2008-2009 - Grand Valley State University

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Learning Through Collaboration Community Connections Title Summer Literacy Program Lakeshore Teaching Cohort Creston H.S. GTC Cohort Future Educator Association Schools of Hope Differentiation/Formative Evaluation/21st Century Grant Kent School Services Network Initiative One-to-One Laptop Initiative Don’t Forget the Kids Literacy Project Target Inquiry Grant Kent County Academically Talented Youth Program (ATYP) Academic Clinics MNA Partnership 28 COE Faculty Leaders Dr. Barbara Reinken Dr. Ismail Hakim Mary Starkweather Dr. Sally Hipp Dr. Sherie Williams Amy Jasinski Dr. Paula Lancaster Dr. Loretta Konecki Jacque Melin Dr. Susan Carson Dr. Stephen Worst Dr. Sean Lancaster Dr. Andrew Topper Victoria Kamps Dr. Caryn King Dr. Dorothy Armstrong Dr. Joseph Fisher Dr. James Grant Dr. Claudia Sowa Wojciakowski Throughout the 2008-09 school year, COE faculty engaged in community outreach. Purpose Collaboration has resulted in increased literacy skills for English as Second Language (ESL) students at Godfrey-Lee Public Schools and has provided COE graduate students with a quality setting in which to complete master’s degree practicum requirements. Holland Public Schools (2007-2009); Great Lakes El. Sch.; West Ottawa Douglas El. Sch; Saugatuck Public (2009-2010). The cohort of 12-14 students who completed both their teacher assisting and student teaching in the same school. Cooperating teachers worked with future teachers throughout the school year. Graduate Teacher Certification (GTC) students partnered with Creston High School, Grand Rapids Public Schools, and placed 10 GTC students in building classrooms. The future teachers received special training in urban school education. COE members Williams and Jasinski, with support from Phi Delta Kappa International and GVSU’s Teachers of Tomorrow, developed and supported a Future Educator Association (FEA) at Union High, Grand Rapids Public Schools. Dr. Lancaster served as a liaison for the Schools of Hope program, a joint effort between Heart of West Michigan United Way and Grand Rapids Public Schools. Designed to raise literacy levels, COE teacher candidates received training as reading tutors for children in grades 1-3. Jacque Melin presented a differentiation learning course to Kentwood Public School administrators. Dr. Loretta Konecki, Jacque Melin and the East Kentwood High School Math Department worked on formative evaluation. Two days a week, 60+ freshmen and sophomores enrolled in ED 200 and ED 225 attended their prerequisite courses in an urban school with a diverse student population. When their college class ended students remained at the school to tutor elementary students at Coit Creative Arts Academy (GRPS) and Pine Island Elementary in Comstock Park. Faculty and staff at Allendale High and Middle schools, and Dr. Lancaster and Dr. Topper examined the impact of ubiquitous computing at the secondary level on student achievement, classroom instruction and assessment. COE undergraduate and graduate students and GVSU graduate social work students participated in the 6th annual Don't Forget the Kids Literacy Project. Funded by Traverse Bay Twilight Rotary Club and Grand Traverse Community Foundation Youth Advisory Council grants, 200 children received literacy kits. GVSU’s Chemistry Department and Dr. King completed a third year of implementing the Target Inquiry grant. TI builds on the COE Master of Education program with a focus on inquiry and chemistry education. ATYP, a highly accelerated Math/Language Arts program, provided students who demonstrated unusual academic ability and passion in those areas an opportunity to learn in greater depth and complexity and at a faster pace with students of similar abilities. Kent ATYP is a partnership between local districts, Kent ISD and GVSU. COE students, under the guidance of Drs. Fisher and Grant, participated in academic clinics in both Grandville and Hudsonville Public Schools. COE students provided one-on-one instruction in special education programs working with students with learning disabilities. The Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) Partnership promotes service-learning and civic engagement in West Michigan schools. Created in Fall 2008, it builds long-term, sustainable partnerships between the COE and Learn and Serve Michigan.
COE Launches Future Teacher Scholarship Endowment The College of Education, under the leadership of Glenda Eikenberry, Associate Director, Administrative Services, launched the COE Future Teacher Scholarship Endowment in 2008. The fund will provide financial assistance to students as they begin their student teaching experience. Once the target goal of $30,000 is met, the President’s Office will match that amount and awards will begin to be made from endowment earnings. “Roughly 80 percent of our students have a financial award of some kind,” says JoAnne Litton, Scholarship and Outreach Manager in GVSU’s Financial Aid Office. “The average undergrad award is $8,520.” Current and former COE faculty/staff, alumni, as well as family and friends of future educators, may contribute to the fund. Every gift will make a difference to a future teacher. For more details or to make a gift, contact: GVSU University Development Office Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences 301 Michigan St. NE, Ste 100 Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3314 Man on a 2000-Mile Mission There are thousands of children around the world whose living conditions and daily lives are deplorable. One of those situations is in Matamoros, Mexico, where many children roam the streets soliciting donations, living in a dump, trying to get food and various goods to sell or use, lacking education, and having no opportunity to escape the poverty and abuse that has become a routine part of their lives. “We have been blessed with the opportunity to change these conditions for children, by building a safe and supportive orphanage that will begin to reverse this tragic situation that no child should experience,” says John Shinsky, Associate Professor of Education at Grand Valley State University. Shinsky, along with Joe DeLamielleure, and Eljay Bowron, friends since their Michigan State University days, committed their time and talent to generate resources needed to support abandoned, abused and neglected children. They organized a fundraiser bike ride and rode their bicycles 2000 miles from the MSU East Lansing campus to the orphanage in Matamoros, Mexico, in April of 2009. With the love, support and generosity of many people, they hope to complete the 12-building, 33,000-square-foot facility that will provide a home, food, safety, love, education, bilingual and vocational training for hundreds of children who are abandoned and physically, sexually and emotionally abused. Six buildings have been constructed thus far at a cost of $30 per square foot. 100 percent of all the donations given to the project go directly to supporting this facility named, “The City of Children of Matamoros Mexico.” For more details, see www.shinskyorphanage.com Social Responsibility John Shinsky with children in Matamoros, Mexico 29
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