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Spring CAEP Workshop Clinical Partnerships and Practices Standard 2. Hope College March 26, 2015. Teacher Preparation Task Force Recommendations for Clinical Experiences. Align and sequence clinical experiences for vertical coherence.
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Spring CAEP WorkshopClinical Partnerships and PracticesStandard 2 Hope CollegeMarch 26, 2015
Teacher Preparation Task Force Recommendations for Clinical Experiences • Align and sequence clinical experiences for vertical coherence. • Create immersive clinical experiences for horizontal coherence. • Develop a strategic plan for faculty to guide clinical experiences. • Maintain duration of clinical experience during student teaching. • Increase the duration of clinical experiences in the BS in Education, especially within Secondary program. • Offer clinical experiences in a variety of sites and learning environments using culturally responsive and place-based pedagogy.
Standard 2: Clinical Partnership and Practice The provider ensures that effective partnerships and high-quality clinical practice are central to preparation so that candidates develop the knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development.
Partnerships for Clinical Preparation Development of partnerships between P-12 schools and CMU clinical experiences at both the pre-student teaching and student teaching levels. Major partnerships should be well-planned with collaboration between the P-12 schools, CMU and other interested entities. • Develop Advisory Teams • Education/Resources/Research • Goals for Both/All Partners • Formulize Partnership • Develop Action Plan • Identify Liaison between University and P-12 School • Examples of St. Johns Public Schools and Immokalee, FL
Clinical Educators Professional development for university coordinators and mentor teachers to include: • Co-teaching model • Student teacher assessment/inter-rater reliability • P-12 student achievement • Program expectations • Public relations. Develop plan to infuse more tenure-track faculty into supervision of students in clinical experiences to create a stronger relationship between pedagogy and field work.
Clinical Experiences Curriculum mapping be done in various parts of the clinical experiences to include collaboration: • Between secondary methods courses and EDU 325 – Secondary Methods • Between the TEPD methods courses • Between the university coordinators teaching EDU 432 – Seminar in Student Teaching • All departments within the PEU develop a plan to infuse a minimum of 60-80 hours of planned clinical experiences within their professional education methods coursework. • Secondary departments make EDU 325 a pre- or co-requisite for the departmental subject matters methods course.
References http://oacte.org/pdf/ClinicalPrepPaper_03-11-2010.pdf The Clinical Preparation of Teachers: A Policy Brief from AACTE http://www.ncate.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zzeiB1OoqPk%3D&tabid=7 Transforming Teacher Education Through Clinical Practice: A National Strategy to Prepare Effective Teachers – Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning https://caepnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/breakout_iv_designing_and_implementing_a_clinical_model_henning.pdf
References http://www.stcloudstate.edu/soe/coteaching/ Academy for Co-Teaching and Collaboration – St. Cloud State University http://www.aascu.org/uploadedFiles/AASCU/Content/Root/Programs/TeacherEducation/07_st_cloud.pdfN Bacharach, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN http://caepnet.org/standards/standards/standard2/standard-2-rationale/ Standard 2: Rationale, Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, Washington, D.C.