Month: January 2014

NJEA Professional Development – Friday, April 11 – Mark Your Calendar

692calendarMr. Michael Cohan, Director of Professional Development for NJEA, will be joining us here on campus in the fourth floor media lab. He will be providing CEHS, along with potentially some of our colleagues from Arts & Sciences, a 90 minute session on SGO’s in NJ.  Topics to be covered inlcude what SGOs are, how they impact teachers in NJ, what the impact is on students and student learning and what it means for our faculty and student teachers in terms of preparing to teach in NJ’s schools.

The program will be on Friday, April 11th from 10:00 to 11:30am in the CEHS Media Lab on the fourth floor.  We hope many of you will be able to join us for this event.

Meeting Notes from December 13, 2013 Curriculum Revision Meeting

meeting notesAt the last Curriculum Revision meeting, the focus continued to be on what we want students to be able to do and know by the end of their freshman year.  The Secondary Education and Elementary Education/Special Education departments worked independently to identify key factors for their respective students. Based on the information that was covered, more time is needed to focus on moving through not only freshman year, but sophomore, junior and senior years as well.

The notes from the meeting are organized to identify the areas of common ground identified by both Secondary Education and Elementary Education/Special Education and then identifies those areas specific to each department.  The notes are available here and also in the calendar section of the blog.

 

 

Welcome Back to the Spring Semester

welcomebackWe hope everyone had a great break.  We have been very busy since the last Curriculum Revision meeting in December.  The notes from that meeting will be posted shortly.

SHU also hosted a Technology Advisory Committee meeting on Wednesday, January 8th where technology coordinators, supervisors, principals and superintendents participated in a forum.  They helped identify areas where CEHS can focus to better prepare our students in the area of technology.  It as a very information and very helpful session. Those notes will also be posted soon.

All of the Curriculum Revision meetings and the EDST department meetings have been set and the calendar is available here.

We are looking forward to another exciting semester as we continue the work of evaluating and revising the curriculum.