ECU professor joins Teacher Educator
Standards Commission                                       FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Greenville, NC – Jane Carol Manner, associate elementary education professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been selected by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) to participate on the Teacher Educator Standards Commission for 2005-2006.

The Commission, which works to refine current standards of practice for teacher educators nationally and develop appropriate assessment devices for each standard, is divided into three teams. Each team is dedicated to one of the group’s three strands of activities.

The Standards Writing Team reviews current literature and research on teacher education and teacher educators. The Research Team conducts research on the standards and their use. The Teacher Educators Standards Cohort (TESC) involves practicing teacher educators in a variety of roles to use the standards for their own self-review. Manner will serve on this team. The group will convene for the first time during the 2005 ATE meeting next month in Chicago.

Throughout the year, the three teams will meet to exchange ideas and to examine the use of electronic portfolios for teacher educators in an effort to offer an improved set of standards and assessment strategies at the end of 2006.

            Manner, who joined the College of Education in 2004, specializes in online course development and delivery in teacher education and has written extensively on personalization of the web-based course environment.