My name is Beth Hoyt-Flewelling and I am the Coordinator of Recruitment for Education Programs at Granite State College. My days are spent travelling the state in search of teachers...individuals who are looking for teacher certification programs, another teaching certification or an advanced endorsement for their current certification. I attend conferences, job fairs, visit public and private schools and meet with potential students at one of the 10 Granite State College locations around the state, or in coffee shops or wherever we might meet! My car is my office and I love seeing all of New Hampshire.
It is a joy to talk with potential students who are so excited about teaching! I remember when I decided to become a teacher...I was thirty-six years old, my son was eight and I decided to return to school as an adult. I was so excited and nervous at the same time! I went in search of a Post Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program in which I could be in a teacher preparation program while still working. This was not easy back then! I finally did find a program that allowed me to get my Early Childhood Teacher Certification and my Master's degree in Education. I wish Granite State College had been available to me back then, it is what I was in search of!
I am so excited to tell potential students about the
Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification programs at Granite State College. The programs are field-based and job-embedded, meaning that you can continue to work (or volunteer) in a school while you take classes online, putting what you are learning into practice. It is one of the most affordable colleges in New Hampshire...and you can apply up to 24 of your credits toward a Master's degree!
I look forward to posting from the road about my travels and meetings with potential students and teachers around the state. Is there a teacher in you just waiting to teach? I look forward to meeting you!
On August 10, teachers, school administrators, or anyone interested in educational technology will have an opportunity to attend a free educational symposium on the latest relevant and effective educational technologies. Take a look at the event here on the Granite State College website:
Granite State College, GovConnection, and MC Squared have partnered to offer a free, day-long event where educators will be presented with the learning technologies that interest them (as identified in a preconference survey). In addition, the most relevant and research-supported assistive technologies that meet the full range of special needs experienced by students (K-12) will be reviewed. What a great opportunity to learn about the latest educational technology (as well as learn about what other educators feel is important technology in improving your teaching and your students' learning)!
I was recently talking with someone who is both an educator and serves on a local school board. She was very excited to attend this symposium to research educational technology resources that her school district is interested in purchasing, as well as for the professional development opportunity (8 CEUs are available for attending).
The FREE symposium: Identify Technology that Improves YOUR Teaching and THEIR Learning, will be held August 10, 2012 from 8:30AM-4:30 PM (breakfast and lunch included) at Granite State College, 25 Hall St. Gateway Center, Concord, NH. If you cannot make it to Concord, you can participate online via live web conferencing at http://nhsymposium.org/.
To find out more or to register for the event, go to the website http://nhsymposium.org/. I look forward to seeing you there!
Granite State College's School of Education (and co-sponsor NHASEA) are pleased to present a presentation from internationally recognized expert on Embedded Formative Assessment, Dr. Dylan Wiliam, on July 18 from 9-3 at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua, NH. What a great opportunity to learn more about Dr. Wiliam's approach to formative assessment, talk with other educators, and earn 6 CEUs of professional development credit (with lunch included)!
I am excited to be attending this event, not just as a representative of Granite State College's School of Education, but as a teacher interested in learning more about formative assessment. in his new book, Embedded Formative Assessment, Dr. Wiliam writes about how formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it is viewed as a process rather than a tool. Be sure to also check out this interesting article on "Changing Classroom Practice" by Dr. Wiliam.
This is an exciting opportunity for paraeducators, teachers, principals, superintendents--anyone interested in improving teaching and student learning, to experience what embedded formative assessment is all about. Registration is easy! You can order tickets online here. I hope to see you there!
Today I am sitting at an educational conference for paraeducators. I am writing as I await their next break and my next opportunity to help someone learn how teaching certification can be within reach. With Granite State College's new undergraduate teaching certifications, as well as the Post Baccalaureate Teacher Certifications we can now make teaching certification a reality for more individuals. Granite State College can also help Paraeducators achieve Paraeducator II Certification with the State of NH with a five class sequence or an Associate's Degree.
I am excited to be able to tell prospective students that we can now offer teaching certification with a Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies in Social Studies, English Language Arts and Math Studies or a B.S. in Early Childhood Education. We are offering the same teaching certifications as at the Post Baccalaureate level:
General Special Education (K-12)
General Special Ed (K-12)/ Elementary Education (K-8)
Early Childhood Special Ed. (0-age 8)/Early Childhood (N-grade 3)
ESOL (K-12)
Mathematics (5-8)
Secondary Mathematics (7-12)
By specializing in the critcal shortage areas for teachers in NH, Granite State College is able to help individuals be more "employable" upon earning teaching certification. Para educators are so excited to hear that they do not have to stop working to take classes and earn certification. Both undergrad and PBTC programs are job embedded and field based, meaning that we want you working in a school or approved program during your time with us. Classes are available online, as field based or occasionally as face to face, so you can live anywhere in NH (and surrounding states) and complete your teaching certification.
Time to go and talk with some future teachers and tell them... how easy it is to get that teaching certification... that allows you to take that teaching position... increases your ability to positively impact the future of our children and schools... and furthers your career!
Well, I am on the road again, visiting more of New Hampshire's SAUs. I am meeting with Superintendents, Special Education Directors, HR specialists, Principals and anyone else who might be connected with the teachers (or future teachers) within the school districts. I think I am up to 28 SAU visits since September and the state has somewhere around 90...so I will be on the road often, since it is my goal to visit all of them!
Today's trip takes me to southern NH, to spread the word about Granite State College's Post Baccalureate Teacher Certification Programs and Advanced Endorsements for already certified teachers. Making sure that school administrators are familiar with Granite State College Teacher Preparation Programs
www.granite.edu/academics/teachers/educators.php helps teachers to continue learning and make a difference in their schools.
Travelling New Hampshire's highways and backroads in search of each district's schools provides for an interesting and fun day. I always loved fall and "back to school" time. The happy sounds of teachers' and children's voices in the schools and on the playgrounds reminds me of the excitement of learning, socializing and playing together.
While this is my first year out of the classroom and not teaching, my visits to the different SAUs throughout the state are a lot of fun and very interesting. I especially enjoy talking with prospective teachers about the programs that
Granite State College offers. The excitement of going back to college, taking adult online classes and becoming a teacher is contagious. It is a little bit like visiting those schools and playgrounds...it makes you feel so excited about learning and going back to school!
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