L-A College Teacher Ed Representatives
Present at Harvard
Representatives of the CLASS/PDS teacher education
program at L-A College presented at a Community Schools Forum
held recently at Harvard. Left to right are Carol Miller,
Bumper White, Jim Carmichael, and Sue Myers.
Representatives from the teacher education program at USM’s
Lewiston-Auburn College (LAC) gave a presentation last month
at the Harvard Graduate School Gutman Conference Center in
Cambridge, MA. The CLASS PDS (Collaborative Learning And School
Success Professional Development School), a partnership between
LAC and Auburn Public Schools, sent a team of LAC faculty
and Auburn teachers to deliver a presentation as part of the
Northeast Regional Community Schools Forum entitled “Community
Schools: Now More Than Ever . . .”
The CLASS PDS team comprised of Dr. W. Bumper White, associate
professor and coordinator of the program, Carol Miller, site
coordinator at Sherwood Heights Elementary School, and Auburn
Middle School teachers Jim Carmichael and Sue Myers. They
led a panel presentation called
“The Community as Curriculum” in which they highlighted
the University-School District partnership and the efforts
at the Auburn Middle School to get students involved in integrated
service-learning and “problem-based” curricular
projects.
The Coalition for Community Schools is an alliance of more
than 160 national, state and local organizations that promotes
the development of community schools which are designed to
offer a practical and effective strategy for educating all
children to their full potential.
The CLASS/PDS at L-A College is an innovative program in
undergraduate elementary and middle school teacher education.
This field-based program includes coursework in an academic
major leading to a bachelor's degree in a liberal arts field
and a professional program of teacher preparation that results
in K-8 certification. Applications are being accepted for
the fall semester. Anyone interested is asked to call 753-6618
or visit the website at usm.maine.edu/lac/programs/class/.
