Spring 2006 Week of the first full moon of Spring 2006-April 17, 2006 best viewed at  http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/060417.html on the World Wide Web for past issues Ed. Dept. News Index - http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/newsindex.html

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Week of the first full moon of Spring 2006-April 17, 2006

 

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

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Special names are given to the full moons in each month, although there are several different naming conventions variously attributed to different Native American tribes (Minutillo, NOBLE, Haspel and Knutson 1993, Ottewell 1999, Thomas and Hale 1999). An extensive tabulation by tribe is given by Konstantin.

Blue Moon, Easter, Lunar Eclipse, Month, Moon Phase, Moonrise, Moonset, New Moon, Paschal Full Moon

from http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/FullMoon.html

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Announcements

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Upcoming Events

 

1) Program(s) meetings - Thursday, April 20, 2006, 12:30 - 1:45.  Please contact Sudha for the ECE program, Delar for Elementary, and Jeanelle for Secondary program with ideas for the agendas.

2) Kathleen Wedge from the CT SDE will be on campus Thursday April 20th from 5-7 pm (Webb Hall, Room 110) to do the Certification 101 meeting. Please notify all of the appropriate teacher candidates.

3) The Reception for New Students will be held on Sunday, April 23, 2006 from 12 – 4 pm.  Drs. Leslie Ricklin, Delar Singh, Richard Reynolds, David Stoloff, and Ms. Diane Cerreto are planning to represent our department.  Please let David know if you would like to join the group.

4) Sixth Annual Excellence Expo:  Wednesday, April 26, 2006.

5) Announcement from Dr. Leslie Ricklin:

Delta Kappa Gamma is offering a $500 scholarship for tuition.  Candidates must be at the junior level at the moment and a resident of Connecticut, besides other qualities.  Applications are due by April 21.   Please contact Dr. Ricklin for details.

6) Announcements from Ms. Shifrin, Coordinator, Office of Educational Experience

Attention: Teacher Candidates

UPCOMING EVENTS!

 

FALL 2006 Mandatory Student Teaching Orientation Session

May 12, 2006, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Johnson Community Room, Library

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SPRING 2007 Student Teaching Applicants Student Teaching Information Sessions will be offered:

MONDAY, April 24, 2006, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Webb Hall Room 110

OR

THURSDAY,  April 27, 2006, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Webb Hall Room 110

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CURRENT STUDENT TEACHING CANDIDATES*

Connecticut State Department of Education DEBRIEF SESSION

MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

*Candidates who attended the initial training sessions in Nov. or Jan.

Lunch will be included

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Connecticut State Department of Education

CERTIFICATION INFORMATION SESSION

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006  5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

WEBB HALL ROOM 110

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The Education Department Faculty photo is posted at
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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 Dr. Leslie Ricklin

 

I just had a call from Sandy Boscarino's father telling me that she is the first in this year's graduating class!  Sandy is doing her student teaching right now in the 5th grade in Andover and doing a terrific job; she passed Praxis II with flying colors (199 out of 200 on the multiple choice section, for example).  Oh, by the way, her other major is History.  I bet that Dept. is proud of her, too.

 

Posted on 2/14/06

 

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News from Kimberlee Kenney

Mathematics & Education

Class of 2002:

 My husband got orders to the USS Alaska, so we will be moving to Norfolk, Virginia around the first of March.  I resigned my position as a math teacher at Grasso Technical High School and  am subbing until we leave.  Parting is such sweet sorrow.  I have so many memories of our 7 years in Connecticut, some of the most special being spent at Eastern in our Real Analysis study group.  We spent 4-6 hours a week outside of class (studying) just to impress Dr. Kenton!  My love and best wishes go out to Dr. Kenton, John, Lisa, Matt, Kevin, Sita and all of the other math geeks who gutted it out with us.  We are truly a bounded unique subset (in the infinite domain of humanity) in which no other subsequence will converge near our epsilon neighborhood!  In Bolzano-Weierstrass we trust. 

 

Kimberlee Kenney, Mathematics

Culture Committee, Sophomore Advisor, National Honor Society Committee

441-0387, email:Kim.Kenney@po.state.ct.us

posted on February 6, 2006

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Dr. Fred Ashton reports from Windham Tech - 

 

Our two new teachers and recent Eastern graduates, Glenn Anderson and Chris Morgan, are doing fabulously well, as is Diane Trumbull (also new to us, and a less-recent ECSU grad).

 

Looking forward to having Violet Lukasik student teaching here with Lyn Williams, ECSU graduating class of 1998, this spring.

 

posted on November 2, 2005

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Message from Mike Hetherington, Master of Science in Elementary Education program graduate, 2003

On October 7th, my 6th grade class at Horace W. Porter School launched their first podcast. A podcast is an Internet radio broadcast available for download. If you or the alumni would like to listen, just go to our class weblog at http://room613talk05.edublogs.org/tag/podcasts/ or look for Room 613 Talk in the Educational Podcast section of Itunes. My students worked collaboratively to write the introduction, feature stories, transitions and closing. So far we have received positive feedback on the podcast from listeners as far away as Georgia, Arizona, and New Zealand. As far as I know, this is the first class podcast in the State of Connecticut.

 

In other news, I'll be visiting China for 10 days starting on November 4th as part of a Connecticut Educators delegation. During that visit I will have a chance to teach at Horace Porter's sister school in Jinan, China. It's been an busy year so far! 

 

Mike Hetherington

6th Grade Social Studies Teacher

Horace W. Porter School - Columbia, CT

MS Elementary Ed. - Dec. 2003

posted on November 1, 2005

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Good news from Michelle Ridolfi O'Neill -

Sharon Hagen was hired for one of a language arts positions in Montville.

posted on October 31, 2005

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Good news from Bethany Champagne (bethany_champagne@yahoo.com):

"Hello everyone

I just wanted to inform you that I have been offered a job as a long-term substitute counselor at DePaolo Middle School in Southington.  I went today to meet everyone and it is wonderful.  I love it.  I will keep you posted.  I should be there until Feb. or March because the person I am replacing just had TWIN BOYS! Yikes.  I am so happy and finally using my degree.  Thanks for everyone's support. 

Bethany"

 

posted on October 6, 2005

 

Good news from Dr. Fred Ashton:

 

I am pleased to let you know that Windham Tech is employing two outstanding new educators, fresh from the latest graduating class:

--Glenn Anderson, English

--Chris Morgan, social studies

 

As you know, I recruited Chris Morgan for our system last year as a substitute after I saw first-hand the work he was doing in mentoring middle and high school students over the summer at ECSU.  He soon became one of our most-requested subs that fall and student taught at Norwich Tech last spring.

 

Glenn Anderson was a student in my seminar for student teachers last spring.  He completed an exemplary portfolio and had an outstanding student teaching experience at Dr. Helen Baldwin School in Canterbury.

 

Both have done a great job in their first week- a testimony to the instruction and experiences that they have had at Eastern.  They are going to make a difference in the lives of our students.

 

Fred Ashton

 

posted on September 7, 2005

 

Good news from Alicia Dunbar -

"I just wanted to share some of my own good news.  After teaching this past year in New Haven I have been offered a position in Madison teaching First/Second Grade Multiage." 

 

Alicia Dunbar

ECE 2003 Graduate

posted on August 29, 2005

 

Past Alumni News is posted at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html

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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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ECSU - ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers Projects

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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Planning

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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 Eastern Connecticut State University

also found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/rca.html

 

Searches and Opportunities

for job announcements at Eastern CSU - http://www.easternct.edu/depts/personnel/jobs.html

 

departmental searches to start in Fall 2006 pending approval -

two full-time Reading/Language Arts tenure track faculty members
and

one research and assessment tenure track faculty member

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For opportunities for technology resources and recognition for exemplary leadership, please visit http://www.futureready.org/about/ .

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PRAXIS I Workshops 2005 - 2006

Time: 9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. for all workshops

Mathematics (Same Workshop Repeats)

Presenter: Rosemary Burdick

February 25

April 8

Fee for Mathematics:  $75.00 (includes study material)

         

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Reading and Writing Essays (Same Workshop Repeats)

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

February 22 (added)

March 7

 

PRAXIS II: Elementary Education

9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.

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Elementary Math Prep*

Multiple Choice and Essay

Presenter: Rosemary Burdick

February 7

Fee: $75.00 includes Math Materials*

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Elementary Multiple Choice Prep

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

February 23, June 2 (Repeats)

Fee: $75.00 if you bring the Educational Testing Service Guide (Test Code 0011)

Fee: $110.00 if you want ACES to purchase the Guide for you.

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Elementary Essay Prep

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

February 24, February 28, April 4 (Repeats)

Fee: $75.00 if you bring the ETS Guide (Test Code 0012)

Fee: $110.00 if you want ACES to purchase the ETS Guide for you

Fee: $75 (if you bring the ETS Guide 2^nd Edition

for PPST, Test Codes 0710, 0720.0730, 5710,5720, and 5730)

- OR -

You may purchase the ETS Praxis I Study Guide 2^nd Edition for PPST

from the Barnes and Noble at Universal Drive, North Haven.

See the clerk at the front desk.

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 Register online: www.aces.k12.ct.us/courses

 

Location: 205 Skiff Street/SDA (Rear) Building

Hamden, CT 06517

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Recommendation from Diane Reale, OnlineCSU instructor, to subscribe to Edutopia:

"You may already be familiar with Edutopia, but I recently received an invitation to a free magazine subscription from them, in the mail, so I thought I would send the link along to you....(re: exemplary programs in K-12 schools)....thought your faculty and students might be interested.

http://www.edutopia.org/foundation/foundation.php

Diane"

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Reference from Walter Diaz, Director, Career Services:

Teaching Jobs at SchoolSpring.com

Description: Free educator job search. Apply online, get email job alerts, find 1000s of teaching jobs from dozens of sites with the SchoolSpring SuperSearch. Apply to any job, anywhere with SchoolSpring PLUS!

URL: http://www.SchoolSpring.com

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Looking for an internship, co-op or full-time job? Then check out our new on-line system-eRecruiting at http://eastern.eRecruiting.com

Walter Diaz
Director
Career Services
Eastern Connecticut State University
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT  06226
Phone: (860)465.5244
Fax:(860)465.4440
Email: diazw@easternct.edu
University Web Page: www.easternct.edu
Department Web Page: www.easternct.edu/depts/career/

 

Announcement from Robin Shefts, Career Counselor, Career Services:

"I discovered this website recently which I wanted to share with you, faculty and students. http://careers.education.wisc.edu/projectConnect/MoreInfo.cfm

Project Connect is a national cooperative resource between school districts and universities to assist with teacher/education staff employment efforts on the internet.  If you are not familiar with Project Connect, it's worth checking out!"

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For Connecticut teaching opportunities, please visit http://ctreap.net .

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Teacher Substitute Openings in Windham Public Schools

Windham Public Schools are seeking Eastern graduates, with a bachelor's degree in any major, to substitute for absent teachers.  Please link to the district's home page

@  http://www.windham.k12.ct.us 

 

 and the district personnel policy page @ http://www.windham.k12.ct.us/DSS_Web/Personnel/Policies.htm

for more information. 

 

There are also substitute possibilities listed without the degree. 

Posted on November 27, 2005

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Alma Exley Scholarship Program

 

This scholarship program supports and encouraged persons of color who are committed to a career in public school teaching.  A scholarship award of at least $1,500 a year for two years will be granted to an individual who has been admitted to a teacher-preparation program in a Connecticut College or university.  For more information and an application, please contact David Stoloff in the Education Dept, Webb 129 or visit http://www.almaexleyscholarship.org .

 

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Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office or on the Web

1) Thank you, Ann, for enriching the Education Department Chair's office with

Dan Brown's Digital Fortress (Corgi Books, 1998)

and worry beads from Greece. 

2) Also available in borrowing for summer reading -

Cambre, M. & Hawkes, M. (2004). Toys, tools & teachers: The challenges of technology. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Education.

 

 

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