Update: Please read carefully those items that pertain to
you..............
Student Teaching for Spring 02, Fall 02
The Student Teaching/Field Placement Office will have the
spring semester 2002 placements available by the last week of this
semester. They may have them posted earlier but count on them during
the last week of this semester.
For those of you planning to student teach in the fall semester 2002
you will be able to pick up your applications after Thanksgiving. You
will not have to have them completed and given to me until January.
To Those Students Who Were Closed Out of 256, 455/555, 476/576
During the last SPEDNET it was mentioned we have a sign-up
sheet in the EDP Office and hopefully you have placed your name on the
sheet. If not, please do it now. There were 11 students closed out of
EDP 256, 13 closed out of EDP 455, and 17 closed out of EDP 476. Next
week we will know whether there will be a new section of each of those
classes or whether the enrollment will be raised for the current
section (you will get notice through SPEDNET). In either case, the
courses will be offered and those students signed up will be able to
enroll. Fret not. For those of you on those lists, for planning
purposes, count on the same times for those classes/sections.
To Those Students Who Were Closed Out of 459 (Practicum)
If you needed to sign up for two sections of 459 (M/M, M/I,
ECIS, Gifted) you were closed out of the second one you signed up for
and this was indicated in a previous SPEDNET. We need to know, however,
how many were closed out for what sections so you should scurry in an
orderly fashion to see Dr. Ulrich and force add the section to which
you could not automatically register. Do this next week so your
schedule will be complete, Dr. Ulrich can plan on the numbers for the
appropriate licensure placements, and there will be order once again in
the world or at least that world.
To Those Students Taking EDP 497 (Phonics Capstone) in the
Spring
Because of the large numbers signing up and the limited
availability, a section was added of EDP 497. When you signed up, you
were guaranteed to take EDP 497, NOT guaranteed to take it at a certain
time. Bottom line, we have a full class for the M/W and many openings
for T/R. There are some students who MUST do M/W since they have a
conflict at the other time and could not get in. Time for volunteers.
If you are currently in a M/W and can take a T/R, then please do a
drop/add (you can simply call me on the phone or email me and I will
take care of that for you). It benefits everyone if the system works
out by itself without external intervention.
Applying for Majors and Minors
The application date to apply to be a special education major
is March 1, 2002. That is also going to be the time to apply for a
minor. Here is more information that you may need or want. We have
controlled the major enrollments to meet our (EDP) ability to provide
courses and within guidelines imposed on us. Usually, anyone requesting
a minor has been automatically admitted as a special education minor.
We currently have 41 minors without and 21 minors with licensure which,
when combined with over 100 thematic sequence students, means we have
obligated ourselves to provide courses to those admitted to major or
minor in special education and to those who declare a thematic
sequence. As you can tell from the messages above, our ability to
provide the courses to meet the requests is becoming stretched. Sooooo,
we need to monitor more carefully the number of students who enter as
minors or thematic sequence pursuers since this impacts ability of our
majors to get courses.
Bottom line... if you are in the system now (indicated by your reading
this) you will exit with the major or minor you want. I cannot sign any
more requests for minors in special education until 3/1/02. The
procedures for applying for a major or minor (by 3/1/02) will be
explained in a later SPEDNET.
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Alex Thomas
Educational Psychology
Miami University
201 McGuffey Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-6632-Office
(513) 529-3646-Fax
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