Tachelle Banks, PhD&

Debbie Jackson, EdD

Project C.R.E.A.T.EThe Curriculum Redesign Effort Advancing

Teacher Education

• The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE, 2010) suggests that redesigning teacher education licensure programs to incorporate clinically-based programming is critical to the development of effective teachers

• In the current teacher education program at CSU prospective teacher candidates learn theory in isolation from practice with minimal experiences in K-12 classrooms until they are near degree completion

State of Teacher Preparation

Clinical Model

• National momentum for a “clinical model” of teacher education is growing.

• Views teaching as a practice-based profession, like medicine or nursing, with a closely monitored induction period.

• Aims to close the gap between pedagogical theory and practice by creating “teaching hospitals” in which student teachers learn alongside the professionals, thus shifting the balance of teacher preparation from higher education and into schools.

Clinical Model

• Clinical model is based upon a scientific, evidence-based view of education in which teachers use experimental logic when they plan for instruction: – Evaluate their students’ previous knowledge,

construct hypotheses about the best methods for teaching,

– Develop teaching plans based upon those hypotheses, observe results, and

– Base further instruction on the evidence collected (National Institute for Literacy, 2006).

Project CREATE

• The Curriculum Redesign Effort Advancing Teacher Education is a redesign of teacher licensure programs at CSU.

• Based on a professional, collaborative, integrative, clinical model for teacher preparation that will result in student-focused, teacher licensure programs. – early childhood, middle childhood, and special

education (mild/moderate and moderate/intensive)

National, State, & Local Initiatives

• Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)

• Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

• Ohio Department of Education– Ohio Educator Assessment– Teacher Performance Assessment– Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College

and Careers (PARCC Assessments)

National, State, & Local Initiatives

• University credit conversion• Cleveland Transformation Plan

1. Tighten integration among courses and between course work and clinical work in schools;

2. Design extensive and intensively supervised clinical work integrated with course work; and

3. Develop and nurture close, proactive relationships with schools that serve diverse learners effectively and develop and model good teaching.

4. CREATE aims to close the gap between pedagogical theory and practice

Purpose of Project CREATE

Integral Components of CREATE

• Professional• Collaborative• Integrated• Clinical

Rotations, Seminars, and Rotations, Seminars & Internships

1. Project CREATE will prepare candidates to be highly effective and qualified to teach in high need schools and districts.

2. Project CREATE outcomes include… (a) focus on student learning, (b) provide extended and enhanced clinical experience, (c) strengthen teacher license curriculum, (d) improve teacher support and (e) measure effectiveness

Desired Outcomes

•Project CREATE will build, maintain and enhance academic excellence •Ensure student success while simultaneously introducing streamlined teacher license programs

•Provide an increased number and increased quality of field hours in classroom.

Project CREATE & Student Success

Project CREATE & Student Success

• The goal of Project CREATE is to design quality programs that will be completed in 120 credit hours.– Current drafts of new program plans range in

hours from 112-128• Project CREATE is developed around a cohort

model– traditional students will move through the last

two and a half years of their programs in cohorts

The CREATE Institute

• Funded by Martha Holden Jennings Foundation• The CREATE Institute aims to launch CREATE

programs• The CREATE Institute intends on providing the

professional development required for faculty members, supervisors and mentor teachers to learn about co-teaching and practical strategies for implementation.

• Co-teaching is scheduled to be the primary topic for the Summer 2014 CREATE Institute.

• As CSU pre-service teachers are placed in clinical experiences, the needs of the school and district will be investigated and accommodated resulting in– pre-service candidates will be more likely to

secure employment because the candidates will have spent time in the district schools

– district needs will be identified and pre-service candidates will be prepared with district needs in mind

– pre-service candidates will be better prepared to deal with the complexities and realities of teaching

Project CREATE & Student Success

Project CREATE

• Project CREATE will result in :1. Implementation of a clinically based teacher

education program at CSU – Fall 20142. Streamlined teacher license programming3. Student supports that increase student retention (e.g.

cohort model; less complex programs; more clinical experience)

4. Increase the likelihood that candidates will be hired upon graduation.