Department of Special Education

1. Department of Special Education All Faculty Meeting – December 10, 2012

2. Today’s Agenda • Please mute your microphone when you have finished talking – you do not need to raise your hand – this is a discussion and a sharing of information. • Welcome and thank yous– Denise (5 minutes) • New Exit Survey – Cyn(5minutes) • Clinical Practice– Joan (10 minutes) • Generic Core Exam – Myrt (5 minutes). • PAR Update – Cyn (5 minutes) • SPD Faculty Community – KayDee (5 minutes) • iPads – Progress Assessment– Denise (5 minutes) • Advisement Handbook – Judy (10 minutes) • Biennial Report – Denise et al. (5 minutes) • NCATE – changing the master’s degree – Denise (5 minutes)

3. Thank You • Joan, Judy, Joy, KayDee, Penny, and Katie for all of their hard work on the Biennial Report • Cindy for taking on the advisement responsibility for San Diego • Myrt for taking notes for our department • Mary DeChance for organizing the Program Leads meeting in Sacramento • For everyone in our department , you are the best

4. Anyone want to add to the agenda? • Is there an item we need to add to the agenda? If we run out of time we can save it for our January 14th and 15th workdays meeting

5. New Exit Survey - Cyn • Update?

6. Changes to Clinical Practice/CAP - Joan • Clinical Practice Region Leads • Finding placements • Progress Alerts • Candidate Assistance Plan • Forms • Any questions?

7. Generic Core Exam - Myrt • Update – Ennio had some questions

8. PARs – Cyn and Denise • Aligned to Conceptual Framework, WASC, and INTASC Standards • Data collection will take place during our January workdays – all course leads will be brought in – if possible.

9. SPD Faculty Community - KayDee • Please check on a regular basis – Denise will be posting there from now on unless individual message are necessary • All important announcements and information will be housed there • If you cannot get in, please contact KayDee or Jesse Keeler. • What would you like to be able to do next so we can schedule the training with Jesse?

10. Progress Update – How are we doing? • How are we doing – are we using Katie’s from or did we reach a decision on it – I forgot • Hurdles? – what type of iPad training would you like during January workdays – Joy could you facilitate? – most people would like small group or partner training

11. Advisement Handbook - JudY • Make revisions • Send it out to you for review • Duplicate for distribution • Other suggestions?

12. NCATE Update • We have no data showing how our candidates are improving the academic performance of our students • Suggestion: Implement a “culminating activity” for our master’s degree – does not require IRB because it will not be published – but uploaded into dropbox. • Comments?

13. Other items? • I will be on Academic leave Dec 17-20 and January 2 and 3 • Have a wonderful holiday season • Thank you so much and I will see you “online” in our Faculty Community