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Annual Goals
This report lists the annual improvement goals reported to ESE in the educator preparation program provider’s state annual report. Providers may report up to three goals for the upcoming year and are asked to report on progress made toward the prior year’s goals. Annual goals are reported in May of the academic year listed.
Data last updated October, 04 2023.
| Annual Goals - 2022 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year |
| Goal #1 |
Recruit more students to our programs through promotion of the Dual Enrollment Option/Grow Your Own (GYO) for HS students. We will continue to work on our outreach, and will form advising partnerships with the UMass athletics department, Student Bridges, 4+1, and the Undergrad Major Advisors. We will also make sure that advisement continues throughout the students' careers, so that they feel fully supported and guided. |
| Goal #2 |
Recruit move Educators of Color: We will work towards recruiting and admitting more diverse educator candidates. We will make use of our connections with the schools through our other programs, like the Future Teachers' Club (Holyoke), TEACH 180 Day (Springfield), Dual Language (various districts), to provide more information about our programs. Furthermore, we have created new 4 plus 1 pathways that allow for more flexibility for current school teachers teaching on waivers to complete licensure at UMass. Finally, we hope to expand these initiatives through an application for a Teacher Quality Partnership Grant for a ECE program for paraprofessionals in Holyoke and Springfield. |
| Goal #3 |
At the unit level we will apply for a Mutual Mentoring Grant to continue our work on the overall approach to ensuring that our programs are anti-racist by design. We will continue to ensure that our readings, course activities, and course projects include subject matter, knowledge, and pedagogy training that is anti-racist, whereby teachers prepare materials and practices that are inclusive of all students by engaging all students. |
| Annual Goals - 2021 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
All initial teacher licensure programs will be required to focus more explicitly on racial equity within their program of study. We plan to work with half of the programs this coming year to realign their coursework and their field experiences to indicate this focus and how this will be supported, measured, and assessed. The goal is to be able to respond to the DESE's charge: "How are educator preparation efforts designed to break historical patterns of inequity–not by accident, but by design?" |
| Goal #2 |
All programs will implement their new programs of study that include the focus on the new requirements for subject matter knowledge. In some cases, this will require that candidates take extra course work so programs of study have had to change. This along with the new revised CAP training should align all programs of study's with the new SMK requirements and the MA Curriculum Frameworks. |
| Goal #3 |
We will re-vamp our feedback processes to ensure better alignment between unit/faculty/DESE goals. This includes a new data response form that was piloted in AY 20-21 and will be more formally implemented for AY 21-22. |
| Annual Goals - 2020 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
(FBE Field Based Experiences) Program coordinators will guide faculty, program supervisors and candidates to implement the additional essential element of CAP regarding 1.A.1 Subject Matter Knowledge. In Pre-practicum gateways candidates will demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the pedagogy it requires by consistently engaging students in learning experiences that enable them to acquire complex knowledge and subject matter skills. This supports ensuring responsibilities in pre-practicum and practicum experiences build to candidate readiness for full responsibility in licensure role. |
| Goal #2 |
(PAR) Partnerships. UMass Amherst responds to the needs of PK-12 districts /schools by continuing to collaborate on the grant with Springfield, Holyoke, Amherst to continue the Bilingual Dual License Endorsement Program, and enhancing communications with each district to strengthen this program. Also collaborating with PK-12 districts and schools to launch the new Digital Literacy Computer Science (DLCS) License. |
| Goal #3 |
(CAN) Candidates. UMass College of Education will secure articulation agreements of specific courses with community colleges in an effort to develop systems that recruit and admit undergraduate candidates resulting in the increased racial and ethnic diversity of completers in the workforce. |
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