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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 - 2017 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year |
| Goal #1 |
Continue to work on updating both the Masters in Teaching Elementary and fully implement an assessment / revision of the undergraduate program as a whole. |
| Goal #2 |
Continue to prepare students for required MTEL exams and increase passing rate; strategies will include continue providing free MTEL tutorial sessions, and revisiting course work materials. |
| Goal #3 |
Develop partnerships with various school districts to work with our student teachers. |
| Annual Goals - 2016 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
Revise undergraduate program courses to make them more relevant to the 21st Century classroom (regarding today's teachers, students and their needs). |
| Goal #2 |
Completely restructure the MAT Teaching program so that it is stands separate from the Special Education program and truly reflect teaching at the masters level; particularly address the needs of career changers and current teachers who want to enhance their areas of expertise. |
| Goal #3 |
Develop MTEL tutorial preparation programs, free of charge for the students; in order to better service our students' needs regarding passing the required licensure exams. |
| Progress Toward Goals - 2016 |
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Progress made toward prior program year goals |
| Goal #1 |
While the undergraduate program courses have been assigned to new faculty, who have made updates to the course they're teaching, all of the courses in this program will be looked at with a much deeper lens during the 2017-2018 academic year to make them more vibrant, relevant and innovative. |
| Goal #2 |
A continuous effort is being made to restructure the Masters in Teaching Elementary program. The program, with revised courses, will appear in the 2017-2018 academic catalog. Additional faculty will be working on this to meet this date. |
| Goal #3 |
MTEL tutorials were developed for the following exams: Foundations & Reading, Comm & Lit (W) (R), Math SubTest, Early Childhood, English Secondary, History Secondary, General Curric. These ran as 6-week sessions; students met with instructors for 1 1/2 hours per week in addition to access to additional study material online; there was no cost to the student for any of the tutorial sessions. |
| Annual Goals - 2015 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
Transition to new chairperson |
| Goal #2 |
Use data, both quantitative and qualitative, to assess effectiveness and recommend adjustments |
| Goal #3 |
Review programs and course offerings to update |
| Progress Toward Goals - 2015 |
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Progress made toward prior program year goals |
| Goal #1 |
A new department chairperson was hired and started in the position fall of 2016. |
| Goal #2 |
We continue to work on institution wide discussion on how to better collect qualitative and quantitative data to asses program effectiveness and make appropriate adjustments. We will continue to work on this goal throughout the upcoming year in addition to new goals. |
| Goal #3 |
Programs have been reviewed, updates/revisions have been proposed. Some will begin summer of 2015. We will continue to work on putting other improvements into place for the fall of 2017. |
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