Department of Special Education
Department Meeting 1/29/14
In attendance: Casey, Katy; Collet-Klingenberg, Lana; Collins, James; DeVore, Simone;
Gordon, David; Gwalla-Ogisi, Nomsa; Jewell, Kelly; Kolb, Sharon; Robinson, Rowand; Schultz,
Tia; Stevens Griffith, Amy; Stuart, Shannon; Toms, Ozalle; Troemel, Eileen;
1. Announcements meeting called to order at 3:35
a. Approve minutes from retreat
i. Moved Katy Casey
ii. 2nd David Gordon
b. Lana won COEPS Service Award; Rowand won the Advising Award
i. Would like to see these awards include graduate advisors
ii. Let Ozalle Toms (our rep for the committee) know that the reception is
preferred especially for the teaching award as it gives an opportunity to
have students attend
c. Travel training
i. All should take this as there have been issues with Concur
d. CPR & AED Training
i. The AED is on the 2nd floor and four of our faculty are trained in using
this
e. Mandatory reporting (Executive order 54)
i. Are we mandatory reporters? Scenario – if a student teacher comes to
faculty the faculty is required to make the call
ii. Rowand is checking on if this is the case for our field courses as well
f. Course Syllabi
i. Needs to be online or sent to the library
ii. When uploading can click a box that says release to the public
iii. Dean would prefer uploaded
iv. Should be a pdf
v. Search online “upload syllabi”
g. Winther remodel
i. 2015 – 17 on large remodel
ii. #1 goal of UW-Whitewater
iii. 34 million to do the remodel and it is not yet funded
iv. Will be adding bathrooms and elevators
v. In the meanwhile will see minor things done in some of the rooms like
replacing tables in the conference room
vi. It might be more cost effective to construct a new building
vii. Check to see if we can move a cabinet from 2014 to 2015
h. DSM workshop
i. Rowand handed out a flyer for DSM 5 Making the transition from DSM
IV-TR to 5 which will be held in March
2. NCATE / CAEP accreditation
a. Considering whether to be accredited
b. As a department we need to consider whether this is necessary
c. Does it have to be at the college level or can we as a department continue with
keeping the accreditation
d. The Dean felt the regorous state level covers NCATE and that NCATE is geared
towards research 1 schools
e. InTasc, NCATE, CEC and edTPA are all aligned
f. Madison isn’t NCATE accredited
g. 3 public schools are – Plattville, Stout, and Whitewater
h. Difference between Nationally recognized and NCATE accredited
3. ESAs – levels of evaluating students
a. Color coding – like green is good, yellow the student has issues, and red the
student should be advised to seek a different degree
b. This semester a student earned Ds in three courses (360, 361, 462) our current
curriculum policy is that students must have a C- or better
c. Do we structure courses or artifacts so if they fail the artifact or course they
cannot continue?
d. We need to be clear what will be able to be retaken or redone.
e. Are there key places where a student struggles on a project that puts them in an at
risk position for the whole program?
f. Is this all covered by our staffing policy?
g. Some of our rubrics need to change
h. Need to make serious discussion on what is passing
i. We haven’t decided as a department that we are using edTPA as a unit for our
student teaching semester
j. If they fail edTPA do they fail student teaching?
k. Going to use edTPA and edEval to replace unit plan and if they don’t pass they
have to redo.
l. Need scores for WTS standards
m. Use Phase 4 rubric to evaluate students
n. edTPA uses inTASC
o. needs to be a curricular revision
p. for the students going through right now what are we doing?
q. Kelly to look at rubric and edTPA to determine if there is similarity between the
two
r. The staffing procedure needs to be pulled and revisited for clarification for the
newer faculty members.
s. Within next two weeks Nomsa needs an answer on this
t. Subcommittee was formed to discuss and it includes Sharon Kolb, Rowand
Robinson, Nomsa Gwalla-Ogisi, and David Gordon
4. Curriculum
a. We need to decide whether to do a whole program revamp or step by step for the
program
b. Graduate and undergrad programs are under discussion
c. It is suggested we set objectives for meetings so we can move forward more
effectively
d. Set up additional meeting for graduate program discussion
5. Book update
a. Speced 360 Nomsa Gwalla-Ogisi motioned to adopt a new book
b. Sharon Kolb 2nd the motion
c. Carried unanimously
6. Mike Prosser contacted Sharon Kolb to discuss setting up a scholarship for speced in Sue
Prosser’s name. Sharon is going to refer him to Rowand for further discussion
7. Move to adjourn Kelly Jewell 2nd
Katy Casey