Welcome Faculty

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Welcome Faculty
Omak
Wenatchee
Seattle
Moses Lake
Centralia
Yakima
Tri-Cities
Toppenish

• You make the difference!

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Agenda

• Faculty resources
• Share our goals in the context of education
  reform
• Assessment system
• Department meetings

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Our Vision

• highly respected, responsive, and influential
  force
• preparing highly qualified educators who are
  professional change agents
• program content and student learning is rigorous
  and relevant
• innovation, critical reflection, collaboration,
  research.
• community of learners
• continually redesign to respond to ever changing
  needs.

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Our Mission

• prepare collaborative, reflective, and effective
  graduates who will serve effectively in diverse
  communities

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Our Conceptual Framework
Identify students who can articulate our CF!
Building a Community of Diverse Learners
Collaboration
Action
Service Toward Social Justice
Facilitating Constructivist Teaching Leading
Reflecting Critically
Empowerment
Knowledge Brings Us Together
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The Reform Puzzle
PPA
Alt Cert
Descriptors of Practice
New Education Data Center
Measurement
Recruiting Diverse Faculty and Students
Leadership Academy
New WEST-B WEST-E
Advising
Policy
NBTC
New State PD Plan
NCLB
New Compensation Model
Science Reform
Teacher Pro Cert External Assessment
Future Teacher Camps
Evidence-Based Practice
TNE
Online
PPA
Math Reform
HB 1906
SB 5955
Field-Based Clinical Practice
Revised Math EALRs and GLEs
Program Design
Content Standards
CRT
New M.Ed. Programs? Reading
Communication with A S
Revision of all Endorsements
SPED?
New Endorsements
Standards I-IV TBR
New Tech GLEs
Reading?
Math
ESA Pro Cert
Science
Adm. Pro Cert
New Standard V
Science
ECE
PPA
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Our Goals

• Updated Resume
• Scholarly Work
• Presentations

• Prepare for a successful November 2008 OSPI Site
  Visit.
• Effectively restructure, develop, market, and
  implement new programs.
• Continue to develop our Unit Assessment System.
• Refine/develop a systematic and accountable
  undergraduate student advising system that aligns
  to College and University goals.
• Develop and implement plans to improve student
  performance on WEST-B and WEST-E tests.
• Refine our professional development plan for
  adjunct faculty.
• Revise/refine the College marketing and
  recruiting plan that supports all regional
  programs and aligns to University goals/needs.
• Apply for grants that support current programs
  and align with the above goals.

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Resources to Support You

• State and regional meetings
• Department chair and regional director
• Curriculum map
• Defined course outcomes
• Common syllabi
• Essential questions
• Adopted text
• Faculty Resource Manual
• VCampus
• Course Management System
• Communication Group Site
• Adjunct faculty book

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Assessment System Purpose

• To improve candidate performance, program
  quality, and unit operations

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Assessment System Standards

• Linked to conceptual framework
• Part of professional culture
• Data connected to standards/outcomes
• Multiple assessments at key transition points

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Work Product Definition

• reflect a candidates achievement related to
  defined course outcomes and state prescribed
  certification standards
• may be in hard copy or electronic form and will
  serve as evidence of candidate growth and program
  efficacy
• exemplars are shared with other candidates and
  reviewed by faculty on a regular basis.

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Ed. Administration Examples

• School Improvement Plan
• Professional Dev. Plan
• Resource Alignment Project
• Community Action Plan
• Teaching and Learning Plan
• Political Analysis Map
• Professional Growth Plan

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Teacher Preparation Examples

• Lesson Plan
• Unit Plan
• Classroom management plan

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Counseling Examples

• Exit interview
• Individual or group counseling video
• Classroom presentation
• Positive impact project

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Expectations Related to Work Products

• Know and understand work product requirements
• Require student reflection on essential questions
• Assess work products using adopted rubric/
  assessment methods
• Report students scores
• Submit work product exemplars

Submit to regional or Yakima location
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Creating a Chain of Evidence Benchmark
Assessments at Key Transition Points

• Data collected at key program transition points
• Provide multiple data points to assess candidate,
  faculty, and overall program performance.

Benchmark 1 Candidate Admission Benchmark
2 Candidate Progress Benchmark 3 Candidate
Internship and Exit Benchmark 4 Program
Completer Follow-up
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Data Management Issues

• Multiple warehouses of data
• Data required for variety of audiences
• Duplication of data
• Lost data
• Difficult to collect and analyze data across
  regions/programs to inform program improvement

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Moving From Paper to Electronic Documentation

• Power to customize portfolio structures and their
  assessment
• Data sampling tools and statistical analysis to
  aggregate disaggregate performance data
• Suitable for simple reporting, and
• Powerful enough to support full audits and
  learning research, cross unit or cross campus.

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Chalk and Wire Implementation- Teacher Preparation
Coming to ED 315 Spring Semester

• Fall 2007- Ed 315 on campus only
• Spring 2008- Ed 315- all regional locations
• Spring 2008- Ed 325,305,405,344,366
• Summer 2008- Toppenish- as scheduled
• Summer 2008- Regional- cohort plan
• Fall 2008- Ed 305

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Regional Meetings

• Oct. 26, 5 pm- ML
• Nov 9-
• Nov 13- Toppenish Campus- 1 pm
• Nov 16-
• Nov 30-

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Adjourn to Department Meetings

• Questions?
• Needs?