Greetings!
You are receiving this email because you have attended a workshop or expressed interest in the co-teaching model of student teaching developed and studied at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. To date we have shared the Co-Teaching Train-the-Trainer model and workshop with teams from over 95 teacher preparation institutions across the country. We would like to inform you of two upcoming co-teaching “Train-the-Trainer” workshops. The first will be held in Minneapolis, MN on September 22 & 23, 2011; a second is planned for November 3 & 4, 2011 in the San Francisco Bay area of California.
Both of these workshops are enrollment based. There must be a minimum of 20 participants enrolled for the workshop(s) to go. If you’re interested please register but don’t make your travel arrangements until minimum enrollment is confirmed (we’ll let those enrolled know when this occurs).
The train the trainer workshop provides information on both the quantitative and qualitative data gathered on co-teaching; helps participants identify key personnel, learn ways to secure university and district buy-in, discover the essential elements of a co-teaching workshops, gain knowledge of co-teaching and co-planning strategies, identify ways to support university supervisors, and much more!
We encourage colleges and universities to participate as a team – preferably with 3-5 colleagues so that they can discuss adaptations, modifications, changes, and implications in their own program. A team also provides support as participants return to their institution and begin to implement co-teaching in their own program.
Cost for the train the trainer workshop is $500.00/person. When you bring three or more participants (from the same institution) the cost is $450.00/person. Current Renaissance Group (TRG) members are $450.00/person; and when enrolling three or more participants from the same Renaissance Institution the cost is $400.00/person. Costs includes the two day workshop, all materials and lunch each day.
The link to registration for the Minneapolis training is:
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlXbzR0dnlwaWdtOXdOdDJocFpYY3c6MQ
The link to register for the California training is:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/gform?key=0Ap6ba2MI_7T-dGxLRFdacUtXcHptWVdPM2NuQm9RWmc#edit
If you cannot attend either of these trainings but would like to discuss upcoming workshops, please contact Teresa Washut Heck at twheck@stcloudstate.edu or Nancy Bacharach at nlbacharach@stcloudstate.edu.
If you have already attended the co-teaching train the trainer workshop but find you’d like to have others at your institution trained – please encourage them to join us. If you know of others who might be interested in learning more about co-teaching in student teaching, please forward this information to them.
Thanks,
Teresa and Nancy
August 26, Teacher Performance Assessment Implementation Summit
TERI colleagues,
The following information is from Elizabeth Finsness, Coordinator of Curriculum and Assessment with TERI:
The University of Minnesota is entering the State-wide field study (2011-12) for the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA). The pilot year (last year) was educative and provided the TPA Consortia (TPAC) with meaningful recommendations to prepare for this year’s field study year. We welcome you to send district administrators and school faculty to join this statewide group of educational leaders – (MACTE), Pk-12 partners and MDE from 8:00 – 12:30 pm on August 26 to learn about the field study planned for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Please also note that there are two additional TPA scoring trainings available in August and September. This training provides knowledge to better inform faculty and supervisors about the TPA and provides insight on how to prepare candidates for the assessment. Follow this link for registration: http://www.mnteachered.org/
We realize that this event was scheduled at the same time as our co-teaching workshop for cooperating teachers (on August 25 & 26) and your district opening workshops. It is a busy time of year! However, we hope there are individuals in your district whom you would like to engage in knowing more about the TPA as implemented this year by universities for their teacher candidates (student teachers). Cooperating teachers do not need to be experts on the TPA, but may be interested in learning more about it and engaging in professional development to become TPA scorers. Details below…
Our best,
Stacy and Elizabeth
See details below…from Dr. Sally Baas
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You are invited to attend the August 26 Teacher Performance Assessment Implementation Summit. It will be in the Rauenhorst Hall, Coeur de Catherine, at St. Catherine’s University, St. Paul Campus, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105. Please come for coffee at 8:00 am. The opening session will begin at 8:30 where we will tackle three central questions: What is the current state of the TPA? What is expected for teacher preparation programs for the 2011-2012 year? What support is available for a successful year? Break-out sessions will follow where you can engage topics including academic language, ethical coaching, working with school partners, and video logistics and analysis. Don’t miss this opportunity to be informed and to ask questions about the Teacher Performance Assessment!
Please share this with your colleagues, including faculty members and clinical supervisors, cooperating teachers, school partners, and others who are interested in learning about the TPA.
Please register via this Zoomerang link: TPA Implementation Summit
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CRJGUGGEK
This is the information on the location and parking:
map: http://www.stkate.edu/pages/aboutstkates/pdf/collegeofstacatherinemap.pdf
Please park in the Guest Parking Lot, which is shown on the map.
Gophers quarterback says Youth Studies class honed leadership skills
In an interview in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Gophers football quarterback MarQueis Gray credits an internship program that was part of a Youth Studies class with helping to make him a better leader. Gray and teammates Brandon Green, Johnny Johnson, Eric Lair, Christyn Lewis, Da’Jon McKnight and Troy Stoudermire, all Youth Studies majors, took the Youthwork Internship class this summer.
The students spent three days a week in a supervised field learning experience working with the DeLaSalle High School football team. Youth Studies is part of the School of Social Work, and the class was instructed by Assistant Professsor Katie Johnston-Goodstar. Read the story in the Pioneer Press.
Professor McConnell appointed to governor’s Early Learning Council
Scott McConnell, professor of Educational Psychology and director of community engagement in the Center for Early Education and Development, is one of 22 appointees who will serve on Governor Dayton’s Early Learning Council. The council “will be responsible for advising the Governor, the Children’s Cabinet, and the legislature on how to increase access to high quality state and federal early childhood care and education programs for all Minnesota learners — including those who are part of underrepresented and special programs,” according to an August 10 press release from the governor’s office.
“Minnesota’s future success depends upon building an education system that gives every child a chance to succeed,” said Governor Dayton. “By starting early we can lay a strong foundation to ensure every learner has the tools to excel in the classroom, in our communities, and in life.”
Read the full press release.
LaVoi featured in WCCO-TV segment on golf equipment
Dr. Nicole LaVoi, lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, appeared with WCCO’s Mark Rosen on a segment called “Practice, Not The Pro-Shop, Makes A Swing” at the Edinburgh Golf Course.
Watch the video:
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David W. Johnson receives National Register Award for Excellence
Educational Psychology emeritus professor David W. Johnson has been awarded the 2011 Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
The Wellner Award is the National Register’s highest honor bestowed on a psychologist to commemorate numerous and significant contributions to psychology during a distinguished career. Dr. Johnson’s nomination emphasized his contribution to the development and design of a series of psychology-based programs aimed at preventive mental health implemented in the schools (preschool through graduate school).
Hewitt new director of Research and Training Center on Community Living
Amy Hewitt, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC) in the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration (ICI). She will assume the new role effective August 15, 2011, succeeding Charlie Lakin, Ph.D., who has been appointed director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in the U.S. Department of Education.
Hewitt has worked at the RTC for the past 20 years and has an extensive background of research, publishing, and training in the areas of services, supports, and policies impacting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She has served as coordinator of the College of Education and Human Development’s Certificate in Disability Policy and Services, jointly offered through ICI and the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, and is also co-director of the Minnesota LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Disabilities), a joint program of the Department of Pediatrics and ICI. She and her many colleagues within the RTC look forward to continuing to build upon the strong foundation for the center’s internationally-respected work developed under Lakin’s decades of leadership.
Kane takes on media portrayal of female athletes in The Nation
Mary Jo Kane, Kinesiology professor and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, is a featured columnist in a special issue of The Nation magazine devoted to the role and impact of sports in U.S. culture.
In this month’s issue, titled “Views from Left Field,” Kane’s column presents a compelling critique of sport media related to the portrayal of female athletes and the notion of “sex sells,” complete with a slide show illustrating her arguments. Kane’s analysis is based on a research study she conducted with her advisee, Heather Maxwell (Ph.D. ’09), and published in the Journal of Sport Management in May 2011.
Additional historical background and a slide show of media portrayals is available on the website of the Tucker Center.
Kinesiology students presenting posters at TRIO/McNair Scholars event August 2
Two Kinesiology B.S. students, Jordan Langen and Angela Ziemer, are presenting their research and posters at the U of M TRIO Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program’s Nineteenth Annual Poster Presentation and Reception. Jordan and Angela are two of twenty students from the U of M-Twin Cities and Carleton College who are conducting research this summer under the direction of distinguished faculty research mentors at the U of M. The gathering provides an excellent forum to display the research efforts of these exceptional McNair Scholars along with their faculty mentors.
Jordan, a senior, has been working with Dr. Stacy Ingraham and Dr. Jane Yank to present data from a marathon class offered in Kinesiology each spring. Angela, also a senior, is a pre-physical therapy student in the Clinical Movement Science subplan.
All are invited to attend the event on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Coffman Memorial Union – Mississippi Room. Refreshments will be served.
Social Work Ph.D. student receives award from gerontology education group
Social Work Ph.D. candidate Rusudan Kilaberia has received a Pre-Dissertation Initiative award from the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work. The association provides support each year for a cohort of 10 doctoral students who have completed the first year of doctoral studies. The goal is to support dissertation and career development in gerontological social work research and education. The students will receive more than 10 hours of programming delivered by nationally recognized experts in gerontological social work research and teaching prior to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference in November in Boston.
Yolanda Majors to join C&I faculty as visiting professor
Yolanda J. Majors, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), will join the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota as a visiting associate professor during the 2011-2012 academic year. Dr. Majors will also hold a 50% appointment with the Minnesota Center for Reading Research (MCRR) to enhance its work with K-12 schools to support teachers, particularly those who teach students of poverty, as they learn to effectively teach youth from diverse backgrounds to become competent readers and writers. She will also provide leadership throughout the College of Education and Human Development to support under-represented pre-tenured faculty members with structured mentoring opportunities and teach in the English education program area.
Edleson interviewed about violence and abuse case in St. Paul
School of Social Work Professor Jeffrey Edleson, director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, discussed the case of the 19-year-old who was nearly burned alive by his mother’s boyfriend last week in St. Paul. Edleson told StarTribune columnist Gail Rosenblum that the young man’s injuries could compel his mother to leave the abusive relationship. “Children are the reason women stay in abusive relationships. And children are the reason women leave abusive relationships,” Edleson explained. Read the full article.
APAL members attend Progress in Motor Control VIII conference
Members of Kinesiology’s Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) attended the Progress in Motor Control VIII conference, July 20-23, in Cincinnati. Those in attendance were PhD students Azizah Jor’dan, Sam Haag, Fu-Chen Chen, Yi-Chou Chen, and Yawen Yu; and Kinesiology movement science professors Tom Stoffregen and Michael Wade. Each of the attendees presented at least one poster, which are listed below:
Samuel Haag & Michael G. Wade. Changes in postural motion and heart rate responses in a gold putting competition
Azizah Jor’dan, Thomas A. Stoffregen, J. Riley Mccarten, & Michael G. Wade. Assessment of movement skills and perceptual judgment in older adults
Fu-Chen Chen & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Postural facilitation of a precision task at sea
Fu-Chen Chen, Michael G. Wade, Chia-Liang Tsai, & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Postural Responses to suprapostural tasks in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder
Ken Yoshida & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Manual wielding and the dynamics of liquids
Yi-Chou Chen, Mitch Pajcic, Anthony M. Mayo, & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Visual vigilance tasks influence stance width
Yi-Chou Chen, Jason Dong, Jens Hagstrom & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Control of a virtual avatar influences postural activity and motion sickness
Yawen Yu, Hyun-Chae Chung, Lauren A. Hemingway, & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Postural sway and visual performance in women with and without morning sickness in pregnancy
Anthony M. Mayo, Michael G. Wade, & Thomas A. Stoffregen. Postural effects of the horizon on land and at sea
Social work dual degree student receives fellowship for Uganda project
Kaela Glass, who is pursuing dual master’s degrees in social work and public policy, has received a Walter H. Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowship for a project in Uganda. She will intern with WellShare International in Uganda, focusing on a monitoring and evaluation project with a community initiative that serves orphans and adults living with HIV/AIDS. She also will undertake community organizing activities to increase education and communication around sexual and reproductive health. In addition, she will work with local partners to draft a child protection policy to allow WellShare to better protect children with HIV from economic and sexual exploitation.
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Ingraham to teach course for American Physical Therapy Association
Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, has been invited to present a day-long course September 24 for the Minnesota chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association. The course, “Today’s Athlete and the Science of Sports Performance Meet on the Field,” will address issues related to the current culture of sport and how training of the athlete has changed, along with factors to consider to fully restore function and productivity to the injured competitive athlete and weekend warrior.
Dr. Lesley Scibora awarded postdoc in Kinesiology
Lesley Scibora, recent Ph.D. graduate in Kinesiology, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship for 2011-2012. Dr. Scibora will be working in collaboration with faculty and graduate students in three Kinesiology exercise science laboratories: Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Health, Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science, and Human and Sport Performance Laboratory. A significant part of her assignment will be to conduct research with and for colleagues in the U of M Medical School on a number of NIH grants. She will also teach Kinesiology classes in the exercise science area.
Transparency International appoints Chapman to expert panel for Global Corruption Report on Education
Transparency International has appointed David Chapman, Birkmaier Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, to its Expert Advisory Panel for the Global Corruption Report on Education. Best known for its annual Corruption Perception Index, Transparency International is a highly acclaimed international organization devoted to promoting transparency in elections, public administration, procurement, and business. Working through its global network of more than 90 national chapters, it undertakes advocacy campaigns to lobby governments to implement anti-corruption reforms.
Cedar Creek artist in residence explores nature with a human touch
Senior teaching specialist Linda Buturian, in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, is currently an artist in residence at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Her essay, “Secret Knowledge,” which is the first of three narratives with images recently published on the Cedar Creek website, captures the essence of Cedar Bog Lake and its relationship to people and the surrounding ecosystem.
Buturian’s essay collection, World Gone Beautiful: Life Along the Rum River, was published by Cathedral Hill Press. As a writer and teacher, Buturian develops curriculum and teaches humanities courses for CEHD. To learn more about the interdisciplinary water seminar she designed, and to view her students’ digital stories, visit the course website.
Tucker Center affiliated scholar participates in panel forum
Tucker Center Affiliated Scholar Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., participated in a panel forum entitled “Your Personal Brand” at the Minneapolis Hyatt on July 15. This was a special event sponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Minnesota Chapter. Kaiser talked about how individuals and organizations (like the Tucker Center) can and should communicate through social media and become “experts” in specific academic and professional topics thereby filling a niche, spreading knowledge, and attracting followers.
Kane quoted in Nation article
Mary Jo Kane, professor of sport sociology in Kinesiology, was interviewed by Dave Zirin for an article in The Nation on “raunch culture” and the Women’s World Cup soccer games. The term refers to women athletes appearing in seductive poses in men’s magazines to “sell” their sport.