September 26, 2011
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Exhibition Lounge, Corey Union
Minutes
Members Present: Amy Schutt, Angela Pagano, Anne Burns-Thomas, Bonni Hodges, Charlotte
Pass, Cynthia Benton, Cynthia Moriarity, Damien Pitman, David Smukler, Emilie Kudela, Gigi
Peterson, Gregory Phelan, Janet Duncan, JoEllen Bailey, John Shedd, Kara Silverman, Karen
Hempson, Karen Stearns, Kim Rombach, Laura Campbell, Lynn Couturier, Mary Gfeller,
Michele Gonzalez, Mike Collins, Patricia Alikakos, Paulo Quaglio, Randi Storch, Regina
Grantham, Rena Janke, Taylor Hughes, William Buxton, Michelle Kelly, Andrea Lachance,
Dennis Farnsworth, Eileen Gravani, John Cottone, Joy Mosher, Mariangela Chandler, Marley
Barduhn, Susan Wilson, Douglas Wieczorek
Members Absent: Beth Klein, Brice Smith, Chris Widdall, Christopher Gascon, Codruta
Temple, Cynthia Sarver, David Dickerson, Dwight Pfennig, German Zarate-Hoyos, Henry Steck,
Isa Jubran, Jena Curtis, Judith Ouellette, Kevin Mack, Kevin Sheets, Matthew Lessig, Michael
Pitcher, Mike Kniffin, Peter Ducey, Phil Buckenmeyer, Robert Darling, Robert Spitzer, Scott
Anderson, Seth Asumah, Sharon Steadman, Sharon Todd, William Skipper, Bruce Mattingly,
Carol VanDerKarr, Gail Wood, Jerome O’Callaghan, Lewis Rosengarten, Lorraine Melita, Mark
Prus, Merle Canfield, Michael Pitaro
The meeting was called to order at 1:00pm by Marley Barduhn, Chair
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Item # Description
Introduction of New/Voting Members
Marley began the meeting by asking that all members and guests in attendance introduce themselves in a round-table fashion. Marley thanked everyone for making the effort to attend this important meeting and indicated that we would be

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3. dealing with some challenging items this academic year, and summarized the year as being the year of assessment and field experiences.
Marley asked the group for modifications and/or edits to the minutes of the May
6, 2011 meeting of the TEC. Mariangela Chandler moved that the minutes be accepted. Her motion was seconded by David Smukler and the minutes were unanimously approved as written.
Marley asked if there were any objections to the roster of voting/ex-officio members that was presented. Hearing none, the roster of voting/ex-officio members was approved for the 2011-2012 Academic year.
Marley then nominated Johanna Hartnett of the SUNY Cortland Child Care Center as a new representative to the TEC Advisory Board. Her nomination was seconded by Regina Grantham and approved unanimously.
Standing & Ad Hoc Committee Reports
 Assessment-Andrea Lachance, chair, indicated that the committee has met once this semester and has identified two focus points for the work of the committee: identification of a common assessment stemming from the culminating experiences of the various graduate teacher education programs, and the identification of a common assessment of student learning. The objective of the committee is to have something to present to the full body of the TEC by the end of the Fall 2011 semester.
 TECRC-No Report
 Curriculum-No Report
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Conceptual Framework-Joy Mosher, Chair, indicated that her committee was in the process of discussing potential meeting dates. The focus of the committee this year will be to determine how and how well our conceptual framework reflects the interests and goals of our advanced and graduate programs and to determine identifying features that make us distinct from all other institutions. The work of this committee is on-going.
 Bylaws-Marley indicated that she has asked Dennis Farnsworth to seek members for and convene this committee with an eye toward updating our current bylaws to reflect current realities/changes to the Professional
Education Unit and the TEC. Marley polled the group to ascertain whether there was interest in making the TEC Bylaws committee a standing committee of the TEC. The general consensus was that the committee should remain Ad Hoc with a specific timeline for updates, e.g. every 3 years.
 Dispositions-Marley indicated that this committee is currently in flux, as the chair retired in August. Anyone interested in serving on this or any

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5. committee of the TEC should notify Dennis Farnsworth.
Amend the TEC Bylaws to create two additional standing committees:
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Bylaws

Conceptual Framework
It was determined that the membership preferred to see any modifications to the bylaws prior to taking any action on making this or the Conceptual Framework
Committees Standing Committees of the TEC. Opinions were voiced by a number of members in favor of maintaining the Ad Hoc status of these committee. The item was therefore tabled.
Changes to the NYS Teacher Certification & Testing Processes:
 Ad Hoc Committee on Teacher Certification-Marley informed the council that she had empaneled a new committee to deal with the many changes that are coming with regard to teacher certification processes and the NYS
Testing requirements. The committee has met a couple of times over the summer and will be doing a number of presentations on pending changes to the teacher certification process and NYS Teating requirements.
Specifically, please refer to the announcements section of the agenda for information on these sessions.
In related items, Marley informed the council that the SUNY Deans are monitoring activities related to the new video assessment and field tests that are to begin in
November 2011. She encouraged any program that wants to have an idea of what is involved in this new assessment to contact her if they would like to serve in the pilot process. The council engaged in discussion with regard to the new assessment with a number of members providing additional information. JoEllen
Bailey informed the membership that at a recent meeting with State Ed she was informed that there may be a one year window for full implementation after the implementation date but there is currently nothing in writing to this effect. Marley cautioned that with nothing in writing we should stick strictly to what the state has published regarding timelines. John Shedd questioned what information was available with regard to the new performance portfolio. Members were referred to the Teacher Education Website-Teacher Certification Page to see what info is available. Marley also mentioned that she is having weekly meetings (via telephone) with her contact at Pearson and will provide additional insight as it becomes available. Angela Pagano questioned how the schools are dealing with student identification issues on the videos, etc. Are they aware of these new requirements? Jo Ellen mentioned that in the same meeting referenced above, the state indicated that they will mandate participation with parents continuing to have an option to have their child excluded. Again, there is nothing available at

6. this time in written form. Doug Wieczorek indicated that he is not certain whether the schools will go along willingly or not. They are already as overburdened with state requirements and changes as we are. Bill Buxton advised that it is currently estimated that it will take candidates about 45 hours of work during the student teaching experience to complete the video and 2 other parts of the total performance portfolio. The format will be much the same as current TWS models.
Many questions remain to be answered including timeline, workload issues, liability issues, overlap of content and performance components, etc.
John Shirley, a guest to the meeting, advised the council that students are becoming increasingly stressed over these issues, particularly as they relate to testing requirements. In response the Career Services Office is doing many classroom presentations (as they are invited by professors) and they are advising students that unless they are certain of graduating by May 2013 they should refrain from taking any tests at this time. He noted that there are also questions about whether the current tests will be good for certificate progression. Another item for candidates and advisors to be aware of is that the Individual Evaluation option sunset has been moved back to 2013 while the state evaluates how well the new tests are going to work. John ended his update by advising that there is a great deal of misinformation out there right now. If individual programs/classes/departments would like to have John speak at their monthly meetings or class sessions all they need do is ask to be scheduled. Emphasis was added to the fact that we currently have a sandwich seminar scheduled for Sept
28, 2011 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Jacobus Hall, Brockway and an added session particularly for students on the evening of the 28 th from 7:00pm to 8:00pm in the same location as the sandwich seminar. Marley ended this portion of the agenda by updating the members on the numbers of out of state and international certification verification requests that her office is dealing with. She noted that there are indeed jobs available. . .they may not be in New York State but they are out there.
NCATE/SPA Updates:
 UA B Meets from Oct. 23 – Oct. 28, 2011.
 SPA Updates
We currently still have 7 programs that are involved in preparing either first or second rejoinders to conditions identified by the SPAs. Marley indicated that she is hopeful that the new requirement for 7 standards each with no more than 7 elements will streamline future iterations of these reports and make the process itself much more manageable.
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Advanced Programs Workshop Next Steps: Conceptual Framework

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Integration, Assessments, field experiences for candidates.
Marley reviewed the workshop that was conducted with advanced programs before the summer hiaitis and reinforced that there was a deadline of September
30, 2011 for programs to advise her office of steps that would be taken with regard to making the conceptual framework more reflective of our advanced programs, identify new assessments and data needs, and identification of what might serve as field experiences for our advanced programs, as required by NCATE. Marley encouraged participants in that workshop to complete their reviews/reports and file them with her office ASAP.
Simulated Clinical Field Experiences
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Follow-up Meeting on Oct. 3, 2011 from 3pm to 4pm, 1304 Cornish
Marley advised the council that in August a number of SUNY Cortland faculty and professional staff visited with Dr. Benjamin Dotger at SU to observe a clinical field experience activity. The group that attended this simulation will meet on the date above to provide feedback on the experience and to explore whether or not this type of clinical experience may be something that we wish to persue here at SUNY
Cortland.
Marley asked Doug Wieczorek to provide the group with an update on the last
FEAC meeting. Doug stated that he has been visiting with superintendents, principals and curriculum coordinators in several districts (23 or 24 in all). He indicated that currently the districts are under a great deal of stress with multiple changes, particularly in core curriculum. His focus has been to determine how we might forge stronger relationships/partnerships with our closest partners. He mentioned the example of a high school in Syracuse that has taken a 3 house approach to the school population with partners from higher ed assuming almost a co-teacher role with the building/district faculty with an eye toward providing improved teaching and instruction steeped in best practice in order to improve student achievement. This type of partnership will foster an exchange of information helping us to better understand the challenges of the 21 st century classroom and providing some insight into what the districts are going to need in order to meet new challenges/requirements. He also spoke briefly about the potential for us to more closely screen our candidates in concert with the districts in order to insure that only the best and brightest candidates enter the classroom.

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DESCRIPTION
Updates from Title II Committees:
SWD:
ELL:
TECH:
Advanced Programs Workshop Outstanding Items:
The due date for all items was to be Sept. 30, 2011.
These items need to be submitted to the Assistant
Provost for Teacher Education ASAP
Identified Assessments for Advanced Programs
Potential Field Experiences for Advanced Programs
Advanced Program Alignment to the Conceptual
Framework
PERSON RESPONSIBLE
Chairs:
Deans
Item
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Information regarding the Teacher Education Council, including agendas, minutes, member items, news items and miscellaneous documents can be found in the following areas:
 www2. Cortland.edu/Teacher Education/Professional Education Unit/Teacher
Education Council/Teacher Education Council Meeting Minutes Where to find documents related to the Teacher Education Council/Meetings?

My Red Dragon Groups-Teacher Education Council Group Site. (You must request membership in the group. We are located in the Academic Groups area.
Please pick up an informational handout on the 2012 CHEA Award
3. The Education Reform Series Kickoff Panel Discussion will be held on Sept. 27, 2011 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm in Jacobus Lounge, Brockway Hall. Please join us for this important discussion.
4. Information on approved Teacher and Principal Practice Rubrics, as well as a variance application to use a rubric other than the ones listed on the approved list is available at:

http://usny.nysed.gov/rttt/teachers-leaders/practicerubrics/
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Upcoming Changes to the NYS Teacher Certification Process and Examinations can be found at :
 http://www2.cortland.edu/teacher-education/teacher-certification.dot
 A Sandwich Seminar will be held on September 28 th in Jacobus Lounge for
Faculty and Staff from 12:30pm to 1:30pm titled NYS Teacher Certification: the
process, the exams, the future
 A student information session highlighting the recent changes to the NYS
Teacher Education Certification Process will be held on September 28, 2011 from
7:00pm to 8:00pm in Jacobus Lounge Brockway Hall. Please encourage your students to attend this very important meeting.
The SUNY Cortland Regional Professional Development School will host a poster session titled: A Celebration of Leaning and New Understandings highlighting recent mini-grant projects. Please join us in Jacobus Lounge, Brockway Hall on Thursday September 29,
2011 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.
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The Title II Survey for ELL that was recently distributed has a deadline for submission of
September 31, 2011 at close of business. Please return this important feedback to
Paulo Quaglio promptly.
I f you have items for future agendas or announcements concerning teacher education issues please direct them to the members of the TEC Steering Committee. Information on the committee and the current representatives can be found at: http://www2.cortland.edu/teacher-education/professional-education-unit/teacher-
9. education-council/tec-standing-committees/index.dot
Update on field testing of the new teacher certification exams:
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Information on how to register for the October Webinar as well as the date and time is to be announced shortly
 Field testing will take place in November 2011. If you would like to participate please contact Dr. Barduhn
10. NYS Board of Regent’s is considering changes to the NYS Teaching Standards. For more information go to: http://www.regents.nysed.gov/meetings/2011Meetings/September2011/911brca7.pdf

Next Meeting Date October 24, 2011 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Next Meeting Location Exhibition Lounge, Corey Union

2011-2012 TEC Voting Members
Representing Status Name
Seth Asumah
Peter Ducey
Gregory Phelan
Cynthia Benton
Africana Studies
Biological Studies
Chemistry
Childhood/Early Childhood
Ed
Communication Disorders and Sciences Regina Grantham
German Zarate-
Hoyos
Kevin Mack
Matthew Lessig
Economics
Educational Leadership
English
David Smukler
Scott Anderson
Robert Darling
Sharon Steadman
Bonni Hodges
Randi Storch
Foundations and Social
Advocacy
Geography
Geology
International Studies
Health
History
Christopher Gascon Modern Languages
Phil Buckenmeyer Kinesiology
Michele Gonzalez
Isa Jubran
Lynn Couturier
Brice Smith
Literacy
Mathematics
Physical Education
Physics
Robert Spitzer
Judith Ouellette
William Skipper
Sharon Todd
Rena Janke
Angela Pagano
Beth Klein
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology/Anthropology
Parks and Leisure Studies
Biological Sciences
Biological Sciences
Childhood Education
Kim Rambach
Emilie Kudela
Jena Curtis
William Buxton
Damien Pitman
JoEllen Bailey
Kevin Sheets
Cynthia Moriarity
Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education
Health
Literacy
Mathematics
Physical Education
Social Studies (MSEd)
TSD
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John Shedd
Codruta Temple
David Dickerson
Karen Stearns
Paulo Qualgio
Cynthia Sarver
Amy Schutt
Mary Gfeller
Chris Widdall
Dwight Pfennig
Janet Duncan
Charlotte Pass
Laura Campbell
Mike Kniffin
History-SST
Modern Languages
Mathematics
English
Modern Languages
English
History
Mathematics
Childhood/Early Childhood
Ed
Educational Leadership
Foundations and Social
Advocacy
Literacy
Health
Physical Education
Communication Disorders and Sciences
TEC Advisory Group
Michael Pitcher
TBD
Henry Steck
Gigi Peterson
School of Arts & Sciences
School of Arts & Sciences
Karen Hempson School of Education
Anne Burns-Thomas School of Education
School of Professional
Studies
School of Professional
Studies
Kara Silverman School of Education
Taylor Hughes School of Education
School of Professional
Studies
School of Professional
Studies
Mike Collins School of Arts & Sciences
Patricia Alikakos School of Arts & Sciences
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