College of Education

Eastern Michigan University

Issue No: 102
September 6, 1993

FACULTY NOTES

Jerry Robbins has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Michigan Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.  Robbins has previously served on the boards of the Arkansas ACTE and the Georgia ACTE, as well as the AACTE.

Helen Ditzhazy is serving as a reviewer for the Organizational Theory special interest group of the AERA.

Marvin Pasch will be affiliated with the EMU Faculty Center for Instructional Excellence this year.  His role as Associate Director will focus specifically on issues of assessment.

BROZO TO TEXAS A&M, CORPUS CHRISTI

William Brozo has resigned his position as an associate professor of reading in Teacher Education to accept a position on the faculty at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi.

CARTER BECOMES ADMINISTRATOR IN MISSISSIPPI

Alex Carter has resigned his position as associate professor of educational media and technology in Teacher Education to become the head of instructional media ser-vices at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

BRUCE CRAWFORD TO JOIN FACULTY IN JANUARY

Bruce Crawford was originally scheduled to join the faculty of Teacher Education this fall, but a family emergency has caused him to postpone coming to EMU until January.         

Crawford holds the Ph.D. from Kansas State University in curriculum and instruction, with specializations in multicultural education and educational technology/computer education.  He also holds the B.A. in mathematics from Stillman College (AL) and an M.A. in mathematics education from the University of Alabama.

He has taught secondary mathematics in Alabama and served as project administrator for the Hubbard Mathgame at the Center for Science Education at KSU.

Crawford has extensive experience with computers in educational settings as well as with multimedia learning environments including videodisc and telecommunications technology.  

CONVOCATION ON REFORM AND FINANCE

The MI State Board of Education has scheduled an "Emergency Convocation on Educational Reform and School Finance in Lansing on September 13.  Call 517-373-3900.

ALUMNI NOTES

Joe Nuzzo, technology education teacher at Lincoln High School, has been named as one of the 16 regional finalist for the MI Teacher of the Year Award.

MARTINS TO GEORGIA

Sarah Martin has resigned from her position in Teacher Education to accept an offer to teach in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Georgia College.

After seven years at EMU, Michael Martin will leave Teacher Education at the end of the fall semester to accept a position in the same department at Georgia College.

EMU'S COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS WITH LINCOLN SCHOOLS

The three-year collaboration between Lincoln Later Elementary and EMU's Collaborative School Improvement Program (C-SIP) focused on the staff's expressed need to find better ways to organize students, structure expectations, and enable students to be self-motivated and self-directed.

"Teachers, administrators, and students report that they are seeing the results from the program designed to achieve that goal," said university facilitator Suzanne Stevens (Biology). 

As one result of the EMU-Lincoln collaboration, a homework policy has been instituted.  The policy involves a greater commitment from both students and parents.  Through grade-level assemblies, focus-group discussions, and a student handbook, students are made aware of teacher expectations regarding homework and behavior.  Daily homework sheets are sent home with each student.  Students are responsible for getting a parent's signature on the homework sheet as verification of the parent's review of the homework.  Teachers at Lincoln have modified the policy through the three-year span based on collective feedback from the staff, parents, and students. 

A student "code of conduct" was also instituted to motivate students to assume responsibility for their own behavior.  The staff identified the behaviors that were appropriate and inappropriate for elementary students. 

"We have a lot further to go with both the homework and discipline policies and procedures.  Without C-SIP we would not have gotten this far," said teacher Melinda Dimitroff.

PLANNING AHEAD

 September 8--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I.  Proposals due to AASA for professor-practitioner school-based research.

September 13--Emergency Convocation on Educational Reform and School Finance, Lansing Civic Arena, 8:30-5:00.

September 14-15--EMU Graduate School workshops on preparing applications for university research awards, 3-4:30, McKenny Reception Rooms East and West.

September 15--applications due for "college student exchange"; papers due for Southern Regional Council on Educational Administration.

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

Knowledgeable professionals who are caring, reflective decision-makers in a culturally diverse society.

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