Rationale for High Quality Personnel “One in seven teachers meets the standard of effectiveness

4. Rationale for High Quality Personnel “One in seven teachers meets the standard of effectiveness necessary to produce big learning gains each year. In other words, a child has a roughly 15 percent chance of being assigned to a great teacher in any given school year.”(Walsh, 2007, p. ?)

5. Rationale for High Quality Personnel Current pre- and in-service models cost millions of dollars, but rarely include an accountability measure, linking teacher performance to student outcomes (Teaching At Risk: A Call to Action, 2004).

6. Rationale for High Quality Personnel Teacher Preparation programs have failed to raise standards, apply new methodologies based on state-of-the-art, research-proven strategies –including innovative technologies (Sexton et al, 200?, Teaching At Risk: Progress & Potholes, 2006)

7. Rationale for High Quality Personnel Universities continue to separate schools of education from arts and sciences, where the deepest subject-specific content knowledge is housed (REF)

8. Rationale for High Quality Personnel Need to Reinvent Teacher Preparation Graded a C for effort and a D for results (REF)

9. Rationale for High Quality Personnel Executive Summary: Key Findings (State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality, 2007) “States do not ensure that special education teachers are well-prepared to teach students with disabilities.”

10. Rationale for High Quality Personnel

11. Project LEAD Special Education Leadership Preparation Project TEEACH Special Education Personnel Preparation

12. PROJECT LEAD • On-line portfolios in “Livetext” • Certification in how to teach online classes • Internships in Washington DC • Co-teach university classes • Supervise interns • Attend special education and content area conferences • Publish and present on current research

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14. PROJECT TEEACH • Produce Data Driven Teacher Work Samples –Including Co-Taught Units • Complete Internships in Mild and Severe Disabilities • Participate in Transformational Mentoring Team Activities • Attend and Present at Special Education Conferences • Conduct an Action Research Project • Embrace Technology to Improve Use of Evidence-Based Classroom Practices • Earn Elementary Special Education Certification

17. Innovative Technology Project LEAD Virtual Classroom Training (Simulation-based learning) Supporting literature here LiveText eLearning eMentoring Electronic Portfolios • Project TEEACH • Virtual Coaching • (Bug-in-Ear) • Supporting literature • here

18. Technology Demos Project LEAD Project TEEACH

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20. PROJECT TEEACHStudies Study 1 Can You Hear Me Now? TESE Study 2 One Year Later Study 3 Spring Slice Study 4 Feedback

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22. Discussion Questions • What likely impediments face key project personnel endeavoring to incorporate emerging technologies that enhance leadership and personnel preparation programs? • What ethical and moral dilemmas emerge from use of virtual and/or online technologies in teacher education research and practice? • How can the technologies be best used to advance research in the fields of general and special education teacher and leadership personnel development programs?

23. Discussion Questions • What likely impediments face key project personnel endeavoring to incorporate emerging technologies that enhance leadership and personnel preparation programs? • What ethical and moral dilemmas emerge from use of virtual and/or online technologies in teacher education research and practice? • How can the technologies be best used to advance research in the fields of general and special education teacher and leadership personnel development programs?

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