To teach well, we need a sense of what is essential.  We need to become researchers learning how we can assist children's development as readers, writers, mathematicians and social scientists.  We need to ask questions like "How can I establish a classroom that supports all students' growth and achievement."

   

 

 Believe it or Not!

 

Is Now Available Online

Just click the tree

 

Click HERE to View the Fall 2003 Schedule

 

 

 

 

Chicago 4 Cohort

Teleresearch 

Projects

March 03

Awakening the Dragon

Upper Grades

Primary Dinosaur Project

Kdgtn-Second

  Awesome Abraham Lincoln

Primary

 

A TRIP TO EGYPT

UPPER GRADES

 LIFE CYCLE OF THE BUTTERFLY

Primary grades

LIVING ON YOUR OWN

Secondary Levels

 

 

 

 

 

ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY

Welcome to the Website of

Dr. Connie Donovan

(formerly that of Dr. Susan Belgrad)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR  OF EDUCATION

Co-Director, Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership Graduate Program

Robin Campus Office

517G

  Voice: 847/619-8474 

   Fax: 847/619-8830

     Email:       cdonovan@roosevelt.edu

 

Tools for Engaged Learning in the Classroom

Graphic Organizer Tools for Engagement

Cooperative Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portfolio Assessment

  

CHECK IT OUT!!

Teacher Portfolio Plans and Websites 

 

 

   SPRING 03 MATL EXHIBITIONS OF ACTION RESEARCH IN TEACHING

    

MATL Student Handbook Now ONLINE

 

PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENT IN Teacher Education

ILLINOIS IACTE CONFERENCE

Addressing Perceived Constraints and Supports . . . Asynchronous Learning

The Master of Arts 

in Teacher Leadership 

SPRING 2002

  EXHIBITION PICTURES

Program Description

Administration

Faculty

 

Illinois Learning Standards

Step to the Top Illinois Certification

National Board For 

Professional Teaching Standards

 

Summer, 2003

TLED 430 Engaged Learning 

FRONTPAGE TUTORIALS

Click here to view SYLLABUS

Updated AGENDA

COURSE ASSESSMENT

Samples of student work

from TLED 430

   Physics/Science Cohort 

TLED 436 Rethinking the Curriculum

Physics Cohort   Emails

Engaged Learning Lessons

Syllabus

Models of Teaching

Authentic Assessment

Double Entry Journal

Journal Rubric

Session Log

AGREE/DISAGREE

 

 

TLED 431Portfolio Assessment      in Schooling 

 

SEE THE LINK UNDER THE PORTFOLIO CONNECTION FOR SAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK

 

TLED 441 Psychological Pers- pectives in Human Development

Click the Links Below to View Student Performance

    

Summer 2003

Click the Pic

Spring 2003

Components of Professional

 Practice for Teachers

TLED 435

 

 

 

Roosevelt University is one of Illinois' Higher Education Institutions Supporting Candidates for National Board Certification

15th Anniversary logo

Support Cohort North and NW Suburban Chicago

 

Play Theory Pages

for Early Childhood Generalist Candidates

 

RU National Board Candidates Honored at December  MATL Reception and Exhibition

 

 

Course Syllabi in the 

MATL Program

 

 

CHECK OUT MATL STUDENT WEB PAGES

Web-Based Learning Class Summer, 2000

Web-Based Learning Class Summer 2001

Web-Based Learning Class Summer 2002

Portfolio Assessment in Schooling, 2002