Early Childhood Plan of Action to Address NAEYC Probation and Resubmit
1st Resubmission Date: September 15, 2011
2nd Resubmission Date: March 15, 2012
Tasks/Procedures To Be Completed
Analyze the feedback from the
NAEYC/NCATE reviewers.
Review TWS expectations, rubric,
and sample projects
Responsible Individual(s) Specific Plan of Action/Results
ECH faculty and dept.
chair
Early Childhood Faculty Review a range of projects representing different
proficiency levels.
Due Date
Completed
Map competencies needed for the
TWS to earlier courses.
Early Childhood Faculty
Completed
Provide assistance to candidates
completing the WTWS this
semester during student teaching.
Reviewed alignment of standards to
courses and to assessments.
Revised alignment of elements of
standards to courses and
assessments
Completed major course revisions
to ensure alignment of courses with
standards and assessments.
Create plan for collection of
primary grade level data.
Wolf and Benelli
.Identified places within prerequisite courses for ECH
480 where students could gain background knowledge
and skills that would allow them to be more successful
with the TWS
Met with candidates and discussed WTWS tasks that
candidates often find challenging.
Early Childhood Faculty
Review current alignment.
Completed
Early Childhood Faculty
.Reconfigure the required NAEYC/NCATE
assessments to ensure alignment standards and with
course content.
Revise ECH 355 and 356
Completed
Completed
Revise assessment for planning
Early Childhood faculty
Develop assessments for second
content assessment and develop
rubrics
Early Childhood Faculty
Determine how/when data for primary-grade level
competencies will be assessed literacy; Science, SSED,
and Math primary-level courses
Revise/create assessments for each primary content
area
Create rubrics for each primary content area
Revise/create assessments for each pre-primary content
area
Create rubrics for each pre-primary content area
Collect Primary Data
More specific focus on competencies in the assessment
and the rubrics
Wolf and Lee
Early Childhood faculty
Completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
May 17
May 17
Review and revise field experience
evaluation
Review “effects on student
learning” assessment and rubric
Wolf and Goff
Revise Family/Community
assessments and rubrics
Lee and Goff
Early Childhood faculty
More specific focus on competencies.
Data collection in Fall 2011
Determine whether ECH 480 or ECH 410 or both work
samples will be used for data collection’
Align TWS rubric with NAEYC standards/elements
Data collected from Spring 2011 Student Teachers
More specific focus on competencies in the assessment
and rubrics
Data Collected in C&I 476 in Fall 2011
Align assessment and rubric with NAEYC standards
and elements
Create/revise learning environment assessments at preprimary and primary levels
Revise rubrics
Collect primary data
Identify standards/elements/assessments for which data
indicates need for remediation plan
Develop remediation plan for identified content/skills
for which candidates perform poorly
Analyze primary data noting strengths and weaknesses
Identify standards/elements/assessments for which data
indicates need for remediation plan
Develop remediation plan for identified content/skills
for which candidates perform poorly
Assessments 2-8
All components required for response to conditions
will be included in the draft.
May 17
Dec. 20
May 17
May 17
Dec. 20
May 17
Revise Professional Development
assessments and rubrics
Create Learning Environment
assessment and rubric
Wolf
Create Remediation plan as
requested by NAEYC
Early Childhood faculty
Analysis of Spring data
Create Remediation plan as
requested by NAEYC
Early Childhood faculty
Early Childhood faculty
Compile all assessments and rubrics
First draft of NAEYC response to
probation sent to faculty
Meet to discuss draft
Revision of Draft
Dooley
Dooley
Faculty respond to second draft
Final Copy of Report for September
15, 2011 First Submission
Fall Semester Implementation of
Revised/New Assessments
Meet to discuss Fall data
Meet to discuss NAEYC feedback
Address any concerns raised by
Early Childhood faculty
Dooley
June 21
June 28 – Email to
faculty
July 2
July 15
Early Childhood faculty
Fall, 2011
Early Childhood faculty
Dooley & ECH faculty
Dooley & ECH faculty
Jan. 13, 2012
Feb. 2, 2012
February 20
Wolf, Lee, and Goff
Early Childhood faculty
Dooley
Revisions based on feedback from June 21st meeting
If needed
May 17
Work on during May 17
meting
June 7
June 7
June 10
June 18
NAEYC
Create Draft of response to
feedback
Discuss draft of response
Revise response
Feedback on second draft
Submit second response to
probation
Spring Semester Administration of
Assessments (2nd semester of data
collection)
All Spring data in WEPPAS
Meet to discuss Spring data
Dooley
If needed
February 26
Dooley & ECH faculty
Dooley
ECH faculty
Dooley
If needed
If needed
If needed
If needed
March 2
March 7
March 10
March 15
ECH faculty
Spring, 2012
May 18, 2012
May 21, 2012