Transcript NEASC Standards 4 & 5 Committee

Welcome
Education Unit Retreat
May 23, 2013
Agenda
Updates and Announcements
NCATE Report Overview
NCATE Committee Reports
Field Placements
Tk20 and SPA Data and State Report Data
Dispositions Assessments and Education Unit
Reviews
• Reflections from the Dean
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Updates and Announcements
• NCATE Accreditation—Thank you for a
job well done!
• Deb Fnine
• Still waiting on State Report
• May 29—Educator Evaluation System
• May 30—Teacher Preparation and
Common Core Standards
• Leadership Institute on Reflective
Practice
• Randy Howe
• Accomplishments
Accomplishments!
Annamary Consalvo
• Carried out in YA Lit Fall 2012: Special Projects
Grant: Academic Programming to Enhance a Global
Perspective, Fitchburg State University - $500. Young
Adult literature book club books to support diverse
perspectives.
• Carried out in Intro to Sec. School Teaching Fall
2012: Innovation Grant, Center for Teaching and
Learning, Fitchburg State University - $1,000.
Professional development book clubs: Rigor and
caring in secondary writing and reading instruction.
• Travel undertaken in Nov. 2012 --Special Projects
Grant: Travel, Fitchburg State University - $700. To
present THREE papers at Literacy Research
Association Conference, 2012, San Diego.
Annamary Consalvo
• April 2013 — AERA
– Consalvo, A., Schallert, D. L., and Elias, E. A critical
examination of legitimate peripheral participation
as a lens in literacy research. Paper to be presented
at American Educational Research Association
Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
– Slotnick, R., Cratsely, C., Lerch, C., Consalvo, A., &
Benway, G. Towards a more socially just and
equitable system of higher education: Collaborative
faculty partnerships for outcomes-based
assessment between two-year and four-year
institutions. Paper to be presented at American
Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.
San Francisco, CA.
Joann Nichols
• March, 2013: Marion and Jasper
Whiting Foundation Fellowship for
foreign travel to study Italian
preschool model
Shari Stokes
• Chaired Education Department
Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee. Five proposals were
passed by AUC and await the
President's approval.
Terry Thomas
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS:
• “Scholar Talk: on Sacco and Vanzetti,” with
playwright Bruce Robinson and director Kelly
Morgan after performance of “Saco & Vanzetti
(Vince, Al & Teddy),” April 3, 2013.
• “Italian Women and War” for Women’s History
Month panel discussion, March 18, 2013.
• “Naturalization, Citizenship and Italian
Americans” for Constitution Day Panel
Discussion, Fitchburg State University,
September 17, 2012.
Terry Thomas
PUBLICATION:
• “Retrospective Review: Giuseppe Grava and
Giovanni Tomasi” in News on the Rialto:
Newsletter for Studies on Venetian History, 2012,
published at BYU, funded by Gladys Krieble
Delmas Foundation.
CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED:
• “Sarah Wool Moore and the Education of
Italian Immigrants” at Italian American Studies
Association conference, formerly AIHA,
Hofstra University, New York, November 29,
2012.
Laurie DeRosa
Leadership Roles:
• Vice President of the international KDP Executive
Board
• Faculty Event Director: Special Olympics
• Fitchburg State University Faculty Speaker Series
Presenter: ePals Global Community
• Workshop Presenter: ePals Global Community
• Accepted Presenter: Technology workshop at
Bridgewater State University in August 2013
Professional role:
• Member NCATE Standard Four Committee
• Student Success Advisor for Early Childhood
• EEC Grant Advisor: Career Paths
Laurie DeRosa
Publication:
• Chapter accepted for Teacher Leadership Book to be
published 2014: Teacher as Leader in Curriculum
Reform: Integrating the Expressive Arts
• Submitted article for publication to KDP
Records: Exploring the Two Sides of the ePals Global
Community: Social and Educational
Unpublished:
• Children's Book: A to Z Animals from Massachusetts
• Children's Book: Looking Outside our Window:
Massachusetts
Denise LaFrance
• Finished doctorate!!!!!!
• Paper presentation at the American
Anthropological Association AAA titled
Systems of Accountability and
Technologies of Governmentality: Policy,
Practice and Pre-Service Education.
• Dissertation nominated for an award at
AAA.
Anne Howard
• Awarded contract form the Offices
of the Tiered System of Support and
Special Education Planning and Policy
Development to teach the Summer
Professional Development Institute
entitled Tools and Strategies for
Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Settings.
Anyone Else?
Door Prize!
Standard 2 Report
Shana Goldwyn
Focus for the 2012-2013
Academic Year
• Analysis of Unit-wide Data
• NCATE Preparation
• Analysis of Data of the Fairness of
Assessment System
• Discussion of License Specific
Questions
Analysis of Unit-wide Data
• There had been discussion last
year about the possibility of raising
the benchmark above 90%, perhaps
92%. However, we determined that
if we continue to look at lowest
mean there is no need to raise the
benchmark
Analysis of Unit Wide Data
• Undergraduate Level
– Strengths – Areas not outlined in the
challenges
– Challenges – Technology, IEPs, Advising,
Classroom and Behavior Management,
American and Civic Culture
• Graduate Level
– Strengths – Areas not outlined in the
challenges
– Challenges – Technology, IEPs
NCATE Preparation
• Preparing the Unit
– Group work on each standard
• Understand the comprehensive
nature of the assessment system,
particularly in the keeping of data
from off campus programs
Analysis of Data of the Fairness
of Assessment System
• Need to go back to inter-rater
reliability and calibration activities
• Discussion to begin modular
training on Blackboard
• We need exemplar key
assessments
• Need consistency with uploading
data in TK20
Future Work
Goals for 2013-2014
• Better compliance with Tk20
• Train adjuncts on Tk20
• Get Extended Campus Partners using
Tk20
• Include adjunct and extended campus in
examination of grad data
• Work on calibration of all groups
including mentor teachers
• Constituents examine at data
• Look at TPA to view potential impact on
our programs
Future Work
Tasks for 2013-2014
• Plan data meetings for
constituents
• Finish the calibration modules on
Bb with Mike Leamy. Set this up in
2013-14 for implementation in
2014-15
• Review IR and do what we said
we would do. Plan those tasks.
Door Prize!
Standard 3 Report
Annette Sullivan, Ann Hogan, Jason Miles
SEI Courses
• Syllabi
• Program Changes for state
approval
• Timeline
Updates
Mentor Teacher Eligibility Requirementsadditional
o Qualified Mentors must have received an
evaluation rating of proficient or higher on the
Educator Evaluation System, if implemented
within the district.
o Implemented for Fall 2013
o Verified by Principal on two forms
1. Mentor Teacher Supervising Practitioner Application
2. Authorization Form for Field Experience Placement
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Mentor Teacher Supervising Practitioner Application
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Authorization Form for Field Experience Placement
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Recording of Practicum Hours and
100 Hours in Full Responsibility
See blue sample
Full Responsibility is defined as time spent teaching
a lesson or unit that involved the candidate’s
comprehensive development, implementation,
assessment and follow-up including responsibility
for classroom set up and management of transitions
and behaviors.
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Recording of Practicum Hours and
100 Hours in Full Responsibility
Implementing Fall 2013
•Will be printed in duplicate (Licensure
Office and Candidate)
•Will be included
– in Practicum Handbook in Appendices
– on edunit website, forms library
– in Candidate practicum packet
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License Specific
Evaluation Questions
See goldenrod sample
Previously included on the green pages of the
Practicum Handbook as instructions and
guidelines for supervisors for completion of PPA
Standard B 2(c) Demonstrates an adequate
knowledge of and approach to the academic content of
lessons.
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License Specific
Evaluation Questions
• DESE - we need to explicitly assess
candidates on the questions.
•Implementing Fall 2013
•Will be printed in triplicate (Licensure file,
University supervisor, Candidate)
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License Specific Evaluation Questions
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in Practicum Handbook Appendices
on Ed Unit website, forms library
in Candidate practicum packet
in University and Supervising Practitioner
supervision folder
• History, English and Biology will have
crosswalk completed to determine gaps
with current assessment tools (NCTE,
NCSS, NSTA)
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Fingerprinting Legislation
A school shall obtain a state and national
fingerprint-based criminal background
check…for the purpose of determining the
suitability of current and prospective employees
of the school department who may have direct
and unmonitored contact with children.
http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/BillHtml/
119472?generalCourtId=1
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Door Prize!
Fingerprinting Legislation
Implementing Fall 2013
• Current employees have 3 years to submit their
fingerprints
• Includes anyone working/volunteering in a
school, school related transportation and
subcontractors/laborers who work on school
grounds.
• Fees - one time fee from $35 to $55. May
increase over time.
• Process for obtaining fingerprints still has not
been determined
"The regulations may reflect a phased-in schedule
for finger-print based background checks, provided,
however, that such phase-in shall not begin prior to
September. 1, 2013. ”
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Next Steps with
Partnerships
Next Steps with Partnerships
–MOUs formally signed
–Reflective Practice and PLCs
Pre-Practicum Procedures
McKay Arts Academy
Dan Hanneken & Jason Miles
Pre-Practicum Procedures at McKay Arts
• Forward any courses with a pre-practicum component to
Jason Miles with expected number of students, number of
hours, and packet of paperwork (forms, etc.) to
[email protected] by August 15.
• Dan will create a block schedule for candidates to sign up.
Jason will forward this by September 4.
• Return the sign up sheets to Jason by Sept 13.
• If you have students schedules that change at all, forward
the updated schedule to Jason by Friday prior to the
upcoming week.
• If you have existing relationships with Supervising
Practitioners, we will continue to maintain and support
those relationships. We hope to create more established
relationships between faculty and supervising practitioners.
Lunch!!
Door Prize!
Standard 4 Report
Wayne Whitfield
Loss of Potential Partnership
• Closesure of Atlantic Union
College
• We have come up with alternative
possibilities
Measuring Diversity
• We have triangulated the data
regarding diversity provided by
multiple measures.
• They are…
– Candidate Dispositions
– Lesson Plan Scoring Sheet
– Observation Report
– Practicum Evaluation Report
– Teacher Work Sample
What We Found
• Based on the identified measures,
improvement in the area has been seen.
• Student Exit Surveys, however, indicate
both graduate and undergraduate
candidates express concern regarding the
use of IEP’s to plan strategies for
integrating students with disabilities into
the classroom.
• The committee will work to close the
perception disparity between faculty and
candidates in this area.
Actions to be Taken
• Develop a strategy to bring
consistency to the collection of pre
and post data from diversity
courses and activities.
• In our Strategic Plan and Academic
Plan, there are multiple strategies
for creating a “Culture of Diversity.”
Academic Plan
• Investigate demographics of college-ready
students to set diversity goals for student
diversity by September 2012, and, based on the
findings, implement for the 2014 AY. (Dean of
Enrollment)
• Conduct a cultural climate survey no later than
May 2013. (VPAA)
• Implement strategies to increase faculty diversity
by Fall 2014. (VPAA and HR)
• Investigate ESL needs in the community and
develop a proposal based on identified needs by
October 2013. (VPAA and Dean of Education)
• Identify academic program initiatives that would
support outreach to diverse populations in the
community by May 2014. (Chairs)
Strategic Plan
• Implement a plan to engage the campus
in achieving a culture of diversity
• Implement a plan to recruit and retain
under-served minority populations
• Increase student, faculty, and staff
diversity
• Increase retention of at-risk populations
• Offer programming indicative of a
diverse campus
• Increase student and faculty international
exchange
• Expand off-campus outreach to diverse
populations in the community
Increase Retention of
At-risk Students
• MTEL preparation strategies for
ALL our teacher candidates
• Communications and Literacy is
currently addressed by the Tudor
Center
• Content Specialty to be
implemented by certification
programs
External Strategies
• Social Networking
– -ie Facebook, blogs
• Professional Organizations
– ie Kappa Delta Pi
• Educational Community
Websites
– ie E-pals
Door Prize!
Moving Forward
AFI for Standard 4: Tracking Diversity
Placements in Pre-practicum and
Practicum
• Need faculty to make sure pre-practicum
survey is filled out—mandatory—how do
we insure that?
• Jason will be building a data base for
practicum placements based on that
information
• Jason and Grad Chairs will work with
Extended Campus to develop a process
(Brine, MEC, and MAVA) for tracking prepracticum and practicum placements
Other Pieces as
We Move Forward
 TK20 Compliance and earlier
data
 SPA assessments into TK20
 Programs will decide which
courses to take earlier data on
for program specific analysis
Dispositions Assessments and
Education Unit Review
• Please teach dispositions explicitly
in each course
• Insist on appropriate and
professional behavior and model it
• Rudeness & Disrespect—a
growing trend
• Forgery—a growing trend
Education Unit Review Proposal
• Title it “Education Unit Review”
• Initiated from the Dean of
Education Office
• New Form
Rollout as We Move Forward
• Fall 2013
– Licensure Specific Evaluation Questions
– Practicum Log with Full Responsibility
– New Mentor Qualifications
• Spring 2014
– SEI Course
– Lesson Plan and Lesson Plan Guidelines
• Fall 2014
– Observation Rubric
– Practicum Evaluation with Licensure Questions
Embedded
– Preservice Performance Assessment (PPA)
– New Dispositions Assessment
Reflections from the Dean
Reflections from the Dean
• Thank you for all your support and
great work this year.
• Thank you for coming to the
retreat and other unit meetings. It
is a testament to your dedication
to our work.
• In the fall we will begin again– a
new path to renewal and
Continuous Improvement
Have a Great Summer!
Thanks for coming!