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This project is designing a unified teacher
preparation program (UTPP) by establishing learning partnerships
among faculty in the School of Education, the School of Arts and
Sciences and local school districts. As part of this project, we
are establishing collaborations through the integration of coursework,
co-teaching classes, utilizing a variety of teaching strategies
to meet diverse learning needs of students, infuse literacy strategies
in General Education Requirements and the utilization of distance
learning technology that will provide a link from the university
to other educational institutions and focus on strategies of differentiated
instruction and unifying general and special education.
The mini-grant approach replicates the model
for encouraging and facilitating faculty collaboration between Schools
of Arts & Sciences and Education developed Lydia
Conca and Kathleen
Butler at St. Joseph College, West Hartford,
CT. Additional information can be accessed at the St.
Joseph College Unification Grant website.
As part of this program we invited SCSU Faculty to participate by
proposing new projects consistent with the goals and objectives
of the UTTP for consideration for funding. A Request
for Proposals was issued to Deans of Arts
and Sciences and Deans of Schools of Education at Connecticut Institutions
of Higher Education in December 2005 to solicit proposals. The following
proposals were received in response to the RFP. Each of the proposals
was scored
by members of the CITE Committee at the quarterly meeting held on
March 29, 2006. A link is provided below to allow access to the
full text of each proposal.
Project Summaries:
Name: Jack Tessier, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor
Affiliation: Central Connecticut State University
Address: Biology Department
332 Copernicus Hall
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain CT 06053
Project Title: News
and Inquiry: Exploring Ways to Help Future
Elementary Teachers Appreciate Science
Project Summary:
This project will develop the use of news stories and inquiry-based
laboratories to improve the preparation of pre-service elementary
teachers in a general biology class.
Award Amount: $7,000
Name: Allen P. Cook, Associate Dean
Affiliation: University of Bridgeport
Address: School of Education and Human Resources
Carlson Hall, Room 110
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Participating Faculty:
- Natalia Romalis, Professor
Dean Emeritus of Arts and Sciences and Chair of Department of
Mathematics
- Lamont Thomas, Professor (Retired)
Department of History
- John Nicholas, Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
- Nelson Ngoh, Professor
Science Education
- Richard Harper
Social Studies Education
Project Title: Content
Area Improvement for Elementary School
Teacher Candidates
Project Summary:
We propose a joint project between three members of the
Arts and Sciences faculty at the University of Bridgeport (mathematics,
science and history) and three members of the School of Education
(mathematics education, science education and social studies education)
along with three teachers (in mathematics, science and history)
from local schools to create content-based materials for elementary
teacher candidates.
Award Amount: $7,200
Name: Jeanelle Day, Ph.D., Associate
Professor
Affiliation: Eastern Connecticut State University
Address: Education department
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226
Project Title: Development
of ECSU’s Interdisciplinary Science Major and
General Science Certification
Project Summary:
Eastern Connecticut State university faculty from the Education,
Biology Environmental Earth Science, and Physical Sciences Departments
will collaborate to develop a new major in Interdisciplinary Science
thus allowing Eastern to apply for general science certification
area.
Award Amount: $6617.17
Name: Catherine Tannahill, Ed.D.,
Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Eastern Connecticut State University
Address: Education Department
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226
Participating Faculty:
- Jaime Gomez, Chair
Communications Department
- Denise Matthews
Communications Department
- Gwen Whitman
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Project Title: Educational
Applications of Technology
Project Summary:
This proposal proposes to develop and align three one-credit,
cross-departmental courses to prepare undergraduate students (anticipating
admission to the elementary and secondary certification programs)
in the operation and application of technologies used in the classroom.
Award Amount: $8,800
Name: Clayton Penniman, Ph.D., Professor
Affiliation: Central Connecticut State University
Address: Biology Department
332 Copernicus Hall
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain CT 06053
Participating Faculty:
- Jeremiah N. Jarrett, Associate Professor
Department of Biology
- Debra McGregor, Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Project Title: A
Field and Inquiry-Based Coastal Ecology course for Pre-Service and
In-Service Teachers
Project Summary:
The current proposal seeks to develop a field-based and
inquiry-based course that would be offered jointly by the Department
of Biology and the Science Education Program at CCSU to provide
teacher training in coastal ecology for both upper level pre-service
as well as in-service teachers.
Award Amount: $8,300
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