Subject: News from CCT 8/24/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
1. Enrollment boost still needed for CrCrTh 630 in the fall
2. Instructors for Critical Thinking needed at Mass Bay Community College in Wellesley
3. Graduate Assistants for the Fall
4. Alfie Alschuler featured as an "explorer"
5. Register now for Northeast Informal Science Education Network Conference, Sept. 11 &12.
6. Jumpstart Boston recruiting new corps members
7. The EcoTarium in Worcester is hiring in a number of positions
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8. The New York Botanical Garden needs Interns in Science Education
9. Grants for Teacher Training, Math and Science, and Parental Involvement
10. Quote of the month
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1. Enrollment boost still needed for CrCrTh 630 CRITICISM AND CREATIVITY IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. Instructor: Prof. Harriet Walker Thurs. 4-6.30 Theme: Art Across the Curriculum
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2. Mass Bay Community College in Wellesley has openings for the fall semester for part time professional staff instructors for Critical Thinking 100. Candidates need to be masters prepared. If you are interested in discussing these positions, please contact Tish Allen at 508-270-4256
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3. Morgan Smyrl will be taking over from Danielle Shylit (and Mike Cartledge before her) as Office admin. assistant in September. Joelle Barton will be continuing as TA for the Creative Thinking course and CCT in Practice, and co-ordinating the CCT Forum (the grad. student organization). Brooke Sponseller will be continuing as Peter Taylor's RA, in which capacity she will be collecting material for a proposed CCT Field Book/Website -- more on this in later newses.
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4. Alfie Alschuler was featured as an "explorer" (see quote of the month below) in the Commencement issue of UMass Boston magazine. He was quoted as saying CCT has "'interested, creative, fun, and easily accessible'professors who were 'always eager to spend time with students'," and as being "impressed by the diverse student body... in terms of age and social background."
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5. Register now for the NISEN(Northeast Informal Science Education Network) Conference to be held at the College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA on Monday and Tuesday, September 11 and 12.
For further information, contact 617-695-9771 or e-mail mits@world.std.com.
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6. Jumpstart Boston, which partners with local early childhood providers to use the power of community service to build school success, family involvement, and future teachers one child at a time, is recruiting new corps members for the fall of 2000. Contact Kha Doan
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7. The EcoTarium in Worcester is hiring in the following positions: Manager of School Partnerships and Programs, Manager of Public Programs, Museum Educator/Developer, and Program Associate for teen and family programs. For job descriptions see www.EcoTarium.org.
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7a. The Maritime Aquarium, 10 N. Water St., Norwalk, CT 06854is hiring an Education Department Manager who will organize professional development activities for teachers including workshops and events. Contact them
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8. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx NY is looking for Interns in Science Education. Contact efitzgerald@nybg.org or view www.nybg.org
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9. Dow Chemical Company Foundation Grants for Teacher Training, Math and Science, and Parental Involvement has deadline of September 30th. See http://www.dow.com/about/corp/social/ei.htm
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10. Quote of the month. "One can explore an unknown world beyond the circumstances of one's birth and daily life, and an unknown world within oneself. Often both worlds must be explored together and tested against each other." UMass Boston magazine, Summer 2000.
Subject: News from CCT 7/22/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
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1. Enrollment boost needed for CCT.
2. Special theme for CCT630 in Fall '00
3. New Directions in Science Education continues
4. Visitor Philip Higgs' appreciation of CCT
5. GAships available for the coming year
6. Job available: Director of Education for a Planetarium
7. Email list for Tom Snyder's innovative software
8. What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
9. Gifted and Talented Education seminars
10. Quote of the month
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1. Enrollment boost needed. CCT courses are quite underenrolled for the fall, most notably CCT602, Creative Thinking, and CCT630, Creativity and Criticism in the Lit. & Arts (see #2). Prospective and current CCT students should register ASAP to prevent course cancellation. To help the longer term enrollment picture, please talk about CCT to potential students and suggest that they check out the CCT website or call the office for more info. Also, please send names of people and organizations to whom CCT publicity material might be sent.
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2. CrCrTh 630 CRITICISM AND CREATIVITY IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Instructor: Prof. Harriet Walker
Thurs. 4-6.30
Theme for Fall '00: Art Across the Curriculum
The nature of the visual arts as a form of cultural expression and its roles in society informing public thinking in areas such as the relationships between dominant and oppressed groups, science and the natural environment, violence and patriotism. Artists, as problem solvers, have always used technology to understand and represent the visual world, and in so doing, they reflect the historical and social climate of the times and have influenced technological advances in science as well as thinking in philosophy, psychology, literature, etc. In this course, the critical issues of art and technology, the politics of public art, censorship, and ecology will inform discussions around visual arts across disciplines. Such issues suggest possibilities for students to understand that knowledge is a contested and socially embedded concept and to use visual culture to question some of our contemporary notions of reality. Studio activities are integral to the course so that students learn art making techniques and group processes for making a model public artwork. Special attention is given to the development of interdisciplinary curriculum units that combine the secondary educator's field of expertise and the visual arts.
To view the syllabus, see the CCT website
Students who have taken CCT630 with a different instructor are welcome to enrol for it again as an independent study, CCT696.
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3. New Directions in Science Education has begun. Two workshops remain -- July 28-29 (Science in its Social Context, with Peter Taylor) and August 4-5 (Aligning Innovation With Science Education Standards with Steve Fifield from University of Delaware). Enrollment is still possible on a non-credit or for-credit basis. Contact the CCT office for details.
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4. Philip Higgs has just finished visiting CCT from the University of South Africa, a "traditionally black college" with a student body of nearly 200,000 studying via distance learning. He gave the first of the New Directions workshops (see #3) on philosophies of education. At the end of his visit, Philip gave this appreciation:
"The CCT Program provides students with an enriching experience which enables them to deal critically and creatively with problems in their own context. Its interdisciplinary and intra-personal approach makes the program highly interactive, affording students an opportunity to discover personal meaning and significance in responses to problems raised during class."
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5. Students interested in working as a graduate assistant for the coming year should contact Peter Taylor immediately (287-7636). GAs receive a tuition waiver and a $1000+ stipend each semester. The CCT handbook (also viewable on the website) provides more details about CCT GAships.
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6. The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, NH, seeks a new Director of Education. For more info visit http://www.starhop.com.
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7. Tom Snyder Productions produces innovative software for "teachers for love to teach." To subscribe to their monthly email news, please visit: http://www.tomsnyder.com/enews/0007/subscribe.htm
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8. The Spring/Summer 2000 issue of Southern Exposure -- "LIES ACROSS THE SOUTH: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong" -- includes an eye-opening investigation from best-selling author James Loewen about the half-truths, sins of omission, and outright lies that skew our public history. See http://www.i4south.org
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9. Gifted and Talented Education Services (GATES) offers a series of seminars for parents and teachers throughout the coming academic year. Visit http://www.gates-edu.com or contact harris@gates-edu.com for details.
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10. Quote of the month: "Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all." (from Billy Bragg's rewrite of The Internationale).
Subject: News from CCT 6/13/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. House-sitting arrangement needed in July
2. Nina Greenwald has been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the CCT Program
3. Alfie Alschuler was awarded the CCT book prize at convocation
4. Criticism & Creativity in Literature and Arts will be taught by Harriet Walker in the fall
5. CCT mission statement and planning document
6. Learning resources from 40+ federal organizations
7. "New Directions in Science Education" workshops in July
8. Summer 2000 Content Institutes in mathematics, science and technology engineering
9. Community Research Network's Third Annual Conference
10. Visitor Studies Conference "Rev Up the Revolution" Boston, August 5-7
11. Project leader" needed for ISIS, a great little science institute in western mass
12. Educator needed for Lake Champlain Basin Science Center, Burlington, VT
13. Positions at the EcoTarium in Worcester, MA
14. Quote of the month
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1. House-sitting arrangement needed for an international scholar, Philip Higgs, who will be visiting CCT from 9-24 July. Contact peter.taylor@umb.edu with offers.
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2. Nina Greenwald has been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the CCT Program for the coming academic year. She will be teaching the Synthesis seminar both semesters, co-teaching the core courses in Critical and Creative Thinking, and helping Peter Taylor run the Program while Delores Gallo remains on leave.
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3. Alfie Alschuler was awarded the CCT book prize at convocation. In his synthesis he articulates the developmental steps leading to mature creativity‹following the model of Piagetian stages of cognitive development‹and outlines the corresponding teaching strategies and environments that facilitate those steps and their integration. As he observes, no-one would expect to present beginning calculus to first grade‹there are many concepts and tools to introduce to the child first. Alfie wants the teaching of creativity to be brought into the general curriculum, and not reserved only for enrichment programs and gifted education.
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4. CCT 630 -- Criticism & Creativity in Literature and Arts will be taught by Harriet Walker from the Grad. College of Ed. in the fall. Her goals are that students will:
--gain an understanding of the interconnected nature of knowledge in the disciplines of visual arts, science, math, philosophy, history, literature, drama and music.
--develop skills in responding to artworks from social, scientific, and art world perspectives.
--develop their abilities to think about issues that are generated through the study of public art such as, censorship, patriotism, visual representation, technology, and ecology.
--work in small groups to develop a plan for a public work of art that fits the needs of their community.
--work with a partner to create an interdisciplinary curriculum unit built around art.
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5. The CCT Program has produced a mission statement and planning document which can be viewed at omega.cc.umb.edu/~cct/aquad00.html. Reactions welcome.
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6. FREE is a website that makes hundreds of learning resources from 40+ federal organizations available (& searchable) in one place. http://www.ed.gov/free/
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7. Spaces still available for the Friday-Saturday "New Directions in Science Education" workshops CCT is offering in July: 14-15, Critical Thinking And Science Education, 21-22, Ill-Defined Encounters Are The Right Kind! (guiding problem-based learning in science classrooms), 28-29, Science In Its Social Context, and Aug 4-5, Aligning Innovation With Science Education Standards. View the website or contact the office for details.
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8. Openings available for many of the Summer 2000 Content Institutes in mathematics, science and technology engineering being sponsored by the Department of Education and PALMS (Partnerships Advancing the Learning of Mathematics and Science). Contact Harvey
Champigny at (781)338-3454. See also http://www.doe.mass.edu/news.html, http://www.doe.mass.edu/profdev/, http://www.doe.mass.edu/palms/PLM_news.html, http://www.doe.mass.edu/palms
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9. "Common Problems, Uncommon Resources: Exploring the Social & Economic Challenges of Community-Based Research", The Community Research Network's Third Annual Conference, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, June 16-18. www.Loka.org/conf_2000.htm
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10. Visitor Studies Conference "Rev Up the Revolution" Boston, August 5-7. http://museum.msu.edu/vsa
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11. "Project leader" needed for ISIS, a great little science institute in western mass, to address military toxic (and possibly nuclear) waste cleanup efforts. Contact Herb Bernstein, 413-253-5709
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12. Educator (full-time) needed, Start Date: June 19, 2000, for Lake Champlain Basin Science Center, Burlington, VT 802-864-1848 www.lakechamplaincenter.org
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13. A number of positions are available at the EcoTarium in Worcester, MA -- Science Educator and Technology Specialist, Manager of School Programs & Partnerships, Senior Developer/Ecologist. View www.EcoTarium.org for details. Review of applications begins soon.
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14. "Reflective action requires supportive dialogue, the gradual development of agency among learners, and the willingness to change our minds about the propositions that guide our actions." Terry Wildman, Academe, 17 (7), June 2000.
Subject: News from CCT 5/14/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. Register for Fall courses by May 26th. to avoid late fee
2. A gathering against systems of white power and privilege, June 23-25
3. Harbor Explorations Summer Institute for Teachers, June 19-20
4. Gear Up Pre-collegiate and educational support programs needs tutors, etc.
5. Math and science mentor teachers needed for the Summer Urban Scholars Program
6. Museum of Science looking for course proposals and instructors for Sept. 2000-Jan. 2001
7. College Gate and College Academy need science teachers for this summer
8. Spaces still available for June 2-3 CCT workshop on "Effective Teambuilding."
9. Quote of the fortnight
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1. Register for Fall courses by May 26th. to avoid late fee of $50. Course schedule books are available around campus or from CCT office. Use the same PIN numbers as previously. Contact the CCT office if you need help.
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2. Think Again -- a gathering in Boston for those who work with white people against systems of white power and privilege, June 23-25, 2000. For more info, contact Women's Theological Center, 617-536-8782.
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3. Harbor Explorations Summer Institute for Teachers, June 19-20 at UMass Boston (evening hours to fit working schedules). For more info, contact Mike Borek, 617-287-7666.
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4. Gear Up Pre-collegiate and educational support programs needs tutors, mentors, and Grad. students. Training provided and pay is good. Contact Susan Swan, 617-287-5843.
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5. Math and science mentor teachers for the Summer Institute with the Urban Scholars Program, June 26-August 11. Contact Mai Nguyen, Mai.Nguyen@umb.edu, 617-287-5832.
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6. Museum of Science still looking for proposals and instructors for Sept. 2000-Jan. 2001 Courses. Contact Brent Jackson, 617-589-0364, bjackson@mos.org.
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7. College Gate and College Academy - Arlington, Concord, Easton, Hingham, and Framingham need science teachers for this summer. www.ca-cg.com 781-344-7174 781-828-9283
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8. Spaces are still available for the June 2-3 CCT workshop led by Allyn Bradford on "Effective Teambuilding." Regsiter as CrCrTh697B through Cont. Ed. (617.287.7900 or www.conted.umb.edu) using sched no. 708344 for 1 credit or 31361-40 for non-credit (discount) option.
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9. An explanation of who gets the highest paying job in any workplace (via Click and Clack): In physics, power is defined as Work/Time. It is also said that "Knowledge is Power" and "Time is Money." Rearranging these equations yields: Knowledge = Work/Money or Money = Work/ Knowledge. That is, the more knowledge yu have, the less money you get for every hour worked.
Subject: News from CCT 5/3/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. Final synthesis presentation by Alfie Alschuler, Monday May 8th.
2. Draft of Long-term planning document for CCT Program
3. Abstracts of theses and Masters' capstone projects from August 1997-June 1999
4. Museum of Science seeks course proposals
5. Links to allied organizations and other websites
6. Problem-based learning article by Nina Greenwald in Science Teacher
7. Position available as Executive Director of Student Pugwash USA
8. Institute for Learning Innovation awarding a three-month sabbatical
9. Quote of the fortnight on six paradoxes of teaching
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1. Final synthesis presentation by Alfie Alschuler, Monday May 8th., at 6.30pm in Wheatley 2-209 identifying stages of the development of creativity and incorporating that into school curricula.
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2. A draft of Long-term planning document for CCT Program (required for "AQUAD" process) can be viewed (after 5/4) at http://omega.ccumb.edu/~cct/aquad00.html. Comments welcome.
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3. Graduate Studies and Research have published the abstracts of theses and Masters' capstone projects from August 1997-June 1999. The CCT program has the largest number of any program. Copies can be obtained from the Graduate Studies Office, 287-5700.
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4. The Museum of Science seeks course proposals for Sep. 00- Jan. '01 on a first come first served basis. Go to www.mos.org/teach for more information or to submit proposals.
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5. See the updated webpage, http://omega.ccumb.edu/~cct/allied.html, for allied organizations and other websites related to critical and creative thinking and the development of reflective practice.
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6. The April issue of Science Teacher magazine features an article on Problem-based learning written by CCT faculty member, Nina Greenwald.
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7. Position available: Executive Director of Student Pugwash USA, which encourages young people to examine the ethical, social, and global implications of science and technology, and to make these concerns a guiding focus of their academic and professional endeavors. For more info, view www.spusa.org/pugwash/
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8. The Institute for Learning Innovation will be awarding a three-month sabbatical opportunity to an individual from the U.S. or abroad to be completed in residence at the Institute, located in Annapolis, Maryland from January - March 2001. See www.ilinet.org
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9. Parker Palmer in his book, "The Courage To Teach," states six paradoxes of teaching. The classroom space should "be bounded and open," "be hospitable and 'charged'," "invite the voice of the individual and the voice of the group," "honor the 'little' stories of the students and the 'big' stories of the disciplines and tradition," "support solitude and surround it with the resources of the community," and "welcome both silence and speech."
Subject: News from CCT 4/15/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. CCT in Practice -- new and prospective CCT students take special note
2. CCT Outreach -- referrals needed
3. CCT Community Directory now available
4. Science, Education and Society Institute -- brochures to be distributed
5. CCT Administrative Assistant needed for 2000-01
6. Other Job listings
7. Quote of the Fortnight
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1. CCT in Practice -- past and future: On April 8th. approximately 40 people participated in the first annual (?) open house in which members of the CCT community‹students, alums, faculty‹made presentations and led others in activities and workshops related to their CCT projects and subsequent work. CCT in Practice will continue on Tuesday evenings in the fall (7-8pm) and spring (5.15-6.15pm). Current, new and prospective CCT students taking the core creative and critical thinking courses (602 and 601) are expected to attend in order to experience the range of activities under the CCT umbrella and be introduced to the wider CCT Community. Enrollment in CrCrTh697B (1 credit in the fall; 2 credits in the spring) is optional.
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2. CCT Outreach -- No-one has yet won the prize for suggested new links to the CCT website of allied organizations (.../allied.html). If you start with the Open Directory Project highlighted on the updated webpage, you should find many nuggets we could highlight. Email suggestions. More importantly -- and this is the main reason for this webpage -- referrals are needed so prospective students find out about the Program. A prize will go to the person who refers the most applicants to the Program by the end of this calendar year.
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3. CCT Community Directory -- Most students in the CCT Program bring to their studies considerable work and life experience. They are strongly motivated to change the educational and other practices at their work places and to move their lives in new directions. When students get to know fellow students this provides learning opportunities over and above what interactions in class can accomplish. Moreover, the graduates of the program now outnumber current students several fold. To the extent the Program can keep in touch with them and draw them away from their busy lives, alums have much to offer each other and current students in terms of sharing experience, contacts, and other resources. For this reason, we encourage students to provide up to date information for the CCT Community Directory. A first draft of the Directory is available on request (by mail, email attachment, or private-access website).
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4. Summer Institute in Critical Thinking about Science, Education and Society -- brochures available from 4/18. Help distribute them to potential students and workshop participants. Contact or come by the CCT office to get some. For more details view the CCT website.
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5. CCT Administrative Assistant needed for 2000-01. Tuition waiver and $1000/semester in return for 8 hours/week from Labor Day through Memorial Day (with flexibility around term paper crunches, holidays, etc.). Position involves being reliable, keeping up with paperwork and office organization (moderate computer skills), taking initiative, communicating what you're up to, making the office a drop-in place but keeping it tidy, treating the program director with patience when he gets frazzled, training your replacement, helping with Program outreach, and other tasks that Danielle (who will be continuing in the fall) and Mike (who is finishing up in May) can tell you about. Indicate your interest to Peter Taylor, 617.287.7636
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6. Other Job listings
A. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvallis, OR Asst. Prof., one-year, beginning Fall 2000. 6 courses/year (2/quarter). Philosophy of Science -- Critical Thinking. Closing date is May 5. .
B. QUALITATIVE RESEARCHER at the Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Ste. 100, Hartford, CT. 06106. The position involves coding and analysis of classroom
observational and interview data collected on a social problem solving and
risk prevention intervention conducted in 5th through 7th grade classrooms
and interviews with 6th grade children on their concepts of HIV, exposure to
HIV, and beliefs and fears about AIDS. Letter of interest and resume by April 30th. to Dr. Jean J. Schensul.
C. Museum of Science, INTERN for Cahners ComputerPlace -- an exhibit area featuring 30 computers that allows visitors the opportunity to test drive a range of software applications. The intern will work in the exhibit itself, help prepare a variety of materials for the visitors and the ComputerPlace staff, assist with special assignments. Contact Nestor Ortiz for complete
job descriptions and an application packet, (617)589-0314 or nortiz@mos.org.
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7. "Fear might be a compass for growth."
Victor Lewis, 11 Apr '00, key character in the film, The Color of Fear & Director, Center for Diversity Leadership (www.diversitywork.com)
Subject: News from CCT 4/1/00, Part II, Fall CCT Course schedule
Registration starts this coming week‹details in next CCT news. Brochure on summer & fall courses available next week from CCT office‹or check website.
Classes start Weds. 6 Sept. and end Thurs. 14 Dec. Holidays Mon. 9 Oct., Th/Fr. 23-24 Nov.
Monday
4:00-6:30 pm
CRCRTH 694
Nina Greenwald
Synthesis Theory and Practice Seminar
#160473
PHIL501
Foundations of Philosophical Thought
Arthur Millman
#108155
6.45-9.15 pm
CRCRTH 698
Peter Taylor
Practicum
[Processes of Research and Engagement]
#104438
Tuesday
4-6.45 pm
CRCRTH 602
Steve Schwartz &
Co-instructor TBA
Creative Thinking
#104326
4-6.30 pm
CRCRTH 670
Instructor TBA
Thinking, Learning and Computers
#168404
7-8
CRCRTH697B
Peter Taylor and CCT Faculty
CCT in Practice
(1 Credit)
Wednesday
4-6.30
CrCrTh 652
Carol Smith
Children and Science
#158457
Thursday
4-6.30
CrCrTh 630
Harriet Walker
Criticism and Creativity in the Literature and Arts
(Theme: Arts Across the Curriculum)
#160956
6.45-9.15
CrCrTh697L (subject to confirmation)
Instructor TBA
Special Topics, Problem Solving
Independent study-by arrangement with instructor and Program Director
CRCRTH 696
#104158
Subject: News from CCT 3/31/00, Part I, General News
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. Peter Taylor presentation for Center for Improvement of Teaching, Tues. 4/4
2. Update on Delores Gallo
3. "Thinking, Learning & Computers" instructor needed
4. Alums in action -- Bill Oakes and the Climate Symphony
5. Day of Dialog and Discussion about diversity leadership & dismantling racism, April 11
6. Graduate Student Research Conference, April 5
7. NCIIA Summer Institutes at Hampshire College, Amherst, July 9-11
8. Quote of the week
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1. "Students seeking Structure"
"If you're on campus, I hope you can come to the Center for Improvement of Teaching session on Tuesday the 4th from 1-2.30 in W-5-041. The Critical Incidents video I'm using provides great material for discussions about teaching. I'm especially interested in different ways you respond to the particular incident I'll use, which involves students asking their professor for more structure in his classes. I will impart some structure to this CIT session, but mostly to elicit participants' responses. You can view the range of incidents on the video (which is available from Karem McGovern in the media library) at http://learn.terc.uvic.ca/civs.htm" Peter Taylor
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2. Because her recovery has been slower than she had hoped, Delores Gallo has decided to request another year's medical leave, rather than teach part-time in the fall and take her planned sabbatical in the spring. Delores' presence will be missed and we wish her the best for her recovery. Harriet Walker will teach CCT630 with an "Arts Across the Curriculum" theme. Other arrangements will be announced in future news.
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3. Suggestions needed for a "Thinking, Learning & Computers" instructor for the fall to substitute for Peter Taylor, who has received a Healy grant to undertake some resesrch and writing. There is considerable room for the instructor to shape the course according to their experience and passions. As a guide, the description from Fall 98 read: "What are the consequences of using computers to aid our thinking, learning, communication and action in classrooms, organizations, and social interactions? Class activities acquaint you with a number of specific computer-based tools, as well as themes for critical thinking about these tools. You also examine interpretations of and debates about social and educational transformations that involve computers."
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4. Bill Oakes, a CCT graduate, is going to be part of a presentation at the Museum of Natural History in NY City April 21 called the Climate Symphony- A hundred and ten thousand years of earth statistics in the form of a symphony. For more details email: bill@mindleaps.com
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5. Day of Dialog and Discussion about diversity leadership & dismantling racism, April 11, with a keynote presentation by Victor Lee Lewis from 2.30-4pm in Lipke aAuditorium of the Science Building. For more information about attending other parts of the day's program, contact carroll.blake@lincnet.org.
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6. Graduate Student Research Conference, April 5, all day. Key note luncheon at 12noon on 11th Floor of Healey. RSVP c/o gsassembly@umbsky.cc.umb.edu. For more info about conference--60 student presenters--visit omega.cc.umb.edu/~gsa/conference2000/
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7. NCIIA Summer Institutes at Hampshire College, Amherst, July 9-11 -- on "Creative Problem Solving" and "Moving Ideas to the Marketplace." Visit www.nciia.org for more details.
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8. Quote of the week: "Sometimes I wonder how all those people who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic [and] fear which is inherent in a human situation." Graham Greene
Subject: News from CCT 3/25/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. CCTers in the spotlight
2. CCT in Practice
3. Summer Institute & Certificate -- Critical Thinking about Science, Education, and Society
4. Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies now open to CCTers
5. CCT Incomplete Policy
6. Quote of the fortnight
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1. On Sat. Mar. 25th. at 8pm & Sun. 26th. at 7pm., Mike Cartledge will be performing with the Boston Gay Men's Chorus at Jordan Hall. Tickets going fast.
Elisa Beildeck will appear on the Discovery Channel in April talking about teaching children CCT through the media -- check your TV guide or stay tuned for exact details.
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2. CCT in Practice, Saturday April 8, 10-5 in Wheatley 2-209 and nearby rooms.
The program has been sent out by email & mail. (Contact us if you haven't received it.) Please bring to the attention of others beyond the CCT community who might participate. Email cct@umb.edu to register -- so we can plan copying of handouts and lunch. Program and sessions descriptions can be viewed on CCT website.
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3. Critical Thinking about Science, Education, and Society,July 14- Aug 5.
This CCT Summer Institute will bring together educators, students, and other concerned citizens who want to enliven science education and, more broadly, enrich people's understanding of the role of science and technology in society. You can join the Institute by enrolling through Continuing Education (617.287.7916 or www.conted.umb.edu) in one or more of the following courses:
Critical Thinking, Biomedical ethics, and New Directions in Science Education;
or by registering on a non-credit basis for any of the 2-day "New Directions" workshops:
Critical Thinking And Science Education, Ill-Defined Encounters Are The Right Kind! (guiding problem-based learning in science classrooms), Science In Its Social Context, and Aligning Innovation With Science Education Standards.
The Summer Institute courses count towards a 15 credit CCT Graduate Certificate in Science, Education, and Society, which can be completed by taking additional CCT courses in the fall or the spring semesters. Prospective Certificate students should apply for admission by Aug. 15th.
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4. Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS) in Educational Administration
with a new Concentration in Facilitating Reflective Practice (FRP)
(administered by the Ed. Admin. Program in partnership with CCT)
The CAGS Program in Ed. Admin. allows (official approval pending) students not seeking certification as school administrators to take a Concentration in Facilitating Reflective Practice (FRP), which is offered through a partnership with the CCT. In place of courses specifically directed at certification, FRP concentrators substitute courses from CCT, Instructional Design, and other UMass Programs concerned with topics such as progressive models of leadership and learning organizations, adult learners and life-long professional development, dialogue and communication within organizations. Co-advisors from Ed. Admin. and CCT help FRP concentrators choose an appropriate program of studies to match their specific interests. Application deadline for Summer 2000 cohort, April 1. For more details, refer to the description of the Ed. Admin. Program in the Graduate Bulletin and to the CCT website, http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~cct/cags.html.
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5. Incomplete Policy for CCT Students
CCT instructors want everyone to complete their courses, but our experience is that drawn out incompletes are a drag for all concerned. Generally, little learning takes place when the work is completed and a lot of angst precedes that. And there is no substitute for the development of teaching/learning interactions that happens in a class over the course of the semester. Students who ask for incompletes in CCT courses should, therefore, take note of the following:
1. Before granting an incomplete CCT instructors will require an explicit signed contract in which the student indicates when the work will be completed and the instructor specifies what the grade will be if the work is not complete by the specified date. A copy should be submitted to the CCT Program Director for the student's file.
2. Students will not be allowed to register for the next semester if they have two or more incompletes. A leave of absence must be taken until the incompletes are made up.
3. The Grad. School converts an incomplete to an F after one year.
4. Petitions concerning 1-3 above can be submitted, but the instructor and/or GPD will be less likely to write and/or support such a petition if the student has let the course end without explicitly arranging the terms of the incomplete with the instructor (see 1 above).
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6. A claim about creativity, whose logic critical thinkers might want to chew on --
"I don't think there's anything in the world I can't do.... In my creative source, whatever that is, I don't see why I can't sculpt. Why shouldn't I? Human beings sculpt. I'm a human being." Maya Angelou.
Subject: News from CCT 3/7/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. Advance notice of new summer course -- New Directions in Science Education
2. Update on CCT in Practice, Saturday April 8, 10-5 in Wheatley 2-209
3. Summer workshop on Infusing Critical & Creative Thinking into Classroom Instruction
4. UMass Boston Graduate Student Research Conference, April 5
5. International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, October 12-14
6. Quotes of the Fortnight: A selection of Haiku error messages (doing the email rounds)
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1. Advance notice of new summer course -- New Directions in Science Education
This course (CrCrTh 697C) consists of a series of Friday-Saturday workshops designed for educators to learn and practice new approaches to teaching science in schools and colleges and promoting public understanding of science. Workshop topics include:
-- Critical Thinking and Science Education (7/14-15; Phillip Higgs),
-- Problem-based learning (7/21-22; Nina Greenwald),
-- Science in its Social Context (7/28-29; Peter Taylor), and
-- Aligning Innovation with Science Education Standards (8/4-5; Steve Fifield).
Permission of Program Director required (for planning purposes only). Non-credit option available. View website or contact Program for details of workshops and registration.
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2. CCT in Practice, Saturday April 8, 10-5 in Wheatley 2-209 and nearby rooms.
Sessions proposed to date (3/7/00) -- see descriptions on CCT website
Participants from and beyond the CCT community welcome. Email cct@umb.edu to register (so we can plan copying of handouts and lunch)
1. Harriet Griffin, "Developing Writing Workshops for Low-Income and other Underserved Women" (45 mins.)
2. Rob Drake, "A 'Children's Realm': Using Life-Size Manipulatives to Foster Life-Long Love of Learning in Children" (30-60 mins.)
3. Peter Taylor, "Alternating between Teacher and Facilitator" (90 mins.)
4. Jeanne Abrons, "Do we teach creativity, teach for creativity, teach creatively? Is there a difference?" (60 or 90 mins.)
5. Marieta Joyner (Title TBA)
6. Alfie Alschuler, "Incorporating the Developmental Nature of Creativity into Education" (30 mins.)
7. Allyn Bradford, "Effective Teamwork (a preview of a 2-day CCT workshop in June)" (60 mins.)
8. Jack Sullivan, "A dialogue process about getting people interested in using dialogue process in school change" (60-90 mins.)
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3. Infusing Critical & Creative Thinking into Classroom Instruction, K-12 and College.
Monday-Saturday, July 10-15. Organized by Robert Swartz (a co-founder of the UMass CCT Program) and featuring "leaders" in the field of teaching thinking. For more details contact 617-965-4604 for a brochure or view http://javanet.com/~natlctt
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4. The first ever Graduate Student Research Conference will be held on April 5. The deadline for abstracts is *March 13, 2000*. This conference aims to showcase the research efforts of graduate students across all disciplines and programs at UMass Boston. It will provide an appropriate forum for students to share their work and exchange ideas and hypotheses with each other as well as with the rest of the UMass Boston community. All sessions are interdisciplinary in nature, in tune with the overall focus of the university's graduate programs. The conference will provide the platform/opportunity for graduate students and graduate faculty to interact, network, and socialize.
Details about the conference can be obtained from http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~gsa/ conference2000.html.
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5. International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, October 12-14 in Redondo Beach, CA. The conference consists of experiential sessions that demonstrate practical teaching alternatives, based on personal experience and/or research, which will appeal to colleagues in several disciplines. Proposals must be postmarked by March 31st. For more details view http://www.west.asu.edu/ISETA
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6. Quotes of the Fortnight: A selection of Haiku error messages (doing the email rounds)
In Japan, Sony Vaio machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables.....
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
Subject: News from CCT 2/20/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty, and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier postings (since October '99) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
1. Advance notice of new summer course -- Effective Teamwork
2. Color Lines email list
3. Community Research conference
4. Job openings related to environmental education
5. Research assistantship position with Brian White
6. New flexibility in CCT certificate requirements
7. Quote of the fortnight
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1. "Effective Teamwork," to be taught by Allyn Bradford, is a new kind of CCT summer course -- a 1 credit, 2 day workshop (with a non-credit option at a discount rate). This course, to be taught on Fri & Sat June 2 & 3, introduces creative communication strategies for teamwork that really addresses workplace problems and issues. Through simulations of typical organizational situations you develop skills in giving and getting feedback, presenting your ideas and opinions, and ensuring shorter and more productive meetings. The course takes the form of a two day interactive, experiential workshop, which will make you more aware of your communication style, its effect on others, and options for improvement.
Registration through Continuing Education will begin next month. For details of other CCT summer offerings, see the Program's website
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2. 'ColorLines Magazine' email list invites subscribers: Occasional announcements with news, editorials, and event information from ColorLines- the nation's leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing. Published by the Applied Research Center and the Center for Third World Organizing. Their most recent posting was "Where was the Color at the WTO Protests" by Elizabeth Martinez. For more information visit http://www.colorlines.com/
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3. The Third Annual Community Research Network Conference will be held from Friday June 16th - Sunday June 18th, 2000 on the campus of Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Georgia. This event will bring together community activists, researchers, grassroots organizers, students, and funders from around the country (and the world) to strengthen the CRN and to exchange ideas on conducting more effective and ethical community-based research. Planning for the conference is still in progress, but in the near future, check out The Loka Institute website (www.Loka.org).
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4. The EcoTarium, a "dynamic and growing center for environmental education" in Worcester has three job openings: Manager of School Programs and Partnerships, Senior Developer for School Partnerships, and Technology Integration Specialist. Full job descriptions are at http://www.EcoTarium.org/info/staff/jobs/ Deadline for applications, March 10
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5. Research Assistant positions with Brian White, faculty associate with CCT: "I am starting a 5-year NSF-funded research project into undergraduate students' learning of the Nature of Science in the context of an inquiry-based lab exercise. A complete description of the project can be found at: http://intro.bio.umb.edu/RL2000/R_W_Yeast/summary.html
I have funding for 2 full-time students. You would work as part of a lab group to design, carry out, and analyze clinical interviews of undergraduate students before and after they complete this lab exercise in addition to analysis of classroom videotape. Our group will be designing measures of process and outcome for a design-your-own -experiment Biology lab. Preference will be given to students with teaching and/or research experience. Stipend for MS-level students is $9,000 per year + tuition waiver; more for PHd-level students."
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6. Pending changes in CCT Certificate requirements (subject to approval by Graduate School). Students seeking the certificate take a total of five courses (15 credits): the two core courses, Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking; and three other CCT courses. Customarily, these include either Foundations of Philosophical Thought or Advanced Cognitive Psychology, an elective course, and the Practicum (Processes of Research and Engagement). The change would be that, "alternatively, students may, after consultation with their faculty advisor and with the approval of the Program Director, take up to three electives in one specialty area." This change would CCT to offer sets of courses targeted to specific audiences. For example, for this summer CCT has organized an Institute in "Science, Education, and Society" (see Program website for more details). If someone took the three Institute courses (offered through Continuing Education), they could take two more CCT courses (602 & 698) during fall from the regular (non-Continuing Education) offerings and have completed the new Certificate requirements. Admission to undertake a Certificate would continue to be decided by CCT's admission committee.
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7. Quote of the fortnight = Quiz -- rate the following from 1 (best) to 3 (least) for indications of critical thinking, then repeat for indications of creative thinking:
A. Old telephone books make ideal personal address books. Simply cross out the names and addresses of people you don't know.
B. Fool other drivers into thinking you have an expensive car phone by holding an old TV or video remote control up to your ear and occasionally swerving across the road and mounting the curb.
C. Apply red nail polish to your nails before clipping them. The red nails will be much easier to spot on your bathroom carpet. (Unless you have a red carpet, in which case a contrasting polish should be selected).
Subject: News from CCT 2/9/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier biweekly postings (since October) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
For more info about the CCT Program, check out the website, http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~cct
Contents
1. CCT Start of semester party, Feb. 15.
2. CCT in Practice, Apr. 8
3. Lies my teacher told me, Lecture, Feb. 17
4. Course proposals for Experimental College at Tufts
5. Treasure Hunt for Weblinks
6. Quote of the week -- Rules for Writers
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1. CCT Start of semester party. Tuesday Feb. 15th., 6-7.30pm, in and around CCT office, W-2-157. Students, faculty, alums, and others welcome -- meet each other and learn about new developments in CCT. Chips and dips willbe provided by the CCT Forum (the grad. student organization).
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2. "Critical and Creative Thinking in Practice," Apr. 8, 10-5. Planning for the event is picking up steam. The day's program will run from 10 to 5, in Wheatley 2-209 and adjacent rooms, with lunch supplied. There will be no registration fee, thanks to funding from the Graduate Student Organization and the CCT Program. To register as a Presenter, send the following information to cct@umb.edu: Name, Email address, Title of presentation, Length (30, 45, 60 or 90 mins), A/V and room-set up needs, Desired number of participants, Description (1-3 sentences).
To register as a Participant, simply send your name and email address.
For up to date details of the event, check out the link on the CCT website.
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3. "Lies my teacher told me," Lecture, Feb. 17 at4pm by James Loewen in RyanLounge (McCormack 3rd floor). Will discuss his book by that name, which looks at the mythical view of US history in high school texts and courses.
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4. Fall semester course proposals requested for Experimental College at Tufts. Deadline March 15. For more details see their poster on the CCT noticeboard or vew their website, www.excollege.tufts.edu
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5. Treasure Hunt for Weblinks. Check out the new part of the CCT website, which provides links to allied organizations. Then submit your suggestions for additions and substitutions. The person with the most useable suggestions will receive a prize at the CCT in Practice event. Once this site is looking good, the Program will contact groups listed and ask for them to list our program on their website, so more people can learn about us.
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6. Rules for Writers
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Don't use no double negatives.
12. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Subject: News from CCT 1/30/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier biweekly postings (since October) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
Contents
1. Constructivist Listening Introduction on Feb. 1
2. The Dialogue Process continues from Feb. 3
3. Schwendener's improvisional teaching
4. RAs needed for Brian White's research on learning in biology
5. Transfering in pre-admission credits
6. Quote of the week
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1. Introduction to "Constructivist listening," open to all, from 6.45-9.15pm on February 1st., in McCormack 1-613 (the Health Promotion Office)--led by Peter Taylor and assisted by Emmett Schaeffer. Constructivist listening, as described by mathematics educator, Julian Weissglass, in Educational Forum (1990) is practiced at the start of professional development workshops or other meetings with the goal of helping participants think more clearly, make better sense of experience, and listen well to others. This practice grows out of "Re-evaluation Counseling," a form of peer counselling in which two people take turns listening appreciatively to each other "re-evaluate" current and past experiences, especially when they were young, of being hurt and not helped. When such experiences come to interfere less with one's current thinking and relationships, people more readily people take more initiative in educational and social change and in their day-to-day relationships with others.
The planned ten week course will not, contrary to previous notices, be offered on campus. Arrangements will be made at the end of the introduction for those interested to continue.
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2. The Dialogue Process, continued
Students who have taken CCT616, The Dialogue Process, are invited to continue meeting as a Dialogue Group, with Allyn Bradford as facilitator, starting Thursday Feb.3. from 7-10pm -- Contact Allyn (allynb@aol.com or 617-354-7913) for details. Students can sign up for a 3 credit independent study -- Contact Peter Taylor for details (617-287-7636 or peter.taylor@umb.edu).
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3. Ben Schwendener, guest instructor for CCT630, was featured in a Jan. 17 Boston Globe article, "Spontaneous composition." His piano students begin with a blank composition book. After Ben talks with them about their interests and abilities, he figures out their individual strengths and helps them write compositions, based on themes they invent. He seeks to let each student know that "their musical instinct are worthwhile and relevant." This improvisional approach seems to be the way he is conducting CCT630, seeking to stimulate each student to build on their instincts about how to stimulate creativity in themselves and others, e.g., their students.
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4. Prof. Brian White, a member of the Biology Department and associate of the CCT Program, is looking for Research Assistants to start this summer or fall, who will receive a tuition waiver plus a good stipend. His research project concerns understanding how college students learn concepts in biology. For more details see http://intro.bio.umb.edu/RL2000/R_W_Yeast/summary.html.
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5. Transfering pre-admission credits. Contrary to previous advice, it is necessary for CCT students to transfer in the CCT courses they took before being admitted to the Program. All you need to do is to email Peter Taylor to remind him to do this for you.
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6. Quote of the week. From a commencement speech at Villanova given by Anna Quindlen [contact akw926@aol.com for more of this speech]:
"I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh."
Subject: News from CCT 1/20/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be removed from the address list for announcements, inform us about duplicate mailings, or suggest someone to add to the mailing list, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier biweekly postings (since October) and wish to get them, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
Contents
1. Conference on Teaching and Transformation, Friday 21st. January
2. Moral Education cancelled for Spring semester
3. CCT office "renovations," archeology, and books for free
4. Diversity in the Core Curriculum, conference
5. Job openings around science & math. ed.
6. Follow up on earlier announcements
7. Office hours for getting add/drop signatures
8. CCT Office hours (provisional schedule)
9. Assignments & journals to be picked up from CCT Office
10. Quote of the fortnight
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1. Conference on Teaching and Transformation, Friday 21st. January, 9.30 -4, 11th. floor, Healy library (Free)
Workshops from 10-11.45 and 1-2.45, with a plenary on a proposed New England Center for Inclusive Teaching from 2.50-4
One of the morning workshops will include a snapshot of the research Peter Taylor did during the Practicum course on student responses to "dialogue around written work" and the "revise and resubmit" system for assignments.
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2. Due to insufficient enrollment, CCT620, Moral Education, has been cancelled. It will be offered next in the Spring 2001.
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3. Mike has rearranged the CCT office a little so it can serve as a drop-in place before classes (see item 8 below). Please come and schmooze.
At the same time, three working bees have sorted through some of the accumulated material in the office filing cabinets, room 209, and a closet next to 209. We unearthed a lot of interesting history and pre-CCT-history, e.g., on a national program for teaching philosophy in high school in the late 60s and early 70s. There's more sorting to be done before this is accessible, but much of the curricular materials have already been moved to the Healey library to be put on shelves in the Curriculum Library. We'll let you know when they are accessible.
In 209 there are several boxes of books for you to pore over and take if you can use them.
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4. Sixth Diversity Symposium, Wednesday March 8 at U. Mass., Lowell. Registration is free. Diversity is defined broadly to include culture, age, disability, gender, race, sexual orientation and social class. Proposals welcome. See details on www.uml.edu/centers/diversity
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5. The Science Center of CT is seeking an immediate year round, part time (25-30 hrs/wk) educator to teach in-house and outreach science programs to children. An interest in animals is a plus. Prior experience in teaching and program development is helpful. Creativity, a positive attitude and a willingness to be a team player are essential. Degree in education or the sciences is required. Interested applicants may forward a resume by January 27, 2000 to:
Sue Carroll, Education Director, Science Center of Connecticut, 950 Trout Brook Dr., West Hartford, CT 06119; email address: scarroll@sciencecenterct.org; fax: (860) 232-0705
Math Science Upward Bound is looking for a director, who will work at UMass Boston and Noble & Greenough School on this fedearlly funded initiative to bring more students from urban high schools into college math. and science. Contact Office of Human Resources at UMass Boston for more details. 617 287 5150.
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6. From Harriet Griffin about Image-making in the Writing Process- "Folks connected to UNH in this area are excellent so if you're considering looking at this subject some more, this will likely be a good conference. UNH usually keeps these conferences cheap, too. So... this one may be good and cheap- who could ask for more?" [Too late for this year, but look out for it next time around.]
Also, the supplementary message about the reading in Cambridge on Jan. 16th. was sent out because CCT student,Teresa Castro, and alum, Peggy Cronin, were presenting.
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7. Office hours for getting add/drop signatures
Actine Program Director, Peter Taylor, will be available to sign add/drop forms etc. on Weds. 26, 3.30-4.30; Thurs. 27, 3.30-6; Mon. 31, 3-4; Tues 1, 3-6.
At other times, leave the forms in the envelope on the noticeboard outside Peter's door and pick them up the next day.
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8. CCT Office hours (provisional schedule)
Mondays 11am - 8:30pm
Tuesdays 12noon - 3:45pm
Wednesday 2-4pm
Thursdays 4:00pm - 6:30pm
To get help at other times leave a message (voicemail or email) and someone will try to co-ordinate with your schedule.
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9. The following people have assignments or journals from previous semesters to be picked up from the CCT office by the first week in February: Alschuler, Blackler, Mills, Schran, Walsh, Yongstar. CCT602 assignments from Fall 99 are in the Psych. Dept. office.
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10. Quote of the fortnight
"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner than the average person." Frank Barron.
Subject: News from CCT 1/8/00
A posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be added to or removed from the address list for announcements, or to inform us about duplicate mailings, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier biweekly postings (since October) and wish to, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
Contents
1. Glitches in registering for spring courses
2. Constructivist listening course update
3. Science & Public Policy course
4. Preview of summer courses
5. New administrative assistant
6. Quote for the new millenium
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1. The phone registration system may put you on a wait list for Psych 650. If you call Steve Schwartz, at 287-6353, he will make sure you get in. The printed roster has the incorrect times for CCT 693, Ed. Eval. -- it's on Monday at 4 -- and CCT652, Children & Science -- it's on Wednesday at 4.
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2. Constructivist Listening and the fundamentals of Re-evaluation Counseling will be presented by Peter Taylor, Critical & Creative Thinking Program, in ten Tuesday evening classes (6.45-9.15) starting with an introductory class on February 1st. The venue is McCormack 1-613 (the Health Promotion Office). The classes are open to students, staff and faculty. Graduate students can, if they wish, receive credit by attending additional meetings and undertaking a project. Contact Peter Taylor (287-7636 or peter.taylor@umb.edu) for more details or to express your interest in the course.
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3. A graduate course in Science and Technology Policy taught by Diane Paul, a political scientist turned historian of genetics and eugenics, is offered every second year through the Public Policy Graduate Program. It's being offered this spring on Tuesdays 4-6.30. In the roster it has the course number PPOL-G 697B, sched. no. 161355. Email diane.paul@umb.edu if you have questions.
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4. During the three week summer semester that runs July 17-August 3, CCT601 Critical Thinking and CCT697B, Biomedical ethics, will be offered. In addition, there will be a series of 2-day, Fri-Sat workshops. The first is Effective Teambuilding, June 2-3, led by Allyn Bradford (1 credit). The others, making up a 3 or 4 credit course, "New Directions in Science Education," will be from July 14-Aug 5. The workshops will be led by Phillip Higgs, Nina Greenwald, Peter Taylor & Steve Fifield.
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5. Michelle Carrazza has left her position as administrative assistant to undertake her teaching practicum. Danielle Shylit will join Mike Cartledge in staffing the CCT office. Their hours will be posted when they become clear. For the intersession you have a good chance of finding Mike in between 4 and 6 Monday through Thursday.
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6. "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." KM
Subject: biweekly news from CCT 12/17
A bi-weekly posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be added to or removed from the address list for announcements, or to inform us about duplicate mailings, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
If you have not received earlier biweekly postings (since October) and wish to, email peter.taylor@umb.edu
Contents
1. The Dialogue Process this January
2. Guest instructor for CCT630 in the spring
3. Constructivist listening update
4. New Interim Dean of Graduate College of Education
5. News from alums
6. Syntheses completed
7. Conferences and Workshops
8. Changed procedures for Federal Financial Aid
9. Quotes of the millenium: Y2K=?
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1. CrCrTh616 The dialogue process, taught by Allyn Bradford, seeks additional participants. The course will meet M-Th from 6-9, not M-F 6-8.30 as announced in the Continuing Education bulletin. Please call Cont. Ed. to enroll, 617-287-7900.
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2. In CCT630 (sched.no. 160956) this spring Ben Schwendener, a musician and teacher, will focus on exploring the natural or objective relationships among the elements available in different creative fields. By understanding such relationships you will be better able to develop your own creative abilities and teach others to do so. Schwendener's approach to understanding creative thought and practice flows from using George Russell's "Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" to teach children to play the piano and to teach students at the New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music theory, composition and piano. For more information about Schwendener's work, see his website, http://gravityarts.org.
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3. As described in the last posting, a course on "Constructivist Listening" will be presented by Peter Taylor, in ten evening classes, assisted by Emmett Schaeffer (Sociology). The provisional time is 6.45-9.15 on Tuesdays, starting February 1; place TBA. The classes are open to students and faculty. Graduate students can, if they wish, receive credit by attending additional meetings and undertaking a project. They will need to sign up for an independent study with Peter Taylor (287-7636 or peter.taylor@umb.edu). Contact Peter for more details or to express your interest in the course.
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4. For a few years now the CCT Program and its full-time faculty have been officially in the Graduate College of Education (GCOE), although faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences play an essential role in the Program. Dick Clark has been interim dean of GCOE for 2.5 years, but from the start of the year the associate dean, Virginia Harvey, will take his place. Meanwhile the University continues its search for a permanent dean. The last two searches ended with the candidates supported by the search committees being nixed by the higher administration, which has now commissioned a head-hunting firm to identify candidates. Stay tuned for news from this latest search.
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5. News from alums.
Elin Schran (CCT '99) is involved with the Boston Ice Theater, which will be performing at the Frog Pond in Boston Common on Valentine's Day (Monday, Feb 14, 2000) at 9pm.
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6. Syntheses completed
Congratulations to Elisa Beildeck, Christina Fasciana, Eileen Kestenbaum, and Lisa Veldran, who completed their syntheses this month. Their abstracts will soon be posted on the CCT website at omega.cc.umb.edu/~cct/abstracts-TOC.html.
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7. Notices for the following conferences will be posted soon on the CCT noticeboard (outside W-2-143-09).
January 16, 17, 2000, Durham, NH: Image-Making Within The Writing Process- Poetry Workshop. Learn about the innovative, art-and-literature-based approach to writing that integrates children¹s visual imagery, and therefore their visual thinking, at every stage of the writing process. Call Liz immediately at 603-862-3691 (8.30am-3pm) to register.
February 27-29, 2000, Savannah GA: February IDEA Seminar- Getting Creative About Critical Thinking. Focused on rethinking how students can more effectively learn thinking skills in college and university classrooms. Website: www.idea.ksu.edu
March 9-11, 2000, Washington DC: Cultivating Innovation: Creativity & Technical Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. Network and share ideas, find out about the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance's unique grant program, workshops on leading edge curriculum innovation. Website: www.nciia.org [Steve Schwartz is CCT's contact person for NCIIA, which is funding some curriculum development in the area of invention for CCT.]
March 11, 2000, Storrs, CT: The Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. All topics relating to the theme of ³awakening² (of a community/nation, of communication, of the self, of the senses, of thought, of writing, etc.) Website: vm.uconn.edu/~WWWMCL/home.html
June1-5, 2000, Santa Fe, New Mexico. National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education. Assisting higher education institutions to create inclusive higher education environments, programs, and curriculum. Website: www.occe.ou.edu/NCORE
July 20-22, 2000, Malta. The Fourth International Conference on Creative Thinking. Bringing together renowed personalities in the field of Creative Thinking with different lines of thought from diverse perspective. Email contact: create@um.edu.mt
The Visitor Studies Conference [i.e., visitors to science museums, etc.] will be held from Saturday, August 5 through Wednesday, August 9, 2000 at The Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, MA. Website: museum.msu.edu/vsa
Center for Creative Leadership, offers 13 workshops at various locations at various dates, e.g., Leadership at the Peak; Awareness Program for Executive Excellence; Developing the Strategic Leader. Website: www.ccl.org.
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8. Graduate students who applied for Federal Student Aid in 1999-2000 will receive a pin number in the mail, enabling them to apply for 2000-2001 aid via the WWW (before Mar 1, 2000). They will not receive a paper application.
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9. Contemplating the new millenium (received from richard@rfpaints.com)
Consider the possibility that Y2K is really the malicious poison (Y2K, i.e.
di-yttrium potassimide)which will be introduced into all public water
systems on the striking of the new year's, century's, millennium's gong.
Or is, instead, Y to K nothing more than vol. 2 of the noitide cixelsyd of
the DEO (Z having had an inordinate number of entries since, for scixelsyd,
a great number of words nigeb with Z).
On the other hand, consider the oenophile, contemplating his ruined state,
what with the crash of the economy on the striking of the new year, when he
realizes that hereafter he can only afford the cheapest of wines and looking
up at the heavens cries out, "but why tokay?"
Or the interior decorator, resigned to the fact that no color in the world
will suit her client's bedroom walls, declaring in utter defeat, "white,
ok."
Or Julius Caesar, facing his own personal disaster some 2 milliennia prior
to the impending global one, turning to his old friend Krutus, and croaking
out his final utterance, "Why tu, K?"
Or the Tulsa truck driver with one of those pre-fab houses in tow and a sign
warning: Wide Oakie.
Subject: biweekly news from CCT 11/24
A bi-weekly posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be added to or removed from the address list for announcements, or to inform us about duplicate mailings, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
Contents
1. CCT FORUM -- Wheatley 4th floor student lounge, Tuesday Nov. 30 & Dec. 7, 5.15-6.15
2. "CCT in Practice" Open House -- postponed from Dec. 4th. to April 8th.
3. New course in the spring: Constructivist Listening
4. Changes in course times from the published schedule
5. Notices of conferences, etc. posted on the CCT Noticeboard
6. SCIENCE FOR NON-MAJORS, edited by Douglas Allchin
7. Quote of the fortnight
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1. CCT FORUM -- Wheatley 4th floor student lounge, Tuesday 5.15-6.15
--Please support the CCT Forum by spreading the word, and by coming and bringing others with you--
Nov. 30
Larry Blum will be giving a presentation of issues that will run through his new course, CCT697, Race and Racism for Educators. Please come and pass the word on to prospective students.
Dec. 7
Ben Schwendener will be giving a presentation of the approach to creativity that informs his music and teaching and will be the basis of his teaching of CCT630 in the Spring (subject to confirmation). Schwendener will show that exploring natural relationships among the elements available is essential to manifesting one's creative abilities in any field.
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2. "CCT in Practice" Open House -- postponed from Dec. 4th. to April 8th. (subject to confirmation), 10-5, Campus, place TBA.
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3. Additional spring course: Constructivist Listening
"Constructivist" listening, as described by mathematics educator, Julian Weissglass, in Educational Forum (1990) is practiced at the start of professional development workshops or other meetings with the goal of helping participants think more clearly, make better sense of experience, and listen well to others. This practice derives from Re-evaluation Counseling (a.k.a. Co-counseling), in which people listen appreciatively to each other and take turns to "re-evaluate" past experiences, especially when they were young, of being hurt and not helped. When such experiences interfere less with one's current thinking and relationships, people are able to take more initiative in educational and social change‹from opposing racism to putting health back into the mental health system. Local, regional, and international communities of co-counselors support each other's personal growth and social activism.
Constructivist Listening and the fundamentals of Re-evaluation Counseling will be presented by Peter Taylor, Critical & Creative Thinking Program, in ten evening classes starting in early February. The classes are open to students and faculty. Graduate students can, if they wish, receive credit by attending additional meetings and undertaking a project. Contact Peter Taylor (287-7636 or peter.taylor@umb.edu) for more details or to express your interest in the course.
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4. Changes in course times from the published schedule
Monday
4:00-6:30 pm
CrCrTh 685 (or 693)
Peter Taylor
Seminar in Evaluation of Educational Change
#161929
6:45-9:15 pm
CrCrTh 694
Peter Taylor
Synthesis Theory and Practice Seminar
#160473
Wednesday
4:00-6:30 pm
CrCrTh 652
Carol Smith
Children and Science
#158457
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5. Notices of conferences, etc. CCT receives many notices of conferences, job openings, etc., which are posted on the CCT Noticeboard outside Wheatley 2-143-09.
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6. The Journal SCIENCE & EDUCATION, Volume 8 No. 6 November 1999, has a special edition on SCIENCE FOR NON-MAJORS, edited by Douglas Allchin, who presented in the CCT workshop last July. For more information contact m.matthews@unsw.edu.au (See also Allchin's articles in American Biology Teacher, May and June 1999.)
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7. Quote of the fortnight (new submissions welcome)
Vivian Paley, long time kindergarten teacher and author of books about many of her classes, discusses the dynamics in her final class:
"It feels as though we are marching to that same rhythm, as in play, or as you did when you heard the stories from the great epic every night. Now we are putting Leo Lionni [an author and illustrator of many children's books] to the test. Can he provide yet another vehicle for this instinctive need to concentrate for a long time on a connected set of images and dramatic events? Let's face it, what school usually does is continually _interrupt_ any attempt on the part of children to recapture the highly focused intensity of play. What we need to do is help them‹and ourselves‹get back on track." (The Girl With The Brown Crayon, Cambridge, MA, Harvard U.P., 1997, p. 75.)
Subject: biweekly news from CCT 11/11
A bi-weekly posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be added to or removed from the address list for
announcements, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
Contents
1. U. Mass. Open House, Saturday Nov. 13th. (CCT workshop at 10am)
2. CCT Forum -- Synthesis presentations
3. "CCT in Practice" Open House -- postponed from Dec. 4th. to the spring
4. Winter session course CrCrTh616 The dialogue process
5. Registration for Spring Courses starts November 29
6. Positions in Science Education open at Soka University, CA
7. Position open as Executive Director, Audubon Expedition Institute
8. Website for SHiPs (Sociology, History and Philosophy in [K-16] Science teaching)
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1. U. Mass. Open House, Saturday Nov. 13th. (from 9am onwards)
CCT will host a one hour workshop and info session at 10am.
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2. CCT FORUM -- Synthesis (capstone) presentations -- starting at 5 the next two weeks
Wheatley 4th floor student lounge, Tuesday 5-6.30
--Please support the CCT Forum by spreading the word, and by coming and
bringing others with you--
Nov. 16
Elisa Beildeck, "Sedating the butterflies in your stomach: Lowering communication apprehension in secondary school students"
Eileen Kestenbaum, "Examining 'the computer as a tool'"
Nov. 23
Lisa Veldran, "Cultivating Thinking Dispositions in Middle School Learning Disabled Students
Christina Fasciana, "Individualizing a Second Grade Curriculum for Gifted Students"
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3. "CCT in Practice" Open House -- postponed from Dec. 4th. to the spring.
This will be a day for synthesis and practicum students who want a chance to try out the activities, workshops, or other group processes they have developed in their projects. Alums are welcome to participate, either as presenters or as audience-participants in the run-throughs. Contact Peter Taylor if you're interested and stay tuned for more details.
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4. Winter session course CrCrTh616 The dialogue process
Allyn Bradford
Genuine dialogue, as meant here, is a frequently sought, rarely found
experience of "elemental togetherness" (Martin Buber). Dialogue
provides the creative space in which entirely new ways of thinking and
acting may emerge. Holding respect for oneself, for one another, and for
a commonly created pool of meaning is at the heart of this dialogue. The
dialogue process that we will explore and experience derives in part from
Buber, physicist David Bohm, and William Isaacs of the MIT Dialogue Project.
The winter session Continuing Ed. course on dialogue (CrCrTh616) provides
a context to tap into more coherent levels of meaning and intelligence.
Through becoming aware of the underlying beliefs and assumptions that limit
our thinking and responding to the world, we can, in a spirit of compassionate,
non-judgmental inquiry and self-expression, open to the profound, generative
and creative resources of what Bohm calls "the unified field" of being.
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5. Registration for Spring Courses starts November 29
All graduate students who are eligible can register for spring courses by using the touch-tone system. The touch-tone system number is 265-2100 and it can be accessed starting November 26, 99. If registration is not completed by January 21, 2000, courses will be subject to a late fee of $50.00. Students can add/drop through February 2, 2000.
The brochure describing spring courses will be available c/o the CCT Office from Monday 11/15.
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6. Positions in Science Education open at Soka University of
America, a small liberal arts college under development in Aliso Viejo,
California. Positions call for a terminal degress in Mathematics, Physics, or Biology, experience working in General Education programs serving science and
non-science majors alike, and familiarity with the social and cultural relations
of science. Scientists will be helping to develop and teach courses in the University Core that deal with interrelationships between the self, nature, and society. Contact Jay Heffron for more details.
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7. Position open as Executive Director, Audubon Expedition Institute in Belfast, Maine. The job listing was posted on the Environmental and Education
Reform Discussion group of edgateway. To join the EE and Ed Reform
discussion group, or others related to science and education reform, go to
www.edgateway.net.
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8. Website for SHiPs (=Sociology, History and Philosophy in Science teaching) http://ships.umn.edu
To get on mailing list for quarterly newsletter, contact Douglas Allchin
SHiPS Science Teachers' Network & Resource Center
Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota MN 55455
email ships@tc.umn.edu
FAX 915-626-8380
Subject: To CCT community: bi-weekly news 10/27/99
A bi-weekly posting of news of interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and
associates. Please send items for future postings.
If you want to be added to or removed from the address list for
announcements, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
Contents
1. CCT Forum
2. U. Mass. Open House, Saturday Nov. 13th.
3. Girls and women in science workshop at Beloit College in April
4. News from alums -- web sites
5. Invitation to alums to attend & present workshop-lets or CCT event Dec.
4th.
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1. CCT FORUM
Wheatley 4th floor student lounge, Tuesdays, 5.15-6.15. Come at 5 for refreshments
--Please support this initiative by spreading the word, and by coming and bringing others with you--
Nov. 2
Nina Greenwald
The Search for Solutions to Life's Messy Problems:
An Instructional Model for Guiding Problem-Based Learning
What do we have in common with the old lady who lived in a shoe?... It's
something BIG, and a metaphorical gate-opener for understanding how to
design a robust, exciting kind of constructivist learning known as
problem-based learning (PBL). The REAL or authentic PBL, that is!
Please join me, Nina Greenwald, on Nov. 2 for the CCT forum, when ambiguity
is one of the provocative aspects of PBL we'll explore - both as a catalyst
for problem solving and a possible end result!
Nov. 9
Allyn Bradford
An introduction to the dialogue process
Genuine dialogue, as meant here, is a frequently sought, rarely found
experience of "elemental togetherness" (Martin Buber). Dialogue
provides the creative space in which entirely new ways of thinking and
acting may emerge. Holding respect for oneself, for one another, and for
a commonly created pool of meaning is at the heart of this dialogue. The
dialogue process that we will explore and experience derives in part from
Buber, physicist David Bohm, and William Isaacs of the MIT Dialogue Project.
The winter session Continuing Ed. course on dialogue (CrCrTh616) provides
a context to tap into more coherent levels of meaning and intelligence.
Through becoming aware of the underlying beliefs and assumptions that limit
our thinking and responding to the world, we can, in a spirit of compassionate,
non-judgmental inquiry and self-expression, open to the profound, generative
and creative resources of what Bohm calls "the unified field" of being.
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2. U. Mass. Open House, Saturday Nov. 13th. (from 9am onwards)
CCT will host a one hour workshop and info session at 10am.
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3. Girls and women in science workshop at Beloit College, WI, April 3-4
For almost a decade, Beloit College's Girls and women in science Program
has brought together middle school students and their teachers and parents
with working scientists and scholars for a "minds-on, hands-on science
workshop weekend." For more info call 608-363-2052 or email
gwsci@stu.beloit.edu
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4. NEWS FROM ALUMS
The CCT website now has links to the websites of two alums. Please let us
know about others to add.
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5. Invitation to alums to present workshop-lets or attend on Dec. 4th.,
tentatively 10-5, place TBA.
This is a day for synthesis and practicum students who want a chance to try
out the activities, workshops, or other group processes they have developed
in their projects. Alums are welcome to participate, either as presenters
or as audience-participants in the run-throughs. Contact Peter Taylor if
you're interested and stay tuned for more details.
X-Sender: peter.taylor@pinehurst.cc.umb.edu (Unverified)
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:52:20 -0400
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From: "Peter Taylor"
Subject: To CCT community: bi-weekly news 10/15
This is the first of what are intended to be bi-weekly postings of news of
interest to CCT students, alums, faculty and associates. Please send items
for future postings.
If you want to be added to or removed from the address list for
announcements, please contact the CCT office (287-6520; cct@umb.edu).
Contents
1. CCT Handbook available & info needed for forthcoming CCT directory
2. CCT Forum
3. Funding available for grad. students to attend conferences etc.
4. News from alums
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1. A CCT handbook has been produced to help students make best use of what
CCT offers. Visit or contact the CCT office for a copy. (The office is
staffed M 11-4, Tu 11-5, W 9.30-3.30, Th briefly and Fr not at all.)
In the handbook is an information sheet we'd like to completefor the
forthcoming CCT directory, which will include "Information & Resources you
can Share with Other CCTers."
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2. CCT Forum
Wheatley 4th floor student lounge, Tuesdays, 5.15-6.15. Come at 5 for
refreshments
--Please support this initiative by spreading the word, and by coming and
bringing others with you--
Oct. 19
Roy Dobbelaar, "'Who am I?' A creative experience around an age old question"
In the spirit of students using the CCT Forum to practice workshop sessions
and lessons, Roy will lead off this semester's Forum series with the first
of a three-part sequence of experiences around age old questions. (The
other two questions are "What am I doing here?" and "Who are all these
other people?") "Experience" means he'll draw you into participating, but
you'll have to come to find out just exactly how.
Oct. 26
Peter Taylor, "From constructivist listening to re-evaluation counseling"
Weissglass in Educational Forum, 54: 351-370, 1990, describes
"constructivist listening," which allows participants in pairs to delve
deeper into emotions left from hurtful experiences that interfere with
clear thinking, making sense of experience, and listening well to other
participants. The basis for his work lies in re-evaluation counseling
(a.k.a. co-counseling). This presentation will introduce the ideas and
practice of re-evaluation counseling, and provide information for those who
want to explore further.
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3. Funding for Professional Development
The Grad. Student Assembly (GSA) allocates substantial funds to reimburse
students who attend conferences, conventions and professional meetings
related to their field of study. For further details contact GSA on
W-4-118, 287-7975, omega.cc.umb.edu/~gsa
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4. News from alums
From Catherine Weber--
I am pleased to announce that my new workshop, based on my master's
Synthesis paper, is being offered in January at Brookline Adult Education.
Share this with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks.
Catherine
Discovering Our Creativity: A Workshop for Women
5 Wednesdays, 6:30 - 9:30 Starting January 12, 2000
Course Code: P217 Cost: $85
Instructor: Catherine Weber
>We all have creative abilities, but some of us may hesitate to realize our
>artistic dreams. Do you have a creative impulse brewing in your being?
>Have you always wanted to draw out the painter, writer, potter, or
>musician from within you, but hit stumbling blocks (fear, guilt, lack of
>support or time) which stymied the pursuit of your creative expression?
>This workshop will address these elements of artistic production, and will
>show you how you can rally the support of your family and community and
>follow any creative path you choose. We will start by exploring the
>nature of creativity and will discuss tools you can use to strengthen it.
>Through journal writings, readings, and artistic activities, including a
>personal art project, you will begin to define your dreams and
>aspirations. Beginners will discover their creative potential and
>established artists will learn new techniques to refocus their work and
>reinvigorate their creative juices. A supportive classroom and community
>environment is a pivotal component of this workshop. You will engage in
>group work, such as collaborative poetry, which will allow you to get to
>know each other and each other’s creative goals. By the end of this
>workshop, you will have written a project plan for your creative pursuit.
>In addition, you will become a member of a web-site where women share and
>support each others’ creative works.
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