Minutes of the Advisory Council for Teacher Education Meeting, October 26, 2006, Assignments of History of Education

Download Minutes of the Advisory Council for Teacher Education Meeting, October 26, 2006 and more Assignments History of Education in PDF only on Docsity! Minutes Advisory Council for Teacher Education October 26, 2006 In attendance: Sandy Blair, Doris Bolliger, Mark Byra, Bryce Cushman, Renee Griffith (by phone), Todd Krieger, Pat McClurg, Meredith McLaughlin, Kay Persichitte, Leslie Rush, Tim Rush, Audrey Shalinsky, Erica Willoughby, MaryAnn Wurzel (by phone), DJ Yocum, Leslie Zorko. New Business: Tim welcomed the group and opened the meeting. DJ moved to approve the September 28, 2006 minutes. Sandy seconded the motion. All approved to accept as written. Todd began with information re: College of Education’s Freshman Interest Group (FIG): Exploring a Teaching Career for fall 2007. Handout given to group. Todd has spoken with Laurie Bonini (student affairs). Kay asked what the purpose is in bringing this up to the group. Todd explained it is to make everyone aware and receive feedback. It was discussed that the current FIG is for Education in general. Tim asked what the intentions are for these groups. Todd explained that there are 20-24 students blocked into “schools of interest” that live in the same residence hall and take this set of three courses together to reinforce interest in education and to allow these freshmen to form a tight community. Erica was in FIG last year and shared it was a good way to meet people and make schedules together, do homework, etc. This year’s title is, Exploring a Teaching Career and has already filled up. Tim asked if there would be a way to find out if UW did a study to find out the success rate of FIG and what the drop out rates have been since FIG started. Todd suggested checking with Laurie Bonini. Tim will also check with Kelly Lowe. Kay discussed curriculum requests to discontinue EDST 3500 (replaced with EDST 3550) and EDST 1000 (replaced with EDST 1500). DJ moved to accept request to discontinue both. Leslie Z. seconded motion. Discussion followed: DJ informed group this is effective immediately in terms of practice and will be out of the bulletin next semester. Leslie R. asked if there are any students needing EDST 3500 for the program. Leslie Z. answered no, all students have gone through. All in favor. None opposed. Kay discussed changing prerequisites of ITEC 2360- current is 6 hours of education courses. Kay recommended approving request to change to “preference to Education majors”. DJ moved to approve. Leslie R. seconded. Bob suggested updating the title (for referral back to ALT). All in favor. None opposed. Kay addressed the addition of a new course: EDSE 3020 Facilities & Advisory Management (variable 2-4 credits) for the Technical Education program at UWCC. Prerequisite: junior standing in education. Kay recommended approving request. Renee moved to approve. Leslie R. seconded and asked if this is a required course for the program. Kay stated no, this approving an elective single course only offered at UWCC. Renee shared this will be a great course for the students. All in favor. None opposed. Kay shared information items regarding two new courses: ESS 4950 Exploring the Earth System (3 credits) and ESS 4970 Internship in Earth System Science (2 credits) pending University approval. Kay acknowledged that we appreciate the information and support their approval. Please note these courses are currently required in the concurrent major for Secondary Science Education: Earth System Science, though the curricula had not yet been finalized in spring 2006. Audrey S. moved to approve. DJ seconded. All in favor. None opposed. Leslie R. discussed EDSE 4035/5035 Wyoming Writing Project: A Writing Course for Teachers (3 credits); also a new course. This was developed with Ann Curry and takes the place of Composition for Teachers which was discontinued. It is an elective through Secondary Education for preservice teachers to help improve writing. DJ moved to accept. Meredith seconded motion. Sandy added the credits are given from the English department. All approved. None opposed. Tim announced that the possible new endorsement for Teachers of American Indian Children has been tabled for now. Old Business: Open discussion re: possible name change for Professional Learning Communities. DJ asked why we need a name change. Kay explained that PDS became a negative statement 4 years ago when the President of U.S. used PDS in a derogatory manner. We decided to change the name to Professional Learning Communities. Within the next 18 months the WDE began to use the term for statewide professional development targeting K-12 faculty in an application that differs from the CoEd concept. Our PLCs are community-based and WDE has used the DuFour’s definition for state purposes causing WDE PLCs and our PLCs to become confused. Leslie R. has talked with Secondary Education and suggested we go back to PDSs. Pat agrees with Leslie, if there was a negative connotation in the past, she is not heard about it recently. DJ voiced concern if we don’t know what we’re called, seems we don’t know what we’re doing. She would hate to see this happen again. Pat asked Kay if this conversation has occurred with faculty in the past. It was suggested using something with Partner Schools. Leslie R. likes this. Tim also likes this wording since there has been a 20 year history that makes it familiar with everyone. Sandy also thinks this makes sense. Kay suggested this is a starting place of discussion and this Council needs to make a suggestion to carry to Department Heads. Leslie R. moved to suggest “Partner Schools” to replace “PLCs”. Meredith seconded motion. Tim recommended not dragging this out and taking to Leadership Council. All approved. None opposed. Kay gave an update on the PTSB/NCATE accreditation review which she attended meetings with several boards in Washington D.C. recently. She sits on one of the boards- (SPAS). It will be very important in using the timelines in preparing reports. There has been significant change in the timeline for each SPA to submit revisions to their standards. Each must submit standards and reviews and the timelines have all been shifted further out. The current set of SPA standards stand through next fall. The online submission process has changed. There is also a high level of concern and frustration for the poor approval rates that some SPAs have documented thus far. Soon, we will need to identify our proposed dates for spring 2008 and Department Heads/ Leadership Council will set dates. This is important for each of us to note as the site review will require extensive time during that week. Tim asked if there are other members at UWCC participating in program reports. Rod Thompson in Tech Ed will write a report. Pat stated it is never too soon to start in Arts & Sciences and Health Sciences. Pat also shared, in the last review, we had some Areas for Improvement (AFIs) noted. Mark suggested that a recap of the AFIs from 2000 be placed on the next ACTE agenda. Kay will also bring the actual 2000 BOE review notes of AFIs. Tim asked what the ACTE’s roll is in this process. Kay explained the ACTE does not have a roll in the program reports, but will provide continuous review for the Institutional Report, due approximately two months before the site review. The Institutional Report goes to the NCATE Board of Examiners team before they come onsite. The ACTE will help develop and correct the IR. This will be Kay’s # 1 priority this summer, so that by next fall when the ACTE meets, we will review drafts and prepare the final version. Other information: Leslie R. shared that the discussion evolving in Secondary Education regarding a concurrent major or endorsement in Engineering is just beginning. She will share additional information as the discussion continues. Kay announced the CoEd Ambassadors are moving forward with the WTEP Welcome Banquet for Phase II EDST 3000 students. This year’s theme is “Dressed to Teach”. Yellowstone Ballroom on February 8, 2007, Thursday evening, 5:30-9:00pm. They are working on funding and guest speakers. Kay also had an announcement for Audrey Kleinsasser and the Partnership: Sublette County #1 (Pinedale) has given a second donation to the Wyoming School-University Partnership of $25,000. The funds will be used to