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Contents : Nipissing News Brantford Campus November 19 2010 FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE DEAN Hello Teacher Candidates Our Concurrent Education Students were in the Brantford Expositor twice this week! Congratulations in a successful Gifted Outreach Conference and an inspirational Vow of Silence Day! Please be reminded that the Concurrent Education students at the Brantford Campus are Laurier - Nipissing students. Thank you Maria PRACTICUM OFFICE Please join me in welcoming new staff to the practicum office: Jamie McGinnis Practicum Coordinator and Danielle Purdy Practicum Secretary. Jamie can be reached by email at jamiem@nipissingu.ca or by phone at 519-752-1524 ext. 7502 and Danielle at brant@nipissingu.ca or by phone at 519-752-1524 ext. 7503. We wish Ruth Cooper good luck as she embarks on a teaching career with the Grand Erie District School Board. Practicum Nametags Nametags are now ready for pickup in the Practicum office in room 201 Wellington Police Background Check Reminder to Year 1 Teacher Candidates: Placement information will be released in early December however not all Police Background checks have been received. Please come to the practicum office for assistance with this process. Please note that placement information will not be released until a police background check is received. Faculty Advisor Meetings for Teacher Candidates in Years 1 2 & 3 This is a reminder of the mandatory faculty advisor meetings to be held on Monday January 10 2011. Please ensure you clear your schedule your attendance is required. Mentorship Mentor and Novice groupings will be released by NU email during the first week of December. The Mentorship program over the last two years has been extremely successful and it may necessary to have a group of year 3 students to continue in the role of Mentor due to board numbers and geographical locations. STUDENT CLUBS NUSA THE MITTEN TREE The Mitten Tree is now up in the Darling Street building. NUSA is collecting new mittens hats and scarves to decorate the tree. Bring your items today and help this annual project become a success! All donated items will be given to a local school in the Brantford Community. Let s help children have a warm winter season! SAC We re meeting again this week November 24th at 4:00 p.m. in Wellington 302. ALL students are welcome to attend and a special invitation to the class reps! We re excited to have you part of SAC and look forward to working with you. Just a heads up your class needs to have a representative for the Winter semester. If no one has come forward for your class thus far perhaps this is your chance to become a leader! THINK RECYCLE: We ve had great success with our Think Recycle Initiative so far! Thank you to everyone who has dropped off their empty cartages. Keep bringing in your old cell phones toner and printer cartridges. If you d like more information regarding SAC or have a general concern regarding our program email us at sac@nipissingu.ca. We look forward to your feedback! iTEACH As you all know the iTeach Bridging Program is well into its second year of implementation on our campus and things are running smoothly. Based on student feedback we have been working diligently to improve the breadth and depth of programming available to our student body. This year in addition to infused iTeach programming and Extended Learning Program workshops we were proud to announce the offering of Online Extended Learning Workshops (via BlackBoard) and our weekly Drop-In sessions for those students interested in getting first hand experience and practice with the SMARTBoard. Today we are also happy to announce another change in the iTeach Bridging Program and this relates to the iTeach Bridging Fee. Over the past two years students have paid the annual fee of $250 and this was expected to continue until you graduated from the BA/BEd program -- however effective 2011/12 it has been decided that the iTeach Bridging Fee will no longer be collected. We hope that this announcement is another great piece of news coming from the iTeach team this year. We look forward to providing you with the same quality of programming in the years to come which you are already accustomed to -- without any more financial burden. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. Dr. Maria Cantalini-Williams Associate Dean (Interim) Dr. John Vitale iTeach Coordinator ADVISOR'S OFFICE Are you concerned about your progress in classes As the Fall term comes to an end many teacher candidates may start to worry about their overall GPA. Kelly Hunter and Sara Neziol (Academic Advisors) will be hosting Progression Information sessions next week. Further details can be found under "Workshops" in the NipNews. All teacher candidates are encouraged to attend a session or arrange an appointment with Kelly Hunter if they have questions or concerns. You can contact Kelly at kellyh@nipissingu.ca or (519) 752-1524 ext. 7550 WO

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