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Dr. Andrea R. Milner, Director Associate Professor, Teacher
Education
[email protected], 517.265.5161 ext 4625 Amila Zecevic,
Administrative Assistant
[email protected], 517.265.5161 ext 3880
http://adrian.edu/academics/institutes/education/
In This Issue: Teacher Education Banquet
Notable Alumni
Writers Workshop at Adrian Middle School 7/8 Building,
Most Likely To Succeed Film Screening
Experiential Learning
SHAPE Conference
Teacher Education Alumni Panel
Teacher Education Bootcamp
Northwest Ohio Center of Excel-lence in Science and Mathemat-ics
Education
Adrian Col lege Volume 5, Issue 2 December 4, 2015
INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION
The 2015 Teacher Education Banquet.
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Teacher Education Banquet and Notable Alumni
Kay Johnson
Kay Johnson graduated in 1972 from Adrian College majoring in
Exercise Science.
She spent 23 years in the middle school teaching Health and
Physical Ed and 7th grade math, before spending 15 years as middle
school principal.
Kay continued coaching softball through three years of
retirement, then returned three years ago to work part time as the
athletic director. Coached most all girl's sports including all 43
years of softball.
She was inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.
Ryan Gilbert
Ryan Gilbert graduated from Adrian College in 2006 with
Bachelors degree in Health, Physical Educa-tion, Recreation and
Elementary Education.
This is Ryan’s 9th year as the Physical Education teacher at
Blissfield Elementary .
He is coaching the Girls Varsity Basketball team at Blissfield
Community Schools.
In 2014, Gilbert was named Class C Co-Coach by the Associated
Press and was also awarded the Le-nawee County Coach of the Year
honor.
On Wednesday , October 7, 2015 the Teacher Education Department
held their annual Teacher Education Banquet. Each year the
department chooses Adrian College Alumni to honor at the banquet.
The 2015 Notable Alumni were Kay Johnson and Ryan Gilbert.
Left to right: Shirley McDaid, Kay Schwartzlander, Chuck Brown,
Mary Betzoldt, Kay Johnson, Dr. Andrea R. Milner, Professor Penny
Cobau-Smith, Professor Michelle Hiscock, Dr. Vanessa Morrison,
Julie Sinkovitz. Not pic-tured: Professor Al Craven.
Ryan Gilbert
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Writers Workshop at Adrian Middle School 7/8 Building Professor
Beth Myers’ ENGL 310 Teaching Writing students hosted a Writers
Workshop at the Adrian Middle School 7/8 Building for the fall
semester every Tuesday from 3:00—4:30 PM. The Writers Workshop was
an after school activity to help students find their writing
voice.
Teacher Education student, Garret Gabalis, is working with
students on their writing.
“It was nice to collaborate as a large group and provide
something great to give back to our community. Our group was a
combination of teacher education students and English majors. We
learned a lot from one another as well as the talented seventh and
eighth grade students we worked with. I am thankful to Professor
Meyers for giving us the opportunity to grow in our craft as well
as the insight she carefully scaffolded. “ - Nicole Gestwite, T ED
Student
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Most Likely to Succeed Film Screening
On October 19, 2015, the Adrian College Teacher Education
Department and the Institute for Education provided a unique
opportunity to view the award-winning documentary, Most Likely To
Succeed. Le-nawee County area community members who are interested
in the future of our schools were in attend-ence. The
feature-length documentary examines the history and current status
of education in the United States, revealing the growing
shortcomings of conventional education methods in today's
innovative world. The film explores compelling new approaches that
aim to revolutionize teaching as we know it.
The film ran for 90 minutes and was followed by a panel
discussion that included the executive producer, local students,
educators and community leaders.
Left to right: Professor Michelle Hiscock– Teacher Education,
Adrian College, Matthew McCullough- Assistant Prin-cipal at Onsted
Community Schools, Dr. Ted Dintersmith—Executive Producer of Most
Likely To Suceed , Dr. An-drea R. Milner– Director of the Institute
for Education, Adrian College , Mr. Gary Koppleman- Inductee into
the 2014 National Teachers Hall of Fame, Blissfield Community
Schools, Ann Smart- Educational Technology Consult-ant and Jackson
County ISD.
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Experiential Learning Secondary science methods students: Adam
Davies, John Carlin, and Samantha McMahon are pictured below
par-ticipating in this semester long experience.
Janet Struble, a representative from the Challenger Learning
Center of Lake Erie West conducts the “Toxic Waste” activity.
http://www.esclakeeriewest.org/challenger-learning-center
Mr. Gary Koppelman, 2013 National Shell Teach-
ing Award, Inductee into the 2014 National
Teachers Hall of Fame, and is a teacher at Bliss-
field Elementary, shows off Rosie the Tarantula at
the Blissfield Environmental Life Laboratory
http://www.blissfieldschools.us/elementaryschool/
belllab/
Our students learning about animal adaptations (in this case,
the beaver) with Kerry Nieman, Stubnitz Environmental Education
Program Co-ordinator. http://www.lisd.us/seec/
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Teacher Education Alumni Panel
On Tuesday, November 17, Professor Al Craven invited back former
Teacher Education students Danny Taylor, Melanie Vincent, and Eric
Schmidt along with senior, Mallory Wooden, to speak to his TED101
Explorations in Education class. This panel answered student
questions and did an outstanding job of displaying
pro-fessionalism, while providing great advice and recommendations
to the class of future teach-ers.
SHAPE Michigan Annual Conference
This years annual SHAPE Michigan (Society for Health &
Physical Education) conference was held in Lansing from November
5-7. Two of our current students attended, Haley Barnes and Hayden
Craig. Haley not only attended, but SHAPE Michigan awarded her a
Major of the Year Award for Adrian College in Health and Physical
Educa-tion. Both Haley’s parents were in attendance at the awards
ceremony. Haley also was elected to the role of Vice-President of
the Young Professionals division of the state organization. Haley
capped off her successful and exciting weekend by presenting a
workshop at the con-ference on “After-School Activities in Relation
to Self-Esteem in Adolescent Girls”. The reviews were outstand-ing.
Congratulations to Haley Barnes!
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Teacher Education Bootcamp
The Teacher Education Department combined with the Institute for
Career Planning held a “College to Career” Bootcamp on Saturday,
November 21, 2015. The day consisted of Teacher Education students,
who are either cur-rently student teaching, or will be student
teaching next semester, attending a variety of sessions throughout
the day.
The sessions held were as follows:
Teacher Education Job Search—Steve Guerra, the superintendent
from Addison Community Schools, held this ses-sion and explained
what sorts of things schools look for in their candidates. He
shared how things are run at Addi-son Community Schools, and also
provided information on how they may potentially differ from other
school dis-tricts.
Financial Planning– Amy Parten, Education Specialist from Green
Path Debt Solutions, held a session on different types of loans,
repayment options, postponing payments, forgiveness programs, and
the consequences of defaulting on loans.
Mock Interviews– Mock interviews were held with a variety of
local professionals from the education field. After interviews the
professionals wrote a review for the students to see where their
strengths and needs for improvement were evident in the
interview.
Career Planning and Alumni– An overview session of all of the
wonderful services that the Career Planning and Alumni office offer
to current students and, of course, Adrian College alumni.
Front: Morgan Pendleton, Katie Kimmelman, Back: Nicole Gestwite,
Nicole Motz, Hailey Papa, and Morgan Elyse await the beginning of
the boot camp with sincere excite-ment.
Amila Zecevic, Rebecca Napoli, Mary Betzoldt and Hayden
Craig.
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Northwest Ohio Center of Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Education
Dr, Andrea R. Milner, Dr. Vanessa Morrison, and Teacher
Education graduate student, Loren Hayes, attended the 2015 N.W.O.
Symposium on Saturday, November 21, 2015. The N.W.O. Symposium is a
very popular profes-sional development opportunity in the region
for K-12 pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, graduate
stu-dents, school administrators, and higher education faculty. Dr.
Milner and Dr. Morrison proudly presented on the framework which
integrates K-2 STEM Problem-Based Learning with the NGSS (Next
Generation Science Standards) and CCSS (Common Core State
Standards). For more information:
http://cosmos.bgsu.edu/nwoSymposium/
