Student Teacher Supervisor Meeting

1. Student Teacher Supervisor Meeting WELCOME! The Office of Student Teaching and Field Experience August 21, 2014

2. Welcome new Supervisors Valerie Humphrey Barb Rickenbacker Leslie Smith

3. Parking Lot and Index Cards As we move through afternoon jot down your questions on the post it notes or on the chart paper on the wall marked –Parking lot

4. Changes to the College of Education New President – Dr. Scott Scarborough Dr. Susan Clark continues as the Interim Dean Dr. Sandra Coyner has been appointed as the Interim Associate Dean Move to Central Hower COE will be located on the third floor Zook is being renovated The COE continues to go through an assessment and restructuring process. Budget cuts have been deep in the COE. New CAEP Standards – Move towards a clinical model for field and student teaching.

5. Shift to meet CAEP standards • Shift from traditional “field course” that included observation and maybe teaching a lesson or two, to a “clinical model.” • Clinical Model – more time and experience rich. Will provide more opportunities to practice their teaching skills and learn about the school culture. • Should provide for earlier interventions of students in the program. Focus is coaching and feedback to students. • Student Teaching Internship – Expectations of school districts are very different. They expect a certain level of foundational skills and knowledge when they begin their student teaching experience.

6. Last year there were several committees working on the CAEP Standards. • Standard #2 is the Clinical Standard. • This committee made a recommendation of a clinical model and it was passed in College Council • We will be moving to a model in which Teacher Candidates will have four clinical experiences. • There will be continued work in designing the clinical model this year.

7. CAEP Continued • CAEP Standards have driven many changes that we will talk about. • Compliance of the standards • Primarily creating systems that allow us to collect and analyze data in a systematic manner.

8. House Keeping Items • All materials that you, the mentor and the student teacher needs is on the Student Teaching website. • All Student assignments were sent electronically • Updated Date organizer • Updated checklist of materials to turn in- no more disposition form. • New recommended student teaching schedule for AYA and non AYA licensure areas. • Co-teaching brochure from the state. • Please pay close attention to the date organizer that includes important dates and deadlines, as well as the checklist of what needs to be turned into the office. • Please review the materials on the web with the mentor and the student teacher. • We developed an on-line training module for the mentors.

9. Number of Visits Required • Eight site visits required –within 16 week semester • Should include introductory visit and meeting. • Five to six formal observations. • Final evaluation and wrap up meeting. • On the “off” weeks you will communicate and touch base with your student(s) via email or phone or even Skype with your students.

10. Visits continued • There will be students that may required additional coaching or problem solving meetings. Contact Wendy if those issues arise. • With fewer site visits, the ones that happen need to be comprehensive and robust.

11. MILEAGE POLICY – No major changes • Please use the form from the website each time you submit. If you save and reuse the form, it may corrupt the file. The controller’s office requests that you use a new form each time. • Katie has created new directions with visuals and voice overs. This on the website under forms • When recording your visits, please list the visits in the order you completed them. • You will turn in your mileage to our office two times in a semester. Once at the mid-term and the second one at the end of the semester.

12. MILEAGE CONTINUED • Please try to plan visits to accommodate best routes. • Mileage will be calculated on shortest distance. Either your home or the University. This is the existing and past University policy. • You can claim mileage from your home (if that is a shorter distance than UA) to your site visit(s) and back to your home (if that is a shorter distance the UA. • Current mileage rate .560

13. MILEAGE CONTINUED • When you submit your mileage, you will submit the form directly to Katie. She will then forward them to Wendy for approval. • Katie goes through the mileage forms checking for any errors. We use map quest to check mileage and have a five mile cushion. • If there are circumstances that require additional travel or visits, please send Wendy an email or call her. We understand there will be circumstances that will require additional mileage.

14. MILEAGE CONTINUED • Please make sure you fill out all the required areas. • Please make sure you save the document according to the directions. This becomes critical when trying to track your mileage Copy of Travel_ RPT_Jewell_Wendy_010114_033014

15. Housekeeping continued • Emp Center Time Cards The Affordable Health Care Act requires employers to report all workers times to ensure that employers are providing insurance to workers who work over twenty-nine hours. You may have received emails regarding your time card and asking you to fill out an electronic time card.

16. Emp Center Time Cards • At this time you will only have to report your time if you are carrying over four credit hours of student teachers. • Most of you will not need to report your time. • I will notify you by email if you are required to do so and give you directions on what you need to do. • For those of you who have to record your time, you will submit how many hours you worked by Monday of each week.

17. Forms we are no longer using • Disposition form • Grade or graduate grade form • Data form that you would collect from mentors • AYA observation log

18. New Forms and Procedures • New Survey Forms • New Data sheet for the mentors • New Observation Form • New Student Teaching Evaluation • We are going Electronic! -Resources -Efficiency/Move to electronic files -Data Collection and efficient analysis of data -No more printing, making copies and mailing materials in. -Have tried our best to make it user friendly -Had to use the tools available to us.

19. Tech support • Please feel free call, email and or set up a time if you need us to walk you through the process on the computer. • Please be patient with us as we work out the bugs in all the new systems. Please let us know if you encounter any issues with the systems so we can address it.

20. New Surveys • We condensed them and renamed them • Survey by Supervisor -assessment of our program • Survey by Teacher Candidate -assessment of supervisor and our program • Survey by Mentor Teacher -assessment of the supervisor and program

21. Survey • Surveys are done in a Qualtrix format • There is a link on our website. • Click on the link, fill out the survey and submit. • Once you submit the survey, a copy will come directly to a specialized email that is set up. • Once you submit you have completed the task. • No ability to save the document.

22. Data form - mentor teacher fills out • They will do this electronically as well. They find the link on the website. • They will not turn in a form to you. • All the Surveys allows us to collect data for CAEP

23. Student Teacher Observation Form • The previous duplicated carbon forms are gone. • The observation form will be done electronically. • This also done using the Qualtrix format. • Under “Forms” you will see a link for the “Student Teaching Observation Form.” • Click on the link, fill it out and submit. • It will automatically send a copy of the observation to the Supervisor, the Teacher candidate and a specialized email that I access. • If you do not use a lap top or tablet during your observation, we have provided a template called the “Observation Note taking form”

24. Student Teacher Observation Form • The note taking form is voluntary and the information must be transferred into the electronic format. You can cut and paste. • By the end of the semester I must have a record of five formal observations. (This is in alignment of CAEP accreditation) • Limitation: you cannot save the document. In accordance to the CAEP expectations there must be Student Growth. Issues and goals must be documented in the observation forms.

25. Student Teacher Observation Forms • Ex. If in the mid-term the students scores low in the area of assessment and there is no mention of it in the previous observation form or listed as a goal, this will be red flagged from the state. • They are looking for Student Growth Measures. • I will need to pay closer attention.

26. TPA – Teacher Performance Assessment

27. TPA The University of Akron is in second year of full implementation of edTPA. It is an expectation that the University of Akron student teaching supervisor has a working knowledge and understanding of the TPA and can guide and support the student teacher through the process. The fee is still $300.00 to the student. The edTPA requirement is now attached to the Student Teaching Course. The National cut score has been set at 42. (75 possible) TPA support will be included in the survey that students fill out. Faculty is working on embedding the skills required into the curriculum.

28. Overview of ScoresFall 2013 Teacher Candidates • 161 Student Teachers • 40 Teacher candidates received a passing score of 42 or above • 121 teacher candidates did not pass • 25% of the teacher candidates passed the edTPA • 7 teacher candidates scored 50 or above • The highest score was a 67 – AYA LA

29. Overview of ScoresSpring 2014 Teacher Candidates • 180 Student Teachers • 85 Teacher candidates received a passing score of 42 or above • 95 teacher candidates did not pass • 47% of the teacher candidates passed the edTPA • 18 teacher candidates scored 50 or above • The highest score was a 64

30. TPA is on SpringboardPlease take the time to review the materials available to you.Please encourage your students to review all the materials and resources available to them on TPA Springboard site.edTPA.aacte.org

31. What TPA support or training do you need?

32. New Teacher Candidate EvaluationContent of new evaluation

33. New Teacher Candidate Evaluations • One mid-term and one final • No traditional and collaborative form. Same form used by all • No more printing and copying and then mailing • This is also done in the Qualtrix format • Access link on the website • Section E. When you click on the link for the evaluation you will click on the licensure area of the student. Ex. Early Childhood. • Only two licensure areas have compliant section E (for their SPAs) AYA Social Studies and PE

34. Teacher Candidate Evaluations • Therefore at the present time they are the only two that will be completed. • As the new ones are developed for the other licensure areas they will be added. • Teacher Candidate Evaluation Worksheet • Teacher Candidate Score Sheet • Filling out the score sheet • Complete the mid-term and final Collaboratively with the Mentor and Teacher Candidate. You can have them fill out the worksheet and forward to you previous to the meeting. • Like before the Supervisor has the final say and the final responsibility for completing the evaluation.

35. Teacher Candidate Evaluation • The supervisor will fill out the Teacher Candidate Score sheet and submit it electronically. • Once submitted, a copy will automatically be generated via email to the Supervisor, Mentor, Teacher Candidate and a specialized email that comes to me. • You electronic signature suffices for legal purposes. • The evaluation auto-populates the score and or grade. • Limitation: Not able to save document

36. Scoring of the Evaluation • Graduate Students receive a letter grade • Undergraduates receive credit/no credit • In order to pass the mid-term and final the student must receive a cumulative score of 1.75 (out of a scale of 3) • 1.74 and below is failing • If a student receives a 1.99 or below on the mid-term an action plan must be developed and I need to be notified and receive a copy of the action plan. • Grading scale for graduate students in on the evaluation

37. Teacher Candidate Evaluation • The electronic score sheet is not on the web site yet. • We will place the Teacher Candidate Evaluation Worksheet on the web in the following days.

38. Loose Ends Web Site • Checklist of Items to turn In. - mid-term/Final -makes reference to domains A-D Surveys- Supervisor -wrong one Mentor and Students not posted yet.

39. Please don’t hesitate to contact me.Have a fantastic semester! wjewell@uakron.edu

40. Questions?