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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 - 2018
Goal #1 Reduce the class size for the ELL Curriculum and Methods course, limiting the size to no more than 20. Adding additional topics based on candidate surveys: additional teaching strategies and more focus on WIDA.
Goal #2 With the upcoming adjustments/changes to the SMKs, we will explore the possibility of changing the current content requirements to more closely align with the SMKs, particularly for the Early Childhood, Elementary and Moderate Disabilities candidates. We will be exploring shifting one of the Lab Sciences to focus on engineering and explore the current math curriculum looking to more closely align it with current practice in the K-12 schools.
Goal #3 Recognizing the importance of Social/Emotional issues that students are facing, the goal is to think more strategically about how to increase the coverage of the competency in program coursework to more thoroughly address the Social/Emotional PST: Social and Emotional Learning Indicator: Employs a variety of strategies to assist students to develop social emotional-competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

Annual Goals - 2017
Goal #1 ENC will continue to work on strengthening the partnerships and look at the possibility of expanding it to include a local high school.
Goal #2 To strengthen candidates' content knowledge connections with the Curriculum Frameworks.
Goal #3 Focus on developing candidates' skills to more fully and effectively address the learning needs of ELL students.

Annual Goals - 2016
Goal #1 ENC will continue to work on strengthening the partnerships that are currently in place and look at the possibility of adding a high school.
Goal #2 ENC will continue to focus on developing strategies to recruit and admit a diverse candidate pool.
Goal #3 ENC will continue to develop strategies for enhancing the CAP process for Candidates and Supervising Practitioners.