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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 - 2023 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year |
| Annual Goals - 2022 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
We will build our systems of articulation, organization, evaluation and documentation of our Gateway Tasks. One area that became evident was the need for enhanced staffing of evaluators for the Gateway Task 2 in our PrePracticum 2 course. As our students demonstrated their competencies in this area, the assessment ratio for faculty fluctuated with the number of students enrolled during each semester. Our Spring semester has a great number of graduate students which requires additional staffing of qualified evaluators assessing the Gateway Task 2. We will adapt our assessment model to reflect these fluctuations and strategize ways to further design and delineate both Gateway processes. |
| Goal #2 |
Building upon our growing inclusion of the teaching of literacy and digital literacy in the visual arts classroom, we will continue to develop, articulate and assess the inclusion of these domains in our pedagogical coursework. We will build upon our initial work in the curriculum mapping of these areas and evaluate our shift from exposure to these domains to the training of pedagogical strategies in these areas. |
| Goal #3 |
We are thrilled to be returning to on-site fieldwork experiences and have enhanced these expectations in our pedagogical coursework. In the fall we will re-establish our partnership with area venues including the Boston Public Schools and various community agencies and craft fieldwork expectations from course-to-course during our fall curriculum team meetings. This work will also be built while on-boarding new faculty in engaging with our partners as a fundamental structure of "applied" or "situated" learning that is the hallmark of our program. These enhancements may also require the reframing of our "course type" nomenclature with the college. |
| Annual Goals - 2021 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
Centering Anti-Racism in our programs has always been our priority. We will continue this work in partnership with our Justice Equity and Transformation office, to consider strategies to make explicit Anti-Racism in our dispositions rubric and to build affinity group opportunities, particularly for our students of color. We will hold our second annual Art Education speaker series, which centers the contributions of artists and educators from underrepresented groups as a sounding board from which our curricula will build. We will also consider professional development opportunities for our Program Supervisors. |
| Goal #2 |
We will refine and implement our Gateway Task 1 in our Pre Practicum 1 course so that it moves more seamlessly into the Saturday Studios course. This has been an area of staffing instability, and we are hiring a full-time faculty to shepherd this process. We will build a more consistent thread from our Pre-Practicum 1 course through the student teaching semester. |
| Goal #3 |
We will more fully articulate the ways that our coursework addresses the Subject Matter Crosscutting Matrix and create a more detailed curriculum map for the scope and sequence of where these components are addressed in our program. |
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