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Newed 13-2.Indd NewMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Educator OF EDUCATION SPRING 2008 ZON: The New Frontier for Learning Chinese College Insider: A Planning Guide for Students SHARIF SHAKRANI ON POLICY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION A Scholar, a Servant . a Star PHOTO BY TOM STANULIS STANULIS TOM BY PHOTO new educator vol. 13 • no. 2 • spring 2008 The New Educator is published twice a year by the Office of the Dean, College of Education, Michigan State University, for the faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends of the college. We welcome your comments and news items. Please address your letters to: New Educator, College of Education, Michigan State University, 518 Erickson Hall, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1034 or to [email protected]. Visit us on the Web at www.educ.msu.edu/ College of Education Alumni Association www.educ.msu.edu/alumni/ dean Carole Ames president, college of education alumni association Kathryn Rodgers managing editor Nicole Geary writers Andy Henion, Kristen Parker, Susan Pettit Riley photography Tom Stanulis layout/design Charlie Sharp, Sharp Des!gns, Inc. printing/binding Millbrook Printing, Grand Ledge, MI on the cover Professor Sharif Shakrani, co-director of the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, poses beside Perpetual Encore, a steel structure by artist Johnny Blue inside Wharton Center. PHOTO BY TOM STANULIS MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer. new educator FEATURES OUT OF THE CLASSROOM 10 Students get on-campus option to live with, study American Sign Language A STEADY VOICE 16 Meet the scholar and “diplomatic mathematician” who leads the Education Policy Center TEACHER-INITIATED 24 TRANSFORMATION Professor, student help local community break through barriers with Chinese family ON POLICY 32 The small-school movement: Shakrani examines the merits for Michigan and beyond LEARNING TO IMPROVISE 46 Sherry uses case-based instruction to prepare teachers for real classrooms GLOBAL EDUCATORS IN CHINA 48 Intern, alumna experience life as educators in another part of the world SECTIONS 04 UPFRONT 36 FACULTY 43 STUDENTS 52 ALUMNI 58 DEVELOPMENT spring 2008 1 PHOTO BY SUE WAY SUE BY WAY PHOTO MSU COLLEGE OF EDUCATION another special strand in our teacher preparation program. Similar to the Urban Educators Cohort Program, from the Dean students will be admitted as fresh­ men and participate in a specialized curriculum and set of experiences designed to help them develop into teachers who can bring an interna­ tional perspective to the k–12 curricu­ with this issue of the New Educa­ to internationalize its curriculum and lum and their own students’ learning tor, we are approaching the end of the programs. Our goal is to offer our experiences. Kristin Janka Millar and 2007–08 academic year and celebrat­ students a range of opportunities that Jack Schwille have already begun the ing the arrival of spring. As we look will help them develop the kind of work to bring global perspectives to back, we take stock of a very busy competencies necessary for teaching, college teaching and local k–12 schools and exciting year for the college, with conducting research and working with funding from the Longview faculty engaged in searches for new within a global society. The challenge Foundation. colleagues, preparations for a review is daunting, but among the questions Through the U.S.-China Center and of our teacher preparation program we have been studying are: What does the Confucius Institute, the college by the Teacher Education Accredita­ it mean to be globally competent, how continues to expand its global reach tion Council (teac), dynamic research do we embed globalization through­ to China. The Confucius Institute at programs, new opportunities abroad, out our curriculum and how can MSU was selected from among the policy debates about education issues, technology enable global engagement 210 institutes existing worldwide to and panels, task forces and commit­ and learning. receive a 2007 Confucius Institute of tees at the state and national levels. We already have several outcomes the Year award. Under the direction Over the past year, this college— to report, but only enough space here of University Distinguished Professor already with a long-standing his­ to share a few. Starting this next aca­ Yong Zhao, our Confucius Institute tory of international research and demic year, we are launching a Global is the only one offering Chinese lan­ engagement—has taken further steps Educators Cohort Program that will be guage courses online, reaching more Why should we reminisce? engaged in campus vocations, as a structed College of Education build­ Recently, I reflected on my six student in the College of Education, ing with the Kiva that captured my decades of life in East Lansing next as a parent of MSU students and now attention with its unique round look. to the campus of Michigan State in my capacity as president of the Col­ My first step inside Erickson Hall was University. I remembered hearing lege of Education Alumni Association as a teenager when a professor offered the Spartan Marching Band from the Board of Directors, it has been my a seminar in leadership to our high screened porch, going to the cow fortune to watch this college become school student council. As a student in barns, seeing construction of the more and more far-reaching. This the 1960s, I learned about the drive to library addition, wandering the Beal college has seen the best of the tried expand the college’s efforts in the area gardens, playing at Cowles House and and true merge with the exciting new of international outreach. The student more. These contemplations brought practices of today. The combination population of the college was becom­ forth images of the ever-changing and has fostered a dynamic world-class ing increasingly diverse and the scope evolving university across the street college in an increasingly complex of innovative programs widened. from my home. I have watched both global environment. With great pride, I now see a college the city and the campus grow in a I believe it was 1958 when my with its eyes toward global education, myriad of different ways. Through grandfather took me for a ride promoting international interests the eyes of a youngster with family through campus to see the newly con­ with greater offerings and depth. The 2 new educator than 2,000 k–12 students and adults. alization” (ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/inter­ Finally, I would like to bring your Zhao and his team have launched an national) for more information about attention to a new online guide for exciting new video game called zon/ these and other initiatives. college preparation (page 20) devel­ New Chengo that has the potential of This year also has proved to be oped by Matthew Diemer, assistant reaching a much larger audience of very lively in the education policy professor of school counseling. Many tech-savvy learners online—especially arena, from debates about the success high school students have limited un­ surrounding this summer’s Beijing and future of No Child Left Behind derstanding of the process, require­ Olympics (see page 14). Responding to reports about lagging U.S. student ments or even opportunities related to the increasing demand for teachers achievement, especially in mathemat­ to college applications and financial of Chinese language, the college will ics when compared to other countries. aid. This practical tool is intended to offer a new certification program for In this issue (page 16), you will meet serve as a resource for students and teaching Chinese as a foreign lan­ Sharif Shakrani, who is co-director of parents navigating college-related guage. It will be available for Ameri­ the Education Policy Center located choices. can students as well as teachers from in the College of Education at MSU. It is our goal, through this maga­ China. Sharif most recently was deputy zine, to provide many examples of As part of our statewide outreach executive director of the National how the college is making an impact efforts, the college hosted the second Assessment Governing Board, which through the exceptional research, annual Internationalizing Michigan has oversight of the National Assess­ outreach and teaching of its faculty. Education Conference in April. This ment of Educational Progress (naep). We strive to make bold moves and stay conference attracts more than 200 He joined the College of Education on the cutting edge—making a differ­ educators from around the state as faculty in fall 2005 and brings a wealth ence throughout k–16 education. We well as representatives from inter­ of experience and expertise in assess­ welcome your input and feedback and UFFMAN national partner schools. We also are ment and student achievement. Sharif thank you for your continued support developing new and more expansive is a prominent contributor to state and interest. opportunities for study abroad, study and national policy debates; he’s an trips and exchanges for faculty and invaluable resource to educational students. I encourage you to visit the leaders and policymakers as well as to college’s Web site under “Internation­ our own graduate students. Carole Ames PHOTO OF CAROLE AMES KIM BY KAPHOTO College of Education is leading in so many facets of education. It is an COE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION exciting time. The alumni board’s mission is to facilitate and support the interests of from the President the college and, of course, our alumni. Please consider letting us know about your current pursuits or those of fel­ low college alumni. We take pride in highlighting your accomplishments. enhancing aspects of education on a progress that has taken place and the Your support of the college global level. You could contribute by great strides that are in the works.
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