Welcome Education Unit Meeting

1. WelcomeEducation Unit Meeting November 21, 2013

2. Agenda • Updates/Announcements • Revisit Dispositions Assessment • SEI Courses and Endorsement • Next Steps with Forms • Next Unit Meeting Overview

3. Updates & Announcements • NCATE Final Report • All Unit Meeting PowerPoint presentations and minutes are posited on the meeting schedule webpage. Other AY unit meetings can be viewed under Archived—Education Unit Meetings • Commerat6cve Book • Dec. 18 Alumni Awards at the State House • Others

4. Updates & Announcements • Commerative Book • Dec. 18 Alumni Awards at the State House • Others

5. Dispositions • Please, please, please fill these out and give 1’s when appropriate • We do a disservice to our candidates if we do not catch negative dispositions early. • Several issues this semester might have been prevented if candidates had had a Unit Review

6. SEI Course and Endorsement Information • Candidates in practicum spring or fall should take the course this coming spring • We can go back into ELAR aft July 1, 2014 to endorse for SEI • Graduate level—any candidate teaching in a district, even if they have a preliminary license MUST take the ESE SEI course—no exception (to date ) • If a candidate had an SEI endorsement of one kind, it will substitute for another kind, e.g., a candidate with a teacher SEI endorsement can be waived form taking the administrator SEI course in the EDLM program

7. Meeting SEI Indicators • New PPA • Midpoint and final practicum evaluation • Will be getting a definitive answer whether or not candidates can meet these indicators during the SEI course

8. University Faculty and SEI • SEI Endorsement for license renewal • Embedding SEI/ELL components through the curriculum (Template) • Next steps in faculty SEI/ELL professional development

9. Next Unit Meeting • Change of date—December 12, 2013 • Data analysis template exemplar • CAEP • Next Steps

10. Thank you for coming!!