Conceptual Framework Redesign & NCATE Visit 2012

“Colleges of Education will either change or change will happen to you.”

Jim Cibulka, President, NCATE – 2/18/10

According to Cibulka:Four Game Changers

1. Convergence of the Global and High Standards– Common standards across the nation.

• We have a more challenging group of learners today than we did in the 1950’s.

• This will have implications for revising Teacher Education Standards.

• Preparing digital-age learners – we need to have a cutting-edge approach to preservice and inservice teacher education.

According to Cibulka:Four Game Changers

2. Data– Produce teachers who can use data functionally;

and– Performance Assessments –

• Valid and Reliable – • California has led the way (TPE and TPA; also

PACT)– Measures that show our candidates are ready to

teach, administer, counsel.

According to Cibulka:Four Game Changers

3. Better Alignment between Colleges of Education and School Districts

– Better alignment between supply and demand and

– skill sets that the districts need and want.– Clinical approaches to

teacher/administrator/counselor preparation– Integration between preservice and inservice

teacher education

According to Cibulka:Four Game Changers

4. Exponential Growth of Non-Higher Education Teacher/Administrator/Counselor Education Programs

– The Alternative Routes to Certification. – Best model seems to be Residential Programs

• Higher retention rates– Who do you recruit, what kind of support do you

provide preservice and inservice teachers/administrators/counselors?

According to Arne Duncan:School Administrators & Success

• “Principals are being educated for jobs that do not exist anymore.”

• Challenge Colleges of Education to think about principal education programs. – Good principals, nurture, retain and encourage

good teachers. – Bad principals run off talent.

• “… Teaching is a calling.”

According to Arne Duncan:Three Shifts

1. For the first time in history we compete in a global economy.

2. The civil rights challenge – the imperative to live up to equal opportunity – 30% drop out before graduation. Two thousand high schools around the country contribute to half of all drop outs. Feds will demand rigorous change. Need a new generation of principals and teachers.

3. Demographic – massive shift with baby-boomers leaving teaching. We will need new teachers – approximately 1.15 million over the next ten years.

“These problems are not self-correcting.”

CAREUniversity of Idaho educators CARE.

Together we develop as scholar practitioners who value and professionally apply and advance:

Cultural Proficiency; Assessment, Teaching, and Learning; Reflective Practice; and, Engaging in Community Building & Partnerships.

NCATE Committee Progress• Fashioning a written conceptual framework

– Vision and Mission– Philosophy, purposes, goals, and standards– Knowledge base, theories, wisdom of practice,

professional dispositions, proficiencies aligned with technology and diversity, and with the state standards

– And, summary of our assessment system

Assessment System• We have engaged the services of TaskStream™

– A webfolio assessment system will be essential to a successful NCATE and State visit

– One in every Five institutions reviewed last year, passed NCATE with conditions.• Invariably the condition surrounded Standard 2 –

Assessment• (Personal Note) My ex-colleagues from CLU presented

at AACTE Conference: “Webfolio Assessment: Lessons Learned Over Ten Years and Two Successful NCATE and State Accreditation Visits”

Continuous Improvement - Pilot

• What does this mean?– Institutional Report (IR) is due one year before the

visit (next year it would be due).– Program reports for national review due three years

before the visit (last year).• The focus of the Continuous Improvement is

over 7 years– The unit is assessing itself against the target level of

one or more standards. – Suggest Standard 1 – Subject Knowledge

Assessment data is key to success

• What has the unit learned from its data?• What changes have been made based

on the data?• What differences have the changes

made?

Continuous improvement shown in

• Annual reports• Significant changes described in the IR• Progress moving to the target level

Advantages

• We are viewed as early-adopters• It is less expensive!!!

– Shorter visit that occurs after online review and report

– Ostensibly, eliminates the need for rejoinders

Cons

• Must meet target on at least one standard• Must implement TaskStream™ immediately• Must address Cibulka’s “Game Changers” in

thoughtful, strategic, meaningful ways• There will be no rejoinders – we have to get it

right the first time.

I Won!

Thoughts – Concerns - Clarifications