Fall 2008: Orientation for Student Teachers & Practicum Students

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

4:30 to 6 pm

Robeson Campus Center 255/56

Mark Your Calendars!

Welcome Joelle Tutela, Director of Teacher Education

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Joelle Tutela as Director
of Teacher Education, effective Monday, September 2, 2008. Ms. Tutela is
completing her doctoral dissertation in the Urban Education Program at the
CUNY Graduate Center. She was the founder of the High School Magnet
Program for Social Justice at Montclair High School, has been Graduate
Fellow and adjunct instructor at the School of Education at CCNY, where
she was responsible for the preparation of their NCATE accreditation
report in secondary social studies education. She brings to Rutgers-Newark
vast experience in urban education, student teaching supervision and
teacher education.

ETS Workshop for Praxis II Preparation

Tentative Date: Friday, October 10th, 2008

Price: TBA

We are in the process of coordinating a date to hold a Praxis II workshop. A representative from ETS will conduct the all-day workshop providing students with strategies, tips, and hands-on lessons for success! All who are planning to take the Praxis II tests within the next year are strongly encouraged to register. Lunch will be served and a materials fee will be included in the registration.

Urban Teacher Education Program - Information Session

"How can you make a difference?"

Fall 2008 (Tentative Date: Wed., Novemer 5th, 2008)

Free Period

Bradley Hall, Education Lab Room 148

Bring or Tell a Friend!

For more information: jessvass@andromeda.rutgers.edu

-Alan Sadovnik

Alan Sadovnik edited two books in 2007-2008: Sociology of Education: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2007) and No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap: Sociological Perspectives on Federal Educational Policy (with O'Day, Borhnstedt and Borman; Routledge, 2008).

He is co-PI (with Paul Tractenberg) of two grants to study the return to local governance in the Newark Public Schools: $40,000 from the Rutgers Academic Excellence Fund and $20,000 from the Victoria Foundation.

Congratulations!

-URBAN EDUCATION AWARDED NOYCE NSF GRANT
The Department of Urban Education, the NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts, The Newark Public Schools, and The Newark Museum have been awarded a Noyce grant by the National Science Foundation to develop new teachers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines to work in the Newark Public Schools.