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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. Convergence of the Global and High Standards
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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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 inserviceteachers/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 • For the first time in history we compete in a global economy. • 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. • 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.”
CARE University 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.
