September 24, 2003 - Minutes
Introductions
• Judy Kuechle, Dennis Stewart, Craig Kissock , Jim Carlson
Review of New Federal Law: No Child Left Behind
• Implications– there must be highly qualified teachers in all subjects and grade levels
• MN is ranked number 50 on the achievement gap, the lowest of any state
• Federal money is available and determines yearly report cards for every school
• MN has implemented a 1-5 star system
• How do we prepare our teachers to meet new requirements?
• UMM teacher education program is making sure that the candidates have the correct info
• MN plan has been approved by the federal plan in regards to NCLB
• Alternative license programs are being pushed
• MN BOT is not in favor of allowing license by exam
• We want to make sure we have high pass rates on all student exams
• 114 schools in MN have failed (lower income and minority) AYP
Review of New MN K-12 Academic Standards
• Last spring the Profile of Learning was removed
• Art, Language Arts, Math are in effect this year
• Science and Social Studies are under development for implementation in 2004
• Elective standards in other subjects at the district level
• P16 partnership
Mission of Teacher Education Committee
• 2-3 meetings a semester – this fall 1 will be with Ed Faculty
• English/Speech License numbers have dropped over the past few years (we should look at other colleges with this area as well as Theatre Arts to see if they have been impacted as well)
• NCATE Accreditation
• Semester Conversions and impact on license areas
• Recommendation forms that faculty use to recommend students to the program
• What problems we have and how do we solve them
Next Meeting ~ October 15, 2003 at 10:30am
Prepared By ~ Jana Koehler
October 15, 2003 - Minutes
Introductions
• Teacher Education Committee Members Present: Jim Carlson, Dennis Stewart, Peter Whelan, Judy Kuechle
• Education Faculty Present: Pam Solvie, Gwen Rudney, Claudia Burns, Carol Marxen, Michelle Page, Ruth Trageser
Overview of ELED Program
• Gwen Rudney – Discipline Coordinator
• ELED is a major at UMM where students take 1/3 GER, 1/3 Content Area, and 1/3 ED courses
• Each student is assigned an advisor and currently the Education faculty are overwhelmed with advisees (20-40 each), advisors do a group advisee meeting and if individual appointments are necessary, they are held
• ELED course requirement form was distributed for everyone to review
• Currently students receive ELED major and they are required to have a second license area
• To enter program students must submit application, minimum GPA of 2.5, letters of recommendation, and make progress towards major/graduation
Overview of SEED Program
• Michelle Page – Discipline Coordinator
• Licensure program that corresponds to other majors
• 5-12 licensure, some are K-12 including visual arts/ foreign languages/music
• Students complete their college years in 4 or 5 years
Issues facing Teacher Education
• Students take an excessive amount of tests (PPST and Praxis II)
• The content and pedagogy test is taken at the end of the program but can be taken earlier
• The state may want to have the P-12 teachers take a test in the future
• Report card for higher institutions just like the P-12 schools is in the future
Teacher Education and UMM
• The 4 th position in ELED has helped our Division
• Education Building will need to be made accessible to all students, workers, and visitors
• Education Budget has remained the same for the last 5 years and it is not sufficient
• P-12 schools help the University but we should try to help the schools more
• Our programs are strongly linked to the liberal arts
• We may need to work with other disciplines so students graduate in 4 years
• NCATE will be coming in 3-5 years and we are constantly updating our file
• We are constantly working to improve diversity as part of the NCATE accreditation
• Pelowski Bill – MACTE will report to legislators in February – they will be showing the connection between higher education and P-12 schools
• What can the teacher education committee do to help or make changes? This meeting was to inform the teacher education committee and reaffirm the connections to the liberal arts
• Peter Whelan informed us of what he has been doing to link the University to P-12 schools, he is going to Parkers Prairie to help with Earth Science and does a field trip with 8 th graders
• We impact the P-12 and they impact us
Next meeting will be in November.
Prepared By ~ Jana Koehler
November 19, 2003 - Minutes
Recommendation Forms
• Elementary Ed, Secondary Ed, Career Center
• Students are required to have 3 recommendation forms filled out before they are admitted to the education program
• Maybe more check boxes and less writing (dependability, punctuality, completes assignments on time- quantitative items should be used as check boxes)
• After answering questions 3 & 4, question 5 seems redundant à maybe reword them
• Change questions/list so it doesn't seem like the same items being answered over and over
• Electronic form will be coming in the future with paper as an option
• Balance the headings so average is the middle
• Keeping it closed instead of open file would help get a real idea of the candidate
• ElEd & SeEd Faculty will discuss changes
New Items
• Minutes from meetings need to be emailed to MCSA – send all 3 at once
• Next semester – Jana will obtain schedules and set meeting sometime in January
Prepared By ~ Jana Koehler
February 2, 2004 - Minutes
UMM meeting with UMD
• UMM may be able to offer Graduate courses with UMD in the near future
• Masters of Education will be offered maybe as early as next fall
• March 29 UMD will be coming to UMM and NTNT will be hosting an event that evening for area teachers, principals, etc
MACTE website
• Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
• www.mnteachered.org
• Legislature wanted proof that faculty from colleges/universities with teacher education programs have experience/knowledge of the P-12 classroom
Ed Week and Star Tribune articles
• Report cards were issued for each state and some of MN grades were low
K-12 Spanish and K-6 Elementary
• Elementary Education majors receive K-6 and another specialty (P or middle level)
• Students can now do K-12 Spanish as the specialty, UMM needs to get this in writing and submit to the MN Board of Teaching
NCATE website
• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
• Accreditation is on a 7 year cycle
• Program approval (catalog changes) will be Spring 2008
• Visit will be Fall 2008
Prepared By ~ Jana Koehler
April 30, 2004 - Minutes
UMM meeting with UMD, Judy Kuechle
• Outreach program for area teachers and very important for UMM
• Karen Johnson is the contact person
• Master of Education, cohort group of 20 for next year and 12 the following
• Graduate Courses – UMM faculty can teach courses and option of online
Middle Level Exams
• October 1, 2004 the new test requirements take effect
• 4 new tests at the elementary level for middle level
• Secondary has 4 new science tests
Outlook for Minnesota 's K-12 education
• Commissioner Yecke has not been confirmed
• Social Studies and Science standards may be delayed a year
• Pawlenty set up a finance committee and report to be released soon
Teacher Education Committee 2004-05
• Members discussed continuation of the Teacher Education Committee and all were in favor of recommending the continuation of this committee based on the need for intra-campus connection and state and national accreditation
• Jana will submit minutes and final report to Carrie Grussing
Prepared By ~ Jana Koehler