NCATE Professional Development WebConference Series

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NCATE Professional DevelopmentWeb-Conference
Series

• Accreditation, Accountability, and Assessment
• Building Collaborative Relationships between
  Teacher Education and Arts and Sciences
• March 28, 2007
• (by invitation only)

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Welcome

• Arts and Sciences
• College of Education Faculty!

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• Please remember to set-up your audio
• 145pm- First audio sound check
• 155pm- Final audio sound check
• 200pm- Session will begin

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NCATE Web Conference Arts Sciences Training

• 145 1st Audio Check
• 155 Final Audio Check
• 200 210 Introductions and Review of
  Elluminate Software
• 210 220 Comment on NCATE Standards
• 220 225 Initiating the Dialog-Accreditation,
  Accountability, and Assessment
• 225 245 Cultivating the Culture of
  Collaborative Practice among A/S and Education
• 245 305 Collaboration Knowledge Base and
  Interactive Discussion
• 305 315 Summary and Next Step

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Elluminate Icon Review

• To use this web conference tool, remember these
  icons
• Raise hand Yes, No Mic
• Accept, Reject

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Elluminate Icon Review

• Remember these icons, too
• Clapping Happy face Sad face

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More instructions!

• Click in the rectangular box to key in a text
  message.
• Text message us if you experience technical
  difficulties.
• All messages and NCATE responses can be viewed by
  all participants.

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NCATE staff on the webconference

• Boyce C. Williams, Vice President
• Gwendolyn T. Trotter, Consultant
• Khadija Jordan, Assistant to Donna Gollnick
• Barbara J. Olexer, Assistant to Boyce C. Williams
• Julien Goichot, Webmaster

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Conference Goals

• to build collaborative relationships between
  Deans/Directors of Arts and Sciences and Teacher
  Ed faculty.
• to increase knowledge base of NCATE processes and
  purpose for Arts and Sciences faculty as well as
  its value to the institution

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Overview and Session Outcomes

• The purpose of this session is to begin an
  in-depth inquiry into the specifics of building
  and assessing collaborative relationships between
  Arts and Sciences and Colleges of Education. In
  addition, those working on the AAA initiative
  want your input as to what the needs are for
  effective collaboration between Colleges of
  Education and Arts and Sciences.

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NCATE 101

• NCATE Unit Standards
• NCATE Program Standards
• Alignment of Program Review with Standard 1
• Standard 5 Faculty Qualifications, Performance,
  and Development
• Please note that additional information on
  NCATE 101 has been provided in the Resources
  Section to this Web Cast.

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Historical and Philosophical Context

• 1999 Presidents Summit on Teacher Quality
• Teachers for a New Era (Carnegie, 2002)
• Liberal Arts as model (Berger)

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Polling Frame1. Why is collaborating with Arts
and Sciences and Teacher Education
important/relevant?

• Poll individuals participating in this web cast
  today in your location
• Take 3 minutes to arrive at a response
• Raise your hand when youre ready to respond.

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Polling To Frame Ideas, Attitudes and Perceptions
Around Collaboration

• Accept or Reject Responses(please indicate for
  your group-only 2 seconds to come up with a
  response (Smiles)

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Accept or Reject

• 1. Cooperate, collaborate and commitment are
  necessary buy-in behaviors if we are to be
  successful in the collaborative relationships.

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Accept or Reject

• 2. Collaboration is a rather simplistic
  behavior.

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Accept or Reject

• 3. Usually we dont know what collaboration
  looks like until we see it.

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Accept or Reject

• 4. Collaboration between Arts and Sciences and
  Colleges of Education have measurable results
  when executed around a purpose.

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Accept or Reject

• 5. Collaboration plans, tools and processes
• should not vary by institution.

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Accept or Reject

• 6. Plunge into collaboration-dont try to plan
  for it.

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Accept or Reject

• 7. Clarity of purpose is a key to impacting
  collaboration.

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Accept or Reject

• 8. Two way communication systems are detrimental
  to collaboration.

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Defining Collaboration

Chris Huxham, in Creating Collaborative
Advantage (1996), provides definitions of terms
such as networking and cooperation. Huxham
distinguishes these terms from collaboration.
He defines collaboration as the
following Collaboration is the exchange of
information, the altering of activities, the
sharing of resources, and the enhancement of the
capacity of another for the mutual benefit of all
and to achieve a common purpose.
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Interactive Discussion

• What type of things should you do to foster
  collaboration between the College of Education
  and Arts and Sciences?
• How can you assess and measure the impact of
  collaborative activities on candidate learning or
  other impact targets?
• What are the needs in Colleges of Education and
  Arts and Sciences to hit the collaborative
  impact target?

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Responsibilities and Signposts for
Collaboration-How can you start assessing today?
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To get to collaboration we must have
Communications(2 way/multiple networks)
Purpose
Necessary levels Cooperate Collaborate Commitmen
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Common Agenda
Collaborative TRUST
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Summary and Next Step

• There are resources and a knowledge base which
  informs collaboration (See attachments)
• Collaboration is more than an event
• Investigate how you can collectively plan for
  collaboration and then execute the plan
• Consider web based technology tools such as a
  wiki or google calendar
• Send Boyce_at_NCATE.org recommendations for moving
  your units forward for impactful collaboration

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Resources and Knowledge Base Materials

• Please feel free to utilize these resources in
  sessions at your institution
• Dont hesitate to send materials to fellow
  participants as you continue to develop resources
  and a knowledge base around Arts and
  Sciences/Teacher Education Collaboration

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NCATE Unit Standards

• Candidate Performance
• Candidate Knowledge, Skills, Dispositions
• Assessment System and Unit Evaluation
• Unit Capacity
• Field Experiences and Clinical Practice
• Diversity
• Faculty Qualifications, Performance, and
  Development
• Unit Governance and Resources

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NCATE Program Standards

• Early Childhood education
• Elementary education
• ESL
• Physical education
• Special education
• Instructional technology
• Reading specialist
• School leaders
• School psychology
• School library media

• Programs that prepare teachers to teach middle
  school and secondary
• Computer ed
• English/language arts
• Foreign languages
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social studies
• Technology

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Alignment of Program Review with Standard 1

• Content

• Rubric elements 1-2

Professional Pedagogical Knowledge, Skills,
Dispositions
Rubric elements 3-5
P-12 Student Learning
Rubric elements 7-8
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• Faculty are qualified and model best professional
  practices in scholarship, service, and teaching,
  including the assessment of their own
  effectiveness as related to candidate
  performance they also collaborate with
  colleagues in the disciplines and schools.

The unit
systematically evaluates faculty performance and
facilitates professional development.
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Standard 5

• Faculty Qualifications,
• Performance, and
• Development

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A Knowledge Base that Informs Collaborative
Activities

• Presidents 1999 Summit on Teacher Quality
• Teachers for a New Era/Carnegie(http//www.teacher
  sforanewera.org/index.cfm?fuseactionhome.aboutTNE
  )
• Holmes Group(http//www.udel.edu/holmes/hpdf/categ
  ories.htm)
• Step Project
• Kellogg logic model for evaluation-link between
  activities/outcomes(http//www.exinfm.com/training
  /pdfiles/logicModel.pdf)

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A Knowledge Base that Informs Collaborative
Activities continued
Defining Collaboration Chris Huxham, in
Creating Collaborative Advantage (1996), provides
definitions of terms such as networking and
cooperation Huxham distinguishes these terms
from collaboration Collaboration is the
exchange of information, the altering of
activities, the sharing of resources, and the
enhancement of the capacity of another for the
mutual benefit of all and to achieve a common
purpose.
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A Knowledge Base that Informs Collaborative
Activities

• Develop your own assessment tool for
  collaboration-see the work of Lynne M. Borden and
  Daniel Perkins (1999). Assessing Your
  Collaboration A Self Evaluation Tool, Journal
  of Extension, Volume 37, Number 2.

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For Discussion Only! Possible Next Step

• Webcast Two - Using Collaboration Tools and
  Strategies for Assessment and Accountability
• Webcast Three - Responding to Our Collaboration
  Needs-Kelloggs Logic Model
• Webcast Four