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Smith College
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2023
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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 January 16, 2025.

Annual Goals - 2023
Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year
Goal #1 In order to better support students as they transition through our program, we are developing more structured systems of support for students as they move into the Pre-Practicum experience with a more structured orientation experience focused on preparing them to enter their Pre-Practicum placement with more supports in place.
Goal #2 To strengthen the integration of the field-based experience of the Pre-Practicum with coursework, the department faculty will review and revise the Gateway Tasks component of the Pre-Practicum. This will entail aligning the Gateway Tasks with course content in the courses that accompany the Pre-Practicum, such as the Methods courses and the 1-credit Student Teaching Lab. Through this process of review and alignment, the team will develop Gateway Tasks that target specific skills and competencies connected to the CAP for teacher candidates to develop and hone through their field-based experiences.
Goal #3 This past year we developed and piloted a monthly seminar to provide support and guidance to the supervising practitioners. The program, called Mentor Meetup, was piloted at the Campus School of Smith College, a K-6 lab school on the campus of the college. This coming year we want to expand this model to include mentor teachers from our other partner schools, strengthening these connections and supports for our supervising practitioners across districts. We also plan to enhance the networking and collaboration with administrators in schools with whom we partner by expanding our communication with these school leaders to better understand their needs and how our program can work with them more effectively.

Annual Goals - 2022
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Review past practice, secure funding, and develop a series of mentorship workshops/professional development series in partnership with the Campus School at Smith College with the goal of strengthening the practices of supervising practitioners as they guide our teacher candidates through fieldwork experiences.
Goal #2 Develop a companion 1-credit course to compliment our methods courses (EDC 345/352) with the goal of supporting pre-practicum CAP documentation requirements and deepen the reflective practices of teacher candidates around the connections of theory to practice.
Goal #3 Update fieldwork handbooks, refinement of advising forms, procedure and protocols to increase communication and clarity of our program of study at Smith. Refine the structure of the pre-practicum experience to ensure the support of teacher candidates enrolled in our program.

Annual Goals - 2021
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Orient and integrate a new CTE to the department. We are hiring a permanent CTE for our organization, and a significant goal will be to orient them to the job and have them develop a workflow with faculty, students, and the state.
Goal #2 Orient and integrate three new colleagues to the department and our teacher education programs. We have designed a mentoring plan to support our new colleagues and introduce them to the MA State frameworks, practicum and subject matter knowledge standards and requirements
Goal #3 Continue to develop and refine our pre-practicum systems including the essential observations, notes, and debriefings which our program supervisors provide for our student teachers.Beyond the CAP requirements, supervisors and mentor teachers provide support that will ensure a smooth transition to the practicum.