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Partnership. Josephine Scott Sandra Stroot Dean Fowls. Group Activity: What would you like to have as a part of a partnership between your district and a local university? What structural components would have to be in place for this to occur?. Major Structural Components:
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Partnership Josephine Scott Sandra Stroot Dean Fowls
Group Activity: • What would you like to have as a part of a partnership between your district and a local university? • What structural components would have to be in place for this to occur?
Major Structural Components: • Exchange of Services Agreements • Office of Outreach and Engagement in the College of Education • Office of Curriculum and Staff Development
Ensure all educators can meet highly-qualified professional development requirements. • Ensure every educator is highly-qualified. • Ensure all educators understand data and can use data to improve student achievement. • Ensure all educators have knowledge and skills they need to teach to standards.
Ensure all educators can meet highly-qualified professional development requirements. • Columbus Public Schools Professional Development Days • Scope of coursework offered through the partnership with the Office of Outreach and Engagement.
Ensure every educator is highly-qualified • PAR (highlight PD for interns and mentors)? • Special Education • Gifted and Talented • ESL
Ensure every educator is highly-qualified • Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) • PD for Consulting Teachers (PD for PAR) • PD for Interns (PAR/OSU)
Ensure every educator is highly-qualified • Special Education • Gifted and Talented • ESL
SPECIFIC EXAMPLE: English as a Second Language Program
Fastest Growing Department in CPS Two major causes: • Increasing number of immigrant and refugee students moving into the central Ohio area. • Unique needs of many of these students that require specialized programming.
Fastest Growing Department in CPS Obvious impact: • Increased Need for Licensed Teachers
Fastest Growing Department in CPS • State efforts to increase licensed teachers • Limited capacity for university coursework
Total ESL TeachersLicensed ESL Teachers *2003-2004 number (86) as of August, 2003
Autumn, 2001 2 ESL courses • Winter, 2002 2 ESL courses • Spring, 2002 2 ESL courses • Summer, 2002 2 ESL courses • Autumn, 2002 2 ESL courses • Winter, 2003 2 ESL courses • Spring, 2003 3 ESL courses • Summer, 2003 2 ESL courses NO COST TO THE STUDENTS
Licensed Teachers in ESL Classes Information provided by Brenda Custodio; ESL Coordinator, Columbus Public Schools
What have we accomplished for ESL? • Provided collaboratively designed option to respond to district needs for coursework to attract and retain ESL teachers in Columbus Public Schools • Increased number/percentages of teachers licensed to teach ESL students in Columbus. • Increased capacity of other teachers/professionals to work with children with English as a Second Language
Ensure all educators understand data and can use data to improve student achievement. • Basic Foundation • PD Days • District-wide Video • In-depth Knowledge • Graduate Coursework • ASIT Teams • E-School Modules
Samples of the E-School Modules for Value-Added Assessment • School Value Added Report - Review • School Diagnostic Report • Individual Student Report - Projection
Ensure all educators have knowledge and skills they need to teach to standards. • Courses aligned to state content standards • CPS Curriculum Guides • eSchool Modules (Another example?)
Broad focus of partnership: • University Teacher Education Consortium (UTEC) • Higher Education Partnership (HEP) • Teacher Quality Enhancement