KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL OR REVISION, Cover Sheet (10/02/2002) Course Number/Program Name EXC 7790 TESOL Department Special Education Degree Title (if applicable) M.ED Special Education/Collaborative Practices/TESOL Proposed Effective Date January 2006 Check one or more of the following and complete the appropriate sections: New Course Proposal Course Title Change X Course Number Change Course Credit Change Course Prerequisite Change X Course Description Change Sections to be Completed II, III, IV, V, VII I, II, III I, II, III I, II, III I, II, III I, II, III Notes: If proposed changes to an existing course are substantial (credit hours, title, and description), a new course with a new number should be proposed. A new Course Proposal (Sections II, III, IV, V, VII) is required for each new course proposed as part of a new program. Current catalog information (Section I) is required for each existing course incorporated into the program. Minor changes to a course can use the simplified E-Z Course Change Form. Submitted by: Faculty Member Approved _____ Date Not Approved Department Curriculum Committee Date Approved Approved Approved Approved Approved Approved Not Approved Department Chair Date School Curriculum Committee Date School Dean Date GPCC Chair Date Dean, Graduate Studies Date Not Approved Not Approved Not Approved Not Approved Not Approved Vice President for Academic Affairs Date Approved Not Approved President Date KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE COURSE/CONCENTRATION/PROGRAM CHANGE I. Current Information (Fill in for changes) Page Number in Current Catalog p. 117 Course Prefix and Number EDUC 7790 Course Title Documenting Professional Growth Credit Hours 3 Prerequisites EDU 7700 or permission of department chair Description (or Current Degree Requirements) This course provides support for Master of Education in Special Education candidates in completing and presenting their professional portfolio to document their professional growth. Candidates will work with a Portfolio Committee to organize reflections about their growth including: highlighting pivotal KSU learning experiences, reflecting on changes in practice, integrating research and practice, and relating these to the growth of their students. Outcomes will include a written portfolio and a multimedia presentation summarizing the portfolio and is to be completed at least three weeks prior to the date of graduation. II. IV. III. Proposed Information (Fill in for changes and new courses) Course Prefix and Number ___EXC7790_____________________________ Course Title _ ________________ Credit Hours Prerequisites Description (or Proposed Degree Requirements) This course provides support for Master of Education in Special Education/TESOL candidates in completing and presenting their professional portfolio to document their professional growth. Candidates will work with their instructors to organize reflections about their growth in meeting the graduate proficiencies on the Candidate Performance Instrument (CPI) and the Portfolio Narrative Rubric by highlighting pivotal KSU learning experiences, reflecting on changes in practice, integrating research and practice, and relating these to the growth of their students. Outcomes will include an electronic portfolio and a multi-media presentation summarizing their portfolio. Candidates must be prepared to present their portfolios at least three weeks before their graduation date. Justification The Department of Special Education at Kennesaw State University has historically offered a program in Collaborative Practices, with endorsement in ESOL. The proposed changes in this course are necessary to bring the exiting endorsement program into alignment with national TESOL standards. Many of the research-based practices for students with disabilities are also efficacious for students who are culturally and linguistically diverse. This effort will pave the way for classroom teachers in Georgia to educate all students within the Georgia Performance Standards, including those who have disabilities and those who are culturally and linguistically diverse. This course provides support for Master of Education in Special Education/TESOL candidates in completing and presenting their professional portfolio to document their professional growth. Candidates will work with their instructors to organize reflections about their growth in meeting the graduate proficiencies on the Candidate Performance Instrument (CPI) and the Portfolio Narrative Rubric by highlighting pivotal KSU learning experiences, reflecting on changes in practice, integrating research and practice, and relating these to the growth of their students. Outcomes will include an electronic portfolio and a multi-media presentation summarizing their portfolio. Candidates must be prepared to present their portfolios at least three weeks before their graduation date. IV. Additional Information (for New Courses only) Instructor: Text: Prerequisites: Objectives: Instructional Method Method of Evaluation - V. Resources and Funding Required (New Courses only) Resource Amount Faculty Other Personnel Equipment Supplies Travel New Books New Journals Other (Specify) TOTAL Funding Required Beyond Normal Departmental Growth VI. COURSE MASTER FORM This form will be completed by the requesting department and will be sent to the Office of the Registrar once the course has been approved by the Office of the President. The form is required for all new courses. DISCIPLINE COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE FOR LABEL (Note: Limit 16 spaces) CLASS-LAB-CREDIT HOURS Approval, Effective Term Grades Allowed (Regular or S/U) If course used to satisfy CPC, what areas? Learning Support Programs courses which are required as prerequisites EDUC 7700 APPROVED: ________________________________________________ Vice President for Academic Affairs or Designee __ VII Attach Syllabus I. COURSE NUMBER/SECTION COURSE TITLE: II. INSTRUCTOR: III. CLASS MEETINGS: III. TEXT: EDUC 7790 Documenting Professional Growth Costantino, P. M. & DeLorenzo, M. N. (2002). Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association : Fifth Edition. Washington, D.C.: Author V. CATALOG DESCRIPTION: This course provides support for Master of Education in Special Education/TESOL candidates in completing and presenting their professional portfolio to document their professional growth. Candidates will work with their instructors to organize reflections about their growth in meeting the graduate proficiencies on the Candidate Performance Instrument (CPI) and the Portfolio Narrative Rubric by highlighting pivotal KSU learning experiences, reflecting on changes in practice, integrating research and practice, and relating these to the growth of their students. Outcomes will include an electronic portfolio and a multi-media presentation summarizing their portfolio. Candidates must be prepared to present their portfolios at least three weeks before their graduation date. VI. PURPOSE/RATIONALE: The purpose of this course is to prepare professional learning facilitators for all students. The competencies in this course are derived from the requirements for teachers by the Professional Standards Commission (the licensure body of Georgia), the national standards of the Council for Exceptional Children and Teachers of English Speakers of Other Languages as well as the standards of the NBPTS and NCATE, and guidance from the KSU Department of Special Education Advisory Board. This course is designed to provide support for candidates in documenting their growth as professional learning facilitators as measured by the Candidate Performance Instrument and the Portfolio Narrative Rubric, both of which have been approved by the faculty of the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University. VII. Conceptual Framework Summary & Related Standards & Requirements Collaborative Development of Expertise in Teaching and Learning The Kennesaw State University teacher education faculty is committed to preparing teachers who demonstrate expertise in facilitating learning in all students. Toward that end, the KSU teacher education community strongly upholds the concept of collaborative preparation requiring guidance from professionals inside and outside the university. In tandem with this belief is the understanding that teacher expertise develops along a continuum which includes the stages of preservice, induction, inservice, and renewal; further, as candidates develop a strong research-based knowledge of content and pedagogy, they develop their professional expertise in recognizing, facilitating, assessing, and evaluating student learning. While completing your graduate program at Kennesaw State University, you are required to be involved in a variety of leadership and school-based activities directed at the improvement of teaching and learning. Appropriate activities may include, but are not limited to, attending and presenting at professional conferences, actively serving on or chairing school-based committees, attending PTA/school board meetings, leading or presenting professional development activities at the school or district level, and participating in education-related community events. As you continue your educational experiences, you are encouraged to explore every opportunity to learn by doing. Knowledge Base. Teacher development is generally recognized as a continuum that includes four phases: preservice, induction, in-service, renewal (Odell, Huling, and Sweeny, 2000). Just as Sternberg (1996) believes that the concept of expertise is central to analyzing the teaching-learning process, the teacher education faculty at KSU believes that the concept of expertise is central to preparing effective classroom teachers and teacher leaders. Researchers describe how during the continuum phases teachers progress from being Novices learning to survive in classrooms toward becoming Experts who have achieved elegance in their teaching. We, like Sternberg (1998), believe that expertise is not an end-state but a process of continued development. The knowledge base for methods of teaching students with disabilities continues to develop rapidly. The historical framework included perceptual training, behavior modification and task analysis. Current directions include multiple intelligence models, systematic instruction, strategy approaches to teaching and learning, and direct instruction. The field draws on research literature from educational psychology, medicine, psychology and special education. The emphasis in this class will be on developing skills in application of research-based best practice in the area of behavior management, documenting impact on student learning, and reflective practice. Technology Standards Telecommunication and information technologies will be integrated throughout the master teacher preparation program, and all candidates must be able to use technology to improve student learning and meet Georgia Technology Standards for Educators. During the courses, candidates will be provided with opportunities to explore and use instructional media, especially microcomputers, to assist teaching. They will master use of productivity tools, such as multimedia facilities, local-net and Internet, and feel confident to design multimedia instructional materials, create WWW resources, and develop an electronic learning portfolio. Candidates in this course will be expected to apply the use of educational technology in classrooms for students in their classrooms. Specifically, candidates will use spreadsheet software to develop graphs, charts, and tables, word processing to write papers, and email to communicate with the instructors and their peers. Diversity Standards A variety of materials and instructional strategies will be employed to meet the needs of the different learning styles of diverse learners in class. Candidates will gain knowledge as well as an understanding of differentiated strategies and curricula for providing effective instruction and assessment within multicultural classrooms. One element of course work is raising candidate awareness of critical multicultural issues. A second element is to cause candidates to explore how multiple attributes of multicultural populations influence decisions in employing specific methods and materials for every student. Among these attributes are age, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, geographic region, giftedness, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. An emphasis on cognitive style differences provides a background for the consideration of cultural context. Kennesaw State University provides program accessibility and accommodations for persons defined as disabled under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. A number of services are available to support students with disabilities within their academic program. In order to make arrangements for special services, students must visit the Office of Disabled Student Support Services (ext. 6443) and develop an individual assistance plan. In some cases, certification of disability is required. Please be aware there are other support/mentor groups on the campus of Kennesaw State University that address each of the multicultural variables outlined above. Professional Portfolio Requirements As you know…”..a required element in each portfolio for the Graduate Program is the portfolio narrative. The purpose of the portfolio narrative is to ensure that every candidate reflects on each of the proficiencies on the CPI with regard to what evidence the candidate has selected for his/her portfolio. In your portfolio, you need to include a narrative, which includes descriptive, analytic and reflective writing in which you reflect on each of the proficiencies and how you make the case that the evidence you have selected in your portfolio supports a particular proficiency, using the Portfolio Narrative Rubric as a guide. The narrative should be comprehensive, documenting research-based best practices. Extensions. Candidates should keep ongoing documentation of ways in which they extended their learning and skills from this and other courses. For this course, this could include identifying students who gain access to more inclusive educational environments, actual changes implemented in the school as a result of the Building Plan, changes in student behavior or learning that results from co-teaching, interactions with parents, committees formed or served on related to inclusive education, peer mediated strategies implemented in your class or other classrooms, workshops on co-teaching conducted at the school, the establishment of additional co-teaching teams at your school and etc. Impact on Student Learning Analysis It is our assumption that you are already assessing the influence of your instruction on your students’ learning and that you are considering what factors, such as student diversity, might affect your students’ achievement. For this assignment, you will select a lesson, activity, unit, or skill that you plan to teach this semester and analyze its impact on your students’ learning. Then, you will reflect on the impact on your students’ learning on that particular lesson, activity, unit, or skill using the “Impact on Student Learning Analysis” Rubric as a guide. You will want to consider how the differences that every student brings to the classroom setting may have influenced learning (see definition of “every student” at the top of attached “Impact on Student Learning” rubric). Unless your program area tells you differently, the length of the reflection is up to you, but it should be concise. (See Directions for “Impact on Student Learning Analysis” that accompanies the Rubric for greater detail.) Graduate Field Experience Requirements While completing your graduate program at Kennesaw State University, you are required to be involved in a variety of leadership and school-based activities directed at the improvement of teaching and learning. Appropriate activities may include, but are not limited to, attending and presenting at professional conferences, actively serving on or chairing school-based committees, attending PTA/school board meetings, leading or presenting professional development activities at the school or district level, and participating in education-related community events. As you continue your educational experiences, you are encouraged to explore every opportunity to learn by doing. X. COURSE GOALS/OBJECTIVES: The Professional Teacher Education Unit prepares learning facilitators who understand their disciplines and principles of pedagogy, who reflect on practice, and who apply these understandings to making instructional decisions that foster the success of all learners. For the purposes of this syllabus, course goals and objectives are first delineated according to development of candidate knowledge, skills & dispositions and then crossreferenced to the national professional standards of the Council for Exceptional Children and Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages. As a result of Knowledge, the candidate will: 1. articulate knowledge of characteristics of students in their classrooms, CEC Crossreference C2K4; Cross-reference TESOL 2.a.1 2. articulate knowledge of best educational practices, CEC Cross-reference C2K4; Cross-reference TESOL 3.a.1-4; 3.b.6-8. As a result of Skills, the candidate will: 3. demonstrate skill in reflecting on practice; 4. demonstrate skill in professional written and oral communication of ideas; 5. demonstrate skill in integrating research findings with reflections on current practice; 6. demonstrate skill in using action research to improve practice; and 7. demonstrate skill in use of technology to document and exhibit professional growth TESOL 3.c.4-5 As a result of Dispositions, the candidate will: 8. exhibit commitment to successful learning of all students in their classrooms, and 9. exhibit commitment to lifelong learning. XI. COURSE REQUIREMENTS/ASSIGNMENTS: Completion of written professional portfolio with selected appendices to document professional growth and the presentation of a multimedia summary of their growth. Candidate performance will be graded upon a pass/fail basis. XII. CLASS PARTICIPATION: Students are expected to attend all class sessions and be active participants in the learning process. This class includes presentations by professionals from other disciplines and class attendance is essential for participation in development of a multi-disciplinary perspective. Class activities will include discussion, role-playing and group collaborative activities requiring the participation of all students. Students have many experiences and skills, which they can share to facilitate everyone’s learning. Evaluation will include attendance, communication and collaboration skills demonstrated during class. XIII. ACADEMIC HONESTY: Every KSU student is responsible for upholding the provisions of the Student Code of Conduct, as published in the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs. Section II of the Student Code of Conduct addresses the University's policy on academic honesty, including provisions regarding plagiarism and cheating, unauthorized access to University materials, misrepresentation/falsification of University records or academic work, malicious removal, retention, or destruction of library materials, malicious/intentional misuse of computer facilities and/or services, and misuse of student identification cards. Incidents of alleged academic misconduct will be handled through the established procedures of the University Judiciary Program, which includes either an "informal" resolution by a faculty member, resulting in a grade adjustment, or a formal hearing procedure, which may subject a student to the Code of Conduct's minimum one semester suspension requirement. The student is reminded to consult the 2004-2005 KSU Graduate Catalog for the University's policy. Any strategy, which has the appearance of improving grades without increasing knowledge, will be dealt with in accordance with the University's policy on academic honesty. In addition, students in the graduate program in special education are held accountable by the Georgia Professional Code of Ethics for Educators (http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/informationresources/ethics.html) and the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Code of Ethics for Educators of Persons with Exceptionalities (http://www.cec.sped.org/ps/code.htm#1). XIII. DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR: The University has a stringent policy and procedure for dealing with behavior that disrupts the learning environment. Consistent with the belief that your behavior can interrupt the learning of others, behavior that fits the University's definition of disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. (See Campus Policies and Procedures of the 2004- 2005 KSU Graduate Catalog) IVX. HUMAN DIGNITY: The University has formulated a policy on human rights that is intended to provide a learning environment, which recognizes individual worth. That policy is found in the 2004-2005 KSU Graduate Catalog. It is expected, in this class, that no Professional should need reminding but the policy is there for your consideration. The activities of this class will be conducted in both the spirit and the letter of that policy. XIV. Course Requirements Course Requirements Course Objectives* Journey 3, 4, 7, 9 Philosophy statement 1, 8 Impact on student learning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Documenting professional growth 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 Reflective practice 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 SME: 1.1-1.4 Future goals 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 FL: 2.1-2.7 CP: 3.1-3.5 Presentation (oral & written communication) 2, 3 Professionalism 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 Integration of theory & practice 2, 4, 5, 6 Technology skills 2, 7 Graduate CPI * NCATE: Due to the fact that this course is organized according to the KSD’s, aligned with the BCOE outcomes and proficiencies, it meets NCATE Standard I & II. Given that it addresses TESOL and Special Education, it meeting NCATE Standard IV of diversity. EDUC 7790 Documenting Professional Growth Course Schedule Spring 2003 Date Activity Assignment Due Review course requirements Working Portfolio organization – by EDUC class Bring Working Portfolio to class Working Portfolio organization – by domain Philosophy section – develop outline Documenting impact on student performance Linking theory & practice Documenting your professional growth Spring Break ?? Linking theory & practice Setting future goals Effective presentation skills Edit sessions Consultation sessions PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS KSU Hooding Ceremony KSU Graduation Journey, Philosophy Outline for impact section Impact section Outline for professional growth Professional growth section Outline for goals Working Portfolio Due Goals section Working portfolio evaluations completed Final copies for signature Invited guests