Data Retreat Minutes
August 16, 2012
Attendance: Tara Alvey, Lisa Barron, Benita Bruster, Bettie Barrett, Tom Buttery,
Moniqueka Gold, Gina Grogan, Jeannine Hirtle, Joe Jerles, Charmaine Lowe, Larry
Lowrance, Don Luck, Rebecca McMahan, Barbara Peterson, Jennie Preston-Sabin,
Anthony Sanders, Tammy Shutt, Gary Stewart, Tom Stewart, Anne Wall, Shirley
Walrond, Lauren Well, Leah Whitten, Jammie Cox, Jana Hatcher, Jasmine Jones, Martha
Andrews, Theresa Dezellem, Judy Castleberry, Ellen Taylor, Rebecca Shelton, Ann
Assad, Eric Branscome, Michele Butts, Linda Davis, Osvaldo Di Paolo, Michele Rogers,
Marcy Maurer, Lisa Lewis, Norbert Puszkar, Ron Robertson, Miguel Ruiz-Aviles, Kevin
Schultz, Jennifer Snyder, Karen Sorenson, Jackie Vogel, Timothy Winters, Mary
Rennerfeldt, Jennifer Fillingham
Introduction: Dr. Hardin introduced new faculty and all other attendees introduced
themselves and the department they represent.
Major changes for the year
 Ready2Teach – All courses above 3000 will be charged an extra $25.00 per
credit hour and the money will go into our Ready2Teach account. We will still be
able to pay all teacher stipends out of these funds. Beginning Spring 2013, we
will have to pay Pearson to grade all TPAs. All TPA scoring for this fall will be
free. There will also be funds available from this account if a faculty member
presents on TPA.
PRAXIS Changes
 A list of changes for Praxis testing was distributed for all attendees to review. It
was noted that some of the pedagogy tests are no longer required for certain
licensing areas. All changes are effective September 1st. New program sheets will
need to be developed because of these changes. More and more testing will be
administered via the computer.
 A flyer was distributed to all attendees with available dates of several PLT
workshops presented by Dr. Leah Whitten. The workshops are available to any
student(s) who would like a little extra help preparing for the PLT praxis test. A
stipend of $500 is available to any other faculty member who would also like to
present a PRAXIS workshop.
NCATE
 Update
o April 6, 2014 will be our next NCATE visit
o This will be our 60th year for accreditation
 Reasons we are in great shape
o We are the pilot program for NACTE
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o They are using our report as a model
o Dr. Hardin will do three presentations for NCATE this fall
Needed items for NCATE
o We need your current vitas sent electronically to Jammie Cox –
coxj@apsu.edu as soon as possible
o We need updated NCATE survey - please update personal information- if
you are a new faculty please fill out and return to Jammie Cox
o NCATE committee handout-if you want to be on a committee please let
Dr. Hardin know as soon as possible. If you are on a committee and want
to change please let her know
Dispositions Forms
o A disposition form that can go out with students when they go out to do
observation is available
o The good thing about using this form is we can pull data from the form
o Instructors are responsible for providing their students with the form
Key Assessments
o The Key Assessment Committee ran reports on all students that were
scheduled to student teach this spring
o The report showed a K-6 student that had over 600 assessments-it also
showed the standard, the instructor, and when the assessment was meet
o One thing we are still missing is technology in some of the majors
o We hope to eventually have a report on students in advanced programs
o Dr. Wall presented key assessments to faculty
 Dr. Wall asked every faculty to fill out a form for their course key
assessment
 Every class will have at least one key assessment-if you would like
to add a key assessment please see Dr. Wall
 If you are not sure if your course should have a key assessment
please see Dr. Hardin or Dr. Wall
 Dr. Wall will keep all key assessments open two weeks after the
term ends
 If your student’s name is in red it could mean one of two things:
They haven’t bought Livetext or they haven’t put their APSU
account information in
Standards Review Policy Initial Licensure – faculty was presented with a proposed
policy for determining if candidates have met standards
Standards Review Policy Initial Licensureo Dr. Wall made motion to pass. Dr. Luck seconded. Motion passed.
Standards Review Policy – Advanced Program
o Dr. Gary Stewart made motion to pass. Dr. Benita Bruster seconded.
Motion passed.
Ready2Teach
o By Fall 2013- we will have to fully implement Ready2Teach
o That means we will need to have both the SPED & Secondary Blocks
implemented as well. Dr. Hardin will be meeting with all the SPED
students this fall to help map out their schedules for the block classes
o Secondary Block handout – spring 2013- Residency 1
o We will attempt to run a Secondary Block for spring 2013
o Candidates will be going out to the schools for 5 weeks
o We will offer different sections for those students who can’t go out
for 5 weeks
Dr. Hardin would like to have a meeting with all secondary coordinators on
September 5th at 3:45
Important-We will not have EDUC 4080 in summer any longer because of the 5
week observation requirements. We will continue to offer EDUC 5080 in the
summer.
TPA
o Reality this fall for EVERYONE except SPED!
o Page 23 of the Data retreat book will have the TPA results for Fall
& Spring
o Same assessments will take place on all students
o Test has changed from 1-4 scale to 1-5. SPED hasn’t been
calibrated yet.
o Academic language-workshop this fall, Sept. 28
o Dr. Lisa Barron will be hosting workshops with the Clinical
Teaching staff on TPA
o Castleberry will work with methods students.
o This fall we are still part of pilot. Spring will be part of study.
o Spring results, Dr. Hardin is proud. None were graded by APSU
personnel. Our students did well.
o Lesson plans
o New lesson plan model has been developed to integrate
TPA into lesson plans
Standards
o Each candidate must meet two sets of standards- APSU Professional Education
Standards & Content Standards
o Found on DOE Teacher Licensure webpage
o All standards for every program licensed in TN
o As we speak today, these are the approved standards. TN has adopted
Common Core. This summer SDOE sent email that standards are
changing and moving to Common Core. Dean(Education), Davis(English)
Puszkar(Foreign Lang.), Pirkle(Science) are on state committee
o 7 programs have 2013 deadline to change standards
o Program sheet
 Has PRAXIS test codes at top
 List of courses needed to meet the standards for program
 Look at and note changes. If not, it is going on web.
 Needs to match what you sent to academic council
 Matrix should match program sheet
 Certification & Dean have gone through course by course to make
sure everything matches over the last couple of weeks.
 If you have note in folder, please make corrections & get back to
Dean.
 Had to redo all program sheets to update PSY 3130 to EDUC 4440
 If you have required core, make sure it is listed on program sheet
 Try to format program sheets like the elementary education
program sheet
 If you have electives, make sure they meet standards
Milestone II
o Required application on website
o We will no longer automatically review everyone in 3070. Students must
complete this application, get advisor to sign form, and give to Martha Andrews
o To complete, go to self service. View test scores
o On One Stop Advising, use comment box to show how you advised students
o The scores are uploaded once we receive the CD from ETS
Data
o Dr. Hardin reviewed Data Retreat report with faculty and discussed how to extract
data from the report to write their departmental reports.
Group Assignments
 Everyone was asked to break up into small groups and discuss/answer the
following topics:
o What is going well?
o What are our weaknesses?
o What are some suggestions for improving Teacher Education Program?
Group I
 What is going well?
o Collect Data
o Prepare students in content
o Improving diversity in culture and gender
o Collaborate well
 What are weaknesses?
o Increase teacher candidate professionalism
o Increase minority improvement and retention
o Improve student awareness of Praxis I
 What are some suggestions?
o Improve communication between College of Education and Secondary
Professors – Master Calendar and/or News Brief
o Increase recruitment and retention of SPED
o Provide workshops for secondary professors and majors
Group II
 What is going well?
o Prepare well for Praxis exams – content and PLT
o Increase faculty collaboration, collegiality
o Nurturing environment, unity, respect
o Preparation of students for real world
 What are our weaknesses?
o Increase enrollment numbers for all Graduate Programs
o Improve offerings of campus (marketing)
o Increasing diversity – understanding/teaching and graduation/completion
 What are some suggestions?
o Stronger/consistent MAT faculty
o Improve marketing strategies – more visibility on main site (APSU)
o Communicate between secondary and College of Education faculty
o Make programs parallel real life school situations – assessment and
teaching/planning
Group III
 What is going well?
o Gather and collect data
o Interpret and implement based on data analysis
o Adjust courses as needed
 What are our weaknesses?
o Differentiated instruction in methods and content for diverse learners
o Teach students to develop HOTS esp. in drawing conclusions, predict
outcomes
o Provide more professional development for new and veteran teachers
especially technology, diversity, sharing faculty knowledge
Group IV
 What is going well?
o More licenses awarded to males and African-Americans
o We have lots of data
o Use of key assessments
 What are our weaknesses?
o Address diversity in lesson plans
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o Emphasize critical thinking skills and questioning techniques
o Establish theoretical rationale for lesson plan decisions
What are some suggestions?
o Training in Academic Language – September 28th
o Training in Common Core
o More emphasis on problem solving, critical thinking (PBL, etc)
Group V
 What is going well?
o Implementation of TPA
o Good data collection processes
o Transitioning to key assessments
 What are our weaknesses?
o Graduate program enrollment
o Some content areas need to improve/recruit teaching candidates
o TPA elementary literacy – scores are too low
o Tailor assessment instruction to content areas/TPA
 What are some suggestions?
o Data plans need to be reviewed on a continuous basis
o Determine a comprehensive recruitment plan/strategies
Group VI
 What is going well?
o Collection of data
o Integration of technology
o Understand strategy
 What are our weaknesses?
o Directed activity in the classrooms
o Lesson plans – alignment of academic language
o Program for English language – learners – program and endorsement
o Explore external funding
 What are some suggestions?
o Methods and materials
o Multi-cultural education
o Foundations for ELL students
o Acquisition and assessments
o Practicum for diverse and special needs
o Increase recruitment of males in K-6
Group VII
 What is going well?
o Increased diversity
o Progressive curriculum
o Prep for Praxis
 What are our weaknesses?
o Teaching data – based instruction
o Modeling meaningful feedback
o Recruit and retain diverse students
 What are some suggestions?
o Incorporate element of TPA into courses that we teach
o Continue to open communication among departments
Group VIII
 What is going well?
o Follow school policies
o Works with co-op teacher
o Participates in collaborative planning
o Support the lesson objectives
 What are our weaknesses?
o Awarding more licensures to a diverse group
o Student performance in the following areas:
 Academic Language
 Differentiated lessons
 Plans for diverse learners
 Pacing
 Varied and high quality questioning
 What are some suggestions?
o As professors pay attention to how we model the highly, quality
questioning, differentiated lessons, and plans for diverse learners we
desire students to know
o Emphasize use of Academic Language
o Workshop on language for ESL
Group IX
 What is going well?
o Responds to APSU faculty feedback well
o Students are passing their praxis exams
o Proactive vs. reactive
 What do we need to improve?
o Improve student preparation for teaching diverse populations
o Improve student preparation for assessment and evaluation
o Help students understand professional conduct – social media, appropriate
clothing, professional language, etc.
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What are some suggestions?
o Data retreat document – include number of responders as well as number
of surveys given
o Provide more opportunities for critical thinking and problem solving in
order that they may actually teach it
o No data to measure the fun
Group X
 What is going well?
o High percentage of student pass rates
o Data collection to inform instructional decision making
o Promising initial TPA results
 What do we need to improve?
o Increase retention and recruitment of gender/cultural minority students
o Deepen understanding of appropriate use of academic language
o Coordination of secondary block
 What are some suggestions?
o Common core workshop opportunities