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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 - 2024 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year |
| Goal #1 |
Strengthen the relationships between program faculty and school partners, including soliciting greater input from school partners and districts and responding to districts' identified needs regarding goals and practices. |
| Goal #2 |
Align curricula, courses, and course syllabi, as well as scope and sequence and faculty participation, to meet the needs of teacher preparation in the twenty-first century, DESE criteria of CRT and anti-racist teaching and improve K-12 student |
| Goal #3 |
Recruit and retain diverse candidates to our programs. (Candidate Domain) |
| Annual Goals - 2023 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
In light of DESE guidance on culturally responsive teaching (CRT), encourage and enable candidates to pursue CRT in their lesson planning and professional development; additionally, provide candidates with strategies to establish work-life balance strategies and recognize the importance of wellbeing and self-care, and create a sense of belonging for candidates within our programs. |
| Goal #2 |
UMass Amherst will continue to improve PK-12 partnerships to ensure the robustness of the partnerships which includes data from key assessments and field experience placement data. |
| Goal #3 |
Ensure that instruction of candidates features principles and strategies of anti-racist practices and culturally responsive teaching and enable candidates to implement these practices in all preparatory and professional teaching experiences. This may entail revisions to current courses and syllabi so that they feature units and readings on these principles and practices. |
| Annual Goals - 2022 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
Recruit more students to our programs through promotion of the Dual Enrollment Option/Grow Your Own (GYO) for HS students. We will continue to work on our outreach, and will form advising partnerships with the UMass athletics department, Student Bridges, 4+1, and the Undergrad Major Advisors. We will also make sure that advisement continues throughout the students' careers, so that they feel fully supported and guided. |
| Goal #2 |
Recruit move Educators of Color: We will work towards recruiting and admitting more diverse educator candidates. We will make use of our connections with the schools through our other programs, like the Future Teachers' Club (Holyoke), TEACH 180 Day (Springfield), Dual Language (various districts), to provide more information about our programs. Furthermore, we have created new 4 plus 1 pathways that allow for more flexibility for current school teachers teaching on waivers to complete licensure at UMass. Finally, we hope to expand these initiatives through an application for a Teacher Quality Partnership Grant for a ECE program for paraprofessionals in Holyoke and Springfield. |
| Goal #3 |
At the unit level we will apply for a Mutual Mentoring Grant to continue our work on the overall approach to ensuring that our programs are anti-racist by design. We will continue to ensure that our readings, course activities, and course projects include subject matter, knowledge, and pedagogy training that is anti-racist, whereby teachers prepare materials and practices that are inclusive of all students by engaging all students. |
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