College of Education

Eastern Michigan University

Issue No: 42
July 6, 1992

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MENTORS NAMED IN LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELING

The Department of Leadership and Counseling has announced mentors for incoming new faculty.

Bill Hetrick will serve as mentor for incoming faculty member Jackie Tracy in the leadership program.  In the counseling program, Lou Thayer will serve as mentor for Yvonne Callaway and John Pappas will serve as mentor for Christine Phelps.

Alison Harmon, who is moving from Teacher Education to Leadership and Counseling, will have Helen Ditzhazy as mentor for her new role.

GOODMAN PAPER PRESENTED IN CANARY ISLANDS

Jane Goodman was invited to present on how counselors are prepared in the United States at a recent meeting in the Canary Islands.

Goodman, active in several national counselor organizations, spoke at the Ibero-Americano International Conference, a subunit of the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance.

The presentation was made to approximately 500 international educators through simultaneous translation. 

NATIONAL DEBATE OVER TEACHER SHORTAGE CONTINUES

The sixth in a series of annual reports by the Association for School, College, and University Staffing (ASCUS), recently released, concludes that there is either a balance or undersupply of teachers in 30 of 46 categories.

Physical education, social studies, and health topped the list of disciplines with a glut of teachers, according to the ASCUS study.

Minority teachers are in the greatest undersupply.  Various special education fields ranked next, followed by physics, chemistry, foreign languages, and mathematics.

K-12 enrollments will increase for several years, while nationally (in contrast to EMU) the production of new teachers is at a low level.  K-12 teachers are much in demand in the Sunbelt and Northwest and West regions, according to ASCUS.

By contrast, the National Center for Educational Statistics found that, for a recent year, 54.1% of all vacancies were filled by existing teachers moving from one job to another.  Re-entrants to the profession filled another 29.8% of the vacancies and "delayed entrants" filled 5.7%.  Only 10.5% of the positions were filled by "newly minted" teachers. 

PLANNING AHEAD

July 15--Deadline for higher education administrative case studies for 1993 AACTE program.

July 27--Registration for 2nd term ICPSR summer program in quantitative methods (UM, free to EMU faculty). 

July 31--Deadline for nominations for AACTE Annual Award ($500) for Excellence in Professional Writing.

August 1--Deadline for submission of applications for ATE Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award.  Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "Teacher Assessment."

August 2-4--"Focus on Men" symposium, Corporate Education Center.  For information, call 487-0407.

August 7--Deadline for nominations for Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Awards.

August 12--Phillip Schlechty meets with EMU professional preparation faculty on reforming preparation programs, 2:00-3:30, WISD.

August 31--COE Fall Faculty Conference (all day), Sheraton University Inn, I-94 and State.  Lunch included. 

October 1--Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "The Impact of Accreditation and State Program Approval on Teacher Education Programs."

October 15--deadline for manuscripts to Proteus on "Multiculturalism."

October 31--deadline for submission for AACTE's Outstanding Dissertation Research Award.

November 6--deadline for submissions to AERA for Outstanding Book Award, Outstanding Contributions Relating Research to Practice, and the Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research.

November 8-11--NCATE Board of Examiners visit.

November 13--Deadline for submission for ASCD's Outstanding Dissertation Award (for dissertations completed in curriculum/instruc-

tion/supervision between 9/1/91 and 8/31/92)

December 1--Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "Restructuring Schools, Colleges, Departments of Education (SCDE's) and the Public Schools."

February 1--Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "Teacher Education in Relation to National Goals."

NATIONAL TRENDS IN NEW TEACHERS

- - - - - - - - - - - EMU teacher educators produce:

KNOWLEDGEABLE PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE CARING, REFLECTIVE DECISION-MAKERS IN A CULTURALLY DIVERSE SOCIETY.

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