Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant:

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Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant Area VI
Cross Institutional Articulation

• Vision Develop policies that facilitate
• the articulation of pre-teacher education
  programs with teacher education programs and
• 2) the predictable transfer of teacher education
  students into baccalaureate programs while
  meeting the requirements for high-quality
  education programs. In so doing, the quality of
  teacher education state wide will be improved.

2
Vehicle for Development and Implementation

• Collaboration among the Iowa Department of
  Education and 2 and 4-year institutions through
  cooperative work sessions and other activities.

3
Talking Points

• Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT)
• Entry requirements
• Acceptance of competency tests for entrance
• Min. GPA
• Profile of competencies for entrance into a
  teacher education program (pedagogy)
• Profile of competencies for entrance into a
  teacher education program oral/written
  communication skills and mathematics skills
• Profile of dispositions (dispositions team)

4
Maryland Model

• Student requirements for attaining the AAT
  include
• Obtaining 60 credits of lower division course
  work in the arts and sciences to satisfy the
  NCATE standards
• Taking courses on educational psychology, special
  education and educational theory
• Maintaining a 2.75 GPA
• Passing the reading, writing, and math
  proficiency tests
• Developing a portfolio
• Completing the field experience requirements

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AA Articulation Agreement between the Regent
Institutions and the Community Colleges in Iowa
(1981)

• 60 hrs. min. of transfer courses
• Gen. Ed. Courses distributed as
• communications 8 sem. Hrs.
• humanities 8 sem. Hrs.
• mathematics science 8 sem. Hrs. (at least
  one course in each
• social science 8 sem. Hrs.
• distributed requirements 8 sem. Hrs. taken
  from among the above four divisions
• Min. GPA 2.0

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Talking Points

• Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT)
• Entry requirements
• Acceptance of competency tests for entrance
• Min. GPA
• Profile of competencies for entrance into a
  teacher education program (pedagogy)
• Profile of competencies for entrance into a
  teacher education program oral/written
  communication skills and mathematics skills
• Profile of dispositions (dispositions team)