Department of Instruction and Teacher Education Faculty Meeting
Minutes
October 7, 2011
9:00 a.m.
In attendance: Gloria Boutte (Chair), Kelly Buchheister, Megan Burton, Nate Carnes, Diane DeFord, Ed
Dickey (Associate Chair), Amy Donnelly, Nancy Freeman, Margaret Gamble, Kathy Henson
(Guest), Tambra Jackson, Rhonda Jeffries, Pam Jewett, Amy Johnson-Lachuk, Margo Jackson,
Tambra Jackson, Tasha Laman, Susi Long, Julia Lopez-Robertson, Christine Lotter, Heidi Mills,
Meir Muller, Beth Powers-Costello, Susan Schramm-Pate, Lucy Spence, Mary Styslinger, David
Virtue, Beth White, Cookie Winburn, Jan Yow
I.
Approval of Minutes from August 16, 2011
A. Minutes were approved unanimously
II.
Report From Department Chair and Associate Chair
A. Department Chair –Gloria Boutte
a. Formal congratulations
i. to Kim Smoak and Erin Miller who received continuing contracts as
Clinical Senior Instructors for 2011-2012 academic year
b. Bonus update
i. $834.00 due faculty and staff Oct. 31, 2011; Dean Watson and Chair
Boutte will review the performance of faculty over the past 3 years
to inform future raises
c. Replenishment of Faculty Positions
i. Programs areas should review faculty needs and develop and
submit proposal requests to Dr. Boutte for Assistant or Associate
Professor hires by November 15, 2011
1. Include a summary of growth projections in your program
area including enrollments and ideas for outreach to rural
areas
ii. Executive Council will determine which positions will be filled in the
COE
iii. Award notification is March 1, 2012
d. ITE Committees
i. Each committee area must compile a list of accomplishments and
plans for the future by the April 2012 ITE meeting
e. Web Presence
i. USC is in the process of “branding” itself
ii. A format is forthcoming for each Unit to follow to enhance its web
presence
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iii. In the meantime, Faculty should update their profiles and add any
relevant links to the Department and College web directories
1. Right click on your name in the COE link to update your
profile
2. Username is last name; Password is last 4 digits of SS#
f. Protocol for Communication to Chair(s)
i. Dr. Boutte is Chair of the Department and as such acts as signatory
and legal representative; faculty and staff should go to Chair first
before Dean Watson or Associate Chair Dr. Dickey
ii. Ed Dickey is Associate Chair of the Department; his duties involve
scheduling management
g. International Travel Supplement
i. Up to $1,500 is available to complement international travel to
faculty who are presenting at conferences
ii. To apply for funds, please see Dr. Boutte for application form
iii. $10,000 is in the budget category (i.e., first come first served)
h. Suite 107
i. Please remove any extraneous personal items from the suite; see
Susan Wilkinson for assistance
B. Associate Chair—Ed Dickey
a. Spring 2012 Schedule
i. Review Spring 2012 schedule and make sure everything is correctly
communicated between Faculty and Program Coordinator and
Associate Chair
ii. Order textbooks from USC Bookstore according to USC policy
b. Course Dates and Times
i. AS203 Form
1. Submit form to Dickey to customize dates for courses that
do not follow USC schedule (this does not apply to contract
courses)
c. Course Evaluations
i. SER Form
1. Submit form to Dickey to allow Course Evaluations for
courses with 6 or less enrollments (this does not apply to
899s and practicum courses)
III.
Old Business
A. Tenure Track Faculty Annual Performance Review (APR)
a. Diane DeFord presented the APR Committee’s revised APR rubric
b. Diane DeFord moved to pass the revisions in the revised APR rubric for use
in ITE 2011 APRs
i. Discussion:
1. Clarity in language reflects the Departments desire for
faculty to use the rubric for self-reflection and selfevaluation of teaching, service, and scholarship
2. ITE Steering Committee will align the APR rubric to
correlate with Peer Review in Teaching Form
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3. Consideration needs to be given to new USC Faculty
Manual’s language (i.e., outstanding, excellent, good, fair,
unacceptable)
4. Editorial changes/suggestions for the ITE APR rubric should
be emailed to Diane DeFord
ii. Motion passed unanimously
B. Clinical Faculty Annual Performance Review (APR)
a. Amy Donnelly highlighted the APR rubric revisions under consideration by
the Clinical APR committee:
i. Need better clarification of teaching, scholarship, and service
functions (e.g., doctoral committee work, and work in Professional
Development Schools)
ii. Samples for formatting and organization of Clinical faculty APR files
are to be provided
iii. Rubric should encourage self-reflection and self-evaluation
b. Amy Donnelly requested editorial changes and suggestions for rubric
c. Amy Donnelly will survey Clinical Faculty and report findings at the
November 2011 ITE Meeting for a vote
IV.
New Business
A. Curriculum Committee
a. Susan Schramm-Pate reported that the ITE Curriculum Committee approved
the Course Proposal requests for EDTE 402 Teachers and Teaching and EDTE
402P Practicum: Teachers and Teaching
a. Mary Styslinger clarified the change
b. This action will embed the practicum into the EDTE 402 course
i. Credit hours will now be 4
ii. Course signifier will now be EDSE 402
c. ITE faculty unanimously voted yes to approve the change
b. Susan Schramm-Pate reported that the ITE Curriculum Committee approved to
change the language in the M.Ed. in Teaching booklet from : “Grade 2-Grade
12” to: “PreK-Grade 12” to broaden the option for M.Ed. in Teaching students
working in Pre-K-Grade 2 classrooms
a. ITE faculty unanimously voted yes to approve the change
B. Recruitment of Full Time Doctoral Students
a. Dickey presented a proposal for full time doctoral student recruitment which
has been reviewed by the ITE Steering Committee
a. A selection committee will be formed to:
i. Create an application by December 1, 2011
ii. Create an advertisement national recruitment
iii. Create a screening process for applicants
iv. Determine course load and research duties for students who
are awarded
b. All suggestions and recommendations should be forwarded to Dr. Boutte who
will report to ITE Steering Committee
C. Bafa Bafa Cultural Simulation Seminar
a. Megan Burton and Nate Carnes will conduct a 3 hour cultural simulation
seminar for diversity awareness and training on November 11, 9 a.m.-12
p.m.
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i. Interested participants should contact Megan Burton and Nate
Carnes
D. Noyce Scholarship Program
a. Kathy Henson and Jan Yow received an NSF grant to fund pre-service teachers
(i.e., juniors, seniors, and masters students) who wish to teach high school math
and science for $10,000 per year
a. New appointments are in February
b. Anyone interested should contact Kathy Henson and/or Jan Yow
b. Ed Dickey noted that there is professional development money in NSF for STEM
funding available for Language Arts integration connecting to Math and Science
V.
Good of the Order
A. Strom Thurman Wellness Center
a. Amy Johnson announced that the Strom Center:
i. Will not accept faculty family memberships
ii. Will rent pool/sand volleyball for faculty and student retreats
iii. Will offer camping trips for faculty and their families
iv. Will continue its reduced rate for faculty until March 12, 2012
v. Will allow month to month summer membership for faculty
B. Family Fund
a. The ITE Family Fund number is 1A3606
C. COE
a. The COE has a new publicist and writer
b. Anyone who plans to have an institute, workshop, or conference and wants to
use credit card payment options, please contact Becky Greer, Jason Kinsey, or
Bryan Burgin
D. Congratulations to:
a. Christine Lotter on her grant project “SIMPLE Science Inquiry through Modeling
Pedagogy, Content Learning, and Evaluation”
b. Susi Long on being appointed to serve as a member of the Standing Committee
on Research for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
c. Gloria Boutte and Susi Long on their grant project, “Sankofa: Understanding
Sierra Leone History, Language, and Culture to Teach Future Generations”
E. Pre-service Teachers of Color Project
a. Please post the flyer and/or announce to students for Tambra Jackson and
Margo Jackson’s Pre-service Teachers of Color seminar
F. ITE Diversity Committee
a. Please plan to attend the Diversity Committee brown bag meeting from 8 a.m.9 a.m. in room 110 on November 4, 2011
Meeting adjourned at 10:55 a. m.
Respectfully submitted by:
Susan Schramm-Pate
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