College of Education

Eastern Michigan University

Issue No: 507

April 29, 2002

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FACULTY/STAFF NOTES

Irene Allen has been selected as a recipient of a 2002 Gerald Read International Seminar Scholarship.

Lizbeth Stevens was recently in Washington, D.C. attending meetings of the ASHA/ASPIIRE IDEA Cadre. Stevens received training on IDEA implementation. A presentation and display were developed for use in training others throughout the United States.

Winnie Witten was recently in Birmingham, AL, judging the NCAA finals in women's gymnastics.

Michigan Parks and Recreation received the Crystal Award from the Central Michigan Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America recently. Vic Chiasson is the editorial chair for the magazine. He was in Lansing recently to accept the award.

Last week, Jerry Robbins represented EMU at a meeting in Lansing for institutions preparing for 2003 state Periodic Review.

John Tonkovich was a guest speaker in health education classes last week at Richmond High School. He discussed hearing loss and hearing conservation and careers in speech-language pathology and audiology.

Steve Press attended the program on "Auditory Processing Disorders: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assessment and Management" sponsored by Oakland Schools.

Jerry Robbins attended the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the EMU Foundation last Friday. Robbins' term on the Board has now expired.

At Saturday's Commencement ceremonies, Michael Paciorek served as a marshal of the faculty. David Anderson, Gayle Nash, Gary Navarre, and Lizbeth Stevens served as marshals of the students. Navarre was recognized during the ceremonies for his outstanding contributions.

Leah Adams (emeritus) was one of 29 invited participants at the National Prekindergarten Center working symposium held at the University of North Carolina. The event focused on meeting the projected shortage of prekindergarten teachers and on developing a set of Guiding Principles and Possible Next Steps to support the professional development of prekindergarten teachers.

YES CONFERENCE

About 400 middle and high school students from around the state, all members of the Young Educators Society, gathered at EMU Friday for the annual conference. Carolyn Finch was the general coordinator.

Welcoming remarks were made by Paul Schollaert and Jerry Robbins. Introductions of various leaders were made by Carolyn Finch and H.A. Hasan. Special music was provided by the EMU Chamber Choir, under the direction of Leonard Riccinto. Nora Martin was the keynote speaker. Scholarship awards were made by Barbara Jones.

Seventeen workshop sessions were provided. Leaders of these included COE faculty/staff members Carolyn Burns, Donald Staub, Carolyn Carter, Geffrey Colón, James Satterfield, Sylvia Jones, and Olga Nelson. Other sessions were conducted by EMU persons Theo Hamilton, Margaret Zinggeler, John Hubbard, and Thomas Fleming. EMU students Dorrian Robinson, Ron Flowers, and Shaura Thomas also led sessions.

Additional sessions were led by EMU alums Jay Reid and LaRon Carter and by various community persons including Bill King (Deputy Police Chief, Ypsilanti), Cherry Lawson (Deputy Clerk, Ypsilanti), and Harold Wimberly (Youth Counselor, Washtenaw County). Several other institutions participated in a college fair and a tour of the campus was provided for the student visitors.

AMERITECH NEW TEACHER RESOURCE NETWORK

Formal ceremonies initiating the Ameritech New Teacher Resource Network were held in the Porter Building last Thursday. Participants in the ceremonies were Jerry Robbins, EMU President Samuel Kirkpatrick, Ameritech Michigan President Gail Torreano, Ellen Hoffman, president of the Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology Ruben Rubio, and, via video, U.S. Senator Carl Levin.

The Network partnership, funded by Ameritech, is intended to use online resources to support student teachers and beginning teachers through access to high-quality instructional information resources, provide support and training from technology and expert teaching mentors, and provide opportunities to share experiences with each other. The ceremonies concluded with a press conference and a lunch for the invited guests.

OMEP EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

The executive board of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (Organization Mondiale pour l'Education Préscolaire-OMEP) recently met in our area, with Leah Adams as host. Members of the executive board from Chile, Columbia, Singapore, and Switzerland were guests of the College of Education for a reception and a tour of the Porter Building.

Joined later by the head of the Canadian branch of OMEP, the group, in addition to conducting the business of the organization, enjoyed a visit to High/Scope, a tour of the area, and visits to U-M Child Care, Estabrook Elementary School, and the Perry Child Development Center in Ypsilanti.

SHORT NOTES

Call for Reviewers. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has issued a call for reviewers of papers for the 2003 AACTE annual meeting. Forms are available in each COE office or from AACTE Reviews, 1307 New York Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005-4701. The deadline for submission is May 17.

Call for Papers. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has issued a call for papers for the 2003 annual meeting, to be held in New Orleans, LA. The deadline is June 3. For additional information, see www.aacte.org.

AACTE participation is strongly encouraged. The dean's office will cover the travel expenses to the convention of one person per accepted presentation.

Program Review. As part of the EMU program review process, there are open sessions for interested parties in a series of roundtable discussions. The teacher education programs of each of these departments will be included in the discussions. All sessions are scheduled for Halle 300, 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. These include Psychology, May 14; and HPERD, May 21.

Mark Sharp's dissertation defense will be held on May 20 at 9:00 a.m. in Room 304 of the Porter Building. Sharp has written on "An Analysis of Pupil/Teacher Ratio and Class Size." Charles M. Achilles is the director. The public is invited.

Five doctorates in educational administration were awarded at last Saturday's Commencement ceremonies. These went to John P. Barrett, Patricia Devlin, Katherine Ellis, Ernest Terry, Jr., and Lori Tubbergen Zahrt.

At last Friday's state wide Young Educators Society conference, held at EMU in the McKenny and Porter buildings, the organization's LaVerne E. Thompson Scholarship ($1000) was awarded to Dana Butler of Wayne County Community College. Butler plans to transfer to EMU to complete her preparation as a teacher.

Patricia Lee-Patrick was singled out by President Kirkpatrick during last Saturday's Commencement ceremonies. Lee-Patrick, 61, received a bachelor's degree in exercise science. Born in Brazil to English parents, she grew up in South America and was schooled in England. She then taught aerobics in Korea. She lived in several countries before settling in the U.S. several years ago. She believes she is the only student to graduate with 262 credit hours for an undergraduate degree.

Cory Annett, 22, was also singled out by President Kirkpatrick. Annett, from Fort Erie, Ontario, is also an exercise science major. He is a distinguished member of the EMU football team with a 3.81 GPA. This year he was named to the Verizon Academic All-American second team for football. He plans to attend medical school and to pursue a career in orthopedics.

At the COE Celebration of Excellence, the following persons were recognized:

Ruth Boughner Scholarship-- Vesna Cadikov-ska, Lauren Schroeder

Wilber P. Bowen Scholarship--Aaron Toro

Brenda May Bentzel Richter '64, '82, age 57, died recently. Her career was spent in the Ida school district, at the Milan Children's Nursery School, and at Paddock Elementary School in Milan.

David Symington '69, '71, '74, has announced his resignation as principal of Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills. He has been at Lahser since 1980 in several capacities.

Kathy Witt is the supervisor of special education for the school district that includes Ft. Meyers, Florida.

Barbara Jones '88, '90 works for Saginaw Valley State University. She is the current chair of the executive board for the Young Educators Society and she attended last Saturday's YES convention at EMU..

Daniel Jones '88, '89, '93, a former Ypsilanti social studies teacher, has been in Rome for the past nine years. He is near completion of his doctorate in patristics, the study of early church leaders.

Ten student teachers presented on April 19 on their work in connection with The Renaissance Partnership for the Improvement of Teacher Quality. Each student presented a "work sample."

Presentations were made by Jason Geromette (Legislative Branch, grade 12), Jennifer Kendall (World War II, grade 9), Gayle LaVictoire (Informative Speech, high school), Kari Plesco (Social Studies, grade 7), Derek Reece (English Novels, high school), Michelle Keen (Industrial Revolution, grade 5), Michelle Stevers (Physics, grade 2), Lisa Verbit (Electricity, grades 3 and 4), Christine Wielgosz (Rocks, grade 5), and Maryellen Hagerman (Water, grade 1).

Participants in the event included the student teachers, the cooperating teachers for each of these, seven mentors from the College of Arts and Sciences, three student teacher supervisors, and a variety of persons associated with the local Teacher Quality partnership.

As a result of the recent "Day in the Life of the College of Education" photographic event, almost 600 digital images and many rolls of film were received. Expect to see displays soon!

Do you have "retired" educational technology (film strips and projectors, slide rules, classroom record players, early computers, etc.) that you would be willing to make available for a display that will run until the end of the Fall semester? If so, contact bfilipiak@online.emich.edu.

The Technology and Teaching Conference has been postponed until the Fall semester.

As of April 17, COE credit hours for the year were 4.9% ahead of final figures for last year, with many Spring credit hours still to be counted. These stats include an 11.5% increase for Student Teaching, a 7.5% increase for Teacher Education, a 4.2% increase for HPERD, a 0.44% decrease for Special Education, and a 4.3% decrease for Leadership and Counseling.

(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunties.html)

May 1-deadline for submitting Provost's Travel Award application for July through September, 2002 travel.

May 4-COE Technology Conference. This event has been postponed to the fall.

(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)

May 1-deadline for Kappa Delta Pi Forum articles on "safety in schools." Deadline for Journal of Teacher Education articles for an "open topic" issue.

May 3-deadline for submitting proposals for the "making a difference through teacher education" conference. For information, see www.samford.edu/Education2002/call.

May 3-Deadline for applications for EMU Summer Institute on Curriculum Diversity. For additional information, ronald.woods@emich.edu.

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