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PEDL REPORT Professional Education Distance Learning

PEDL REPORT Professional Education Distance Learning. DLiTE Cohort D at the Perpich Center for Arts Education. WHAT IS PEDL?

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PEDL REPORT Professional Education Distance Learning

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  1. PEDL REPORT Professional Education Distance Learning DLiTE Cohort D at the Perpich Center for Arts Education

  2. WHAT IS PEDL? * Professional Education Distance Learning which includes the program and FasTrackinitiative (and more initiatives yet to emerge) extends the reach and furthers the mission of Bemidji State University, and partners with sixteen Minnesota State Colleges and University Community College partners: * Alexandria Technical College, Anoka-Ramsey, Central Lakes, Century College, Fergus Falls, Hibbing, Inver Hills, Itasca, Lake Superior, Mesabi Range, Normandale, North Hennepin, Rainey River, Ridgewater, Rochester, and St Paul Community Colleges. * Plus community partners: The Perpich Center for Arts Education, and The Walker Art Center.

  3. Distributed Learning in Teacher Education

  4. Credits and Student Numbers • PEDL Programsgenerated over 3000 student credits, of which 63 are from the graduate level, during the three academic terms Fall 2006 through Summer 2007. This includes DLiTE and FasTrack education courses and specialty courses at Bemidji State University • Conservative estimation of credits generated for MnSCU partner institutions by DLiTE and FasTrack students is about 1100 credits during that time. • PEDL Programs started 40 new FasTrack and 34 new DLiTE students in the Fall of 2008.

  5. Who are the PEDL students? Professional Education Distance Learning (PEDL) Programs and Initiatives are providing access forteacher candidates who are underserved and place-bound and displaced mid- range professionals. Historically, we have approximately 200 active students, average age 35. Our students have families and work. Some are first generation college graduates, and may rent or live with relatives. Some have lost their jobs Inthe current economic downturn.

  6. Student Locations

  7. First Generation College Graduates

  8. Students with Jobs

  9. Home Ownership

  10. Fiscal Status

  11. PEDL Age Demographics

  12. FasTrack and DLiTE draw from different geographic demographics • DLiTE • FasTrack

  13. Internet Connection Speed We were always mindful of our student’s limitations for speed when designing courses. Current stats on access: DLiTEFasTrack

  14. How do our and FasTrack students find us? When the DLiTE program started, staff sent out articles to small newspapers throughout the state. We worked on moving our websites up the line by asking students to search for and open the DLiTE website. We visited every community college and attended superintendent, principal and teacher union conferences. We put ads in paraprofessional journals, sent flyers to legislators and school districts. We tried magazine and newspaper advertising. As we move into our 9th year with DLiTE and 5th year with Fastrack, we have discovered that our least expensive and most powerful recruiting strategy turns out to be our own students, our valued MnSCU community college partners, MnSCU and our own websites. This following data was collected from PEDL students starting their programs in the Fall of 2008. Note: 98% of the friends or relatives are in a PEDL program.

  15. DLiTE

  16. FasTrack

  17. Excellence and Programmatic Assessment The ultimate goal for the DLiTE and Fastrack program and initiative is successful completion of the Praxis 2 tests and placement in K-12 teaching appointment. A small study was conducted on DLiTE Cohort F and FasTract Cohort 2. Both cohorts finished their programs in the Spring of 2007. Statistics follow which illustrate DLiTE and FasTrack student performance. * This data collected from student Records and on-on-one personal survey.

  18. *LocatedEighty-eight percent (88%) of Cohort F completers * Seventy-nine percent (79%) graduated with honors. Cohort F* One hundred percent (100%) passed their Pedagogy and El Education Praxis 2 tests on their first try.* Ninety-two percent (92%) passed their specialty Praxis 2 tests on their first try.

  19. DLiTE Cohort F Employed in K-12 schools* Forty-two (42%) are working full time as teachers. Sample working sites include Andover, Bagley, Isle, Aiken and Arizona. * Twenty-eight percent (28%) are not looking for work * Thirty percent (30%) are subbing and/or looking for full time work.

  20. . FasTrack Cohort 2 * Located 100% of Completers * Fourteen percent (14%) are not finished with course work but intend to – special education courses, marriage, illness, babies). * Twenty-one percent (21%) have not finished their Content portfolios. They were counted as completers. * One hundred percent of those who have completed their FasTrack courses and Content portfolios are working as teachers. * Content areas represented in FT2 completers: art, dance, special ed, science, english, ALC, and ESL. Work locations include St. Joseph, Apple Valley, Onamia, Edina, Manhattan and Bahrain (an island country in the Persian Gulf).

  21. FasTrack Cohort 2

  22. FasTrack >> Secondary Initiative COMPLETE EDUCATION COURSES TOWARD YOUR SECONDARY TEACHER LICENSUREONLINE (Meets face-to-face in Minneapolis, MN at the beginning and end of each semester) See: Spring cohortstart s with an Orientation on November 22, 2008

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