Putting CAEP Standards 2 & 4

into Practice

Kathryn ButtonTechTeach Professional Development Facilitator

March 5, 2015

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Who Are We? 32,440 1 of 10 507 550

Lubbock Independent School District Dallas ISDLubbock Cooper ISD Fort Worth ISDSlaton ISD Northeast ISDRoosevelt ISD Grand Prairie ISDFrendship ISD New Caney ISD

Marble Falls ISDFredericksburg ISD

Partners:

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Fall 2011 ~ a new beginning... NCATE/CAEP accredited since 1965

Arrival of new dean from ASU with a reform agenda

College was trying something new with a new dean… our reform effort, fit with Transformational Initiative (TI)

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School leaders said that they preferred to hire new teachers from other institutions because

they were more “classroom ready.”

Fall 2011 ~ A new beginning ...

Input indicators suggested quality graduates

BUT

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Talk with the school districts that we serve: Graduates who can: 1. Teach effectively 2. Engage/inspire the students that they

teach Increase K-12 student achievement/success

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OUTCOMES MEASURES

1. Teach Effectively

2. Engage/inspire K-12 students

3. Increase student achievement

• TAP Rubric

• Student Attitudinal Measure

• District Achievement Data

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What is TechTeach?

• Clinically intensive- Early placement- Full-year student teaching- Co-teaching

• Competency-based with TAP• Focused on student achievement• Dean’s two promises to partner districts

CAEP Standard Two

CAEP TechTeach Program Features

Clinical Partnerships and Practice

• Site Coordinator, a TTU faculty member, embedded in a pod of 3-5 schools within a partner district: The major professor for 20 – 27 TCs throughout blocks 1-4 for clinical on the TAP• Site Coordinators select and train Mentor Teachers – co-teaching• Mentor Teacher Meetings - 1 per 6 weeks• Year-long student teaching in the same classroom

CAEP Standard Two

CAEP TechTeach Program Features

Clinical Partnerships and Practice

• 2X POP cycles/semester (Mentor Teacher involved) using TAP & K-12 Student Attitude Survey and Achievement Data• Use of iPads & Teachscape to foster TC self-reflection in A&Es & POP cycles• Video capture on Teachscape permits faculty double-scoring to ensure scoring rigor & inter-rater reliability• Governance Meetings – SC, School Administrators, PDF – 1 per 6 weeks

CAEP Standard Four

CAEP TechTeach Program

Application of

Professional Knowledge, Skills, and

Dispositions

• Site Coordinators, research study following their TCs after graduation

• State of Texas New Educator Evaluation – T-TESS

• Teacher Evaluation & Support Rubric (1 of 4 domains – “Content Knowledge and Expertise”)

CAEP Standard Four

CAEP TechTeach Program

Employer Satisfaction with Completers

• Administrators are now fighting over our graduates

• “We’ll hire all that you have!”

• Early Contracts given in Dallas and Fort Worth ISD

• All 5th grade students in classroom with TC passed STAAR Math Test

• TEA Principal’s Survey – 2014

CAEP Standard Four

CAEP TechTeach Program

P-12 Student

Learning and Growth

• District MOU -Benchmark P-12 Test Scores-P-12 Student Attendance

• Goal: classrooms with TC classrooms without TC

Early Findings – TC impact on learning

Presence of TC vs. School/grade average * Content

“Buckets” of Data

• Coursework data – Apply & Evaluate Assignments

• Instructional competency – Performance Assessment (PA) Data

• P-12 student achievement data Benchmark

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Our three-year reform effort…

What do TC need to be prepared for 21st century schools?

A real change in our relationships with our partner schools.