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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.

Annual Goals - 2014
Goal #1 Streamline general education course offerings to reflect reduced number of students so that fewer courses are subject to cancellation
Goal #2 Explore possibility of integrating the moderate special needs and general education programs to reflect the needs of the K-12 population
Goal #3 Use annual alumni survey results to drive curriculum reform

Annual Goals - 2013
Goal #1 Develop and offer professional certificate programs in specific areas (e.g., transition, ESL, etc.).
Goal #2 Implement the new state-mandated SEI course throughout our educator preparation program.
Goal #3 Improve integration of SPED, ESL into general education programs.

Progress Toward Goals - 2013
Goal #1 Development of certificate programs is ongoing. We expect approval of the transition certificate program from DESE in time to recruit a cohort for fall 2014
Goal #2 SEI course has been successfully implemented in all of our licensure programs
Goal #3 Integration of ESL content into the general education program has been achieved with the SEI course; effort to integrate more SPED content is ongoing