Please contact Dr. Mason for more information if you are interested. emason5@depaul.edu
Thursday, January 14, 2016
15 hour Childcare Job Opportunity
We've been contacted by a Mayer elementary school (on DePaul's Lincoln Park campus) parent who is seeking someone to pick up her son after school and watch him into the early evening. The child has some special needs. The job is approximately 15 hours per week, 3 hours M-F from approximately 3pm to 6pm. The rate can be negotiated. Access to a car is preferred.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
School Counseling Internship Fair
Hopefully at the end of December you received information about
the upcoming School Counseling Internship Fair. Now is the time to
register via the link here:
Registration deadline is Friday, January 22, 2016
Faculty members from Chicagoland area Counselor Educator academic
training programs meet quarterly with the Executive Director for the CPS Office
of School Counseling and Postsecondary Advising, Barbara Karpouzian, and other
OSCPA staff members. In our last meeting we discussed the potential benefit of
having an internship fair that would bring together CPS approved school
counseling supervisors and students from our programs who are interested in
learning more about your schools and the internship opportunities prior to
sending out their application materials. It is our hope that students would
have the opportunity to informally meet supervisors and ask questions that will
help them make informed decisions about where to apply for an internship.
The fair is scheduled
for:
Date:
Saturday,
January 30, 2016
Time:
12-2
pm
Location: Loyola
University Chicago
Water Tower Campus
111 E. Pearson, Lewis Towers
Bean Hall (13th Floor)
Chicago, IL 60611
Students from the following academic programs will be invited to
participate:
- Chicago State University
- Concordia
- DePaul University
- Governors State University
- Lewis University
- Loyola University Chicago
- NEIU
- Roosevelt
- St. Xavier
We hope that you will be able to make it!
If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact the on-site internship fair coordinator, Rufus
Gonzales, at rgonza1@luc.edu
CACREP Update
Now that we have returned for the Winter quarter, I wanted to share with you our CACREP progress. We are officially moving forward with our application with support from the department and the College of Education. This is our best case scenario and very good progress.
In the Fall we received approval to hire a consultant as part of the pre-application process. This involved collecting much information about our program faculty, courses, enrollments, graduates and more, to determine if we were in a position to be eligible to apply for CACREP accreditation. The consultant reviewed all of the materials and provided the necessary feedback at the end of the quarter. Based on this feedback, we have made the decision to pursue accreditation and have again hired the consultant to support us in the process.
In our first meeting of the Winter quarter, the CSL faculty reviewed a timeline for the accreditation application that will take us through the remainder of the academic year. The goal by the end of the 15-16 year is to submit to the consultant a draft of our application, and at that point, we will again, await her feedback in order to determine next steps. We anticipate working monthly on various tasks of the application, breaking things down into manageable steps. This is a new venture for us so we are unsure what challenges may lie ahead but we are thankful to have a consultant assisting us along the way.
There is no guarantee of accreditation and nothing I can share at this point about expected dates of accreditation approval. The process is complex and involves multiple steps and phases. You may ask faculty any questions you have and/or you may consult this student FAQ page on the CACREP website. I'll post another update by the end of the quarter.
In the Fall we received approval to hire a consultant as part of the pre-application process. This involved collecting much information about our program faculty, courses, enrollments, graduates and more, to determine if we were in a position to be eligible to apply for CACREP accreditation. The consultant reviewed all of the materials and provided the necessary feedback at the end of the quarter. Based on this feedback, we have made the decision to pursue accreditation and have again hired the consultant to support us in the process.
In our first meeting of the Winter quarter, the CSL faculty reviewed a timeline for the accreditation application that will take us through the remainder of the academic year. The goal by the end of the 15-16 year is to submit to the consultant a draft of our application, and at that point, we will again, await her feedback in order to determine next steps. We anticipate working monthly on various tasks of the application, breaking things down into manageable steps. This is a new venture for us so we are unsure what challenges may lie ahead but we are thankful to have a consultant assisting us along the way.
There is no guarantee of accreditation and nothing I can share at this point about expected dates of accreditation approval. The process is complex and involves multiple steps and phases. You may ask faculty any questions you have and/or you may consult this student FAQ page on the CACREP website. I'll post another update by the end of the quarter.
TAKING A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE edTPA: High Stakes Test for New Teachers
College of
Education Winter Forum
Thursday,
February 18th
5:30 - 8:30
P.M.
Student
Center 314 AB
TAKING A
CRITICAL LOOK AT THE edTPA: High Stakes Test for New Teachers
All
prospective teacher candidates for licensure in Illinois are now required to
pass the edTPA (Education Teacher Performance Assessment). Our winter forum
will take a critical look at this process from the perspectives of student
teachers, university clinical supervisors, academic researchers, education
professors and parents.
The issues
the panelists will address include:
•
The
concerns of prospective teachers, their cooperating teachers, university
clinical supervisors, and parents who have had experience with the edTPA
•
Critiques
of the edTPA as an effective way to evaluate beginning teachers
•
The
role of the Pearson corporation, the developer and scorer for edTPA, and
Pearson's broader involvement in the trend toward high stakes testing in K-12
•
How
pre-service teachers can best negotiate the edTPA process
•
Strategies
& advocacy to change the edTPA
Dr. Marie
Donovan, Associate Professor, DePaul University’s College of Education, will
serve as moderator.
Panelists
include:
•
Dr.
Alison Dover, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education, College of Education,
Northeastern Illinois University
•
Julie
Peters, Associate Director of the Teaching of History Program, UIC; founding
member of the Coalition for edTPA Rule Change
•
Cheryl
Witucke, Coordinator of Clinical Supervision, Division of Education, Trinity
International University
•
Trisha
Wickland, MA, Concordia University; 1st, 2nd grade teacher. St. Paul Lutheran
School in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago
•
Cassandra
Creswell, organizer with More Than a Score, board member of Raise Your Hand
Illinois
3 CPDUs are
available.
For more
information and to R.S.V.P., please contact Dr. Diane Horwitz at dhorwit1@depaul.edu
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