Standard Five: Faculty Qualifications

1. Standard Five: Faculty Qualifications • Description • Faculty are qualified and model best professional practices in scholarship, service, and teaching, including the assessment of their own effectiveness as related to candidate performance; they also collaborate with colleagues in the disciplines and schools. The unit systematically evaluates faculty performance and facilitates professional development.

2. Faculty Qualifications – Exhibits • Qualifications of professional education faculty • Degree, scholarship, leadership, service, P-12 experience • Qualifications of clinical faculty • P-12 professionals involved with field, student teaching, and clinical practice • Policies and practices to assure clinical faculty meet unit expectations • Policies, expectations, and samples of faculty scholarly activities • Faculty service and collaborative activities in schools and with the professional community • Policies, procedures, and practices for faculty evaluation • Including promotion and tenure • Policies, procedures, and practices for professional development

3. Needs from EUP Unit Faculty • Current and updated c.v. • For fall-only faculty, or those going on sabbatical leave for the Spring 2012 semester: submit electronically to D2L drop box by October 15 • For all other faculty: submit electronically to D2L drop box by mid-March 2012 (you will be emailed a reminder to do this in February 2012) • Data from c.v. needed for NCATE faculty qualifications data table • Name • Highest Degree, Field, & University • Assignment (Your role as a faculty member) • Faculty Rank • Tenure Track (Yes or No) • Scholarship, Leadership in Professional Associations, and Service • Teaching or other professional experience in P-12 schools

4. Example of Data Needed for NCATE Faculty Qualifications Data Table • Faculty Member Name: Laura M. Miller • Highest Degree, Field, & University: Ph.D., Health Education, University of Maryland at College Park • Assignment: Indicate the role of the faculty member: • Teaches 3 health education courses • Serves as assistant chairperson for the HPE department • Serves as the health promotion program coordinator • Supervises student teachers • Faculty Rank: Associate Professor • Tenure Track: Yes • Scholarship, Leadership in Professional Associations, and Service (List up to 3 major contributions in the past 3 years): • Published article, “Teaching Health Education Students,” in the Journal of American College Health • Published textbook “Health Education Methods” with Jones & Bartlett in 2009 • Elected Vice President of AAHPERD’s state affiliate in Pennsylvania • Teaching or other professional experience in P-12 schools: • Has supervised student teachers in P-5/6 schools in the Erie area from 2002-Present • Taught 4-year olds, kindergarteners, and second graders in Pittsburgh, PA schools from 1994-2000. • Holds current Pennsylvania Professional Licenses in preschool education, elementary education, and special education.

5. Needs, cont’d • Samples of best professional practices in teaching **Please provide only activities within the past three years • Course syllabi (one syllabus for each class you teach in the academic year of 2011-2012) • Self-created course (student) assessments you use to evaluate your teaching • Examples of how you integrate diversity and technology throughout your teaching (including explanations of items on course syllabi that relate to these two areas)

6. Needs, cont’d • Samples of faculty scholarly activities **Please provide only activities within the past three years • Include traditional scholarship activities, such as peer-reviewed journal articles and books • Presentations at the international, national, regional and state levels • Local presentations or workshops that serve schools or school personnel • Scholarly activities that reflect and are driven by the CF

7. Needs, cont’d • Samples of faculty service activities and collaborative efforts with P-12 schools **Please provide only activities within the past three years • Include membership and involvement in professional associations at international, national, regional, state, and local levels • Collaborative activities involving P-12 schools or school personnel • Collaborative activities (related to teaching improvement, candidate learning, and the preparation of educators) with faculty in other departments at EUP or other colleges or universities • Education-related services at the local, state, national, and international levels