2) 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. Thank you.
Hi Dr. Ashton,
Just had to let you know that I was hired as a first grade teacher (possibly a 2nd grade if another person rejects the offer) at Sweeney Elementary School in Willimantic. I will be traveling my favorite route that I traveled to Eastern for 4 years. I am so excited about my new career. I will be working with a great group of people. The principal and staff were so kind and supportive even before they offered me a job. I will have a diverse group of students that will challenge me as a teacher and as a person that cares. I thought of our student teaching seminar and the teachers who visited from Hartford, when I was interviewing and teaching a lesson during the selection process. After an initial offer had been made and I had to leave, a teacher said to me "Our students need a teacher like you." I was so moved. I never felt so much true support and interest. I am so happy. I have to say that it is not easy out there. I went to 7 interviews and taught two lessons. The process was not easy. I learned a lot from it.
.... It also is good for people to hear that despite the difficult odds of getting a teaching position, it can be done. Boy, did I have some unbelievable experiences out there. If you would like, I would be willing to come back in the fall and talk about the interview/application process that I went through for your students. let me know if I can be of help. I believe we always need to give back the help we've been given. It can be depressing when you hear it takes three years. That is not always the case. Also hearing from other people helped me, inspired me and motivated me to strive even harder. ...
I wanted to thank you for all your ideas, tips and thought provoking sessions. I learned so much at Eastern. Thanks again Dr. Ashton.
Ryan Webb, one of my subs and a recent ECSU graduate student grad, just stopped by. He has just been hired to teach social studies at Vinal Tech in Middletown.
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
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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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
_________________________
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
***
Added
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 2nd Edition
for PPST, Test Codes
0710, 0720.0730, 5710,5720, and 5730)
- OR -
Fee: $135 to purchase
the ETS Praxis I Study Guide 2nd 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"
*****
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
*****
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!"
******
For
Connecticut teaching
opportunities, please visit
http://ctreap.net .
*****
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
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
Register Online at: http://www.aces.k12.ct.us/conferences
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 .
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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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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.
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