Past Grants

Professional Education Program - Administration

SUNY Teacher Education Program Assessment (TEPA), 2003-2007 -A US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant. The project creates a sustainable assessment system to document beginning teacher competency and performance and provide feedback for program improvement for each of 15 teacher education institutions collaborating within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Guided by an innovative and robust model of program assessment goals that applies to the full range of teacher education institutions in SUNY, it will systematically report and analyze aggregated teacher performance data and use the results to guide program changes designed to improve candidate performance at major checkpoints (admission, candidacy for student teaching, graduation, and post-graduation in the schools). A major outcome will be the creation of a database to support individual assessment by combining teacher certification examination results with other student data and eventually to include data on in-service from the New York State Education Department (NYSED). Such an approach will serve to create a holistic resource for assessing program effectiveness using replicable, systematic approaches to teacher program assessments based on standard, reliable data. Replication will be enhanced by producing a handbook of the processes and procedures followed during the implementation plan and making the information available on the university website.

Web-based curriculum and resources for multicultural diversity, 2003-2004 -A presidential mini-grant for departmental diversity initiatives is a collaboration among PEP, the Library, and the former Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

English

Recent grants awarded to Dr. Kenneth Lindblom include:

Cross Small Grant for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. $4000 (May 2003). Funds supported a teaching/research project entitled Supporting Grass Roots Response to Change in Teacher Education: Engaging Cooperating Teachers in the Improvement of Student-Teaching Experiences of English Education Majors at Illinois State University with Becca Chase and Susan Bloome.

Illinois State University College of Arts & Sciences Small Grant for Research $1,000 (Summer 2000). Funds supported research assistance and support for graduate student co-writers on a project entitled An Archival History of Writing Instruction at Illinois State Normal University 1857-1957.

Recent grants awarded to Lecturer Michael LoMonico include:

For his work with the Folger Shakespeare Library, a $69,023 grant from the National Endownment for the Humanities, supporting a summer 2007 Folger's series of three, week-long "Teaching Shakespeare" institues of English, humanities, or drama. Directed by Mr. LoMonico, one of their Master Teachers, in three locations: UCLA, the University of Tulsa, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Foreign Languages

Recent grant awarded to Sarah Jourdain and Monique Watts (lecturer in French):

On October 30, 2003, the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures launched French Week festivities by hosting Consul General Harry Fouche, of the Republique d’Haiti, Nicole McKinnon, Director of Governmental Relations, and Dr. Maryalice Mazzara, Attachee aux affaires educatives, the latter two of the Gouvernement du Quebec, for a day of events on the Stony Brook campus. These events included an informative presentation by Consul General Fouche on the history of Haiti and its ties to the French-speaking world. Director McKinnon then presented valuable information on “Living, Studying, and Working in Quebec.” These presentations honored the 2004 AATF/FIPF conference theme “Diversity in the French-speaking world” by exposing students to some of the diversity of French found in such close proximity to our borders. These presentations were then followed by performances of French musical selections by students from Stony Brook’s Music Department and by local French artists.

We are pleased to report that these events were very well attended. Approximately 250 Stony Brook students and faculty, regional high school students and teachers, as well as community members participated. Our celebration concluded with a reception for all of the students, faculty, and guests.

Our promotion of National French Week was made possible by a generous $500 grant from AATF which allowed us to cover expenses related to the reception. Additional funding for posters and flyers was provided by the Office of the Provost of Stony Brook University. The Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of Stony Brook University funded mailing information about our event to all local French teachers and hosted a luncheon for our guests and for representatives of the faculty and student groups.

One of the unanticipated results of this event was a commitment on the part of Consul General Fouche to return to the Stony Brook campus this spring semester to host an event in honor of Haiti’s bicentennial. We have a large population of Haitian and Haitian-American students here on the Stony Brook campus, so we are particularly interested in serving their needs.

Another unanticipated benefit of this event was an agreement to develop an exchange partnership through the Gouvernement du Quebec to promote French study opportunities for our students and faculty. We have not, in the past, had a formal “study abroad” agreement with Quebec. This exchange partnership will allow us to offer unique opportunities to our students to study in a Francophone context without leaving the North American continent. We believe that this will be especially appealing to students whose budgets do not permit travel to France. It will also facilitate French study by non-traditional students with families since possibilities exist for summer study in Quebec including family housing and activities.

We believe that the event we were able to host has contributed in the broadest possible way to the promotion of the learning and teaching of French in our region. This event would not have been possible without the financial support of AATF nor could it have occurred without the determination and dedication of Monique Watts who sought out presenters, secured their participation, and made all necessary arrangements for the event.

We would like to thank AATF for helping us to promote National French Week, and we would like to encourage all AATF members to seek out ways to promote French during National French Week and throughout the year.

TESOL

Dorit H. Kaufman, Director of the Professional Education Program and Professor of Linguistics is project director of the following ESOL related grants:

Recruitment, Selection, and Retention of ESOL Pre-service Teachers. New York State Education Department and the Intensive Teacher Institute in Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language. 2005-2006.

Recruitment, Selection, and Retention of ESOL Pre-service Teachers. Grant to support 24 ESOL teacher candidates. New York State Education Department and the Intensive Teacher Institute in Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language. 2004-2005.

Funding from New York State Education Department and the Undergraduate Institute in Bilingual Education/ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC) to increase recruitment of English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers provided tuition scholarships to a total of 29 TESOL teacher candidates in 2001-2003 and 21 additional TESOL teacher candidates in 2003-2004.

Developing web-based activities to raise cross-cultural awareness was funded by a grant for Diversity and Internationalization Dialogues Across Differences project. The goal of this grant is to promote deeper understandings of the academic and linguistic challenges of English Language Learners (ELL), 2002-2003.

Developing web-based partnerships among alumni and teacher candidates. New York State Education Department and the Undergraduate Institute in Bilingual Education/ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC), 2002.

Integrating Teacher Education, Curriculum Design, and International Teaching Assistants professional development. Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Spring 2001.

A World of Opportunities: Literacy through Research. A 3-year Breakaways Partnership Program, New York City Board of Education (with 3 co-PIs from Science Education Program, School of Health Technology and Management and Presidents Office), 2000-2003.

Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching Projects: Raising Cross-Cultural Awareness Web-Based Instructional Modules for Teacher Education, 2000-2001.