In This Issue
Highlight Your Program
Tough Love For Colleges
Districts Facing Teacher Crunch
Support For FOUR-Year Degrees Mounting
Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have
National Assessment Of Adult Literacy
After School Program Study
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NACCTEP
Fourth Annual Conference
March 17-19, 2006
Atlanta,Georgia
Please Join Us at a new conference location for Jazzing Up Teacher Education Programs in the Community College an extraordinary conference sponsored by the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs, March 17-19, 2006, at the beautiful Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.Experience Southern Hospitality in an elegant setting located in downtown Atlanta. Discover the potential for community colleges to energize programs that provide leadership and support equity, diversity, and excellence for future generations of educators. Come explore programs built on tradition that integrate modern practices and methods.
Register Here
Like each of you, we too are greatly saddened by the tremendous loss and hardship resulting from Hurricane Katrina. It is with heartache that we watch the news and see the devastation of the Gulf Coast.
We encourage you to support the Community College Hurricane Relief Fund, coordinated by the American Association of Community Colleges.
Hurricane Relief Fund
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National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
Technology in Education Resource Center
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ask a Scientist
World Prosperity Ltd.
The Education Alliance at Brown University
School Matters
Teaching Strategies
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For additional information about CCTI or the Maricopa local project, contact Cheri St. Arnauld at 480-731-8726. |
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Highlight Your Program
NCTE would like to invite you to highlight your K-12 teacher education or early childhood program in our monthly Newswire E-newsletter starting in March 2006. If you are interested in showcasing something unique or special that your program does, sponsors, or is involved in that you feel would be of interest to others, please submit one or both of the following to kelly.dooling@domail.maricopa.edu by the 10th of the month for the following month’s issue.
Highlight teaching strategies, marketing efforts, partnerships, program development, recruitment and retention, etc. by submitting:
A 100-150 word article about your program, activity, practice, policy, partnership, resource, etc. (include a web address if applicable)
The name, title, email address and phone number of a contact for those readers who would like more information highlight/promote an upcoming event or activity by submitting:
Event title, date, time, place, target audience, cost, sponsoring campus/program(s), partners, related website, etc.
NCTE staff will select 1-2 articles to present each month. Upcoming events will be listed monthly.
We hope that by providing a place for MCCCD faculty, administration and staff to showcase programs and share ideas, all K-12 teacher education and early childhood programs will benefit. This E-newsletter is for you. Please take advantage of this opportunity to connect with your colleagues.
* NCTE reserves the right to disregard inappropriate submissions and/or edit content (while still providing accurate information) as needed.
Tough Love For Colleges
The second meeting of the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education revealed more consensus and gave early indications of some of the panel's possible recommendations -- and it was a brutal few hours for college officials. David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, called it a "scorching critique," as most of the speakers described the ways in which the American higher education system is failing, even as the group acknowledged that it remains "the best in the world." Charles Miller, the Commission’s chairman, is quoted in an article in USA Today as saying it is “highly probable” that the Commission would recommend instituting more accountability in higher education and possibly some kind of national testing to measure college students’ learning, along the lines of what’s done in elementary and secondary education.
Districts Facing Teacher Crunch
High rates of retirement, turnover and student growth leave Arizona schools scrambling for qualified educators. The shortage is most acute in rural areas and in fields like special education, but administrators fear the trend will spread into the city and to other disciplines like science and math as more families move to the Valley and more teachers leave the profession. A survey of the five largest districts in the Valley - including Deer Valley, Gilbert, Mesa, Paradise Valley and Peoria - showed they would need more than 5,700 teachers over the next five years to replace those who retire or resign. Many of the remaining districts will likely experience similar demands. "We worry about it. We need to do more than worry about it," said Janice Ramirez, superintendent for human resources with Mesa Public Schools. "In a couple of years, it's going to be a crisis."
Support For FOUR-Year Degrees Mounting
The effort to allow Arizona's community colleges to offer four-year bachelor's degrees is gaining momentum. Forces such as rising university tuition, population growth, and critical worker shortages are driving the push to expand community college roles. Opposition comes from powerful corners, but proponents cite the need for more access to four-year college degrees, particularly for students in rural areas and those who cannot afford university tuition.
Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have
During the last 15 years, the education community has moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. Whether involved in higher, secondary, elementary, or special education, many find it difficult to catch up, keep up, and put up with fast-moving computer-based technology. Not since the introduction of the blackboard have we seen a piece of equipment make such a difference in how we teach. Educators today use computers, the World Wide Web, scanners, CD burners, USB drives, digital cameras and digital video cameras, PDAs, and DVD players. Thus, it is no longer acceptable for educators to be technology illiterate. With that in mind, this article provides a comprehensive listing of 20 basic technology skills that all educators should possess. They are:
- Word Processing Skills
- Spreadsheets Skills
- Database Skills
- Electronic Presentation Skills
- Web Navigation Skills
- Web Site Design Skills
- E-Mail Management Skills
- Digital Cameras
- Computer Network Knowledge Applicable to a School System
- File Management & Windows Explorer Skills
- Downloading Software From the Web (Knowledge including eBooks)
- Installing Computer Software onto a Computer System
- WebCT or Blackboard Teaching Skills
- Videoconferencing Skills
- Computer-Related Storage Devices (Knowledge: disks, CDs, USB drives, zip disks, DVDs, etc.)
- Scanner Knowledge
- Knowledge of PDAs
- Deep Web Knowledge
- Educational Copyright Knowledge
- Computer Security Knowledge
National Assessment Of Adult Literacy
A new analysis shows that Hispanic children are much more likely than white or black students to attend the nation's largest and poorest public high schools. According to the Pew Hispanic Center study, 56 percent of Hispanic teens attend schools with enrollments of roughly 1,800 students. Only 32 percent of black children and 26 percent of white children attend schools that large. At the same time, Hispanics are more likely to be in high schools that have the highest concentrations of poverty and largest ratios of students for every teacher. As the president, Congress and governors give more attention to high school, Richard Fry, senior Center associate and author of the study, says Hispanics may have the most to gain by efforts to reshape schools into smaller environments.
After School Program Study pdf
In recent years, there has been an upsurge in after-school options for students, with public schools taking the lead role in their development, often in collaboration with community youth-service agencies. Clearly, well-structured and comprehensive after-school programming is increasingly viewed as a unique and essential component of efforts to promote learning and social development for children of all backgrounds. Despite its rapid growth, however, the after-school movement so far lacks a solid basis for decision-making in areas ranging from program design to funding to the nature and extent of demand for programs and services. See this link for Education Commission of the States’summary of the latest research on the role, value and impact of after-school programs.
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"Quality Counts 2006," the 10th edition of EDUCATION WEEK’s annual report card on public education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is now available online. The report examines the overall impact of state efforts to carry out standards-based education over the past decade, exploring the relationship between those changes and student learning gains.
Of the four graded sections, (standards and accountability, teacher quality, school climate, and resource equity) Arizona’s highest grade is for the standards and accountability section, where it receives full credit for having clear and specific standards at each grade span in the four core subjects, as determined by the American Federation of Teachers.
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Campus Spotlight
As a teacher education faculty member you have invaluable experience teaching students how to become educators. We invite you to share your teaching tips and ideas with us or spotlight a project on your campus that we can feature in our Educator’s Corner.
Please contact ncte@domail.maricopa.edu for more information.
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