Rather than have you take pencil and paper tests, have you demonstrate your learning by exhibition and authentically (real world context). Give you opportunities to demonstrate your knowledge publicly.

Bring in classroom teachers and principals so you can learn about the teaching life from practitioners.

Know your name, treat you as an individual, and be available for regularly advisement.

Prepare carefully for every class and manage the class in a professional manner.

Begin and end class on time.

Keep current on matters of schooling and the teaching of reading and writing.

Return your assignments quickly with detailed feedback.

Keep careful records of your attendance, progress, and performance.

Provide you with professional support while you are a student of mine and thereafter.

Be honest with you.

Seek to inspire you.

Expectations for you as a student

Be on time and attend all classes; be fully engaged during class time.

Complete all the assignments.

Ask questions and wonder.

Make no excuses.

Accept the consequences of your actions.

Effort matters, especially when dealing with public school students. Understand that effort, by itself, is not enough to justify a high grade.

Treat everyone in the class, including the professor and guest speakers, with the respect due all human beings as we build our learning community.

If being perfect is a personal requirement, ease up on yourself as far as being perfect.

Be less shy if you are shy, less controlling if you need to be in control.

Participate actively and harmoniously in group work.

Be proactive in your learning; your education is not a spectator sport.

Come to class with an open mind and a sense of humor; listen.

See possibilities in yourself and others; believe you can succeed.

In order to have these expectations be meaningful expressions of the mutual intentions of students and professor this semester, I will do the following:

1. On the first day of class, I will ask my students to respond to two questions anonymously: (1) What expectations do you have for me as your professor? (2) What expectations should I have for you as students?

2. At the second class, I will pass out the above list of expectations, adding students’ suggestions as appropriate.

3. At mid-semester, I will ask them to anonymously rate me from 1 to 5 with 5 being high on each of the expectations I have listed for myself this semester. As well, I will ask them to anonymously rate themselves on the list of student expectations. I will use that feedback to inform my teaching during the second part of the semester.

4. At the end of the semester, I will ask them to repeat step #3.

for a another list, see http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/06/2006060901c/careers.html

Announcements

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1) Stories in the Park - A bilingual family literacy event

Date: Saturday, June 24, 2006. Time: 10 am -1:30 pm

Location: Memorial Park, Main St Willimantic, CT 06226

Cost: Free

This is the fourth annual Stories in the Park event, designed to make books and reading fun. The event highlights the importance of literacy through a fun and interactive event during the summer months. Participants will receive free books, applications for library cards, information and other literature. Everyone is welcome and families are strongly encouraged to attend. The event concludes with a free picnic lunch.

The event is sponsored by Windham Parent Network, Willimantic, the Public Library's Children's Department, and the Windham Public Schools and Family Resource Centers. Event schedule:10:00am Opening, Songs, Character Costume Parade10:30am Book Stations 12:00pm Story Tellers, in English and Spanish 1:00pm Free Picnic Lunch

For more information please contact Debbie Stoloff, Windham Parent Network @ 450-1294

2) News from Professor Dan Rothermel, Associate Professor, University of New England, and former Eastern CSU Reading/Language Arts faculty member, email: drothermel@une.edu :

I earned tenure at the University of New England this spring. I believe a good part of the reason I did that was because of the encouragement and feedback I received at Eastern during my four formative years as a novice assistant professor. My Eastern colleagues set me on the road for success, and for that I thank them deeply.

3) MAGNET SCHOOL REFERENDUM

Wednesday, JUNE 28

12 noon -8 P.M

Willimantic Residents Vote at Windham Middle School

Windham Residents Vote at Windham Center Firehouse

ABSENTEE BALLOTS are available at Town Clerks office in Town Hall starting on the 19th
Hours are 8-5 Mon-Wed, Thursday 8-7:30, Fri 8-12

4) Education Department faculty members - please let CARE co-chairs, David or Delar, know if any of your teacher candidates received C- or less in your courses. Also, please complete the Department Chair evaluation form by June 5. Thank you.

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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

Good news from Noah Ventola [mailto:noahventola@yahoo.com], shared by Dr. Ricklin

I am writing to tell you that I have been offered a social studies position at RHAM high school! The position will be either 9th grade global studies or 10th grade world civilization. I am thrilled with the position. It is the position that I wanted in the district that I hoped to work in. I owe part of my success in landing this position to my experience at Eastern as our education department has prepared me for a great future in the public schools. Thank you for all your help and support throughout the last 2 years.

Thanks again!
Noah

posted on May 22, 2006

News from Cori (Beckwith) Allard (Early Childhood Education program graduate, January 2000)

I just have to take this opportunity to share with you how proud I am of my Eastern education. Upon my graduation from Eastern in January 2000, I taught for 2 years in Willimantic, then for three years in Brooklyn, New York, and have been working as a school psychologist for the past year in California. I was so well prepared by Eastern for the positions I took on, and often watched my colleagues (who graduated from other prestigious colleges of education such as Columbia University's Teacher's College) struggle to adjust to real-life classroom teaching.

Please forgive me for not knowing the current status of education certification programs at Eastern, but I think that, since the education provided by the faculty there is so comprehensive, realistic, and developmental in nature, a special education track would naturally blossom from what has already been established. I taught in an inclusion classroom in Willimantic and in a school for Emotionally Disturbed students in Brooklyn, and I cannot emphasize enough how well-prepared I was for those types of settings even though my program of study was not specifically entitled Special Education. I believe that graduates from Eastern will have no problem implementing the new standards set by Response to Intervention because of the training they have received there.

Overall, I wish for Eastern's Education Department to get the kudos it deserves for preparing well-rounded educators who are viable in a variety of regular and special education settings. I thank you for leading such a well-developed program.

Cori (Beckwith) Allard

posted on April 23, 2006

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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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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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ADDED PRAXIS II

Elementary Multiple Choice Prep

May 24, 2006 or

August 10, 2006 (repeat)

9:00AM - 12:00PM

Fee: $50.00

Please bring the Educational Testing Service Guide: Test Code 0011 and 0016)

Or you can purchase it at the workshop

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Elementary Essay

May 24, 2006 or

August 10, 2006 (repeat)

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Fee: $50.00

Please bring the Educational Testing Service Guide: Test Code 0012)

Or you can purchase it at the workshop

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

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

For registration questions, call Dee Colson, 203-407-4403

Location:

ACES, 205 Skiff Street/SDA(rear bldg), Hamden, CT 06517

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PRAXIS I Workshop 2006

Reading and Writing Essays

May 31, 2006

August 8, 2006 (repeat of May 31)

Time: 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

Fee: $90.00 (If you bring the ETS Guide 2^nd Edition

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

- OR -

Fee: $135 to purchase the ETS Praxis I Study Guide 2^nd Edition from ACES

Register online: www.aces.k12.ct.us or

Call Dee Colson: 203-407-4403

Location: 205 Skiff Street/SDA 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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Multicultural Professional Development Opportunities

Registration is now available online for both the:

1) Developing a Multicultural Curriculum Institute - August 15-16-17, 2006 in Ledyard, CT at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and the

Download brochure at: www.state.ct.us/sde Click on Calendar

2) 11th Annual CT Conference on Multicultural Education - Oct. 16, 2006 in Farmington, CT.

Download brochure at: www.state.ct.us/sde Click on Calendar

3) Closing date is approaching for the Multicultural Educators to South Africa Trip - Oct. 23- Nov.1, 2006. Information is at www.billhowe.org Click on SouthAfrica2006.

4) SAVE the Date also for the NAME Conference in Phoenix, AZ - Nov. 8-12, 2006. Brochure should be coming out in next few weeks. Info at www.nameorg.org. PLEASE direct all inquiries about the PHOENIX NAME conference to name@nameorg.org

shared by William A. Howe, Ed.D.
Education Consultant for Multicultural Education & Gender Equity
Connecticut State Department of Education - Bureau of Educational Equity
and

Jack Hasegawa

Bureau Chief

Bureau of Educational Equity

Division of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Connecticut State Department of Education

860-713-6544

e-mail address: jack.hasegawa@ct.gov

posted on May 19, 2006

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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 .

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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Please contact David Stoloff at (860) 465-5501, email: stoloffd@easternct.edu if you have any questions or comments on this newsletter. Please invite others to receive this newsletter and be added to the Education Department e-mailing list by contacting David Stoloff.