Expanding UTeach—Working with Community Colleges
and Satellite Campuses
Wednesday May 21, 9:00 – 10:15 AM Room: 203
Round Table @ Room 108 (10:30 AM - 11:45)
Austin, Texas
AGENDA
Martha Pérez, UTeach Institute Data Coordinator
Introduction
(in order of appearance)
(10 min)
Les Pesterfield, SKyTeach Co-Director, University of Western Kentucky
Katrina Stullken Rothrock, UKanTeach Master Teacher, University of Kansas
Curtis Turner, UCCS Teach Master Teacher, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Louis S. Nadelson, IDoTeach Co-Director, Boise State University
John Villarreal, Co-PI UTeach Pan American, University of Texas - Pan American
Presenters ~ (50 min)
Conversations exploring successes and challenges in extending UTeach program to Community
College/Satellite Campus’ student populations
3. Open Discussion ~ (10)
4. Questions ~ strategies ~ next steps ~ take-aways
Discussion/forum continues in room 108
Expanding Uteach/SKyTeach to
Community Colleges and Satellite
Campuses
Western Kentucky University
Martha M. Day, SKyTeach Co-Director
Martha.day@wku.edu
Les L. Pesterfield, SKyTeach Co-Director
Lester.pesterfield@wku.edu
• Mission:
• Recruit - Increase enrollment for the next
generation of math and science teachers in
Kentucky.
• Prepare - Develop outstanding teachers to
improve math and science education in
Kentucky.
• Support - Offer mentoring throughout the
program and continued support after
graduation.
• Outreach - Provide opportunities to local
educators by promoting math and science in the
community.
Western Kentucky University Statistics
• WKU’s Main
Campus has 21,000
students
• An additional
12,000 students
attend WKU from
one of three
regional campuses
• Glasgow is WKU
only
• Owensboro and
Elizabethtown also
have community
colleges that
operate at their sites
Glasgow
SKyTeach Growth & Expansion
• Enrollment increased from
29 students to 250+ in 6
years
• Approximately 30 of our
250 SKyTeach students
attend at the regional
campuses
– Replicating replication is
quite a challenge!
• Regional Campus
Expansion
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3 campuses
Glasgow 30 miles
E’town 75 miles
Owensboro 80 miles
Fall 2012 enrollment
Glasgow
6,826
SKyTeach at the Regional Campuses
• SKyTeach began offering courses at
the regional campuses in fall 2012
• Considerations
– Format adjustments, face-to-face delivery
versus Interactive Video Services (IVS)
– Course catalog numbering for noncompete with community colleges
– Training and hiring of staff familiar with
Uteach ideals
– Distance learning=Distance supervision of
staff
– Supplies
– Development of new contacts in schools
for field placements
– SKyTeach “identity” with students at the
regional campuses
– Developing relationships with regional
campus staff
SKyTeach Growth & Expansion Next Steps
• Planning a WKUKCTC partnership
beginning in spring
2015 @ KCTCS in
Somerset, KY
• KCTCS-Kentucky
Community and
Technical Colleges
• 8 locations
throughout
Kentucky and 1 in
Tennessee
Western Kentucky, Hopkinsville, Madisonville,
Owensboro, Elizabethtown, Southcentral KY,
Somerset, Henderson, and Volunteer State
Community College (TN)
SKyTeach Growth & Expansion Next Steps
• Students will be able to
complete a middle
grades mathematics or a
middle grades science
curriculum in residence
at the partner
institutions.
Approved community
college faculty may teach
courses in the content area
curriculum
Western Kentucky, Hopkinsville, Madisonville,
Owensboro, Elizabethtown, Southcentral KY,
Somerset, Henderson, and Volunteer State
Community College (TN)
SKyTeach Growth & Expansion
Considerations
• Use of retired STEM teachers to supervise field
experiences
• Use of adjunct faculty to teach SKyTeach/Uteach
courses
• Development of relationships with local schools
for student field experiences
• Use of Interactive Video Services for course
delivery
• Maintaining fidelity
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UKanTeach
One Degree,
Many Career Options.
Filling classrooms with math and science
teachers who are passionate, knowledgeable
and highly qualified
Katrina Stullken Rothrock
UKanTeach Master Teacher
rothrock@ku.edu
UKanTeach.ku.edu
CENTER FOR STEM LEARNING
ESTABLISHED IN 2000
(FORMERLY CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION)
Improving math and science education at KU and throughout Kansas while
contributing to scholarship in math and science education nationally and
internationally.
The School of
Education
The Center
for
Research
on
Learning
Center for STEM Learning
College of Liberal Arts &
Sciences
The Natural
History
Museum &
Biodiversity
Research
Center
The School of
Engineering
The Center
for Teaching
Excellence
THE CENTER FOR STEM LEARNING
MISSION
To provide leadership in science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) education by:
1. Promoting and improving K-12, undergraduate, and graduate
STEM education to enhance the quality of all Kansas learners,
2. Improving STEM teacher development, including recruitment, preservice development, induction period support and in-service
development,
3. Improving informal STEM education and public outreach, and
4. Developing and expanding innovative,
interdisciplinary STEM education research.
2007
UKANTEACH ESTABLISHED
UKanTeach’s mission is to recruit, prepare,
and retain qualified STEM teachers.
UKANTEACH GOALS
• Attract and retain more students in 6-12 science and math
education career paths who:
a) are masters of their discipline,
b) use technology effectively to enhance learning,
c) understand and involve students in scientific inquiry
• Give students early classroom teaching experience, often
• Provide social, academic, and financial support, so students
have every opportunity to be successful
• Build partnerships with schools to help support and retain
highly qualified teachers
UKANTEACH LOCATIONS
KU Lawrence campus
Dole Human Development
Center (DHDC)
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
(785) 864 - 4471
KU Edwards campus
BEST Building
12604 Quivira Road
Overland Park, Kansas
(913) 897 - 8441
KU / Johnson County Community College (JCCC)
Approaches to Teaching I & II
at JCCC
(through an Articulation Agreement)
FALL 2008
LISTENING TO THE CONCERNS OF
COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFERS
Transfer students were often frustrated that their
community college courses were not always accepted for
university credit
Those that did try to plan ahead often couldn’t find the
“right” contact, and regularly got “the runaround” trying to
find the answers to credit and planning questions
Additionally……
Transfer students tended to be lower income students on
needs-based scholarships, lacking the confidence and skills
to find and insist on the support they needed.
10.10.2008
KU COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM
UKanTeach: Exploring an articulation agreement
School of Business: 2+2 Articulation Agreement with JCCC
School of Social Welfare: 2+2 MOU with KCKCC
School of Ed: struggling students take gen ed classes at JCCC
KU Edwards: KU/JCCC/KCKCC collaboration, Metro tuition rate
Office of Admissions: help with unofficial 2+2 agreements, difficult to
keep all transfer guides updated
CLAS Student Academic Services: yearly transfer guide updates
Provost Office: desire to increase Hispanic enrollment
PRIMARY CONCERNS HEARD FROM
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
UKanTeach: CC want a seamless and successful movement toward universities
CC want to feel valued and respected as part of the students’ educational experience.
School of Business: CC would like specific university transfer contacts
School of Social Welfare: CC want up-to-date advising so that courses transfer
School of Education: CC want to keep students through AA degree, but with guaranteed
transfer credits
Edwards Campus: CC are concerned about new requirements of programs/majors. CC want a
dedicated transfer site at KU (one stop shop for transfer guides, scholarships) CC want more
transfer scholarships (huge tuition shift from CC to university)
CC want more bachelor degree completion programs at KU Edwards
Office of Admissions: CC want questions answered without “the runaround”
CC want easily accessible info that they can trust
CC want to know who to contact for what
CC want to know how former students are doing (were they prepared?)
CC want to know why courses aren’t transferable (to change them so they are)
CC want input on awarding of scholarships and respect from the university
CLAS Student Academic Services: want clear 2+2 plans to avoid transfer problems
ARTICULATION AGREEMENT
09.25.2009
COMMUNITY COLLEGE RESPONSE FROM
ARTICULATION AGREEMENT
Jeff Frost, dean of mathematics at JCCC, said the program is good not
only for students who already know they want to teach, but also those
who appreciated the chance to explore that career.
“I think a lot of our students and peer tutors haven’t considered
teaching until they start doing that kind of work and realize ‘I could see
myself doing this,’” Frost said.
“I think any time we can work together it’s a great way to show the
community we’re all interested in students’ success.”
KU & JCCC
THE FIRST YEARS
2010 - 2012: Beth Edmonds, JCCC math faculty
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Georgia Smith, Master Teacher
Beth was very excited about the program, attended a UTeach annual
conference, promoted the program
Beth taught Step 1 on a course overload schedule, without much
science division support, and without much marketing of the class (no
one knew about the opportunity)
Class sizes became so small, they weren’t feasible, and JCCC stopped
offering the Step 1 course.
KU & JCCC
NOW: THE SECOND TIME AROUND
2014: Katrina Rothrock
JCCC Adjunct Faculty & KU UKanTeach Master Teacher
JCCC Step 1 students with KU (Edwards) Step 1 students
Large marketing efforts by UKanTeach at both KU and JCCC
Step 2 course proposed at JCCC for Spring 2015 implementation to help
with continuity of pathway
BENEFITS FOR BOTH
KU & JCCC
Added career path opportunity for JCCC students: gives potential to
increase JCCC enrollment numbers
JCCC is not paying for the faculty at this time…
but this is a pathway to KU
With the articulation agreement, students are certain of what classes
will be accepted toward their degree at KU.
The KU Edwards campus allows for more local classes, longer.
Local schools in Kansas City area are very excited to have UKanTeach as
part of their classrooms.
With more marketing support from KU, there is more awareness and
faculty support at JCCC
CHALLENGES
FOR STUDENTS: At JCCC, many students are a long way from the
academic level necessary to begin a math/science degree
Only Step 1 now, soon only Step 1&2 – but not an organized 2+2
Pre-requisites: desire to increase diversity and access to the program,
but pre-requisites discourage this
FOR INSTRUCTORS: No designated classroom or storage room
(My office is the supply room, and I pack the bins)
2 Learning Management Systems (need a 3rd party dropbox)
JCCC faculty interactions are critical
FOR THE PROGRAM: KU is providing teacher, observer, supplies
Constant recruiting required for sustainability
THE FUTURE
We hope the added pathway increases the program enrollment, and
therefore more teacher development for Kansas
With added program awareness, we hope to make the program selfsustaining at JCCC
We plan to offer more courses for the program at the KU Edwards
campus, creating a more complete local program for the students who
start at the community college
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UKanTeach
One Degree,
Many Career Options.
Katrina Stullken Rothrock
UKanTeach Master Teacher
rothrock@ku.edu
UKanTeach.ku.edu
UCCSTeach
Community College
Expansion
Curtis Turner, UCCS Teach Senior Instructor,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
CCCS
•CCCS one system
•Guaranteed Transfer
Agreement
•AA and AS Degrees
Issues
• AS transfer degrees do not
match Uteach requirements.
• Extended time to completion
• Difficulty of introducing new
courses into CC system
Solutions
• Specific articulation
agreements
• Connect with advising at
CC
• Dual enrollment?
IDoTeach
A Collaboration between Boise
State University
and
College of Western Idaho
Louis. S. Nadelson, PhD
Uteach Conference 2014
Location
Over 50%
of the
populatio
n of Idaho
lives
within a
50 mile
radius of
Boise
More Location
History
• Spring 2009 – Began conversation about being a
UTeach site – collaboration
• Spring 2010 – Worked with Micron Foundation on
a proposal to fund IDoTeach
• Fall 2011 – IDoTeach planning year – curriculum
approval, hiring
• Fall 2012 – First Boise State IDoTeach students
• CWI works on curriculum approval
• Fall 2013 – Master Teacher hired – shadows at
Boise State
• Spring 2014 – First College Western Idaho
IDoTeach class
Challenges
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2 year to 4 year program
Curriculum consistency
Communication
One Team One Dream!
Dual enrollment
Retention as CWI
Resourcing two programs
Successes
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Openness to change
First 3 semesters at CWI
Program/course consistency
Resourcing from multiple sources
Co-director at CWI, BSU Colleges of Ed,
Arts and Sciences, Engineering
• Regular team meetings
• One Team One Dream!
For more information:
louisnadelson@boisestate.edu
Office: 208-426-2856
UT-Pan American/South Texas College
UTeach Partnership
Preparing Quality Secondary Science and
Mathematics Teachers for South Texas
May 2014
UTeach-Pan American Replication
Proposal
• UT-Pan American (UTPA)/South Texas College (STC)
MOU
• Offer STEP 1 and STEP 2 at STC in Year 2
• STC students complete Associates Degree and
matriculate to UTPA to complete UTeach certification
• UTPA UTeach master teachers
• UTPA/STC UTeach Partnership well received by UT
System
UTPA/STC Partnership - Progress Made
• Two new Master Teachers hired in Summer,
2013; taught STEP 1 at UTPA, Fall Semester, 2013
• Spring Semester, 2014: STEP 1 offered to 39 STC
students; 30 passed the course
• Spring and Summer, 2014: Recruitment of STC
STEP 1 students for Fall, 2014
• AY 2014-2015: anticipate 72 STC STEP 1 students
and 48 STEP 2 students
UTPA/STC Partnership;
Requirements Met
• Letters of endorsement from 3 universities with
UTeach programs; acceptance of STEP 1 and STEP 2
credits
• STEP 1, STEP 2 courses in STC Catalog
• STEP 1, STEP 2 courses in degree plans
• Approval of UTPA Master Teachers as STC Guest
Lecturers
• Master Teacher office space, furniture, access to
STC Information Technology, Student System access
UTPA/STC Partnership; Additional
Requirements Met
• Mentor Teachers for STC STEP 1 and STEP 2
students
• Tuition reimbursement for STEP 1 and STEP 2
courses
• Reimbursement for STC STEP 1 students for TB
tests and background checks
UTPA/STC UTeach Partnership; Replication Goals
for AY 2014-15 and AY 2015-16
• AY 2014-15 (Year 3) – Continue with STEP 1 and STEP 2
offerings
• AY 2015-16 (Year 4) – Recruit an additional 72 STEP 1
students and continue with STEP 2
• Identify bridge scholarships to increase percentage of
STC UTeach students matriculating to UT-RGV
• A new way of doing business: a subrecipient contract
for STC to facilitate tuition reimbursements, wage
payments, STEP 1 and STEP 2 outreach and recruitment,
minor space renovations
UTeach at STC Logo
Open Discussion
Questions
Strategies
Next steps
Take-aways
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