MnSCU and University of Minnesota Distance Learning Initiative

January '98 Meeting

• Register by January 9, 1998

Agenda

January 19, 1998

6:00 p.m.	Steering Committee meeting
6:30 p.m.	Reception for all participants
7:00 p.m.	Dinner, introductions and orientation Carol Anderson and Dick McGehee

January 20, 1998

7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.	Intro and umbrella web site demo - Arnie Cutler (presentations are intended to be about 15 minutes plus questions)
8:15 a.m.	Stress Management and Professional Support Strategies for First-Year Teachers and Their Mentors presentation
8:45 a.m.	A Consensus Model for Including Students with Disabilities into the Regular Classroom presentation
9:15 a.m.	Professional Practice Portfolio Framework presentation
9:45 a.m.	Break
10:00 a.m.	Mentorship Training presentation
10:30 a.m.	Teaching for Diversity, Conferencing and Communicating with Parents and Self-Reflection presentation
11:00 a.m.	Virtual Mentorship: Real Time Support for First Year Teachers presentation
11:30 a.m.	Lunch
12:30 p.m.	Focus group discussion Focus groups of first year teachers and mentors will react to each project
2:00 p.m.	Forward planning
3:00 p.m.	Adjournment

Tasks to complete before January 9:

• Register to attend and indicate dinner and lodging reservations.

• Send the URL for your project web page to Arnie Cutler at cutler@geom.umn.edu

• Send specific questions which you would like the focus group to address for your project to Alice Thomas at athomas@stcloudstate.edu

• E-mail a progress report for your project to Linda Halet at halet@geom.umn.edu. This report should include:
  1. Timeline adjustments (Final date of June 30 is not adjustable!)
  2. Personnel/Budget adjustments
  3. Progress toward each objective of your project
  4. How you envision your project being delivered and used

Comments to: cutler@geom.umn.edu
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