Department of Special Education
Department Meeting 2/19/14
In attendance: Casey, Katy; Collet-Klingenberg, Lana; Collins, James; Gordon, David;
Gwalla-Ogisi, Nomsa; Jewell, Kelly; Kolb, Sharon; Schultz, Tia; Stevens Griffith, Amy;
Stuart, Shannon; Troemel, Eileen
1. Announcements – meeting begins at 3:49
a. Approve minutes
i. Moved – Katy Casey
ii. 2nd – Kelly Jewell
iii. Carried unanimously
b. Complete chair eval survey
c. Review Rowand and Simone’s books before 2/26
d. Advising period begins week of 3/3 – fall registration begins 4/7 (week of CEC)
e. James and Kelly got their first IRB approved
f. Other announcements (5 minutes)
2. Student issues
a. Phase 4 requirements with study abroad – David Gordon
i. Student leaving on 3/7 to go to Ecuador so won’t have time to do her FBA
and other items before she goes.
ii. Ecuador is 8 weeks
iii. He is willing to give her an extension on everything except the edTPA
iv. Submission of the artifacts should be left up to the 480/680 instructors and
university supervisors.
v. edTPA is non-negotiable but other phase 4 artifacts when exceptions are
needed it should be left up to instructor and university supervisor
vi. Sweden students should complete the FBA/BIP before they go
vii. Sweden students will do everything before they leave
viii. May have to make some accommodations for individual situations
ix. When we piloted in Ecuador for ECE last year they had spotty internet
3. Nomsa Gwalla-Ogisi motions that - Want to make it a policy that our students cannot do
two study abroad programs during their student teaching semester
a. 2nd by Sharon Kolb
b. Carried unanimously
4. Timeline for curricular change
a. Do we want to aim for spring or fall 15
b. Grad is due at the same time
c. Other changes occurring in other programs – it might be worthwhile to see how
these changes play out
d. We are going to try to meet the deadline for Fall of 15. Set a date late in April for
when we want to be done with getting the changes done
e. Have these curricular changes done by the April 30 department meeting
5. Immediate changes to minor advising (15 minutes)
a. Minors present a major load for 385, discussion to have the minors not take 385
b. If they aren’t doing 385, why would they do 361?
c. Major program change if we drop the two classes and substitute one or two
classes.
d. 458 and 410 – similar sort of conversation. 410 there will be a conflict for next
semester. Secondary majors will have a conflict for sure but not certain on the
others. The issue is do we sub 458 / 410?
e. Curricular issue – co-teaching is known and liked by other departments and
outside university
f. Not doing 385 fieldwork for minors
g. We have not decided on whether we have 1 or 2 sections for 361 – one with
minors (not linked to field) and one with majors
h. Fall projection has 28 for both major and minors for 361
i. 361 is evolving with the recent changing to include lesson planning for special
education.
j. 361 is moving toward an edTPA prep, the course is lesson planning and then how
to implement their lesson plan
k. Two different preps if we have to differentiate between minors and majors.
l. It is still doing everything it used to do but it is now using the edTPA lens
m. Will the minors benefit from the course? Yes we would just have to take out the
lesson plan portion out of it.
n. It is premature for us to overhaul this for what we have done because we have the
minor already approved, if we do this then it is a curricular change that has to be
submitted. What do we do in the interim? We have to teach what is on the books.
o. Motion by Amy Stevens Griffith – we offer two sections of 361 one for majors
and one for minor and allow the instructor differentiate content within the course
description and objective
i. Seconded by Tia Schultz
ii. This is only related to fall and possibly spring
iii. Carried with one opposing and one abstaining
p. For 458 / 410 what do we want to do?
i. Do we do the same thing with 410? Do we keep the two sections for 458?
ii. Keep things as they are until we get further information
6. Curriculum (rest of meeting)
a. Rowand or Lana will go talk to ComDis about being able to sub ComDis 270
b. 325 – content change LD eligibility and SRSD Methods (ADHD) Amy and
Ozalle doing the curricular change
c. Speced 450 – Rowand Robinson and Nomsa Gwalla-Ogisi will do the proposal
d. Speced 465 – move to senior 1 semester and Sharon Kolb will do the proposal
e. Speced 486 – Amy Stevens Griffith will do the proposal
f. Specfld 385 – will come back to this – possibly change from 2 to 3 credits
g. Elemmid 425 – come back to this
h. Speced 487 – Amy Stevens Griffith will do the proposal
i. Specfld 410 – David Gordon will do the proposal
j. Speced 406 – move to Junior 2
k. Speced 440 – Tia Schultz will do the proposal
l. Speced 473 – Kelly Jewell and Katy Casey will do the proposal
m. Speced 475 – Rowand Robinson, Lana Collet-Klingenberg, and James Collins
will do the proposal
n. Specfld 485 – Tia Schultz will do the proposal
o. Speced 470 – Nomsa Gwalla-Ogisi, Rowand Robinson, and Kelly Jewell will do
the proposal
p. Specfld 489 – we may be able to reduce to 11 credits without it affecting FTE
q. Sharon Kolb, Shannon Stuart, and Lana Collet-Klingenberg will do a boilerplate
for justification of making the changes.
7. Graduate – postpone
8. Move to adjourn Amy Stevens Griffith
2nd
Nomsa Gwalla-Ogisi