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Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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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 - 2015
Goal #1 Move the application process to earlier sophomore year.
Goal #2 Update advising plan so it is consistent for all students with multiple touch points to increase support/advising of Teacher Preparation students.
Goal #3 Update PSTs and pilot them.

Annual Goals - 2014
Goal #1 Survey program alum for feedback on program strengths and areas of improvement.
Goal #2 Complete an in depth outline of partnerships.
Goal #3 Complete steps of our desired continuous improvement cycle and annual self-review.

Progress Toward Goals - 2014
Goal #1 We created a survey and have sent it out to all program alums. We are using the feedback to guide revisions in the program.
Goal #2 We created a list of both current partners and partnerships we would like to strengthen and have created a survey to better understand the needs of these districits. This information will help us to shape how we increase the depth of partnerships. We also added a partner school district.
Goal #3 We created these documents and have started implementing them.

Annual Goals - 2013
Goal #1 Add ELL course.
Goal #2 Improve content preparation for student teaching.
Goal #3 Recruit better mentors.

Progress Toward Goals - 2013
Goal #1 The course was created and successfully implemented.
Goal #2 Worked intentionally with students specifically around content and how to make it more applicable.
Goal #3 This occurred through better communication with department chairs in local school who played a critical role in selecting the best mentors.