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A.1.3 Acronyms and Abbreviations
AgEd
Agricultural Education
The prefix for agricultural education courses.
APE
Adapted Physical
Education
An added authorization offered by the Department of
Kinesiology that prepares teachers to assess individual students
and develop, adapt and implement specialized physical education
programs in the motor domain
AURTEC
All University
Responsibility for
Teacher Education
A group composed of a cross-section of university faculty and
administrators who provide feedback to the unit about program
quality.
BbLearn
Blackboard Learn
CSU Chico’s learning management system.
BTSA
Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment
An induction program for new teachers.
CATS
Content Area Tasks
The three Content Area Planning Tasks (social science, science,
and math) are part of a state-adopted assessment for credential
candidates. These tasks demonstrate your ability to organize
curriculum, instruction, and assessment to help your students
meet content standards and develop academic language. In
addition, they provide evidence of your ability to select, adapt, or
design learning tasks and materials that offer your students
equitable access to curriculum in three content areas:
history/social science, science and math.
CMSD
Communication
Sciences and Disorders
The Communication Sciences and Disorders Program offers a MA
in Communication Sciences and Disorders while obtaining a
California credential to serve as a Speech Language Pathology
specialist in public schools.
CT
Cooperating Teacher
The credential candidate’s teaching mentor during student
teaching.
CTC
Commission on Teacher
Credentialing
The California agency responsible for licensing and
credentialing professional educators.
CSU
California State
University
The country’s largest state university system, with 23 campuses
located throughout California.
DAP
Degree Audit Program
Web-based program that allows the education office and
credential analysts to monitor candidate performance from
admission to recommendation for credential.
EBP
Evidence Based
Practice
An instructional strategy, intervention, or teaching program that
has resulted in consistent positive results when experimentally
tested.
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EDAD
Educational
Administration
A program in which candidates earn a master’s degree in
education and a preliminary administrative credential.
EDTE
Teacher Education
Prefix for teacher education courses.
ELD
English Language
Development
English Language Development is instruction designed
specifically for English language learners to develop their
listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English.
EPP
Educator Preparation
Provider
The body of programs at CSU Chico who educate teachers and
other professionals for P-12 public schools.
IPO
Initial Program
Orientation
Orientation at beginning of credential program.
IAP
Improvement and
Accountability Plan
Annual report made by each CSU to the CSU Chancellor’s
office, with data speaking to mandated indicators as well as
campus-chosen indicators.
MA in Ed
Masters in Education
A program, offered by the School of Education, in which
candidates earn a masters degree in education,.
MASCOT
Math and Science
Special Education
Coteaching
A grant-funded subgroup of the single subject program focused
on co-teaching as a method for student teaching.
Multiple Subject
Program
This program leads to a Preliminary Multiple Subject Credential
for teaching all subjects in self-contained classroom settings,
such as the classrooms in most elementary schools, in grades
preschool, K-12, or in classes organized primarily for adults.
MSP
NorCAL
PRIE
Northeastern California
Preparation of Indian
Educators
A grant-funded program focusing on recruiting teaching
candidates from Native American populations.
PACT
Performance
Assessment for
California Teachers.
An assessment of credential candidates’ abilities to successfully
plan, teach, assess student learning, and reflect on instruction.
The School of Education adopted PACT, which was developed
and tested by a consortium of Universities, in response to Senate
Bill 1209.
PAR
Program Assessment
Report
Program narrative describing how program meets state
standards.
PI
Practicum I
The first semester of student teaching.
PII
Practicum II
The second semester of student teaching.
PPS
Pupil Personnel
Services
Program offering a credential to serve as a school psychologist.
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PPO
Practicum Orientation
Orientation meeting for candidates entering student teaching.
PRISMS
Promoting Rural
Improvement in
Secondary Math and
Science
A grant-funded program (under development in 2014-15)
leading to a secondary credential and a master’s degree.
RTR
Rural Teacher
Residency Program
This program leads to either a Preliminary Multiple Subject
Credential or a Preliminary Mild/Moderate Education Specialist
Credential. In addition to the credential, candidates
simultaneously earn an M.A. in Education.
SLO
Student Learning
Outcome
Educational objective used for assessment of programs and
candidates.
SPED
Education Specialist
Program
This program leads to a Preliminary Education Specialist
Credential in either Mild/Moderate Disabilities (for students
with specific learning disabilities, mild/moderate intellectual
disabilities, emotional disturbance, or other health impairments)
or Moderate/Severe Disabilities (for students with Autism,
moderate/severe intellectual disabilities, deaf-blindness,
emotional disturbance, or multiple disabilities) in grades K-12
and in classes organized primarily for adults through age 22.
SSP
Single Subject Program
This program leads to a Preliminary Single Subject Credential
for teaching only the specific subject(s) named on the credential
in departmentalized classes, such as those in most middle
schools and high schools, in grades preschool, K- 12, or in
classes organized primarily for adults.
STEPS
Student Tracking,
Evaluation and
Portfolio System
Web-based software that provides and organized repository for
data and streamlines the analysis and reporting process.
TPE
Teaching Performance
Expectation
A version of the CSTP designed to be met by credential
candidates.
TQP
Teacher Quality
Partnership
A federal grant program sponsored by the US Department of
Education.
WASC
Western Association for
Schools and Colleges
Higher education accrediting agency who grants accreditation
to CSU Chico.
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