Appalachian Educators Connection
September 4-8, 2017
Important Events this week:
- Spring Student Teaching Meeting 1:00-2:00pm RCOE 124
- PD Teaching: The Meaningful Profession 3:00pm RCOE #321 Keana Triplett, ASU Alum, 2015-2016 NC Teacher of the Year, Instructional Technology Facilitator, Watauga High School
- Why Walk 8:00-9:00 IG Greer Hall
- 28th Walk for Awareness 9:00am Sanford Mall---Learn more HERE!
Wednesday, September 6
- Spring Student Teaching Meeting 12:00-1:00pm RCOE 124
- Praxis Core Workshop-General Information 6:00pm RCOE 124
Thursday, September 7
- PD Dealing with Difficult People and Situations 1:00pm RCOE 124A Jennifer Sloan Wampler; Alumni BS (1998); MSA (2006); EdS (2014) Executive Director of Human Resources-Cleveland County Schools
- Spring Student Teaching Meeting 3:00-4:00pm RCOE 124
Friday, September 8
- Spring Student Teaching Meeting 9:00-10:00am RCOE
Saturday, September 9
- First Home Football Game---ASU vs Savannah State---Go APPS!
Teachers Nationwide Rally to ‘Adopt’ Classrooms Impacted by Harvey
We Are ONE!
We Are One is a civic engagement movement that wishes to promote unity, acceptance and respect amongst the youth starting with our generation.
We are reaching out to local schools to build an interactive and integrated learning experience that promotes We Are One’s ideas
Exposing students to a variety of diverse cultural/traditionally ethnic backgrounds
Promoting ideas of unity, acceptance and respect
Mission Statement:
Be Aware of key issues, discrimination, bias, prejudice
Embrace others cultures, beliefs and customs
Share the message
Enrollment Up in UNC System Teaching Programs after Years of Decline
After years of declining enrollment in its teacher preparation programs, the University of North Carolina system saw a 6 percent increase in students studying education last school year, according to new data released by the system. This marks the only time the system’s enrollment has increased since at least 2010.
More than 14,000 students studied education at 15 of the system’s campuses last year, but that’s still below the levels from seven years ago, when more than 18,600 students were enrolled. Locally, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University were among the seven campuses that saw increases last year.
UNC system education leaders attribute part of the turnaround to increased recruitment efforts at the campuses and say they’re optimistic even more students will enroll in the coming years due to recent boosts in teacher pay and the return of the state’s Teaching Fellows scholarship program.
Alisa Chapman, UNC system’s former vice president for academic and university programs, has studied North Carolina’s education enrollment trends for years. In February 2016, she presented a report to the State Board of Education showing that enrollment in the UNC system’s teacher education programs haddeclined 30 percent from 2010 to 2015. The latest 2016 data shows that overall enrollment is down 25 percent since 2010.
The declines have slowed over the years, “but we still have reason to be concerned,” Chapman told state board members last year. Now a senior fellow at the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapman still follows education trends and said she is watching for improvements in specific areas, not just overall enrollment increases.
“I think we’ve bottomed out in declining enrollments in education,” Chapman said. “(But) just increasing enrollments in education and in initial licensure doesn’t do it for me. If we’re over-preparing teachers for areas where we don’t have shortages, that doesn’t help supply and demand … We really need to see increases in math, science, middle grades and special ed.”
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James Center for Appalachian Educators
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Location: Reich College of Education Building, College Street, Boone, NC, United States
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