'Cuse in Kenya

We are now in the second quarter of the first year of our partnership project and have completed quite a few activities already.  These include (a) planning for and initiating scholar exchanges, (b) identifying and initiating two KU faculty members to go to SU for one year as part of a “sandwich degree”, (c) having one joint Steering Committee meeting in Syracuse in June 2011, (d) collecting and analyzing baseline data from KU faculty members, (e) identifying possible areas of collaborative research, (f) establishing a Committee for Faculty Development, and (g) developing a curriculum review protocol.  Currently, we are working on (a) planning and carrying out identified professional development workshops for KU faculty members, (b) acquiring and developing selected instructional materials and technologies, (c) continuing with scholar exchanges, (d) sending two KU faculty members to SU for one year as part of a “sandwich degree” program, (e) recruiting faculty members outside of KU to help supervise KU faculty members’ doctoral theses, (f) preparing collaborative research plans, (g) collecting and analyzing curriculum review data, (h) developing and piloting a survey, and then collecting and analyzing data from KU graduates who are novice and experienced teachers, (i) having a stakeholders meeting to introduce our partnership project and activities, and (j) working with the Ministry of Education to develop Teacher Performance Expectations and Assessments.