Teacher Education Council Minutes
February 16, 2011
Members Present: Gabriela Adam-Rodwell, Travis Childs, Jennifer Dennis, Becky Easley, Claudia
Edwards, Courtney Glazer, Jennifer Holloway, Mandy Husak, Kurtis Koll, Howard Kuchta,
Paulette Martin, Lynda Robinson, David Schmahl, Michelle Smith, Vivian Thomlinson, Ronna
Vanderslice, and Stephanie White
Members Absent: Joel Dering, Greg Hoepfner, Teresa Lubrano, Jan Thomas, and Philip Zaninelli
Proceedings
Meeting called to order at 3:45 p.m. by Chair, Ronna Vanderslice
Director of Teacher Education Report
A. Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
(PARCC) is an alignment exercise with K12 and higher education to work on
an assessment to determine if high school students have what they need to
move up. State Supt. Barresi is on the board and advocates for it. Higher
ed’s role will be to help determine the assessment and acceptable
interventions.
B. NCTQ Report – US News & World Report is working with NCTQ to evaluate
the quality of teacher preparation programs by assigning each a grade. A
survey with a quick turnaround time has been distributed to the
universities. If a university does not participate, it will still be evaluated
based on public information and will likely fail. The rankings will be based
on syllabi and other key items—looking more at inputs than outputs.
C. Foreign language proficiency – Please be reminded of the policy for
students to demonstrate state-mandated proficiency. For most programs,
these hours are not included in the checksheet.
D. Standards Committees exist for each NCATE standard. Please join.
E. OCTP 2010 Annual Report includes passing rate by test and disaggregated
by program completers. Data is also aggregated by teacher preparation
program but only includes students who have been “claimed.” Cameron
didn’t claim many students’ OGETs or OSATs. Although we set claiming
criteria, most students take the test earlier.
Last month’s meeting minutes were approved.
Other Business
Old Business
1. Approved minutes from the November 17 meeting are posted at
http://www.cameron.edu/teacher_ed
New Business
1. Altering the criteria for “claiming” candidates for certification tests
We need to decide if the criteria we have in place for claiming
students needs to be changed since we are not claiming a majority of
students, many of whom pass the test. We will need more than one
year’s worth of data to know if the changed criteria is working or not.
Vivian Thomlinson made a motion to table the topic until the next
meeting so that the information can be taken back to the
departments. Lynda Robinson seconded the motion, and the motion
was approved.
Announcements/Discussion Items
A. All Program Reports uploaded to SPA September 15, 2012; due as pdf
to Director of Teacher Ed June 1, 2012; Must have 2 cycles of data for
each assessment; check for applicable standards for your area at
http://www.ncate.org/Standards/ProgramStandardsandReportForms/t
abid/676/Default.aspx
B. The education recruitment/retention event will occur on March 9 from
11:30-1:30. All programs should have a representative present to meet
and advise students. Students who attend will get first shot at signing
up for an enrollment appointment. Pizza will be served. Please call and
email your advisees to attend.
C. Field experience requirements for transfer students means that if the
course being transferred in did not have an equivalent field experience,
the student will be required to complete a field experience consisting
of the same number of hours as Cameron requires as part of the
transfer process.
Future Topics for Discussion
A. Background Checks
B. NCATE/TEAC—The Council for the Accreditation of Education
Preparation (CAEP) Accreditation
C. Meeting the 10 hour requirement
D. New model of teacher evaluation in the process of implementation
E. Phonics data will be collected next year in OCTP annual report
Meeting adjourned at 5:01 p.m. Minutes submitted by Courtney Glazer.