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bad times. "There are kids that don't
survive," Crovella said with a clear
tone of sadness in her voice. "It can
be a tough job. It's not always the
best of news."
"But you reconcile things and go
on working because there are other
children."
And with that, the glow-in-the
dark stars begin to radiate off the
pink and yellow doorways.
Some of Crovella's fondest
memories of the past four years are
of Penn State's dance marathon.
Since her position is funded by Four
Diamonds, she likes to help with
THON. "I try to give back as much
as I can because I am funded by
them," she said. Despite getting
eight hours of sleep the whole
weekend, she makes a point of
cheering the dancers during the
early morning hours. She added,
"I learned to take both Friday and
Monday off."
The time is well spent. This year's
THON continued to solidify its
reputation as the largest student run
The Campus Calendar for Penn State Harrisburg: for weeks of March 15 thru April 11
Sunda
March 15 Classes 16 meet ings 17 Use of Professional 18 19 Si B
Solicitors in Charitable ng egins
SGApr
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Every Tuesday Organizations: Who Gets the Faculty and Staff
Resume
12:30 pm Money? Current Events in
Today
Black Student Union Meetings 12-fpm, Downtown Center Recognition Brain Research:
Ever y Tuesday Program, 12:30pm From Genes to
Now through Apr 3 12:30 - 1:30 pm "Multiculturalism and Ethnic
in the Student Alzheimer's Disease
Linda Rugel's Conflict: The Search for
"Faces, Phases, Form" Comedian Leighann Lord Peace" panel discussion, Center, CUB 12-lpm, Downtown
9pm, Dining Commons, 12-I:3opm,
Center
Gallery Lounge followed b aDJ PSH Eastlate Center
Student Awards
The THON tools of the trade - a
comfortable pair of shoes.
philanthropy in the nation raising
$2,001,831.51. Penn State Harris
burg dancers Stacie Wentzel and
Tami Pardue sent $4,977 toward
that total and survived 48-hours on
their feet.
Of the 1997 Four Diamonds bud
get, THON raised 73 percent, all of
it helping support the children. It
doesn't hurt the care providers ei
ther.
"It's like a shot in the arm,"
Crovella said. "THON charges you
for the rest of the year. Once you
go, you're hooked."
Monda
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TEAM Organizatinal Flora Singer, Group Conference at Hbg reception and gallery talk, ()-
Mtg. 7 pm L. G. I. room Marriott B:3opm, Gallery Lounge
Middletown High School Belgian Holocaust
Lion Ambassadors "Lunch with and International
Nancy Eshelman, "Women
survivor speaks at play bingo at nursing home Flavor" featuring the country
in Journalism" at 3:3opm and 6pm in the Gallery Sudan, 12-Ipm, Gallery
"Sex, Lies, Tapes and E-Mail: Lounge
"The Life and Time of Rosie Lounge When is the Presidency in
The Riveter" at 6pm Crisis?" panel discussion, 9th Annual High Achievers
Galle Lounge noon Downtown enter A demic Bow .-9. m B
Entry Deadline
for Intramural
1-pitch coed
softball,
Rm 122, CUB
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NEW A • 01,4
Everybody take out your syllabus
and open it up to page 37
Education department
going interdisciplinary
How would you like to be handed
a;43-page syllabus in the first se
mester of your senior year? Yipes!
Elementary education majors face
exactly that as a result of the inter
disciplinary focus on their educa
tion courses.
Ah, but here's the truth. The syl
labus represents five of the courses
elementary education majors are
taking this semester, said Susan
Hillman. Those courses will then
include, "common goals and as-
signments across the courses, as
well as unique components for each
course," she explained.
Hillman, assistant professor of
mathematics education, continued:
"We don't experience life in sepa
rate categories of events where this
event deals with math, this one
deals with reading, this one deals
with music and so forth. Rather,
Tuesda
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A conversation with Loida
Esbri, PA Commission on
Women, brown bag lunch,
12:30pm, place TBA
Lisl Bogart, Czech survivo
of Terezin, 6pm, Gallery
Lounge
Computer
Conferencing and the
Creative Process
12-fpm
PSH Eastgate Center
by Mary Long
Wednesda
April 1
XGl's Blood Drive
11 am - 3 pm
Gallery Lounge
April Fools Day
Dr. Kay Downs,
"One Man Away
From Welfare:
What Next?"
10am, Gallery
we experience life from a more ho
listic perspective where we inte
grate knowledge from different dis
ciplines."
But, why do future teachers have
to actually experience interdiscipli
nary methods first hand, and why
the interdisciplinary focus in the
first place?
Future teachers need to be trained
in interdisciplinary methods in or
der for the elementary student to
learn in this way. This is what is
happening in the methods courses.
Hillman said, "Before we devel
oped this common syllabus and
common approach to interdiscipli
nary instruction, we talked about
making connections between our
courses, but each of us still had our
own separate courses." With a com
bined syllabus, the methods courses
take on a unified theme, she ex
plained.
Another way education profes
sors reinforce this unified theme is
by providing simulations of inter-
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disciplinary instruction. By doing
so they can freeze frame critical
moments when a particular point
needs to be evaluated.
Such modeling is done during
"assemblies" that are held several
times during the semester where el
ementary preservice teachers meet
together at a common time and
place.
There, the professors model col
laboration by actually working to
gether to teach a lesson. In this way,
Hillman said, she and her col
leagues are implementing the vision
statement developed by the educa
tion faculty.
The statement sums up the focus
of the program explaining the fac
ulty is, "dedicated to providing in
terdisciplinary instruction and ex
periences which extend content
knowledge, and pedagogical corn
petencies."
So, maybe a 43-page syllabus
isn't so bad. After all, one semes
ter, one syllabus.
Frida
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TEAM
Open Gym Night
12 - 3 pm
Middletown High School
RSC, Spring
Semi-formal,
time & place TBA
Good Friday
Saturda