Defining Strategic Directions for the PTEU and the Bagwell College of Education

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Defining Strategic Directions for the PTEU and
the Bagwell College of Education

• Frank A. Butler, Interim Dean
• August 16, 2008

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Principles for Planning

• All programs, including degrees, certificates and
  endorsements, will exceed national and University
  System norms
• All programs designed to prepare teacher leaders
  and school or system level leaders will be of
  demonstrable high quality
• All things being equal and within the boundaries
  of high quality, the production of new certified
  teachers will be the BCOEs highest priority

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Principles for Planning

• Helping faculty succeed is to be considered
  fundamental to all planning assumptions
• Helping students meet their educational goals is
  the reason we exist!
• Words matter- productive interactions among all
  of the PTEU faculty and staff makes for stronger
  individual performance, effective teamwork and a
  better quality of professional life
• What we do and how we do it makes a difference
  for everyone we touch!

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Some Things to Think About this Year

• Clarifying leadership education new options?
• Thinking about Birth to Five Programs
• Expanding the MAT more teachers in the
  classroom
• Right sizing the faculty
• Right sizing the cohort graduate programs
• Trying to adjust the workload to be appropriate
  to the task
• Coping effectively with Area F

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Still Thinking!

• Invigorating the PTEU to be all it can be
• Refining and clarifying PT expectations
• Recognizing work in schools and with teachers for
  all PTEU members
• Defining the appropriate QEP initiatives for the
  BCOE and the PTEU partners
• Revitalizing the external advisory support system
  starting a new special event
• Completing Assessment Rubrics (Chalk Wire)
• Getting deeply engaged in distance education
• Hiring a Dean