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College of Education News & Events
College Awarded $3 million for E=mc2 Program
The new round of Transition to Teachers’ grants was rolled out at the Annual Project Directors’ and Evaluators’ Meeting conducted by the U.S. Department of Education in Arlington, VA on October 29-31. The College of Education/CRHDE participated as part of the recent $3 million, 5-year award for “E=mc2: Educating Middle-grades Teachers for Challenging Contexts”. The project, in collaboration with the College of Science and Technology and the Pennsylvania Department of Education, will recruit mid-career and recent retirees in the science and math professions to train as science and math teachers for the middle grades, particularly for challenging urban contexts. The Urban Education Collaborative, represented by Heidi Ramirez, Project Director, Marilyn Murphy, Interim Project Coordinator, and Jeong-Ran Kim, Evaluator, participated in the kick-off event.
posted 11/27/2007
Applications for Graduate Assistantships for 2008-2009 due Dec 15.
Applications for Graduate Assistantships for 2008-09 are due December 15, 2007.
You must submit an application if you want to be considered for an assistantship, even if you currently hold a position. We hope by having an earlier deadline that we will be able to let you know sooner the outcome of your application.
To be considered, an applicant must be a matriculated full-time student and maintain a GPA of 3.5. International students who wish to be considered for a Teaching Assistantship must meet the above requirements as well as take and pass the Test of Spoken English (former Speak Test).
To apply, complete the College of Education Application for Assistantship. Email your completed application, including your current resume, to Jan Greenough, Director of Graduate Programs at jan.greenough@temple.edu.
posted 11/15/2007
Fireside Chat: Creating Success in the Classroom
The 2nd in the Fireside Chat Series with Dr. William ‘Bill’ Cosby on October 24th was a hit with our 80+ students and faculty who attended that evening. Dr. Cosby’s guests included Lois Powell-Mondesire, Principal of Strawberry Mansion High School; David Baugh, Principal of Duckery Elementary School; Alexandra Fedorijczuk EDU 07’ and Diane Honor EDU 04’, both classroom teachers in the Philadelphia area. Please join us for our third and final Fireside Chat for the fall semester on Wednesday, November 28th from 5 – 7 PM.
posted 10/29/2007
Heinz Endowments/Temple Roundtable Conference on African American Males and Education
On Tuesday, October 23rd, Dean Kent McGuire, James Earl Davis, D. Crystal Byndloss and, Urban Education doctoral student, Patrice Berry, hosted the Heinz Endowments/Temple Roundtable Conference on African American Males and Education. The successful conference brought together 21 researchers and practitioners from around the country to address the question: "What are the best strategies for investing in the education of African American males in Pittsburgh?" The conference was sponsored by the Heinz Endowments, a regional foundation located in Pittsburgh.
posted 10/29/2007
ACIT Lab Grand Opening: Nov 9.
Accessible Computing and Information Technology (ACIT) Lab Grand Opening
When: Friday, November 9, 2007
Where: Ritter Hall, Room 306
Time: 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. (walk-in hours)
Faculty and staff are invited to come out on Friday, November 9th 12-2pm to explore the new Accessible Computing and Information Technology (ACIT) lab. The lab, housed in RH 306, features a collection of assistive technology hardware and software. Designed to help our future teachers, principals, supervisors, and school administrators understand the range of assistive and accessible technologies available to help students succeed, the lab provides hands-on demonstrations of alternate input devices, screen enlargers and magnifiers, and a range of software designed for different learning styles and needs. Come explore what is available and learn ways to incorporate visits to this lab into your next class. Cookies and drinks will be served
posted 10/29/2007
World Usability Day: Nov 8.
When: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Where: The Student Center, room 200A
Time: 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 pm
World Usability Day is a national campaign designed to raise public awareness of the value of usability engineering and user-centered design. The activities of the day will promote the belief that every user has the responsibility to ask for things that work better.
Computer Services invites you to participate in a World Usability Day event that will profile how tools and systems can be more usable and effective in teaching and learning. Please join us for engaging discussions from individuals who will share their experiences and demonstrate how they are employing functional products and applications that make a positive usability difference.
Registration for this event is required at http://seminars.temple.edu
************Refreshments will be served and door prizes****************
posted 10/29/2007
Making A Difference Project: W2: Watson Works
In partnership with the Office of Community Relations & Temple Volunteers, the College of Education’s Making A Difference Project will lead a series of volunteer service days entitled W2: Watson Works. The students, faculty, administration and alumni will come together in various surrounding Philadelphia communities in honor of the Bernard C. Watson Chair in Urban Education. Please join us for our Kick-off Event! - Saturday, November 17th.
For more information please contact Tiffany Tavarez, Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs at tiffany@temple.edu.
Making A Difference Project: Temple University Alumni Association Presents- 2nd Annual Holiday Book Drive September 29th – December 15th
Sponsor books for Temple’s Partnership Schools and help make a difference!
- Log on to www.amazon.com
- Choose “Your Lists” next to the shopping cart
- Next, select Wish List and look for “Find Someone’s Wish List” (upper right hand corner) and type “PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS”
- Find books you wish to purchase from the list
- Send books to or drop off at: Office of Partnership Schools / TUAA Books, 1509 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 2nd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19121 (*Free Shipping on orders over $25 for books supplied by Amazon!)
- Forward a copy of your E-Order Confirmation to partners@temple.edu
Sponsors are invited to present the books to the student on Monday, December 17th at 9:30 AM at the Duckrey School, 15th and Diamond Streets. If you wish to receive this information on a flyer to pass along, call Pat Albright at 215-204-7011. See also detailed flyer: 2007 Holiday Book Drive (pdf).
posted 10/24/2007
1st Annual Current and Former Gallery of Success Recipient Reception A Big Hit!
Alumni, friends, faculty and staff joined the College of Education for a historic moment in honoring those who have been inducted into the Mitten Hall Gallery of Success. The event, that took place on October 4th, brought to life the photographs and stories that are permanently displayed on the first floor hallway from Ritter Annex & Ritter Hall (by the Student Resource Center). Every fall season, during Homecoming, there will be a reception to honor the next two inductees. We hope you will join us next year!
posted 10/24/2007
Study Abroad Opportunities
FIPSE Fellowships to Study Abroad in Brazil: Education students have the opportunity to study abroad in Brazil in the fall of 2008. They will earn up to 16 credits and receive full funding for travel and housing. Now is the time to research their options and choose from the available courses. Andi Terrero, one of our Secondary Education- Foreign Language students, shared her experience in September’s Now You Know. Dr. Dominique Kliger, Assistant Vice Provost and Director of Distance and Summer Programs, will be happy to visit your classes and talk about the program.
Contact Information: dominiq@temple.edu or (215) 204-3154.
posted 10/24/2007
Fall Open Houses.
The College will hostf two fall open houses. The first will take place on Sunday, October 7, 2007 from 12:30-1:30pm in Kiva Auditorium. We will welcome prospective freshmen and transfer students and their families to the College of Education, its faculty and students. The next open house will be on Sunday, November 18, 2007.
posted 10/24/2007
Urban Education Collaborative receives Transition to Teaching Grant.
The Urban Education Collaborative, representing the College, in collaboration with the College of Science and Technology (CST) and the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), has received a Transition to Teaching grant. This is a five-year, $3 million award from the U.S. Department of Education, to develop a statewide model for the preparation of middle-grade math and science teachers. The alternative certification program, e=mc2: Educating Middle-grades Teachers for Challenging Contexts, will focus on training cohorts of mid-career and early retiree math and science professionals as middle-grade teachers in order to help meet the state’s high need for highly qualified teachers in these areas and at these grade levels.
posted 09/21/2007
Institute for School Improvement and Education Options: Sept 24 & 25.
This month, the College, through the CRHDE’s partnership with the national Center on Innovation and Improvement (CII), is helping to organize the Second Annual Institute for School Improvement and Education Options to be held September 24th and 25th in Des Plaines, Illinois. Representatives have registered from all 16 of the federally-funded regional comprehensive centers and 42 of their corresponding state departments of education. The two-day Institute will feature selected work of the centers and the states, and serve as a platform to discuss and introduce the new CII Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support.
posted 09/21/2007
Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education Project Expanded
The CRETE (Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education) Project, under the direction of Tricia Jones, has expanded to 4 new institutions in Summer 2007. The University of Akron, part of the Northeast Ohio CRETE region, trained faculty and mentor teachers in August 2007 and will be training pre-service teachers at the University of Akron in September and October, 2007. Goucher College, Sheppard Pratt Institute, and University of Maryland – Baltimore County trained faculty in CRETE in July 2007 and participated in CRETE trainings of mentor teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools in August 2007.
posted 09/06/2007
CTE: Governor's Institute Highly Successful
The Temple Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education hosted a highly successful Governor's Institute Integrating PA Standards for Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening into CTE Programs. The event was held July 23 to 27 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in the Lehigh Valley. Gloria Heberley was site director for the activity attended by over 80 educators, presenters, staff and guests. Participants produced data-based action and training plans after training in the implementation of important reading strategies derived from the Temple Center Reading Project. In addition, they learned how to motivate students with special needs, and how to train their colleagues. US Constitution Center personnel presented a session based on PA First Lady Judge Marjorie Rendell’s initiative to embed information about the US Constitution into curricula. Attendees also participated in business round table discussions and off-site visits to Lehigh Valley Hospital and Nestle Waters. The entire business day was recorded for future broadcast by LVTV.
posted 09/06/2007
Excellence in Teaching Recognized
The Dean’s office would like to recognize the following individuals whose teaching evaluations for the Spring 2007 semester were among the top 25% (using the average of the nine most discriminating items on the CATEs): Patricia Orlic, Rebecca Null (two sections), Harry Hall, Shirley Farmer, Marshall Childs, Philip Fuentes, Juliet Dileo (two sections), Saul Grossman (two sections), Stephen Bruce, Mary Miller (two sections), Edwin Aloiau, Larry Krafft, Deborah Sanville, Gordon Hart (two sections), James Earl Davis, Will Jordan, Jessica Schocker (two sections), Barbara Wasik, Christine Woyshner, Jim Roberge, John Schmalbach (two sections), Joe Haviland (two sections), Sally Gould, Martin Konov, Karen Jantzi, William Keilbaugh, Jennifer Cromley, Joe Folger (two sections), David Beglar, Terry Meddock (two sections), John Whitby, Jeremy Wagner, Julie Kessler, Jeri Goldman, Elsie Smith, Leslie Altena, Joseph Soler, Tricia Jones, Joan Shapiro, Patricia Feuerstein, Lynda Price, Gerald Paterson, John Berna, Ginny Carter, Cathy Fiorello, Greg Tucker (two sections), George Mehler (two sections), Meredith Barkley, and Ken Schaefer. Whereas the college average on the nine items is 4.33, these instructors had means of 4.65 or higher.
posted 09/06/2007
College Welcomes New Faculty
Dr. James E. Connell has been appointed Assistant Professor of School Psychology. He received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in school psychology. His dissertation is titled: Constructing a Math Applications, Curriculum-Based Assessment: An Analysis of the Relationship between Applications Problems, Computation Problems and Criterion Referenced Assessments. He was previously the District Behavior Specialist for Salem School District in New Jersey. He has published numerous articles in journals such as: School Psychology Review, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and Psychology in Schools. Dr. Connell graduated from Temple University, magna cum laude, in 1997.
Dr. Matthew “Elvis” Wagner has been appointed Assistant Professor of TESOL. He received an Ed. D. in applied linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006. The title of his dissertation is, Utilizing the Visual Channel: An Investigation of the Use of Videotexts on Tests of Second Language Listening Ability. He was most recently a lecturer in applied linguistics at Teachers College and before that an instructor at Hunter College in New York.
Dr. Erin Rotheram-Fuller has been appointed Assistant Professor of School Psychology. She holds her Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. Most recently, she was an Assistant Research Psychologist in UCLA’s Department of Family Medicine, where she conducted research on biobehavioral interventions for substance dependent individuals and their children. She was also a Staff Psychologist in UCLA’s Semel Institute where she studied behavioral interventions to improve the social skills of children with autism in mainstreamed class settings. She has published articles in journals such as Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
posted 09/06/2007
Partnership Schools: Celebration and Thanks!
On Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 the Dean held a reception to celebrate the new school year and the college's continued relationship with the Temple University Partnership Schools. John DiPaolo, Executive Director of the Partnership Schools was also recognized for his outstanding service as he leaves to the university to become Executive Director of the Beginning with Children Foundation in New York City. The reception was held in the Partnership Schools Office, 1509 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, room 214 from 3:30p.m.- 5p.m..
Warm Welcome to New Students and Their Families
Welcome to Our Community : On Sunday, August 26th, the College welcomed new students and their families to our community. The “Welcome to Our Community” events included a celebratory reception for students and their families from 12:30-2pm sponsored by Development & Alumni Affairs in the Student Resource Center and the College Meeting with the Dean from 2-3pm. The new students gathered in between to take a memorable class picture. The Office of Undergraduate Studies is grateful to Dean McGuire, Marc Hill and Jayminn Sanford-DeShields for their words of wisdom regarding the exciting journey to teaching, being a top-notch student, and the realities of college life. Thank you also to Jean Boyer, Erin Horvat, David Kanter, and Catherine Schifter for their participation in welcoming our new students and setting the tone for their academic journey.
posted 09/06/2007
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