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You Tube Video – meet SOE student and Batlimore City teacher

“It’s the hardest, most rewarding job you will ever have.” Meet Baltimore City teacher and Johns Hopkins student, Hugo Cigarro, in this You Tube video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuO6bzqM8lc

Have you had similar experiences as a teacher?

Info session for teachers this evening – DC Public Schools at HWD

Interested in teaching in the District next year? DC Public Schools is holding an info session TODAY (Wednesday, Feb. 17), from 5 to 7 p.m. in Levering Hall’s Sherewood Room. For more info, visit TeachDC.org.

SOE classes are expected to resume on Saturday, Feb. 13

Classes for part-time JHU students are expected to resume on Saturday, Feburary 13.  For the latest openings and closures, visit JHU’s Emergency Alert.

JHU photographer, Will Kirk, took some great shots of the Homewood campus this past week.  Here’s the link to view his slide show:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/47407217@N05/sets/72157623402737942/show/.

JHU closed Thursday, February 11

JHU day and evening classes are canceled for Thursday,  February 11, 2010 due  to the snow conditions.  To get  up to date information regarding  campus openings and  closures, go to the Johns Hopkins University Emergency Alert.

JHU day and evening classes canceled Tuesday Feb. 9

JHU day and evening classes are canceled for Tuesday,  February 9, 2010 due  to the snow conditions.  To get  up to date information regarding  campus openings and  closures, go to the Johns Hopkins University Emergency Alert.

With Dean Ralph Fessler retiring, President Daniels has announced that the SOE’s Interim Dean will be Dr. Mariale Hardiman

Appointment of Dr. Mariale Hardiman:  new interim dean

Dean Fessler’s retirement announcement:  Gazette September 22, 2009

SOE Student Orientations in January

REGISTER NOW for a SOE Student Orientation  – Learn about the services offered at the SOE and  have your questions answered by a student service representative.
Tuesday, January 19, 2009, MCC at 6:00 p.m.
or
Thursday, January 21, 2009, Education Building in Baltimore at 6:00 p.m.
To register, email soe.students@jhu.edu.
See you then!

Thank you from JHU!

It is impossible to adequately acknowledge in simple words the enduring generosity and inspiring support Johns Hopkins University has received over the past year from students, staff and faculty. So JHU has enlisted help from our amazingly talented faculty, staff and students, who have joined together to create the video at this link:

http://thankyou.jhu.edu/

In Treatment.

For Christmas, Santa gave me the DVD set of the first season of the HBO show “In Treatment” – in which Gabriel Byrne plays Paul, a psychotherapist who runs a private practice out of his home.  Each disc is one week’s worth of sessions with 5 clients.  The last episode on each disc is Paul’s own session with his old clinical supervisor, who he started going back to for professional and personal advice.

I am looking forward to watching the evolution of Paul’s relationships with his clients, from both an academic and entertainment standpoint; seeing how much I can relate to, and even what sorts of things I can “prepare” myself for, if you will.

So far, it’s very enjoyable – entertaining, engaging, and thought-provoking.  What I’ve noticed in particular so far, is how each featured client, in their own way, comes to Paul seeking “permission”  – either trying to foist responsibility onto him, or seeking his specific advice about something.  It’s fascinating watching the character do the delicate dance of neither accepting the responsibility for the client, but also trying to keep their trust and sense of self intact.

I wonder how often then, our clients (or students, or intimates, etc.) do that – ask for our “blessing” as it were, on things they have already decided, but don’t want to take responsibility for…and we, in the “thick” of it, we may not even see it as such.

An Anthropologist Living with Recovering Heroin Addicts: Lessons for Counselors workshop

The Department of Counseling and Human Services presents: Michael Seltzer, Ph.D. Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo University College Oslo, Norway

 An Anthropologist Living with Recovering Heroin Addicts: Lessons for Counselors

This workshop presents a treatment program for substance abusers carried out at a therapeutic community treatment located in rural Hungary. The program was studied by an anthropologist who lived and worked with community members during 2003 and 2004. The community has long had success in treating substance abusers and today five years after leaving the community all but two of the graduates of the treatment program from that period live clean, sober and productive lives. It will touch upon those aspects of the program revealed by ethnographic fieldwork which appear to play key roles in helping the recovery processes of the members of this therapeutic community.

January 28, Education Building (Homewood Campus), Room 225, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Feburary 1, Columbia Center, see room assignment at front desk, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Any questions, please email ygobble@jhu.edu.