COE Exchange

Archive for November, 2009

Please remember to put on your calendar the Faculty Book Reception on December 7 from 3-5 p.m. in the MSC Rotunda, 3rd Floor. COE Faculty have penned 25 books over the past three years! Come join everyone for this most important event. Enjoy refreshments and visit with our authors. Some books will be available for immediate sale. Others can be ordered through the UMSL Bookstore. For Info: Lisa Kite at 314-516-5004 Counseling & Family Therapy Counseling Ethics and Decision Making By: R. Rocco Cottone and Villi Tarvydas  | Buy at Amazon.com Counseling & Family Therapy | Merrill/Prentice-Hall | January, 2007…

I am the new Postdoctoral Fellow and Coordinator of Math and Science Education Central (MSEC) in the TLC. I will be developing programs with the Science Center, teaching, and overseeing the development and day-to-day operations of MSEC. I hope to be a regular contributor to the COE Exchange. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at rjsm94@umsl.edu, call me at (314) 471-9181, or stop by my office in the TLC. MSEC news and activities will be advertised on the COE Exchange.

Our Educational Psychology Program (), which began in 2004-2005, has received full approval from the (NASP). The Program Approval Board granted the program Full Approval (National Recognition). NASP program approval/national recognition is an important indicator of quality graduate education in school psychology, comprehensive content, and extensive and properly supervised field experiences and internships, as judged by trained national reviewers. Thus, NASP approval/national recognition confers multiple advantages to programs, program graduates, the profession of school psychology, and, most importantly, to the children, families, and schools that we serve. Rarely does a program receive full approval on the first round. We are…