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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 May 14, 2026.

Annual Goals - 2025
Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year
Goal #1 The Arnheim is a vital space for the Art Ed Department's curriculum. We use the gallery as a pedagogical space for our courses and end-of-semester reviews, and we've opened the space to MassArt students, staff, faculty, and alumni. In the coming year, MassArt's Art Education Department will develop an engagement plan for the Arnheim Gallery to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary learning and engagement both within and beyond the MassArt community.
Goal #2 In AY 2025-26, the Art Education Department will conduct a search for a full-time, tenure track faculty position to teach pedagogical courses and the practicum seminar. This role will reduce the reliance on part-time or temporary faculty. This position requires an individual who brings expertise in pedagogy, artistic practice and art education in K-12 schools.
Goal #3 During AY 2025-26 we will monitor the implementation of course and fieldwork alignment with the new Professional Standards for Teachers (PSTs), and the new Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP) in the practicum. Throughout the year we will develop a plan for data collection from students, faculty and school partners to evaluate the effectiveness of recent pedagogical and curricular changes and identify what additional changes, if any, are necessary. In addition, we will work with institutional research and alumni relations on a survey to reach out to our alumni to see where they are employed and how prepared they felt for their current position.

Annual Goals - 2024
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 At the present time, we have an exit survey for students in their last semester at MassArt. In order to open up more structured opportunities for students to contribute curricular feedback, we will expand our system of collection. Our goal is to design a new structure to gather student feedback at planned intervals and to devise a system by which to analyze the data to make needed changes toward program improvement.
Goal #2 We are modifying our advising process to ensure consistency of communication in terms of the information and requirements for each of our programs. Foundational to this process, we are reworking our sophomore orientation to introduce incoming students to program requirements and expectations.
Goal #3 In response to DESE's MTEL Advisory (September 2023), we amended our MTEL policy in January 2024 to eliminate the requirement of taking/passing all MTELs to graduate from our program. In 2024-25 we will continue refining our systems of providing MTEL related information to students, encouraging them to use MassArt's resources for MTEL preparation and determining new methods of data collection for analysis.

Annual Goals - 2023
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Faculty will work together to deepen and codify our "return to in-person" field-based components of coursework. We will establish a system for documenting and mapping these requirements and rebuild relationships with area host sites.
Goal #2 Hold a search and successfully hire two tenure-track faculty members, both in the area of pedagogy. Given a failed search in AY 21-22 and the resignation of a faculty member, we will strive to hire a lead faculty for our school-based pedagogy courses and another to lead our PrePracticum 2 program.
Goal #3 Devise strategic system for supporting struggling students. We have begun to design a sophomore strategy to build advising, case-based interventions that will better utilize and align advising and college-wide resources.