CETP Annual Meeting

April 17-18, Washington, DC

 

Teachers for a Multicultural Society:

 Recruitment, Education, and Retention

 

Revised March 27, 2002

 

 

Wednesday, April 17

 

7:00 –8:00        Dessert and Coffee Reception for early arrivals; registration

 

8:00 -9:30        Video Festival of CETP Related Media Projects

Videos from El Paso, Long Beach, Massachusetts, Louisiana, NY, Colorado State

                       

 

Thursday, April 18

 

8:30-9:30         Opening Session and Keynote Address

Welcome by NSF, Joan Prival 

                        Introduction of Keynote Speaker, Sue Thrasher, STEMTEC

Keynote Address:  Linda Rosen, Senior Vice President, National Alliance of Business

 

9:30-10:30       Recruitment, Education, and Retention of Teachers for a Multicultural Society: Model Case Studies, Concurrent Sessions

                       

Student Attitudes Toward Teaching and Team Teaching, Pearl Solomon, St. Thomas Aquinas

                       

Problems and Issues with a Statewide Collaborative, Marj Enneking, Oregon Collaborative 

 

                        Collective Responsibility for Developing New Teachers:  Increasing Diversity,   Arturo Pacheco, Dean, College of Education and Thomas Brady, Dean, College of Science,  University of Texas El Paso, Donna Alford, Middle School Mathematics teacher;  Lucy Abeyta, Middle School Mathematics teacher;  Blanche Herrera, Elementary teacher, and Eric Shelton

 

                        Recruitment in a Non-Racially Diverse State, Richard Stebbins, University of Southern Maine

 

                        Early Field Experience and Teaching Assistantship Program, David Andrews, California State University, Fresno, FCEPT

 

10:30-10:45     Break

 

10:45-11:45     Teaching in a Climate of Reform (Panel)

Donna Alford, Wiggs Middle School, El Paso

Nan Carnal, San Francisco State University

Michael Marder, University of Texas

Rosamond Welchman, CUNY, Brooklyn

Allan Feldman, University of Massachusetts (moderator)

 

11:45-12:30     Small group discussions of issues raised by panel.

                       

12:30-1:45       Lunch (Ending with reports from group discussions)

 

 

1:45- 2:45        Poster sessions: Reports from the Follow-On Projects

                       

San Francisco Bay Area (MASTEP), Dan Walker, San Jose State University  

 

Montana STEP and Virginia VCEPT, Telementoring Program for Beginning Science Teachers in Montana, Virginia, and California, Elisabeth Swanson and Reuben Farley

                         

The Oklahoma Teacher Education Collaborative, O-TEC: Evaluation Strategy and Initial Results. Stacey Clettenberg, Curtis Miller,  Dale Johnson, Simi Burn, and Bob Howard.

                       

New York Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (NYCETP), Barbara Schroeder, CUNY

                       

Louisiana Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (LACEPT) Sally Donlan

 

                        Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (ACEPT), Eugene Judson

                       

Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation (MCTP), Kate Denniston

                                   

Department of Energy, Summer Research Experiences for CETP Pre-Service Students, Cindy Musick

Colorado RMTEC, Barb Wallner

                       

2:45 - 3:45       Core Evaluation Report

                        Frances Lawrence

                       

3:45 - 4:00       Break


 

4:00 - 5:00       Birds of a Feather Sessions

                        Divided by levels of maturity: follow-on; mature, newer

                        Topics: Institutionalization; Partnering Institutions: Challenges and Successes; Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Teachers (includes discussion of alternative certification routes)          

 

Evening            Opening Banquet for Pathways to Change 2002

                        Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts Department of Geo-Sciences