Fall Newsletter

The fall issue of the Finlandia University Elementary Education Newsletter is now available. You can find it at the link below:

http://sites.google.com/site/fueledarchive/Home/newsletter_fall_08_v5.pdf?attredirects=0

Most Likely to Succeed

"Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half’s worth of material. That difference amounts to a year’s worth of learning in a single year. Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a “bad” school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher. Teacher effects are also much stronger than class-size effects. You’d have to cut the average class almost in half to get the same boost that you’d get if you switched from an average teacher to a teacher in the eighty-fifth percentile. And remember that a good teacher costs as much as an average one, whereas halving class size would require that you build twice as many classrooms and hire twice as many teachers."

Read more from this great New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell on the qualities and selection of master teachers: Most Likely to Succeed

Elementary Education Graduates' Employment

Masters of education scholarships

Walden University, a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, is offering 100 full scholarships for online masters of education degrees. See the link below for more information.

http://justusrandolph.net/articles/Walden_CGI_Announcement.pdf

Foundations of Education student videos on the History of Education

Here are some videos made by the Fall '08 Foundations of Education students. These videos were part of an authentic assessment on the history of American Education.

The European Heritage and Colonial Experience


From the Revolution to the 20th Century


From the Progressive Movement to the Present