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. ----------------------------- Alex Thomas Educational Psychology Miami University 201 McGuffey Hall Oxford, OH 45056 (513) 529-6632-Office (513) 529-3646-Fax [log in to unmask]