Presentation to OCTP: Innovative Practices in OK Educator
Innovations in Oklahoma Educator Preparation
Dr. John Farris [OBU], President, and Dr. Bryan Duke [UCO]
Oklahoma Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (OACTE)
Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation Office
October 10, 2013
Notes about the Presentation
This list does not necessarily reflect all of our initiatives.
This list includes innovations beyond program processes and components fulfilling legislated requirements and criteria included in state and national accreditations.
Institutions and their abbreviations are provided at the end of the presentation.
We encourage those seeking additional explanation to contact representatives from identified institutions.
Joint OACTE/University Efforts
Positive Messaging Regarding Teachers and Education
Strong Standards for Traditional Preparation Programs
Responsive to P-12 Schools’ Needs/Responsibility to
Educate University Learners
Clinical Practice
Specialized Partnerships with Local Schools
Early Childhood:
Head Start/Tecumseh Schools [SGU]
Tulsa Educare [OU]
Response to Intervention (RtI) [UCO]
Innovative Reading Labs & Literacy Outreach [NSU, OC, OU,
UCO]
Good Shepherd School (autism) [UCO]
Hope Center Tutoring [OBU]
EPIC Yearlong Professional Development School [NSU]
Clinical Practice
ProCure Therapy Center (Pediatric Cancer) Tutoring [OC]
Horse Riding Therapy Class [OBU]
YMCA Swimming Class [OBU]
Reading Intervention and Math Extension [CU]
Communication Disorders, Speech & Hearing [TU]
OSD/Jane Brooks Satellite School for Deaf/HH [USAO]
School for Children (PK-6 Lab School) [SNU]
Targeted Clinical Experiences
Moving toward a “Clinical Rounds” Model [UCO]
P-12 Site-Based Courses [BC, NSU, SGU, SNU, UCO]
Fort Gibson Literacy Experience (Early Childhood/Elementary
Reading Labs) [BC]
Clinical Simulations [CU]
Early Childhood Extended Experiences in On-Campus
Preschool [USAO]
Service Learning/Community Activities
Embedded in Coursework [OCU, UCO]
Oklahoma City YMCA Y Achievers Program (college readiness & career exploration for underserved teens)
[OCU]
F.A.C.T. Program Tutoring with OKC Police Department
[UCO]
El Sistema Oklahoma Instrumental Music Education
Partnership with St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and the Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools [OCU]
Collaboration with P-12 Schools
Preparing Quality Teachers for Longevity in Profession
[All]
Numerous Practica, Clinical Experiences & Internships
[All]
Advisory Boards [All]
Emergent Literacy Intervention Program in Regional Early
Partnership with an Area Elementary School with a
Diverse Student Population to Increase Reading [ORU]
Collaboration with P-12 Schools
Partnering in a HS Pre-Teacher Program at Great Plains
Technology Center [CU]
Cooperating Teacher Forum [ECU, NSU, SWOSU]
P-12 and University Partnership for Professional
Development [NSU, NWOSU, OU, SEOSU, SGU, SWOSU,
TU, UCO]
REAL Teachers—Alternative Certification Support for Area
Schools [CU]
Integrating Current Common Ed Initiatives
Integrating Oklahoma Academic Standards (OAS)
Presentations at Professional Conferences
Collaboration through the REACH Network
Professional Development for Teacher Education Faculty
Teaching TLE Evaluation Models & CCSS [All]
Revising Assessments to Include TLE Language [CU, NSU,
ORU, OU, UCO, USAO]
Student Teaching Internship
Year-long Internship Program
All Education Majors [NSU]
For all ELE, ECE, and Special Education majors [ORU]
Elementary Ed: ExCEL Program [OSU]
Fall 2015 Student Teaching (17 hrs. Spring/16 weeks Fall) [UCO]
Extended Internship
“The August Experience” (Early Pairing of Mentor/Candidate and
Beginning of School Experience Required) [CU, OC, OPSU, ORU]
Methods Class Clinical Experience [OBU, OC, USAO]
Pre-Internship Practicum Experience [CU]
Co-Teaching
Co-Teaching during Student Teaching Internships [ECU,
NSU, NWOSU, OCU, OSU, OU, SWOSU, UCO & USAO]
Co-Teaching amongst University Teacher Ed Faculty
[NSU, OBU, OSU, OU, SWOSU, UCO, USAO]
Extensive On-Site and/or On-Campus Training for Partners in the Co-Teaching Experience [UCO, USAO]
Performance Assessments
Teacher Work Sample [All Universities]
edTPA Pilot [ECU, NSU, OSU, OU, SNU, UCO]
Digital Practices
Digitized Field Experience Applications & Evaluations
[ECU, NSU, OU, SWOSU, UCO, USAO]
Teacher Education iPad Initiative [OU]
Reading Clinic with Individual Tutoring & iPads [OC]
Measures of Effective Teaching Extension (METEx) Pilot
[NSU, OU, UCO]
Digital Practices
Updated Smartboards/Training [CU, UCO]
Intergenerational Computer Center P-12 Learner Training,
P-12 Faculty Professional Development & Patrons of OKC
Social Service Agencies [OCU]
Online Teaching & Learning Pedgogy in Partnership with
ORU eAcademy (a 3 rd - through 12-th grade online school) [ORU]
Technology in Education Robotics Lab for Teacher
Candidates and P-12 Students [NSU]
Urban Initiatives
Urban Teacher Preparation Academy (UTPA) [UCO & OU]
76% Retention Rate in OKCPS after 3 Years; 91% for
Remaining in the Profession after 3 years
Teaching & Urban Reform Network (TURN) [NSU]
Since 2010, 99 teacher candidates completed the intensive urban education preparation program with an 88% retention rate as teaching professionals in local urban school districts.
Urban Initiatives
Urban Education Awareness Week [OU]
Urban Education Program [NSU]
School of Urban Education (renamed May 2011) [TU]
Urban Day of Engagement [NSU]
Conference on Diversity for State Teacher Education
Programs (national speaker) [OCU]
Global Initiatives
Applied Behavioral Analysis Training in Lebanon [OBU]
Teacher Education-based International Study Tours [OSU,
UCO]
Teacher Education-based study abroad opportunities
[OSU, OU]
Teaching English Abroad in Korea [UCO]
Student Teaching Abroad/Away [ORU, OSU, UCO]
Global Initiatives
Student Teaching in Department of Defense Schools
[SWOSU]
International Internships [NSU]
Educational Leadership Exchange [OSU, UCO]
Teacher Education Faculty Exchanges [NSU, OSU, UCO]
Teacher Employment Activities
Teacher Job Fair [All]
Senior Activity Day (100% graduate job placement)
[ORU]
School District Recruitment Paired with “Portfolio Day”
[UCO]
Teacher Residency
Online Learning Community/Residency Support for
Graduates [UCO, USAO]
Beginning Year Teacher Mentoring Program [ORU, OU]
First-Year Teacher Mentoring Program [CU]
“Hub for Subs” for Educator Preparation Graduates
[UCO]
University Coursework/
Advanced Programs
Undergraduate Career Tech Certificate Programs [UCO]
English Language Learners Course [OCU]
Embedded Literacy Development in Coursework [OC,
OCU, UCO]
Embedded Arts- and Experiential Learning-Based
Coursework with OKA+ Schools
®
[UCO]
Double-Major in Special Education Program [NWOSU,
OBU]
University Coursework/
Advanced Programs
M.Ed.-Secondary Education Program (Non-Traditional)
[NWOSU, SWOSU & UCO]
MEd in Teaching and Learning to Support Alternative
Certification [CU]
Masters degree in STEM Education [OU, TU]
Masters degree in World Languages Education [OU]
University Coursework/
Advanced Programs
Oklahoma Elementary Math Specialist Certification
Sequence and/or M.Ed. [CU, ECU, OSU, OU & UCO]
Oklahoma Gifted & Talented Certification Sequence [UCO]
Special Education Boot Camp (Non-Traditional) [ECU, NSU,
NWOSU, ORU, OU, UCO]
Reduced Graduate Tuition Rates (2/3 reduction for any degree except law) under Educator Tuition Scholarship [TU]
Half-Priced Tuition for Cooperating Teachers to Pursue
Graduate Degrees [SWOSU]
Recruitment
Engaging Secondary Students in Prospective Teachers
Academy/ “Grow Your Own” Programs [NSU, UCO]
Planning Community/School-University Pipelines with
Community Colleges [SWOSU, OU, UCO]
Assessing Professional Dispositions that Encourage
Successful Teaching [CU, SGU, SWOSU, UCO, USAO]
Providing Two University-Wide Orientation/Introduction
Saturdays for High School Graduates (each year) [CU]
Recruitment
Partnering with Great Plains Tech Center for Development of a Pre-
Education Course for HS students [CU]
Providing a Minor in Education to Help Address the Teacher
Shortage in Secondary [UCO, USAO]
Partnering with Rogers State University Preparing Candidates in
Elementary, Social Studies, and English Education [CU]
Partnering with College of Arts and Sciences/All Disciplines to
Encourage Majors to Add Teacher Certification [CU, SWOSU, OU]
Providing Impact 2014, a Day Area Middle and High School
Students Meet with OSRHE Representatives, Campus Admissions and Finance Personnel. [ORU]
Recruitment
Partnering with Honor’s College, Innovative Education
Society [OU]
Providing Annual “Celebration of Teaching” Program
Recruitment of Northeast Oklahoma High School FEA
Chapters [NSU]
Providing Annual Collaboration with KIPP Tulsa College
Preparatory KIPP Through College Initiative [NSU]
Providing Partnership within the Higher Education Forum of Oklahoma P-20 Education and Workforce
Development Initiative [NSU]
State-Supported Initiatives
Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation Grant
Awards
Co-Teaching Training for P-12 Partners [UCO, USAO]
Transforming Clinical Teacher Preparation [NSU]
Responding to the Needs of Diverse Learners [OU]
Urban Teachers for Urban Teachers [NSU]
Beginning Year Teacher Mentoring Program [OU]
STEM-Focused Field Experiences/Teacher Candidates’ Attitudes
[UCO]
Alternative Certification Preparation Conference [NWOSU]
Transforming Physical Education [UCO]
Impact Grant [ORU]
State-Supported Initiatives
Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education Grant Awards
Instructional Leadership Workshop (Technology, Literacy, CCSS and TLE for Principals) [OKA+ Schools & UCO]
TURN to Teaching: Providing College Connections and
Preparation for Future Urban Educators [NSU]
Instructional leadership/Common Core ELA & Math/TLE with school administrators) [ECU]
Early Childhood Reading & Word Study [ECU]
Summer Week-Long K-12 School Leaders Training – TLE, CCSS,
Test Data Analysis [CU]
Recruiting Future Teachers and Retaining Excellent Alternatively
Licensed (REAL) Teachers [CU]
State-Supported Initiatives
Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education Grant Awards
(Cont.)
Working with Middle-School Students to Recruit into Teacher
Preparation Programs [CU]
Robotics Workshop with P-12 Schools [SGU]
Connecting across Cultures Diversity Training [OCU]
Celebration of Teaching Grant [NSU]
Algebra Summer Workshop [OC]
National Grant Initiatives
21 st Century Grant Proposal [ECU]
Centers Serving P-12 Partners
Hardman Center for Children with Learning Differences
[OU]
Institute of Child Development [OU]
K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal
[OU]
Center for Tribal Studies and Indigenous Scholar
Development Center [NSU]
Centers Serving P-12 Partners
Oklahoma Writing Project [OU]
John W. Renner Science Education Center [OU]
Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment [OU]
School for Children (PK-6) [SNU]
Collaborations
Higher Education (between universities)
Educator Preparation Agencies (OCTP, OSRHE & OSDE)
Professional Associations (Oklahoma Education
Association & Professional Oklahoma Educators)
Collaborations
Other Teacher Education Partners (Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration, OKA+ Schools
®,
Great Expectations, Character First/OSRHE, etc.)
Tulsa Public Schools Collaboration and Curriculum
Integration of Tulsa Model-Teacher Leader Effectiveness
(TLE) Evaluation System [NSU]
University-Wide Faculty Learning Communities Led by
Education Faculty Member [OCU]
Questions?
Educator Preparation Institutions Represented
Bacone College [BC]
Cameron University [CU]
East Central University [ECU]
Northeastern Oklahoma State University [NSU]
Northwestern Oklahoma State University [NWOSU]
Educator Preparation Institutions Represented
Oklahoma Baptist University [OBU]
Oklahoma City University [OCU]
Oklahoma Panhandle State University [OPSU]
Oklahoma State University [OSU]
Oklahoma University [OU]
Educator Preparation Institutions Represented
Oklahoma Christian University [OC]
Oral Roberts University [ORU]
Saint Gregory’s University [SGU]
Southeastern Oklahoma State University [SEOSU]
Southwestern Oklahoma State University [SWOSU]
Educator Preparation Institutions Represented
Southern Nazarene University [SNU]
Tulsa University [TU]
University of Central Oklahoma [UCO]
University of Sciences & Arts Oklahoma [USAO]
