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GCE - Dean's Office
Wheatley Hall, Floor 01, Room 00077
Tel. 617-287-7600
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Announcements
10 interns needed for a PreK-5 school, earn a $7,500 stipend
The Application for Student Teaching is available. Please take note, it is due the first week of March.
The dates for the Teacher education information sessions are available for spring. Sign up with the Advising Office at 617-287-7625
The GCE Calendar has information pertaining to our college.
See the dates for the 2007-2008 MTEL tests here
The schedule for the MTEL Workshop for Foundations of Reading is available. Please RSVP with the Advising Office at 617-287-7625.
The Health Workshop schedule is available. This is Required of all Elementary Education Students. Please RSVP with the Advising Office at 617-287-7625.
Faculty Announcements
Assistant Professor Jorelina Abbate-Vaughn was and invited speaker in the Affirmative Action Recruitment Consortium (AARC). Her talk was entitled "Increasing the Number of Teachers from Minority Groups Who Secure Licensure." Established in 1968, the consortium has worked with its 25 member school districts to increase the diversity of school teachers and administrators.
Felicia Wilczenski, Professor and Associate Dean in the Graduate College of Education, presented papers on applications and outcomes of service learning in graduate education and in K-12 settings at the annual meeting of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Baltimore, and at the annual conference on Advancing School Mental Health in Orlando, Flordia.
Virginia Smith Harvey, Professor and School Psychology program director in the Deparment of Counseling and School Psychology (Graduated College of Education), was the keynote speaker throughout a three-day colloquium sponsored by the University of Cyprus from October 9 through 11. The colloquium focused on the training, professional development, and supervision of school psychologists.
AACTE, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, has released the book Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education, which includes a chapter by Assistant Professor Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn entitled "Highly Qualified Teachers for Our Schools: Developing the Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions to Teach Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students."
Robert McCulley of the Institute for Community Inclusion secured a $600,000, three-year grant to sustain the UMass Boston M.Ed. Teacher of the Visually Impaired, and Orientation and Mobility programs.
Sherry Penney, professor of leadership in the College of Management, spoke at the summer meeting of the American Council on Engineering, held July 24 in Boson, on "Leadership and the Professions: The Crucial Role for Engineers," and on August 18, she spoke at a celebratory conference in Auburn, New York, entitled "Martha C. Wright: Her Friends and Her Legacy." Penney's remarks were based on the book A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights, which Penney co-authored with her husband, Jim Livingston.
One July 25, Virginia Smith Harvey of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology, Graduated College of Education, gave a presentation entitled Fostering Independent Learning at the International School Psychology Association Colloquium, in Tampere, Finland, which was attended by 350 school psychologists from 39 countries.
Arthur Eisenkraft, Distinguished Professor of Science Education and Director of the Center of Science and Math in Context (COSMIC) received a $1,664,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the efficacy of a new professional development model for high school teachers. The model will merge traditional professional development with innovative distance learning approaches. This five-year study will include teachers from Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and other urban areas. The professional development model will support teachers using Active Physics and Active Chemistry curricula (both developed by Eisenkraft and colleagues).