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Vol. 4, Number 26 July 18, 2014

Vol. 4, Number 26 July 18, 2014

STLL Instructor Albers-Biddle Earns the Education Doctorate………………………………………………………………………………… 1

Mark Your Calendars: Recruiting Opportunity for All Grad Programs…………………………………………………………………………. 1

CEDHP Honors Committee: EOY Report, 2013-14…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2-3 Details on New Teacher Equity Equality Plan…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4-5 An Update from a Professor Emeritus................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Carnegie Summit Presentation Proposals Due by July 29................................................................................................................................... 6 FLDOE Approval of Teacher Ed Rules Now Posted 7 Proposal Deadline Extended to July 25th 7 Calendar 8

STLL Instructor Albers-Biddle Earns the Education Doctorate On July 7th Mrs. Junie Albers-Biddle successfully defended her dissertation to become Dr. Junie Albers-Biddle. Her dissertation title is: “Staffing Practices of Elementary School Principals for Teachers in Primary Grades and the Implications for the Prek-3rd Continuum.”

The data from her research suggest that principals tend to favor teachers with Elementary Education (EE) certification as opposed to Early Childhood Education (ECE) training when staffing teachers in primary grades.

Although all principals stated that primary teaching requires specialized knowledge, most principals consider flexibility to move teachers into the upper grades more important. The study also determined that most principals interviewed did not know the differences between ECE and EE teacher preparation programs.

She will be hooded at the August 2nd UCF Commencement.

Mark Your Calendars: Recruiting Opportunity for All Graduate Programs

The Graduate School will once again be hosting our annual Fall Graduate Fair. Please see details below:

What: 2014 UCF Grad Fair

When: Wednesday, September 10th from 4:30-7:30pm. Where: Pegasus Ballroom, UCF Student Union

More information: www.graduate.ucf.edu/gradfair (details coming soon)

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CEDHOP Honors Committee: EOY Report, 2013-14

“To get something done, a committee should

consist of no more than three people, two of

whom are absent.” -Robert Copeland

The Honors Committee begs to differ with

Mr. Copeland! In fact, our Honors Committee is so active

that we assertively request the participation of our

alternates, and they graciously accept, especially providing

assistance with our Honors Receptions. A special thank you

this year goes to each committee member and to our

dedicated alternates, who willingly participate in our

activities, so as to get all our important work done! The

committee members and alternates for 2013-2014 were:

Judy Levin, Gillian Eriksson, Thomas Fisher, Stacey Van

Horn, Rosa Cintron Delgado, Patti Lanier, (Morgan Futch,

Ex-Officio J Graduate Assistant) Andrew Daire, Ex-officio

Administrative member, and Sherron Killingsworth

Roberts, Chair and BHC Liaison.

Thus, through the action of so many CEDHP faculty, staff,

and students, our undergraduate research agenda and the

Honors in the Major program continue to move forward.

The following report captures the activity of 2013-14

academic year.

Perhaps our biggest accomplishment this year, outside of our

amazing students, is the Honors Committee’s public

website, linked to TBHC, for recruiting students at http://

education.ucf.edu/HIM/ . THANKS and kudos to Wendy,

Pam, and Community Relations Director, D’Ann

Rawlinson. This website has testimonials, written and

video, but most importantly, it has links to each thesis

published in the last decade. We believe this will allow

potential students to be inspired by the breadth, depth, and

passion of prior topics.

This site is also linked to our http://www.livetext.com site

(password: A9CCD84D) housing many specific aids to

students, and is used by many, even outside our College (no

other College has any such resource for their students).

We hosted two well-attended receptions for recruiting,

which resulted in a record 33 participants in the Honors in

the Major program in spring, up from 29 in the fall. Many

dedicated faculty throughout the College served on these 33

thesis committees of our Honors students. This year had

approximately 10 theses defended and with HIM proposals

defended and approved, our faculty chairs and committee

members have been busy. Our sincere thanks to all the

following HIM thesis chairs throughout the year, who

unselfishly give their time to mentor our brightest and best

students in the College of Education: Drs. Valerie Storey,

Janet Andreasen, Maren Fragala, Deirdre Englehart, Anna

Valdes, Dan Ezell, Tom Brewer, Elizabeth Hoffman,

Thomas Fisher, Carolyn Hopp, Cheryl Van De Mark, Anne

Culp, Elizabeth Hoffman, Cynthia Poole, Rita Buchoff, Lee-

Anne Spalding, Martha Lue-Stewart, Jeffrey Kaplan, Judith

Levin, Will Russell, Sherron Roberts, Mary Little, Vicky

Zygouris-Coe, Taylar Clements Wenzel, and Scott Wise.

Special thanks to Dr. Wise who encouraged so many

students to participate in SURE through his honors course.

This year in addition to working in concert again this year

with the Research Committee, our Honors Committee met,

coordinated, and collaborated with CIRCLE, the

International Committee to begin to recruit and coordinate

study abroad, funding sources, and honors thesis topics.

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CEDHOP Honors Committee: EOY Report, 2013-14, Cont.

Workshops each semester provided by

Roberts included our typical IRB

Certification workshop, Proposal Writing,

Surviving your Defense, and Get Started

with HIM workshops. Additionally, the

Honors Committee has posted new videos to help students

navigate writing a proposal and getting started on the IRB

process. Feedback from HIM students has been very

positive in regard to these updates. In response to the

request of our Honors Scholarship recipients that they

present at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Excellence (SURE), our Honors Committee along with the

Research Committee hosted two workshops in Nov/Dec

2013 to encourage students to make application for SURE.

In hindsight, the proposal process changed significantly in

that 1). The proposal's due date was on a Friday, and then

upon further investigation on a new page of the revised

proposal structure, it was Friday at NOON, and 2). The

proposal required an actual signature from the participant's

chair, and many faculty were in all-day meetings in MIRC.

Given that, we still had at least 3 participants from the

College of Education and Human Performance, with one

(Courtney Roy) placing and winning additional scholarship

money. Beatriz Marmol also participated in the State Florida

Undergraduate Research Forum, but did not place.

Highlighting our students’ good work continues to be a goal

of our Honors Committee.

Without the support of the Deans of both Colleges, many of

our Honors in the Major students would not be able to

complete this life-changing experience.

A total of eight $1,000 scholarships were provided by the

Burnett Honors College matched by the College of

Education.

The names of the 2013-14 recipients are: Michelle Millard

(Chair: Kaplan), Amy Kosky (Chair: L. Hoffman), Gayle

Courtney (Chair: Roberts), Emily Adams (Chair: Kaplan),

Christy Clarke (Chair: A. Culp), Duaa Lufti (Chair: Olan) ,

Courtney Roy (Chair: Ezell), and Beatriz Marmol (Chair:

Lue-Stewart).

We had several students nominated for the Thesis Founders

Day Award, but they did not place in the top two positions.

Additional awards were given to two HIM students this

semester: Gayle Courtney was chosen to be one of two

study abroad students exploring gifted education to The

Netherlands. Gayle Courtney also won the UCF Bookstore

Scholarship by providing an award winning essay. Congrats

go to Christy Clarke, McNair Scholar, on her acceptance to

the Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Department of Human and Community

Development (HCD). Additional congrats to Beatriz

Marmol who received the Gene and Mary Longfellow

Scholarship Award from Dean Robinson.

Respectfully submitted,

Sherron Killingsworth Roberts

Honors Coordinator for the College of Education and Human Performance

Professor of Language Arts and Literacy

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Details on New Teacher Equity Equality Plan From CURMUDGUCATION: Details on New Teacher Equity Equality Plan, A grumpy old teacher trying to keep up the good classroom fight in the new age of reformy stuff, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Our thanks to Jerry Becker and Chii Muni for bringing this piece to our attention. (See http://www.curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/07/details-on-new-teacher-equity-plan.html )

“This aspect of school reform has been lurking around the edges for some time-- the notion that once we find the super-duper teachers, we could somehow shuffle everybody around and put the supery-duperest in front of the neediest students. But though reformsters have occasionally floated the idea, the feds have been reluctant to really push it.

Now that the current administration has decided to bring that federal hammer down on this issue, you're probably wondering what they have in mind for insuring that the best teachers will be put in front of the students who have the greatest need. I'm here to tell you what some of the techniques will be.

Before Anything Else, Mild Brain Damage Required Any program like this requires the involved parties to believe that teachers are basically interchangeable cogs in a huge machine. We will have to assume that a teacher who is a great teacher of wealthy middle school students will be equally successful with students in a poor urban setting. Or vice-versa, as you will recall that Duncan's pretty sure it's the comfy suburban kids who are actually failing. We have to assume that somebody who has a real gift for connecting with rural working class Hispanic families will be equally gifted when it comes to teaching in a high-poverty inner city setting. And, of course, as always, we'll have to assume that teachers who are evaluated as "ineffective" didn't get that rating for any reason other than their own skills-- the students, families, resources and support of the school,

administration, validity of the high stakes tests, the crippling effects of poverty-- none of those things contributed to the teacher's "success" or lack thereof. Once everybody is on board with this version of reality, we can start shuffling teachers around.

Financial Incentives Schools with great need and challenge often have trouble attracting top teachers, so let's throw money at them. And since an underlying problem for high needs schools is that they don't have money to throw at their problems, we'll have to use tax money from the state. Which means that wealthy school districts will fork over extra tax money to help convince the teachers at those wealthy schools to leave and go elsewhere. I don't anticipate any complaints about this at all.

Bait and Switch Simply tell new teacher grads that they have been hired by Big Rich High School and drive them over to Poor Underfunded High School instead. With any luck, you can get some work out of them before they figure it out.

Indentured Teachitude The federal government will pay for your teacher education, but you then owe them seven years of teaching at the school of their choice. As I type this, I'm thinking it has actual promise. Sure, they won't know if you're great at first, but once you've taught a year or two, they'll have an idea and if you are a really great teacher they'll ship you to one of the underfunded, collapsing schools with high populations of students who are at risk, but if you turn out to be lousy, they'll stick you in some cushy already-successful school where...oh, wait. Never mind.

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Details on New Teacher Equity Equality Plan, Cont. Rendering

Teams visit the homes of excellent teachers in the middle of the night, tie a bag over their heads and throw them into a van. Days later, the excellent teachers wake up in their new classroom.

The Draft

All the teachers in the state go in a giant pool. The schools of the state will go in reverse order of success last year and draft teachers. We could also do this as a Chinese auction. Chinese auctions are fun.

The Lottery

All the effective teachers' names go in a giant drum, from which they are drawn for assignment. May the odds be ever in their favor.

Note

For both the draft and the lottery, no teachers ever buy homes or settle into communities. Under these systems, states may want to offer teachers good deals on nice campers, fancy Winnebagos, or modified school buses. At last, every teacher can live like a rock star (I'm a Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem guy myself).

One Other Alternative

States could take the actions necessary to make sure that every single school had all the resources it needed, that it was fully staffed, fully funded as well as clean and safe and

fully functional. States could take the actions necessary to make teaching an attractive profession with job security, great pay, and the kind of autonomy and power that makes a profession attractive to intelligent grown-ups. States could offer incentives and support for college students who pursue teaching. States could provide support and assistance for teachers, so that great teachers were free to be great and teachers struggling to find their way could become great. State and federal government could reduce the burden of dumb regulations, destructive mandates, and wasteful, punishing tests (reducing to "none" would be the best goal here). In short, states could invest the money and resources to make all schools so attractive that so many teachers want to work there that every administrator in every building in the state gets to choose from among the best and the brightest to find the very best fit for the students.

Fun Puzzle Among these alternatives I have included one that nobody in power is even remotely considering right now. Can you guess which one it is?”

Source: http://www.curmudgucation.blogspot.com/

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An Update from a Professor Emeritus I am thoroughly enjoying the recent issues

of the TeLLegram as they arrive in my

Beijing apartment.

Given I retired from the Area of

Instructional Systems Design in 2003, it

has been very interesting to see the more

recent activities and curricular directions.

I have been "in hiding" here since June 6th, following my

return from my annual volunteering time at the Giant Panda

Base in Chengdu.

The point of my hiding is to work on my forthcoming book,

tentatively titled: "Chinese Graduate Student Survival in the

USA: What Mom Forgot to Tell You!"

I have a great Chinese agent, Shen Genming, of the Lacebark

Atelier agency, and our hope is for me to finish the work

and get it to the public before Christmas. I will keep you

informed. I return from China on July 30th so will be at

home finishing the work.

Please give my kindest regards to all my faculty colleagues

(past and present) in our great UCF College of Education!

Kindest regards,

Dick

Dick Cornell, Ed.D.

Emeritus Professor

Instructional Systems&

Graduate Faculty Scholar

UCF-Orlando & UTB-Brownsville

Fulbright 2004 - Ukraine

AECT International Envoy – 2013

Carnegie Summit Presentation Proposals Due by July 29

Four months ago, the Carnegie Foundation launched its

inaugural Summit on Improvement in Education. Striving to

catalyze an improvement community that fosters innovation

and connects like-minded leaders in education, last year’s

Summit generated an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response.

Over 500 individuals seeking more effective ways to meet

our ever-rising aspirations to transform education

participated.

For the 2015 Summit, we seek to expand the voice and the

community that engages in this work by initiating a RFP to

showcase the innovative improvement work happening in

the field. More information is available about the RFP at

We are hopeful that you will consider submitting your work

and/or sharing this RFP with your colleagues. And, of

course, please plan to join us March 2-4, 2015 at our second

annual Summit on Improvement in Education in the San

Francisco Bay area.

More information about the Improvement Spotlights on

the Field RFP and how to apply is available on the Summit

website.

Warmest regards,

Anthony S. Bryk

President

As stated in his letter, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the

Carnegie Foundation is requesting proposals for the 2015

Summit on Innovation in Education in the San Francisco Bay

area. This conference is an opportunity to showcase

innovations in practice in the field of teacher education.

More information about the conference RFP can be obtained

from Dr. Valerie Storey.

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FLDOE Approval of Teacher Ed Rules Now Posted

Eileen L. McDaniel, Chief, Bureau of Educator

Recruitment, Development & Retention wants to thank all

who attended the recent Rule Development Workshops for

Rule 6A-5.066, FAC, Approval of Teacher Preparation

Programs, where draft rule language impacting all state-

approved teacher preparation programs was reviewed. As

promised, all meeting materials are now posted on our

website at http://www.fldoe.org/profdev/rdep.asp. Scroll

to the bottom of the page where the workshop materials are

posted, including the presentation, webinar recording and

the two transcripts for each of the workshops conducted on

June 25 and June 27. You are encouraged to share this

information with colleagues. Comments and suggestions for

the draft rule language can be sent

to TeacherPrepRuleDev@fldoe.org or posted at https://

app1.fldoe.org/rules/default.aspx (see Rule 6A-5.066 for

info on how to send public comment).

NEWS FLASH: Proposal Deadline Extended to July 25th

The call for proposals for the 2014 FCIE Annual Conference

has been extended to July 25, 2014. The conference will be

held at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida on September

25-26, 2014.

Conference officials are now seeking proposals for

presentations for the following tracks:

STUDY ABROAD / EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

NTERNATIONALIZING THE CURRICULUM /

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONALIZATION

NTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES

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Calendar of Events

f= New Item This Week

Jul. 22 Deadline: AERA Paper and Session Submission

AUGUST

Aug. 2 Summer 2014 Doctoral Ceremony: 7:30am, MIRC

Aug. 2 Summer 2014 CEDHP Commencement Ceremony; 9:00am; CFE Arena

Aug. 14 New Internship Coordinator’s Meeting; 10:00am-12:00pm, ED 305

Aug. 15 CEDHP Faculty Meeting; 9:00-Noon, MIRC

Aug. 15 STLL Faculty Meeting; 1:00-3:00pm, TA 117

Aug. 18 Fall Internship Coordinator Meeting; 9:00am-Noon, TA 130

Aug. 22 HAPPY Hour Committee Meeting; 9:00-11:00am, TA 130. Please bring potluck.

SEPTEMBER

Sep. 10 UCF Grad Fair; 4:30-7:30pm, Pegasus Ballroom, UCF Student Union