Student Teacher Supervisor Meeting

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Student Teacher Supervisor Meeting

• WELCOME!

The Office of Student Teaching and Field
Experience August 21, 2014
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Welcome new Supervisors

• Valerie Humphrey
• Barb Rickenbacker
• Leslie Smith

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Parking Lot and Index Cards

• As we move through afternoon jot down your
  questions on the post it notes or on the chart
  paper on the wall marked Parking lot

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Changes to the College of Education

• New President Dr. Scott Scarborough
• Dr. Susan Clark continues as the Interim Dean
• Dr. Sandra Coyner has been appointed as the
  Interim Associate Dean
• Move to Central Hower
• COE will be located on the third floor
• Zook is being renovated
• The COE continues to go through an assessment and
  restructuring process.
• Budget cuts have been deep in the COE.
• New CAEP Standards Move towards a clinical
  model for field and student teaching.

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Shift to meet CAEP standards

• Shift from traditional field course that
  included observation and maybe teaching a lesson
  or two, to a clinical model.
• Clinical Model more time and experience rich.
  Will provide more opportunities to practice their
  teaching skills and learn about the school
  culture.
• Should provide for earlier interventions of
  students in the program. Focus is coaching and
  feedback to students.
• Student Teaching Internship Expectations of
  school districts are very different. They expect
  a certain level of foundational skills and
  knowledge when they begin their student teaching
  experience.

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• Last year there were several committees working
  on the CAEP Standards.
• Standard 2 is the Clinical Standard.
• This committee made a recommendation of a
  clinical model and it was passed in College
  Council
• We will be moving to a model in which Teacher
  Candidates will have four clinical experiences.
• There will be continued work in designing the
  clinical model this year.

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CAEP Continued

• CAEP Standards have driven many changes that we
  will talk about.
• Compliance of the standards
• Primarily creating systems that allow us to
  collect and analyze data in a systematic manner.

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House Keeping Items

• All materials that you, the mentor and the
  student teacher needs is on the Student Teaching
  website.
• All Student assignments were sent electronically
• Updated Date organizer
• Updated checklist of materials to turn in- no
  more
• disposition form.
• New recommended student teaching schedule for
• AYA and non AYA licensure areas.
• Co-teaching brochure from the state.
• Please pay close attention to the date organizer
  that includes important dates and deadlines, as
  well as the checklist of what needs to be turned
  into the office.
• Please review the materials on the web with the
  mentor and the student teacher.
• We developed an on-line training module for the
  mentors.

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Number of Visits Required

• Eight site visits required within 16 week
  semester
• Should include introductory visit and meeting.
• Five to six formal observations.
• Final evaluation and wrap up meeting.
• On the off weeks you will communicate and touch
  base with your student(s) via email or phone or
  even Skype with your students.

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Visits continued

• There will be students that may required
  additional coaching or problem solving meetings.
  Contact Wendy if those issues arise.
• With fewer site visits, the ones that happen need
  to be comprehensive and robust.

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MILEAGE POLICY No major changes

• Please use the form from the website each time
  you submit. If you save and reuse the form, it
  may corrupt the file. The controllers office
  requests that you use a new form each time.
• Katie has created new directions with visuals and
  voice overs. This on the website under forms
• When recording your visits, please list the
  visits in the order you completed them.
• You will turn in your mileage to our office two
  times in a semester. Once at the mid-term and the
  second one at the end of the semester.

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MILEAGE CONTINUED

• Please try to plan visits to accommodate best
  routes.
• Mileage will be calculated on shortest distance.
  Either your home or the University. This is the
  existing and past University policy.
• You can claim mileage from your home (if that is
  a shorter distance than UA) to your site visit(s)
  and back to your home (if that is a shorter
  distance the UA.
• Current mileage rate .560

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MILEAGE CONTINUED

• When you submit your mileage, you will submit the
  form directly to Katie. She will then forward
  them to Wendy for approval.
• Katie goes through the mileage forms checking for
  any errors. We use map quest to check mileage and
  have a five mile cushion.
• If there are circumstances that require
  additional travel or visits, please send Wendy an
  email or call her. We understand there will be
  circumstances that will require additional
  mileage.

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MILEAGE CONTINUED

• Please make sure you fill out all the required
  areas.
• Please make sure you save the document according
  to the directions. This becomes critical when
  trying to track your mileage
• Copy of Travel_ RPT_Jewell_Wendy_010114_033014

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Housekeeping continued

• Emp Center Time Cards
• The Affordable Health Care Act requires employers
  to report all workers times to ensure that
  employers are providing insurance to workers who
  work over twenty-nine hours.
• You may have received emails regarding your time
  card and asking you to fill out an electronic
  time card.

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Emp Center Time Cards

• At this time you will only have to report your
  time if you are carrying over four credit hours
  of student teachers.
• Most of you will not need to report your time.
• I will notify you by email if you are required to
  do so and give you directions on what you need to
  do.
• For those of you who have to record your time,
  you will submit how many hours you worked by
  Monday of each week.

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Forms we are no longer using

• Disposition form
• Grade or graduate grade form
• Data form that you would collect from mentors
• AYA observation log

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New Forms and Procedures

• New Survey Forms
• New Data sheet for the mentors
• New Observation Form
• New Student Teaching Evaluation
• We are going Electronic!
• -Resources
• -Efficiency/Move to electronic files
• -Data Collection and efficient analysis of
  data
• -No more printing, making copies and mailing
• materials in.
• -Have tried our best to make it user friendly
• -Had to use the tools available to us.

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Tech support

• Please feel free call, email and or set up a
  time if you need us to walk you through the
  process
• on the computer.
• Please be patient with us as we work out the bugs
  in all the new systems. Please let us know if you
  encounter any issues with the systems so we can
  address it.

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New Surveys

• We condensed them and renamed them
• Survey by Supervisor
• -assessment of our program
• Survey by Teacher Candidate
• -assessment of supervisor and our program
• Survey by Mentor Teacher
• -assessment of the supervisor and program

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Survey

• Surveys are done in a Qualtrix format
• There is a link on our website.
• Click on the link, fill out the survey and
  submit.
• Once you submit the survey, a copy will come
  directly to a specialized email that is set up.
• Once you submit you have completed the task.
• No ability to save the document.

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• Data form - mentor teacher fills out
• They will do this electronically as well. They
  find the link on the website.
• They will not turn in a form to you.
• All the Surveys allows us to collect data for CAEP

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Student Teacher Observation Form

• The previous duplicated carbon forms are gone.
• The observation form will be done electronically.
• This also done using the Qualtrix format.
• Under Forms you will see a link for the
  Student Teaching Observation Form.
• Click on the link, fill it out and submit.
• It will automatically send a copy of the
  observation to the Supervisor, the Teacher
  candidate and a specialized email that I access.
• If you do not use a lap top or tablet during your
  observation, we have provided a template called
  the Observation Note taking form

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Student Teacher Observation Form

• The note taking form is voluntary and the
  information must be transferred into the
  electronic format. You can cut and paste.
• By the end of the semester I must have a record
  of five formal observations. (This is in
  alignment of CAEP accreditation)
• Limitation you cannot save the document.
• In accordance to the CAEP expectations there must
  be Student Growth. Issues and goals must be
  documented in the observation forms.

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Student Teacher Observation Forms

• Ex. If in the mid-term the students scores low in
  the area of assessment and there is no mention of
  it in the previous observation form or listed as
  a goal, this will be red flagged from the state.
• They are looking for Student Growth Measures.
• I will need to pay closer attention.

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TPA Teacher Performance Assessment
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TPA

• The University of Akron is in second year of full
  implementation of edTPA.
• It is an expectation that the University of Akron
  student teaching supervisor has a working
  knowledge and understanding of the TPA and can
  guide and support the student teacher through the
  process.
• The fee is still 300.00 to the student.
• The edTPA requirement is now attached to the
  Student Teaching Course.
• The National cut score has been set at 42. (75
  possible)
• TPA support will be included in the survey that
  students fill out.
• Faculty is working on embedding the skills
  required into the curriculum.

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Overview of ScoresFall 2013 Teacher Candidates

• 161 Student Teachers
• 40 Teacher candidates received a passing score of
  42 or above
• 121 teacher candidates did not pass
• 25 of the teacher candidates passed the edTPA
• 7 teacher candidates scored 50 or above
• The highest score was a 67 AYA LA

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Overview of ScoresSpring 2014 Teacher Candidates

• 180 Student Teachers
• 85 Teacher candidates received a passing score of
  42 or above
• 95 teacher candidates did not pass
• 47 of the teacher candidates passed the edTPA
• 18 teacher candidates scored 50 or above
• The highest score was a 64

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TPA is on SpringboardPlease take the time to
review the materials available to you.Please
encourage your students to review all the
materials and resources available to them on TPA
Springboard site.edTPA.aacte.org
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What TPA support or training do you need?
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New Teacher Candidate EvaluationContent of new
evaluation
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New Teacher Candidate Evaluations

• One mid-term and one final
• No traditional and collaborative form. Same form
  used by all
• No more printing and copying and then mailing
• This is also done in the Qualtrix format
• Access link on the website
• Section E. When you click on the link for the
  evaluation you will click on the licensure area
  of the student. Ex. Early Childhood.
• Only two licensure areas have compliant section E
  (for their SPAs) AYA Social Studies and PE

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Teacher Candidate Evaluations

• Therefore at the present time they are the only
  two that will be completed.
• As the new ones are developed for the other
  licensure areas they will be added.
• Teacher Candidate Evaluation Worksheet
• Teacher Candidate Score Sheet
• Filling out the score sheet
• Complete the mid-term and final Collaboratively
  with the Mentor and Teacher Candidate. You can
  have them fill out the worksheet and forward to
  you previous to the meeting.
• Like before the Supervisor has the final say and
  the final responsibility for completing the
  evaluation.

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Teacher Candidate Evaluation

• The supervisor will fill out the Teacher
  Candidate Score sheet and submit it
  electronically.
• Once submitted, a copy will automatically be
  generated via email to the Supervisor, Mentor,
  Teacher Candidate and a specialized email that
  comes to me.
• You electronic signature suffices for legal
  purposes.
• The evaluation auto-populates the score and or
  grade.
• Limitation Not able to save document

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Scoring of the Evaluation

• Graduate Students receive a letter grade
• Undergraduates receive credit/no credit
• In order to pass the mid-term and final the
  student must receive a cumulative score of 1.75
  (out of a scale of 3)
• 1.74 and below is failing
• If a student receives a 1.99 or below on the
  mid-term an action plan must be developed and I
  need to be notified and receive a copy of the
  action plan.
• Grading scale for graduate students in on the
  evaluation

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Teacher Candidate Evaluation

• The electronic score sheet is not on the web site
  yet.
• We will place the Teacher Candidate Evaluation
  Worksheet on the web in the following days.

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Loose Ends Web Site

• Checklist of Items to turn In.
• - mid-term/Final -makes reference to domains
• A-D
• Surveys- Supervisor -wrong one
• Mentor and Students not posted yet.

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Please dont hesitate to contact me.Have a
fantastic semester!

• wjewell_at_uakron.edu

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• Questions?