College of Education

Eastern Michigan University

Issue No: 78
March 22, 1993

ITEA APPROVAL RECEIVED FOR BASIC-LEVEL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM

NCATE has notified EMU of approval with stipulations of the basic-level technology education program by the International Technology Education Association (ITEA).

The approval is conditional based on removal of the stipulations by December 1993.

HONORS PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

Linda S. Bigelow, Honors student in Special Education, will present "Cognitive Egocentricity in Emotionally Impaired Students" at 3 p.m. on March 24.  The presentation will be held in 214 Rackham, followed by a panel discussion that includes Robert Kreger and Jody Smith.

Kimberly A. Culling, also an Honors student in Special Education, will present "Groups for Siblings of Visually Impaired Students" at 4 p.m. on March 24, also in 214 Rackham.  The panel discussion that follows will include Sandra McClennen.

A reception for the two Honors students will be held at 5 p.m.  Dale Rice is the Honors Adviser and presider at the sessions.  Dr. Rice will include remarks in connection with both presentations.  The public is invited.

REGENT PURSELL VISITS WITH COE LEADERS

EMU Regent and former U.S. Representative Carl Pursell spent several hours last Thursday with COE leaders and in COE facilities.  Pursell was interested in being informed about the size, scope, and quality of the college's operations and in exchanging ideas with COE leaders.

Pursell is an alum of the professional education program of EMU and is a former teacher and administrator.

FACULTY NOTES

Gary Banks presented "Legal Liability: Protecting Your Assets" at the third annual SW MI Coaching, Physical Education, and Health regional workshop on March 8 at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.  

  In addition to those previously announced, Jaime Grinberg will present at the AERA convention in Atlanta on "Teachers and Students as Researchers: A Project in an Open Classroom."  Joining Grinberg in this presentation will be teachers from Ann Arbor's award-winning Bach Open Elementary.

Tom Gwaltney will also present at AERA on "The Education Professoriate: Perspectives from Mexico and the U.S."

Pat Cavanaugh and Michael Paciorek will be attending the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance convention and related activities in Washington later this week.

Jerry Robbins speaks to YES students in Port Huron on Wednesday.  Robbie Johnson recently attended the Michigan Deans Council meeting.

Kathy Quinn will attend the MI Speech-Hearing Association conference in Bellaire later this week.

Tom Gwaltney and Jerry Robbins participated in ceremonies at UM Sunday afternoon to install a chapter of Kappa Delta Pi at that institution.  Several EMU students, members of KDP, were in attendance as well.

Nora Martin and Alison Harmon, along with three students, will present on "Leadership Abilities of Black Women: Dispelling the Myths" at noon on March 26, 205 Welch.

Michael Paciorek is heading a pre-school adapted physical education committee for AAHPERD.  The committee intends to develop workshops nationwide on meeting the physical needs of pre-school children with disabilities.

IN REVIEW

Teacher magazine, with a circulation of over 100,000, includes in the March 1993 issue a very favorable review of Valerie Polakow's new book, Lives on the Edge.

Jennifer Beller's research (with Sharon Stoll of U of Idaho) on sport ethics was reviewed in the March 3, 1993 issue of the NCAA News.

FOR AND ABOUT STUDENTS

Doctoral student Joan L. Tucker will be honored by a Resolution of commendation at the March 23 meeting of the EMU Board of Regents.  Tucker, a member of the first cohort of doctoral students in educational leadership at EMU, earlier won the American Association of School Administrators Forrest E. Conner scholarship.

Shane Finney, current physical education student teacher, has been credited with possibly saving lives and preventing injury to students.  While student teaching at Slauson Middle School in Ann Arbor, Finney overheard students talking about building pipe bombs.  Finney's report triggered further investigation, whereupon pipe bombs were found in the school and at the home of one of the students.

The MSU College of Education Student Government and the MSU Student Council for Exceptional Children are sponsoring a forum to which EMU students are invited.  To be held at 7 p.m. on March 24 at the Erickson Kiva at MSU, the topic will be "teacher competency exams and the economic strain future teachers must face today."  Panelists include state Senator Stabenow, state Representative Jondahl, and Carolyn Logan of the MI Department of Education.

LEARNING COMMUNITY COALITION

The next meeting of the Ypsilanti-Willow Run area Learning Community Coalition will be May 8, 9-noon, Willow Run Edmonson Middle School.  The "higher education stakeholders" group seeks interested parties among faculty, staff, and students.  Additional information is available from Associate Vice President Courtney McAnuff.

SOME FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy supports, among other activities, funds for training and developing the skills of teachers.  Contact Michelle Barnes in ORD.

ACTION has a May 3 deadline for applications for proposals related to illicit drug use prevention programs that focus on at-risk youth from low-income communities or public housing neighborhoods.  Contact Barbara Richardson in ORD.

Eastern European teacher trainers will participate in a seven-week summer institute focused on English as a foreign language under a program sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency.  Applications for a sponsoring institution are due March 26.  Contact Barbara Richardson in ORD.

INITIATIVE: FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

May 7 marks the day when the COE and Farmington HS sign a formal agreement for an innovative partnership program.  COE personnel have been meeting over the past several months with faculty and administrators from FHS to plan "start up" activities for spring term and, especially, for next year and thereafter. 

Scheduled for the near future are (a) a field experience for pre-student teachers, (b) providing counseling practicum students to assist at FHS,  (c) the first of a series of EMU/FHS/community "key issues" seminars, and (d) a course for FHS personnel in "transforming a public school."  Fall activities include placing a "cluster" of student teachers in the school, a variety of staff development activities, and COE/FHS faculty exchanges.

F O R   P L A N N I N G   A H E AD 

March 24--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

March 26--EMU reception (Leah Adams' room), Grand Plaza Hotel, MI Association for the Education of Young Children, Grand Rapids, 5-6 p.m.

March 26-27--"Equity in the Classroom III: Graduating Minority Students" conference, Lansing, Holiday Inn-West.

March 27--EMU Mathematics Education Conference, CEC.  UM-D conference on "Motivating Students to Learn."

March 30--EMU budget hearings (Enrollments and Budget Overview), 1-3 p.m.

April 1--Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "Supply and Demand of New Teachers and Proposed National Standards and New Sources for Teachers."  UCTE meeting, 3:30 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.  ICET paper submission deadline.

April 2--MI Association for Adult Development and Aging conference, 8:45-3:00 p.m., Main Lounge, McKenny.  Coffee with the Dean sessions: 8:30-9:15, Warner; noon-12:45, Boone; 3:30-4:15, Rackham.

April 5-6--Passover begins at sundown, April 5.

April 14--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

April 15--UCTE meeting, 3:30 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny; Teacher Placement Day, Career Services Center.

April 15-16--Increasing student retention--focus on teaching and learning, MI Tech, Houghton.

April 21--COE Celebration of Excellence!, tent near one-room schoolhouse, 9 a.m., 12, 4:30 p.m.

April 23--conference on minority teachers, Lansing, Harley Hotel.

April 28--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

April 29--Coffee with the Dean sessions: 8:30-9:15, Boone; noon-12:45, Rackham; 3:30-4:15, Warner.

April 29-30--National Education Commission on Time and Learning, regional hearings, CEC.

April 30--state-wide Young Educators Society (YES) convention, McKenny.

May 1--SRATE Journal manuscript deadline.  ATE Distinguished Dissertation in Teacher Education nomination deadline.

May 6--UCTE meeting, 3:30 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

May 12--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

May 13-15--Ethnicity Conflict and Cooperation: The Role of Bilingual Education and Ethno-Development, EMU.  Contact Phyllis Noda for additional information.

May 20--UCTE meeting, 3:30 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

May 26--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

May 28--Coffee with the Dean sessions: 8:30-9:15, Rackham; noon-12:45, Warner; 3:30-4:15, Boone.

June 1--Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "Teacher Education and the Academic Disciplines."  SRATE conference papers due.  ATE convention presiders nominations due.  ATE convention program proposals due.  AACTE convention proposals due.  Applications due for grants under "Drug Use and Abuse in Minority and Underserved Populations."

June 3--UCTE meeting, 3:30 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

June 7--Applications due for grants for instructional materials related to future teachers of math, science, and engineering.

June 9--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

June 11-12--CMU conference on "Innovations in Education 1993."

June 17--UCTE meeting, 3:30 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

June 23--COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Gallery I, McKenny.

June 30--Coffee with the Dean sessions: 8:30-9:15, Warner; noon-12:45, Boone; 3:30-4:15, Rackham.

July 3-11--Russian/US Exchange, Moscow/St. Petersburg.

July 15--Distinguished Clinician in Teacher Education award nominations due.

August 1--Deadline for manuscripts to JTE on "The Changing Role of Teacher Educators."  Distinguished Research in Teacher Education award nominations due.  Deadline for applications for Fulbright Scholar Program.

August 1-3--"Men and Relationships" conference.

August 9-13--"School Discipline and Classroom Management" conference; "Transforming Your Public Schools" conference.

August 26--Fall Faculty Conference, all day, Corporate Education Center.