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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 - 2019
Goal #1 Provide continued training and support to program supervisors and supervising practitioners to promote candidate effectiveness. Support will focus on helping supervisors use CAP online effectively as well as on enhancing supervision skills.
Goal #2 Continue to identify partner needs and provide ongoing collaboration and professional development to partners.
Goal #3 Enhance curriculum focus and monitor pedagogical skills development of candidates in the area of holding "high expectations" for all students.

Annual Goals - 2018
Goal #1 Provide increased training and support to program supervisors and supervising practitioners to promote candidate effectiveness.
Goal #2 Identify and enhance Tufts response to needs of PK-12 districts/schools
Goal #3 Monitor pedagogical skills development of candidates in the areas of 'meeting diverse needs' and 'creating a safe learning environment' to evaluate curricular changes.

Annual Goals - 2017
Goal #1 Develop more professional development and support for Supervising Practitioners and Program Supervisors. Provide training around developmental supervision and how supervisors use performance categories of CAP.
Goal #2 The Sponsoring Organization will plan meeting times devoted to carefully reviewing feedback forms from Supervising Practitioners to aggregate data and use the information to better provide support to Teacher Candidates in the field based portion of the programs.
Goal #3 As a result of the DESE Program Review scheduled for June, as well as our self study preparing for that Review, the Sponsoring Organization will use feedback to conduct a full review of all our teacher preparation programs including courses, oversight, partnerships, timelines, field experiences, finances, etc. An outside consultant will conduct the study.