TQI Teaching Quality Initiatives

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TQI Teaching Quality Initiatives

• ?Tennessee Teaching Quality Initiative
• ?Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)
• TQI Teacher Education Redesign
• ?AACTE/CCSSO TQI/PACT Project

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Tennessee Teaching Quality Initiative An Action
Agenda for Change

• Began March, 2006 Meeting, MTSU
• Co-Chairs
• Hal Knight (ETSU) Bob Rider (UT-Knoxville)
• Areas of Focus for Change
• Knowledge Base
• Characteristics
• Professionalization of Teaching
• Modeling
• Mentoring
• www.tntqi.org

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Tennessee Board of RegentsTQI Teacher Education
Redesign

• I. Assessment and Placement Procedures
• II. Program Elements and Design
• III. Faculty and Staff Selection and Development
• IV. Program Evaluation and Research
• V. Phase-In

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Tennessee Board of RegentsTQI Teacher Education
Redesign

• I. Assessment and Placement Procedures
• TBR teacher preparation programs will culminate
  in formal, performance-based assessment of all
  teacher residents based on Teaching Quality
  Initiative teacher standards.  Final
  performance-based assessments will be
  standardized across TBR programs and will be
  reliable, valid, fair and representative.

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TBR TQI Teacher Education RedesignProgram
Elements and Design

• Competency-based Modular Structure
• Professional Education components will be
  offered primarily in an organized, sequential
  modular structure (rather than through
  traditional courses.)

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TBR TQI Teacher Education RedesignProgram
Elements and Design

• Close Partnerships with Public Schools
• ? Colleges of Education will develop ongoing
  partnerships with Local Education Agencies. 
• ? School-university partnerships will require
  consistent, systematic collaboration and
  communication between Colleges of Education and
  Local Education Agencies.

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TBR TQI Teacher Education Redesign

• Integration of Content Coursework and
  Professional Education Component
• Professional education faculty, content
  faculty, and mentor teachers will collaborate to
  implement and model evidence-based best practices
  in content courses, pedagogy preparation, and
  applied experiences.

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TBR TQI Teacher Education RedesignProgram
Elements and Design

• Problem-based Learning (PBL)
• ? Modules are organized and implemented in an
  active, participatory environment using a
  Problem-based Learning format.
• ? Problem-based Learning activities will
  emphasize collaborative learning among candidates
  and will relate directly to real-world teaching
  and program outcomes.
• ? Problem-based Learning cases will focus on
  development of competencies.

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TACTE Fall Conference, October 2, 2009
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TBR TQI Teacher Education Redesign

• School-based Residency
• The purpose of the full year clinical
  residency is to foster dynamic, sustained
  partnerships among Tennessee P-12 schools and TBR
  educator preparation programs to improve teaching
  and learning among all persons in the P-20 arena.
  P-12 student success and school improvement are
  the primary goals of the TBR/LEA partnerships.

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TQI School-based Residency

• The year-long clinical residency may begin
  either Fall or Spring and continue over a full
  P-12 calendar.

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Clinical Residency Residency I-A (First 8 Weeks)
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Clinical ResidencyResidency I-B (Second 8 Weeks)
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Clinical ResidencyResidency II (Semester Two)
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TBR Teacher Education Redesign Secondary
Example (7-12)
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TBR Teacher Education Redesign TSU Elementary
(K-6) Example
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TBR TQI Teacher Education Redesign

• IV. Phase-In plans will culminate in full program
  implementation of the TBR Teaching Quality
  Initiative on each TBR campus by fall 2013.
• Pilots 2008-2009 (ETSU, MTSU, TTU)
• Funded Planning and Implementation Phase
  (2009-2012, 2 million)

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TBR Teacher Education Redesign

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