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The New Jersey Future Educators Association (NJFEA) is the largest organization in our state for high school and middle school students who aspire to become future teachers. We have NJFEA chapters high schools and middle schools throughout our state. Students may also join as individual members. Membership for the 2014-15 school year is now open! Please see the attached flier for details.
Membership is only $8 per person which entitles you to
- receive Go Teach, the official FEA magazine
- participate at NJFEA state-wide conferences and programs
- participate at the NJEA annual convention,
- meet peers who aspire to become teachers
- participate in statewide competitions & service projects
- receive Smart Board, our monthly newsletter
- get featured on our NJFEA website, in newspapers, and on television
- stay connected to important state and national issues on teaching
- be recognized for academic achievements through the FEA Honor Society
- learn about college scholarships for future teach
- be eligible for the NJFEA Outstanding Achievement Award
- share the pride of teaching through NJFEA chapter
- ADVISERS: Receive a free copy of the FEA Handbook for Chapter Advisers
We are waiving the $125 fee for new chapters that start-up between July 1-November 1. Funding for NJFEA is provided by the New Jersey Education Association.
Please e-mail or call me at 609-771-2464 if you need additional information. We look forward to your participation in NJFEA.
Good wishes,
Larry Fieber
Laurence R. Fieber Executive Director,
Center for Future Educators, The College of New Jersey
State Director, New Jersey Future Educators Association
MSU Students, graduates and beginning teachers in elementary education are invited to participate in a tryout of an innovative new assessment involving Modeling and Explaining Content, Leading a Classroom Discussion and Eliciting Student Thinking tasks designed for the new ETS® National Observational Teaching Exam (NOTE). This tryout offers an opportunity for participants to join with ETS and be at the forefront of developing a new, innovative teacher licensure assessment. Participants will be compensated $100 for completing a 2.5-hour session.
Those who want to participate in the tryout should:
- email collaborate@ets.org indicating their interest in participating; and
- report to an on-campus tryout location.
Participants will receive task-specific directions on-site as they complete the tryout. Scores will not be provided. Send an email to collaborate@ets.org with “NOTE Tryout” in the subject line to partner with ETS for this important assessment. Participation in this research is voluntary, and there is no penalty for choosing not to participate.
More information is provided in the attached flyer. NOTE is being designed to evaluate prospective teachers’ ability to elicit student thinking and assess teachers’
ability to facilitate a class discussion.
The College of Education and Human Services is hosting a panel discussion on April 13, entitled
Public Education in the Trump Era: A Panel Discussion.
Please save the date!
Date: Thursday, April 13
Time: 5:30 - 8:00
Place: 7th Floor Conference Center, University Hall
The election of Donald Trump has led to a dramatic shift not only in this country's leadership, but also in perceptions of some of our key democratic institutions. Among those institutions are the media, the courts, and public education.
Given our unwavering belief in the critical role of public schools in sustaining our democracy, we are sponsoring a panel discussion to examine the implications of the Trump administration for public education in the U.S. Speakers will discuss the role of education in a democracy and explore the particular roles of education at national, state, and local levels. They will consider the current and anticipated impacts of policies and actions of the Trump administration for education in national, state, and local contexts and point to ways we can support public education as a pillar of democracy.
The panelists will be Zoe Burkholder, Educational Foundations Department; Stan Karp, Education Law Center; Monica Taylor, Secondary and Special Education Department; and Leslie Wilson, History Department.
We hope you can join us. An RSVP request will follow soon.
Dear Network Member:
I would like to request your participation in a research project. Drs. Helenrose Fives and Nicole Barnes from Montclair State University are interested in understanding teachers’ beliefs about motivation and the purposes of assessment. They are attempting to gather responses from practicing teachers to better understand these beliefs.
Please follow the link below and respond to the questionnaire about your beliefs about motivation and assessment. The questionnaire is 60 items long and should take you about 10-20 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is completely anonymous and all findings will be reported in summarized form.
Link to questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TeachersBeliefsAboutAssessment
Please take the time to support this work. Thank you!
Sincerely,
MSUNER
TO REGISTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE
TO APPLY, CLICK HERE
The Genocide Education & Prevention Project (GEAPP) is a collaboration between Montclair State University and George Mason University dedicated to researching human rights issues and identifying innovative practices and methodologies that focus on genocide education, genocide prevention, and links between the two. From July 24-26, 2017 at Montclair State University, scholars and lawyers will present research on human rights and genocide for discussion. The research presentations are open to the public and the conference is an opportunity to bring together higher education humanities, law, and secondary education.
Given the NJ mandate to integrate genocide and holocaust education into K-12 curriculum, the MSU Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project is extending a unique invitation to secondary school teachers as well as MSU undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to attending conferences sessions, teachers and students may apply for an all-expense-paid visit to the United Nations Headquarters and dinner with conference scholars in New York city on July 25. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, space is limited, and preference is given to applicants who indicate how the opportunity will benefit their professional career: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M52JBCV. Please see the attached/embedded flyer. For more information regarding the application process, contact Dr. Zoë Burkholder | burkholderz@montclair.edu.
Research presentations will be in the MSU Machuga Heights Multipurpose Room, located at Webster Road, Little Falls, NJ 07424. The presentation schedule is July 24: 9am-4pm; July 25: 9am-11am; and July 26: 9am-12pm. The keynote speaker is scheduled for July 24 at 9am, Jocelyn Gergen Kestanbausm, JD. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Director of the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, and the Faculty Director of the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights. Please see the attached/embedded flyer. For more information regarding GEAPP contact Dr. Kate E. Temoney, Assistant Professor of Religion | temoneyk@montclair.edu or consult the GEAPP website, which will include a detailed schedule: https://www.montclair.edu/chss/religion/meetings-and-events/geapp/.
Supported by the Montclair State University (MSU) Department of Religion | MSU Residence Life
MSU Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project | NJ Commission on Holocaust Education
2016 Annual Conference of the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER)
Hosted By: University of Texas Arlington
October 27-29, 2016
Arlington Sheraton Hotel, Arlington, Texas
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. George Wright, President of Prairie View A & M University and Noted Historian
Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year
Now accepting conference proposals associated with one of the four conference strands:
1. Partnering through Collaboration 2. The Agenda for Education in a Democracy 3. Leadership and Policy
4. Instruction and Assessment
The Call for Proposals deadline is June 30, 2016
For more information, go to:
http://www.nnerannualconference.org
Please click on the link below to access the 2014 MSUNER Summer Conference Program
UPDATED: Rick Wormeli 2017 MSUNER Summer Conference Keynote 6/26/17
RELG 273
HOLOCAUST: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
Wednesdays 5:30-8:00pm - January 18 - May 10, 2017
Dr. Kate Temoney, specialist in genocide studies, Department of Religion at Montclair State
This course examines the preconditions, perpetration, and prosecutions of the systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945. The class will explore intimate portraits of both Holocaust survivors and the perpetrators of violence during this unprecedented period of human destruction. Students will examine historical scholarship on the religious, psychological, and legal aspects of these mass killings.
There are still available seats in the course and the Department would be happy to provide permits for visiting students to take it. See flyer below for further information.
For pre-req or permit info, email religiondept@mail.montclair.edu
INFORMATION SESSION ON edTPA
FOR COOPERATING TEACHERS
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
3:45 - 5:00 PM
University Hall, Lecture Hall Room 1050
This session is an opportunity for you to learn about this new NJDOE assessment requirement for certification for all student teachers in New Jersey.
Topics that will be covered include:
- Introduction to the edTPA
- NJDOE Timeline for Implementation
- Acceptable forms of support from Cooperating Teachers
- Video Recording Safety and Security
- Your questions and concerns
Dr. Connie Donvito, Director of the MSUNER and Samantha Romano, edTPA Teacher Assessment Coordinator, will be facilitating the session.
