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Dear Student,
On behalf of the faculty of the Pacific University College of Education, I would like to welcome you as a member of the 2009-2010 Fifth-Year/MAT program. We are very excited about the upcoming year: it promises to be filled with new experiences on the Pacific campus as well as in Oregon’s public schools. I will be the coordinator of one of the "strands" of the MAT program that includes those persons interested in receiving Early Childhood and Elementary authorizations, and I will also be your professor for four courses during the year. Because of this close connection, I will serve as your advisor and will be highly involved assisting you to prepare for your teaching career. While I have had the chance to meet many of you already, I wanted to provide you with some information to help you plan for the summer session.
Pacific’s Fifth-Year MAT program is a 12 month program beginning on June 15th, 2009 and ending approximately June 16th, 2010. I am creating a summer calendar listing the dates and times of summer courses to allow you to better plan your summer. Your first class will be on Monday June 15th. in the combined classroom in Berglund Hall (147). Come start the day by having doughnuts and coffee with me and the other students in our strand from 8:30 –9:00. Class will then go from 9:00 – 12:00 and will be a community-building experience where you will get a chance to meet fellow students and faculty. You will then have a barbeque lunch and the afternoon will be spent engaging in orientation activities until about 4:00.
The Early Childhood/Elementary strand 1 will meet separately at some point during that day for a general orientation to the program and the strand. We will also be having another orientation meeting on July 24th from 12:00 – 1:00 prior to the first Education Psychology class in Room 019. Bring a brown bag lunch if you would like
One last suggestion: I strongly recommend that you invest in a laptop computer. I further suggest (and students from the past two years emphasized I need to do so) that it be an Apple computer. We have worked to develop an excellent computer lab in the College of Education containing Macs, PCs, and all of the software you will need. However, it will make your learning experience so much more powerful and you will be better prepared for a teaching job, if you invest now in your own laptop. If you need to purchase a laptop, I am a technology specialist and have put together a website that contains recommendations. You should also note that as a Pacific student you can receive special educational discounts.
So once again, congratulations and welcome. I am really looking forward to learning with you and getting to know you. I expect that this will be a year of powerful learning experiences for all of us and I hope I can assist you in whatever needs you may have. If you have any pressing questions feel free to email me at baileym@pacificu.edu, or call me at 503-352-1442. I will see you on the 15th.
Sincerely,
Mark Bailey Ph.D.
Early Childhood/Elementary Coordinator-
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