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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
YOUR FEEDBACK REQUESTED ON THE REVISION OF THE PORTRAIT OF A TEACHER
by April 24, 2013
To participate in this brief survey, click the link below:
The Center of Pedagogy and the MSUNER invites teachers from our partner districts to consider serving as a cooperating teacher in the Co-Teaching Initiative Cohort 3, for placements in Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. Please note that submitting the survey does not constitute a commitment to participate in the program nor does it guarantee a placement.
Teachers who are interested-
Please complete and submit the Co-Teaching Cooperating Teacher Interest Survey at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6WT3KDN
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Connie Donvito: donvitoc@mail.montclair.edu or Caroline Murray at murrayc@mail.montclair.edu
Thank you!
Are you currently a teacher or working as an educational professional in a K-12 school?
Are you interested in obtaining a Masters in Educational Leadership in one-year while working full-time?
If so, check out our upcoming information session!
http://www.montclair.edu/cehs/news/article.php?ArticleID=12291&ChannelID=23
Are you interested in obtaining a Masters in Educational Leadership in one-year while working full-time?
If so, check out our upcoming information session!
http://www.montclair.edu/cehs/news/article.php?ArticleID=12291&ChannelID=23
PRISM Science and Math Workshops
2013-2014 school year
Location: PRISM Center, Blanton Hall
8:30am to 2:30pm - 5.5 pd hours $130/workshop
Or 4:30-7:30pm – 3 pd hours $70/workshop
50% discount for MSUNER Partner Districts
if registered by February 1st
Reservations required online
| Date | Title | Gr. | Time | Cost |
| January 24 | Weather, Air and Water | K-5 | 8:30a-2:30p | $130 |
| January 29 | Guiding Readers & Writers through Science | 3-8 | 4:30p-7:30p | $ 70 |
| January 31 | Common Core and Math Practices: What's Up with Fractions? | 3-6 | 8:30a-2:30p | $130 |
| February 11 | Human Body | K-5 | 8:30a-2:30p | $130 |
| February 28 | Common Core Content and Practices: Look at What's New! | 5-8 | 8:30a-2:30p | $130 |
| March 6 | From Cookbooks to Constructivism - Inquiry-Based Investigations | 3-8 | 4:30p-7:30p | $ 70 |
| March 21 | Physical Science Investigations | 2-5 | 8:30a-2:30p | $130 |
| April 4 | Designing STEM Projects | 5-8 | 8:30a-2:30p | $130 |
| May 20th | Schoolyard Science | 3-8 | 4:30p-7:30p | $ 70 |
Workshop descriptions go to http://www.montclair.edu/csam/prism/workshops/
- FEE: $130 per workshop for full day; $70 per workshop for 3 hour workshops
- 50% discount to MSUNER partner districts if registered by February 1st.
- Provided Coffee/Tea (Bring your own lunch) and parking at the Clove Road NJ Transit Parking Garage ONLY. See directions.
- Questions, contact us at prism@mail.montclair.edu or 973-655-7753
- All workshops are subject to cancellation for insufficient enrollment.
Check out this exciting opportunity to earn up to 40 hours of professional development hours in our PD MOOC Series. See the event here for more details and to register! |
Visit The ADP Center for Teacher Preparation & Learning Technologies at: http://adpcenter.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
The ADP Center is offering a number of exciting after school and full day workshops. Please see our online catalog for course offerings and descriptions. You can register for all of our events by visiting adpcenter.org and clicking on the Workshops & Conferences section at the top of the page. Please note there are fees associated with some of our events, payment details are listed in the individual events. |
Visit The ADP Center for Teacher Preparation & Learning Technologies at: http://adpcenter.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
A new University procedure has been initiated for all University Faculty and Staff to obtain MSU Parking Permits.
This includes MSUNER Clinical Faculty.
All vehicle registration for MSU Parking Permits must be done online.
Please DO NOT go to Parking Services to apply for a Parking Permit.
YOU MUST ACTIVATE YOUR NET ID AND OBTAIN A NEW MSU ID CARD BEFORE APPLYING FOR AN MSU PARKING PERMIT.
Here are the steps you must take as MSUNER Clinical Faculty:
1. Complete and submit the MSUNER CWID Application (Found under the "Clinical Faculty" tab) to the MSUNER Office (Choose your method):
By Mail: MSUNER By Fax: 973-655-5227
University Hall, Suite 1180
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043
Scanned by email: msuner@mail.montclair.edu
2. CWID Applications are then submitted to the University by the MSUNER. MSUNER is notified of approved applications by e-mail and will forward the CWID to Clinical Faculty member with instructions and information on how to activate the NET ID. Please note: This process may take several weeks.
3. Once you have obtained your NET ID and your password is created you can go to: www.montclair.edu/parking and follow the on-line instructions:
- Select “Obtain a Permit” under Permit Services
- You will be asked to enter your NET ID and password
- You will be asked to enter your vehicle information (make, plate information, etc.)
4. PLEASE NOTE: If you already have an appointment as Clinical Faculty and are currently enrolled as an MSU graduate student, please inform the MSUNER by contacting Sabina Wasonga-Gitau, MSUNER Program Assistant, at (973) 655-5231 or send an email to: msuner@mail.montclair.edu
PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE PARKING SERVICES OFFICE.
5. Once the information is submitted online you will receive a confirmation from University Parking Services and will have a Part-time Staff Surface Lot Permit, which allows you to park in all general (yellow) surface lots on campus at any time and all restricted (orange) employee surface lots after 3:30pm.
Should you experience any difficulty with this procedure, please contact Sabina Wasonga-Gitau, MSUNER Program Assistant, at (973) 655-5231 or send an email to: msuner@mail.montclair.edu
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CAREFULLY:
MSU Administration policies and procedures require that if you wish to receive campus privileges AS A CLINICAL FACULTY MEMBER, you must re-apply for a Campus-Wide ID number (CWID) and activate your Net ID EACH YEAR.
The MSUNER is currently in the process of e-mailing the CWID application form for the 2013-14 academic year to all current Clinical Faculty members.
- If you are a current MSU graduate student or MSU teaching adjunct faculty and already have a CWID and Net ID, please DO NOT complete this form.
- Only current Clinical Faculty members should complete and submit the CWID Application Form and only if they agree to activate their net ID to receive an MSU e-mail.
- You must activate your Net ID within 2 weeks of receiving your CWID in order to receive campus privileges offered through the MSUNER. Instructions for activating your Net ID will be provided when you receive your CWID from the MSUNER.
- Please make sure that you have submitted your most current professional e-mail address to the MSUNER. You may update your information by contacting: msuner@mail.montclair.edu. Please include your full name, district, and your updated e-mail.
The CWID application form may also be accessed using this link: Campus Wide ID Application Form
Please know that all information provided is strictly confidential and security measures are in place to protect your privacy.
Please contact the MSUNER Office at 973-655-5231 with any questions you may have. Thank you!
The Department of Secondary and Special Education:
Dual Certification MAT with a Focus on Inclusive iSTEM Education
Montclair State University is pleased to offer the Dual Certification MAT with a focus on Inclusive iSTEM Education - a specialized teacher education program that is designed to prepare highly qualified math and science teachers for inclusive middle and secondary classrooms in New Jersey and across the nation. The program integrates intensive content area preparation, inclusive pedagogy, and iSTEM education experience with integrative and carefully designed fieldwork.
An Innovative Approach for 21st Century Teaching and Learning:
- Dual certification in math or science and special education
- Focus on engineering design, problem-based learning, innovation, and evidence-based inclusive practices
- Traditional and non-traditional field experiences that are carefully supervised and integrated with coursework
- Carefully designed mentoring and induction
You are cordially invited to attend an online information session on February 28th at 12:00 with program leaders and educators to learn more about the program.
REGISTER at:
http://msugrad.force.com/events/TargetX_Events__eventspecificregistration?eid=a0aA0000009DphHIAS
To learn more about this exciting opportunity, please complete our short survey and one of our program staff will follow up with you:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MSUinclusiveiSTEM</x>
The application deadline is May 15, 2013. Applications for the Dual Certification MAT will be reviewed on a rolling basis after this date until all candidates have been selected.
This is an example of how you can use the Ning blogs in your mini-course.
The participants in your course would have to be members of thing MSUNER Ning (msuner.org). You also need to be 'Friends' with them on the site. The easiest way to do this is to search for them by name, then click the 'Add as a Friend' link under their name.
Within your mini-course, you can then publish blogs like this that are only visible to your friends. In the Privacy & Comments section be sure to select 'Just my friends' for 'Who can view this post?' and 'Who can comment on this post?' and your course participants will be able to see and comment on your blog posts. This is a great option for continuing the dialog outside your workshop.
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MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
TEACHING WRITING CERTIFICATE
PROGRAM INFORMATION
The Graduate Certificate Program in Teaching Writing is designed to familiarize students with the guiding research, theory, and practice of Writing Studies, a discipline devoted to developing successful pedagogical practices for teaching writing across age, background, and ability. As many new teachers discover when they enter the classroom, English teachers are often under-exposed to theories and practices of writing instruction as part of their graduate or teacher preparatory programs. This certificate program aims to address this gap in teacher preparation at a time when national and state mandates for effective writing instruction are at an all-time high. The curriculum for the program bridges the secondary and college divide, responding to calls for better communication between secondary and college faculty, and greater support for students moving from high school to college.
The program holds the following objectives:
· Students will learn techniques for teaching planning, drafting, revision, and editing
· Students will learn how to conduct one-on-one conferences and implement peer review models in the classroom
· Students will understand and apply various methodologies for teacher research on writing
· Students will explore the challenges of marginalized writers and learn how to facilitate their writing development
· Students will study methods of evaluation and assessment of writing
· Students will gain a foundational understanding of rhetorical theories and their impact on writing techniques and pedagogies
· Students will have the opportunity to design research projects and teaching materials that are in alignment with the Common Core Standards in Writing, as adopted by the state of New Jersey.
Teachers and prospective teachers of middle school, high school, and college are especially invited to apply for this program. For interested school districts, documentation towards professional development hours for program participants is available.
ADMISSIONS
Certificate students should be active participants in our graduate courses, capable of sophisticated reading and thinking.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Application; Non-Refundable $60 Application Fee; Official Transcripts; Essay; One Letter of Recommendation. Please note that additional application materials may be required for students who have completed academic work outside of the U.S. This program has rolling admission.
CURRICULUM
The full curriculum can be found below. To view course descriptions, please visit our website at www.montclair.edu/graduate.
Teaching Writing Certificate:
Required Courses:
Complete for 6 semester hours:
Teaching Writing and the Basic Writer (ENWR-586)
Research in Writing Studies (ENWR-588) or equivalent, as determined by advisement
Electives:
Complete 2 courses for 6 semester hours from the following list:
Teaching Writing Through Literature (ENWR-583)
Graduate Writing Seminar (ENWR-590)
Rhetorical Theories and the Teaching of Writing (ENWR-598)
Seminar in Writing Studies (ENWR-600)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Application/Admissions Information: Program Information:
The Graduate School English Department
College Hall Room 203 Dickson Hall Room 468
1 Normal Ave. 1 Normal Ave.
Montclair, NJ 07043 Montclair, NJ 07043
Voice: (973) 655-5147 Voice: (973) 655-4274
Fax: (973) 655-7869 Fax: (973) 655-7031
E-Mail: Graduate.School@montclair.edu Dr. Jessica Restaino, Graduate Program Coordinator
Website: www.montclair.edu/graduate E-Mail: restainoj@mail.montclair.edu
Website: http://chss.montclair.edu/english/
The ADP Center for Teacher Preparation & Learning Technologies @ Montclair State University Presents:
The 21st Century Teaching Skills Professional Development Certificate Program for Practicing K-12 Educators (Teachers and Administrators are welcome)
The 21st Century Teaching Skills Professional Development Certificate Program for Practicing K-12 Educators (Teachers and Administrators are welcome)
Time to Complete: Five 2-hour after-school workshops during the months of May and June (see topics and dates below)
Cost: $95.00 per teacher for all five workshops
Professional Development Hours: 10
Register online today @ http://adpcenter.ning.com/events/21st-century-teaching-skills-1
About the program: This program is designed to help K-12 educators obtain the skills necessary to incorporate 21st Century teaching skills into your classroom. While we have broken up the skills into five two-hour after school learning sessions, we hope to show that these skills are intertwined and will be developed as an overall skill-set, one that allows you to continue to create innovative 21st century learning experiences for your students that will help increase academic achievement across subject areas and grade levels. We also hope to help educators understand the power of professional learning networks as a resource to continue to learn and evolve even after completing these five professional development workshops. While we do highlight some examples of "Digital Tools and Skills Covered" for each class below, we will also incorporate new concepts that continue to emerge in the digital world of education. The total cost to participate in the five two-hour after-school workshops is *$95.00* and each participant will earn 10 professional development credits as a result of their completion of the program.
Workshop Titles, Descriptions and Dates:
1. Information Overload: *Finding the right web-based tools and resources for teaching and learning can be a daunting task for anyone. Simply goggling a keyword usually provides too many unrelated results and can consume precious time you do not have. This hands-on workshop will show you how to search for and evaluate online educational resources more efficiently while using social networks such as twitter to connect with peers searching for similar content.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Google Advanced Search; Custom Search; Twitter, Google Custom Search, Web Directories, Diigo. *
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *May 23, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
2. iPlan, iTeach & iAssess (Part One):* Building on the skills developed in our Information Overload workshop, this intensive hands-on learning experience introduces cloud-based tools to collaboratively plan and facilitate instructional activities that integrate engaging digital resources such as video, screencasts, podcasts and flash animations while constructing web-based student assessments that inform future instruction.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Google Docs, Google Forms, Youtube, Teachertube, Podomatic, Blogs, Wikis, Jing, Screenr, Rubistar, Quizstar, Google Sites*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *May 30, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
3. iPlan, iTeach & iAssess (Part Two): Building on the skills developed in our Information Overload workshop, this intensive hands-on learning experience introduces cloud-based tools to collaboratively plan and facilitate instructional activities that integrate existing and engaging digital resources such as video, screencasts, podcasts and flash animations while constructing web-based student assessments that inform future instruction.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Google Sites, Google Docs, Google Forms, Youtube, Teachertube, Podomatic, Blogs, Wikis, Rubistar, Quizstar*,* TweetPolls*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: * June 6, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
4. iCreate, iPublish and iCollaborate (Part One): Screencasting, Skyping, Tweeting, Texting, Mashing and Animating -- what does it all mean? While it may seem like a totally new language, one that many of your students seem to instinctively understand, in this intensive hands-on workshop we will show you how to utilize the power of free web-based tools to collaboratively create and share interactive learning activities with your students and your peers.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Skype, Google Sites and Docs, Diigo, Prezi, SlideShare, Animoto PBWorks, Podomatic, Screenr/Jing, VoiceThread, Nota*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *June 13, 2012 4-6 pm, ADP Center Room 1143
5. iCreate, iPublish and iCollaborate (Part Two): * Screencasting, Skyping, Tweeting, Texting, Mashing and Animating -- what does it all mean? While it may seem like a totally new language, one that many of your students seem to instinctively understand, in this intensive hands-on workshop we will show you how to ultilize the power of free web-based tools to collaboratively create and share interactive learning activities with your students and your peers.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Skype, Google Sites and Docs, Diigo, Prezi, SlideShare, Animoto PBWorks, Podomatic, Screenr/Jing, VoiceThread, Nota*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *June 20, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
Please contact the ADP Center at crc01@mail.montclair.edu or 973-655-5220 if you have any questions about this program.
This graduate "teaching writing" certificate program is offered by full-time English Department faculty who specialize in composition/rhetoric. It has been designed to provide secondary-level classroom teachers with additional grounding in best practices in writing pedagogy and assessment, as well as relevant theories and research about writing. This program is a response to a need articulated many times by classroom teachers--that writing instruction is often an arena in which they find themselves in need of greater support and training.
Here's a link to the program description via the graduate school's website:
http://www.montclair.edu/graduate/programs/certificate/twri.php
For inquiries about the program please click the link above or contact Program Director Jessica Restaino at restainoj@mail.montclair.edu. Further information will also be available at the Open House event on Sunday, 2/26.
