Ensuring Educator Excellence: NCATE Team Member Update

1. BIR UpdateNCATE Team Members September 30, 2009 Ensuring Educator Excellence

2. Topics to be addressed • Understanding the role of the NCATE chair, the joint roles of NCATE/CTC chairs and the process from report to UAB. • Responsibility for understanding the NCATE unit standards • NCATE Planning Instrument • Electronic document rooms: AIMS system and institution’s web page • Utilizing Biennial Reports within the NCATE system • Web based document writing and the AIMS system • Common Standards—4 sentences and CTC Specific section of report

3. Team Structure and Leadership Roles: NCATE Co-Chair, California Co-Chair, and CTC Consultant Defined in the NCATE-CTC Protocol NCATE Accreditation Process: Recommendations, editing of report, and the Unit Accreditation Board

4. NCATE Standards • Tools to support understanding the NCATE Standards • Six Standards are brief, but there are multiple elements for each: 1a-1g, 2a-2c… • Rubrics define each element at unacceptable, acceptable, and target level • NCATE Co-Chair will ask about your preferred primary writing assignment Summary at acceptable level

5. Planning Instrument Abbreviated or full Planning Instrument Previsit Rating for Each Element of the Standards: 3 = Target 2 = Acceptable 1 = Unacceptable 0 = Data not available to make initial judgment Rated for both Initial and Advanced programs Collected by NCATE Co-Chair before visit or on Saturday

6. AIMS System • Log in and Password from NCATE • Introduction to the AIMS System • The Institutional Report will be uploaded into AIMS a minimum of 30 days before the visit.

7. Distance Learning • NCATE requires specific focus on distance learning programs. • NCATE Co-Chair will let you know if there are any distance learning programs at the institution. Distance Learning Questions

8. Utilizing Biennial Reports • Biennial Reports were available for the Spring 2009 visits and teams found that the Biennial Reports identified key assessments used to assess candidate competency. • CTC Feedback pointed out the level of data analysis and the plans to use the analysis to drive program modifications. Biennial Reports and CTC Feedback should be reviewed prior to arriving at the site visit. CTC Biennial Report Feedback

9. NCATE Report • Report addresses each element of the standard • Evidence is included in the report • Judgment is made for each element as to unacceptable, acceptable or target • NCATE provides a Style Guide NCATE Style Guide

10. California’s Common Standards Standard 1: Standard 1: Educational Leadership The Education Unit implements and monitors a credential recommendation process that ensures that candidates recommended for a credential have met all requirements. Standard 6: Advice and Assistance Qualified members of the unit are assigned and available to advise applicants and candidates about their academic, professional and personal development, and to assist each candidate’s professional placement. Appropriate information is accessible to guide each candidate’s attainment of all program requirements. The institution and/or unit provide support and assistance to candidates and only retains candidates who are suited for entry or advancement in the education profession. CTC-NCATE Alignment Matrix