2003 INTERNATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
- Four students from Stranmillis
University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland spent the month of February
participating in a school-based teaching experience at Franklin Elementary
School in Cape Girardeau, as part of an exchange program with Southeast.
- Jody Dunham-Trautwein, Early
Childhood Education faculty member, supervised student teachers in
Swansea, Wales for an 8-week student teaching experience, as part of an
exchange with Swansea Institute, University of Wales, March through May.
- Six students from Swansea
Institute, University of Wales, spent three weeks in March participating
in a school-based teaching experience at Franklin Elementary School in Cape
Girardeau, as part of an exchange program with Southeast.
- Jean Benton, Elementary Education
faculty, participated in a UNESCO conference at the University of Jyvaskyla,
Jyvaskya, Finland in June.
- The College of Education welcomed
Prof. Grigoriy Kapranov, Dean of Education, Ussuriysk State Pedagogical
Institute, Ussuriysk, Far East Russia, as part of the Junior Faculty
Development Program, a year-long fellowship for Eastern European academics.
- A group of nine students, selected
to be the first group of exchange students for the FIPSE grant consortium
exchange program, CARE: Children at Risk in Education, begin preparing for
their semester abroad by studying the language, culture, and educational
systems of their host countries, beginning in the summer and ending in
December.
- Two Southeast student teachers,
Karen Shinn and Kristin Branum, spend 8 weeks in Australia during the Fall
2003 semester, student teaching in Melbourne, as part of the Renaissance
Partnership Program, a consortium of 40 universities in the United States
that provides student teaching opportunities for students of member
institutions in more than 35 countries around the world.
Dr. Benton, Prof. Kapranov, and Dr.
Duff.