Graduate School of Education
Program/Organization Name: Graduate School of Education
Address: 10 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Phone: 732-932-7496
Fax: 732-932-8206
Academic Department Affiliation: Graduate School of Education
Contact Name: Charles R. Doty, PhD.
Title/Position: Professor
Phone extension: 106
E-mail Address:
Purpose: The threefold mission of the GSE is teaching, research, and
service. This is accomplished by informing and improving education practice
through the discovery and application of knowledge, developing educational
researchers, preparing professional and constructively engaging educational
institutions in New Jersey. As a professional school within Rutgers University,
the GSE has the primary responsibility for the disciplined investigation
of a major societal function, education, including study of the individuals
who participate, the contexts in which learning takes place, and the interactions
among them. Additionally, the school offers programs of study designed to
provide scholarly preparation for professionals aspiring to leadership roles
in education. The school prepares professional scholars who increase knowledge
and practice in their particular field of education and scholarly professionals
who are knowledgeable in their field of expertise and will disseminate and
interpret research to school personnel and the general public.
Community Service Area(s): Education
Target Population: Youth, Adults
Service Providers: Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Faculty
Fee: No
Eligibility Restrictions for Services:
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: Continuing
Professional Development - When New Jersey teachers seek continuing professional
development and intellectual refreshment, they attend GSE classes both on
and off campus to learn about the latest developments in their fields of
specialization. Within the past six years, GSE has made a special effort
to extend its expertise throughout the state. New Jersey teachers participate
in a variety of collaborations, partnerships, and outreach programs sponsored
by GSE in the school districts and on the Rutgers campuses.
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: Quality Education Act
- When there was a concern about how the Quality Education Act was being
implemented in school districts, state policy makers turned to the GSE's
Center for Educational Policy Analysis in New Jersey for information and
advice.
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: Adult Illiteracy -
When the governor sought ways to solve the problem of illiteracy among adults
in the state, he asked Dr. Dorothy Strickland, a member of the GSE faculty
and the State of New Jersey Professor of Reading, to co-chair the statewide
task force to address this problem.
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: Community Projects
- GSE public service activities include participation in a variety of community
projects throughout the state. GSE faculty and students tutor at-risk youngsters,
work with teacher to strengthen classroom instruction, assist school administrators
who make critical choices affecting curriculum, teacher recruitment, and
budgetary priorities, and share the information generated by their research
on such vital issues as standards for literacy, mathematics, and science
education. GSE faculty and students are in turn enriched by learning from
colleagues who serve on faculties and in the administration of New Jersey
schools.
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: Launching a Literacy
Project in New Brunswick - Professor Dorothy Strickland initiated the Rutgers-New
Brunswick Literacy Project in 1990, in conjunction with the city's school
district. The project is primarily aimed at the development of staff-teachers
and administrators who work in the areas of reading, writing, oral language.
The focus is on staff development as critical inquiry, in which teachers
work collaboratively with university faculty to set goals, ask question
for exploration, collect data, and share with colleagues analyses and interpretation
of what works.
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: Using the Discovery
Method for Teaching Mathematics to Children - Professors Robert Davis and
Carolyn Maher codirect the Rutgers/New Brunswick Mathematics project, which
is a collaboration between GSE, the New Brunswick School District, the Rutgers
Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education, Middlesex Community
College, and the state Department of Higher Education. The goal of this
program is to reform the teaching and learning of mathematics in grades
one through seven. Through workshops with nearly 200 teachers and staff
members of the district, Davis, Maher, and colleagues have fostered teachers''
better understanding of the growth mathematical knowledge and modeled ways
to enhance learning among students.
Current Community Service Projects in New Brunswick: State Systemic Initiative
- Programs supported by NSF, to improve instruction in Science and Mathematics
K - 12 through workshops with teachers and administrators.
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