NCATE WebConference for Precandidate Institutions

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NCATE Web-Conference forPrecandidate
Institutions

• June 25, 2007
• (by invitation only)

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• Welcome Precandidates!

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• Please remember to set-up your audio
• 130pm- First audio sound check
• 145pm- Final audio sound check
• 200pm- Session will begin

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NCATE Web Conference

• 130 1st Audio Check
• 145 150 Final Audio Check
• 150 200 Introductions and Review of
  Elluminate Software
• 200 215 Comment on NCATE Standards
• 215 245 Preconditions Review
• 245 255 Timeline
• 255 300 Summary and Next Steps

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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

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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
• Patty Garvin, Accreditation Associate
• Monica Minor, Accreditation Associate
• Khadija Jordan, Assistant to Donna Gollnick
• Barbara J. Olexer, Assistant to Boyce C. Williams
• James Convery, Director, Information Systems

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Conference Goals

• to review standards, preconditions, and timelines
  for NCATE accreditation.
• to increase knowledge base of NCATE precondition
  processes and purpose for institutional faculty.

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Overview and Session Outcomes

• The purpose of this session is to present an
  overview of NCATE preconditions, standards, and
  timeline.

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NCATE

• NCATE Unit Standards visit the NCATE website
  for unit standards
• NCATE Program Standards visit the NCATE website
  for program standards and state partnership
  agreements
• Preconditions and timeline
• Please note that additional information on
  NCATE 101 has been provided in the Resources
  Section to this Web Cast, dated May 10, 2007.

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NCATE Unit Standards
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NCATE Unit Standardsfor fall 2008 and beyond

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

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Components of Standard

• The Standard
• Rubrics
• Supporting Explanation

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Standard 1

• Candidates preparing to work in schools as
  teachers or other professionals know and
  demonstrate the content knowledge, pedagogical
  content knowledge and skills, pedagogical and
  professional knowledge and skills, and
  professional dispositions necessary to help all
  students learn. Assessments indicate that
  candidates meet professional, state, and
  institutional standards.

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Standard 2

• The unit has an assessment system that collects
  and analyzes data on applicant qualifications,
  candidate and graduate performance, and unit
  operations to evaluate and improve the
  performance of candidates, the unit, and its
  programs.

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Standard 3

• The unit and its school partners design,
  implement, and evaluate field experiences and
  clinical practice so that teacher candidates and
  other school professionals develop and
  demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and
  professional dispositions necessary to help all
  students learn.

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Standard 4

• The unit designs, implements, and evaluates
  curriculum and provides experiences for
  candidates to acquire and demonstrate the
  knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions
  necessary to help all students learn. Assessments
  indicate that candidates can demonstrate and
  apply proficiencies related to diversity.
  Experiences provided for candidates include
  working with diverse populations, including
  higher education and P-12 school faculty,
  candidates, and students in P-12 schools.

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Standard 5

• 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 6

• The unit has the leadership, authority, budget,
  personnel, facilities, and resources including
  information technology resources, for the
  preparation of candidates to meet professional,
  state, and institutional standards.

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NCATE Preconditionsfor Accreditation
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Definition of Preconditions

• Fundamental requirements that under gird NCATEs
  standards that must be met before a unit is
  permitted to advance to candidacy for first
  accreditation.

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Purpose of Preconditions

• To ensure that institutions are ready to host a
  site visit
• To give institutions a chance to start collecting
  and aggregating the kind of information that will
  be needed for visits

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What does it mean to meet the preconditions?

• It means the unit will be nominated for candidacy
  at the next Unit Accreditation Board meeting.
• It means the unit meets the minimum requirements
  to host a visit.
• It does not mean the conceptual framework and
  assessment system will be automatically free from
  challenge during the site visit.

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Precondition 1

• The institution recognizes and identifies a
  professional education unit that has
  responsibility and authority for the preparation
  of teachers and other professional education
  personnel.
• 1.1 A letter from the institutions CEO
• 1.2 A chart or narrative that lists all
  professional education programs
• 1.3 An organizational chart of the
  institution....

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Precondition 2

• A dean, director or chair is designated as head
  of the unit and is assigned authority and
  responsibility for overall administration and
  operation.
• 2.1 Job description of the professional education
  unit head

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Precondition 3

• The unit has written policies and procedures that
  guide the operations of the unit.
• 3.1 The cover page and table of contents for the
  documents that contain codified policies and
  procedures for the units operations, including
  policies and procedures pertaining to its
  candidates.

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Precondition 4 The Conceptual Framework

• It is the only precondition reviewed by the
  Annual Report and Preconditions Audit Committee.
  Therefore, it should be a self-contained document
  that includes everything the committee needs for
  review.
• Precondition 4 should not be thought of as five
  separate documents but as ONE conceptual
  framework that addresses each of the five
  elements.

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The Conceptual Framework

• Refer to the Checklist for Submission of
  Conceptual Frameworks available on the NCATE
  website.
• Conceptual frameworks should not exceed 40 pages,
  including tables and appendices.
• Deadlines for submitting conceptual frameworks
  are February 1 and September 15 (September 17,
  2007).

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Precondition 4

• The unit has a well developed conceptual
  framework that establishes the shared vision for
  a units efforts in preparing educators to work
  in P12 schools and provides direction for
  programs, courses, teaching, candidate
  performance, scholarship, service, and unit
  accountability, performance, scholarship,
  service, and unit accountability.

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Conceptual Framework Elements

• 1. The vision and mission of the institution and
  unit.
• 2. The units philosophy, purposes, and goals.
• 3. Knowledge bases
• 4. Candidate proficiencies aligned with
  standards
• 5. A description of the system by which the
  candidate proficiencies in Element 4 are
  regularly assessed.

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Preconditions 4 and 5

• Beginning in fall 2008 Precondition 5 will be
  including in Element 5 of the conceptual
  framework.
• Until then units have the option to include a
  description of their full assessment system in
  precondition 4.
• The new element statement will read
• Element 5 A description of the units system
  for evaluating its operations, the quality of its
  offerings, the performance of candidates on
  proficiencies described in Element 4, and the
  effectiveness of its graduates.

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Precondition 5

• The unit regularly monitors and evaluates its
  operations, the quality of its offerings, the
  performance of candidates, and the effectiveness
  of its graduates.
• 5.1 A description of the units system for
  evaluating its operations, the quality of its
  offerings, the performance of candidates, and the
  effectiveness of its graduates.

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Precondition 6 The unit has published criteria
for admission to and exit from all initial
teacher preparation and advanced programs and can
provide summary reports of candidate performance.

• 6.1 A photocopy of published documentation (e.g.,
  from a catalog, student teaching handbook,
  application form, or web page) listing the basic
  requirements for entry to, retention in, and
  completion of professional education programs
  offered by the institution, including any
  nontraditional/alternative and off-campus
  programs.
• 6.2 A brief summary of candidate performance on
  assessments conducted for admission into programs
  and exit from them. This summary should include
  (a) the portion of Title II documentation related
  to candidate admission and completion that was
  prepared for the state and (b) compilation of
  results on the units own assessments.

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Precondition 7. The units programs are approved
by the appropriate state agency or agencies, and,
in states with educator licensing examinations
and required pass rates, the units summary pass
rate meets or exceeds the required state pass
rate.

• 7.1     The most recent state approval letters
• 7.2 Documentation submitted to the state for
  Title II, indicating that the unit's summary pass
  rate on state licensure examinations meets or
  exceeds the required state pass rate. If the
  required state pass rate is not evident on this
  documentation, it should be provided on a
  separate page. (This provision does not apply to
  units in states without examination requirements
  or required pass rates for licensure.)

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Precondition 8

• If the institution is located in a non-partner
  state or in a partner state that requires the
  submission of program reports for national review
  through NCATE, the unit has submitted program
  reports for each program for which NCATE has
  approved program standards.
• 8.1 A list of program reports that will be
  submitted or have been submitted to NCATE

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Precondition 9

• The institution is accredited, without
  probation or an equivalent status, by the
  appropriate institutional accrediting agency
  recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
• 9.1 Current accreditation letter and/or report
  that indicates institutional accreditation
  status.

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Timeline
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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• Two years prior to visit
• The institution submits the Intent to Seek
  First NCATE Accreditation form to NCATE.
• Three semesters prior to visit (February 1 or
  September 15)
• The institution submits preconditions to NCATE.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• One year prior to visit
• The unit submits the Date Preference Request,
  indicating the proposed dates for the NCATE
  on-site visit.
• Seven to eight months prior to visit (by February
  1 or July 1)
• If programs were submitted for national review,
  NCATE notifies the institution of the
  availability of the national recognition reports
  for programs.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• The semester prior to visit (by April 15 or
  September 15)
• The institution submits to NCATE revised program
  reports responding to concerns raised in the
  national recognition reports. (Note submission
  is optional.)

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• Six months prior to visit
• The institution publishes an announcement of the
  upcoming visit in local news media to invite
  third-party testimony.
• NCATE sends a final preconditions report to the
  institution. (This may occur earlier if all
  preconditions are met sooner. If all
  preconditions are not met, a visit cannot take
  place.)

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• Five to six months prior to visit
• NCATE sends to the institution the name and
  address of the assigned BOE team chair who will
  conduct the on-site review.
• Two to four months prior to visit
• NCATE sends to the institution the names and
  addresses of the assigned BOE team members who
  will conduct the on-site review.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• Two to three months prior to visit
• NCATE sends third-party testimony to the
  institution for comment and to the BOE chair.
• Beginning of semester of the visit (by February 1
  or July 1)
• If revised program reports were submitted for
  national review on April 15 or September 15,
  NCATE notifies the institution of the
  availability of the national recognition reports
  for programs.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• 60 days prior to the visit
• The institution submits its institutional report
  (IR) and catalogs electronically to NCATE. The
  institution should send both an electronic and
  printed copy of the IR to each BOE team member,
  state team members, the state consultant, and NEA
  and AFT representatives. A link to the web-based
  college catalogs should be sent to team members.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• 30-60 days prior to visit
• The team chair, state chair, and state
  consultant visit the campus for the previsit.
• Date of visit
• NCATE BOE team and state team (in most partner
  states) visit the campus.
• 30 days after visit
• The BOE team chair submits the BOE report
  electronically to NCATE.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• 30 days after the institution has received the
  BOE team report
• The institution submits the institutional
  rejoinder electronically to NCATE. (How to
  Prepare a Rejoinder That Will Make a Difference
  is included in the Handbook for Accreditation
  Visits.
• Within 30 days after receipt of the rejoinder
• If the unit rejoined any of the findings in the
  BOE report, the BOE team chair has the
  opportunity to submit a response to the
  rejoinder.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• October or March/April
• The Unit Accreditation Board renders an
  accreditation decision.
• Within two weeks after the UAB meeting
• NCATE mails an action letter (and, for
  provisional accreditation or denial, a report of
  the accreditation decision) to the chief
  executive officer of the institution, the unit
  head, and the state agency if the institution is
  located in a partnership state.

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Timeline for First Accreditation Visits

• One month after accreditation decision has been
  received by the institution
• Unless a decision is being appealed, NCATE mails
  public disclosure notices to the state education
  agency, NEA and AFT state affiliates, and state
  school boards association.