FasTrack PostBac provides a hybrid-online pathway to licensure for candidates already holding a Bachelors degree (or higher) in a field licensed by Bemidji State University.

MNSCU Community College PartnersAlexandria Technical CollegeAnoka-RamseyCentral LakesCentury College Fergus Falls HibbingInver HillsItascaLake SuperiorMesabi RangeNormandaleNorth HennepinRainey RiverRidgewaterRochesterSt Paul Community Colleges

FasTrack – 6 Years of Success• Candidates are: • Average age 35• Mid-career professionals entering a field that they often see as a

vocation• Place bound without University access• Retirees looking to create a legacy• Young liberal arts grads who want to make a difference• Military veterans or spouses of active duty military• Ph.D.s, lawyers, surgeons, artists, chemists, small business owners,

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• Upon completion of the program, 98% of FasTrack candidates have passed the Praxis tests on the first try

• FasTrack currently has over 100 active students

FasTrack – Current Design

1• Teacher candidates apply for program• Bemidji verifies an undergraduate degree

2

• Teacher candidate enrolls in Bemidji’s Standards of Effective Practice (SEP) Courses

• By reviewing competency grids, candidate determines areas of content needed

• Teacher candidate creates a content efolio for submission to MDE

3

• Candidate student teaches• Upon successful completion of course requirements at BSU, a letter

is submitted to MDE that SEP have been met

4

• Teacher candidate submits efolio with content competency artifacts

• Efolios are reviewed by outside evaluators through MDE• License is granted (or not) by MDE

1. Proposed FasTrack PostBac Licenses• Special Education : Learning Disabilities and/or

Emotional Behavior Disorders• Communication Arts and Literature• Spanish (World Language)• Physical Education • Science (all areas)• Social Studies• Math • Music• Health

2. Content/Discipline Coordinators will provide expert

transcript reviews for their content area.

• Mathematics Glen Richgels• Science • Social Studies Patrick Donnay• Music Jennifer Swanson• Language Arts Larry Swain • PE Donna Palivec• Health Karl Salscheider• Special Ed Janne Lillestol• Chair Judy Olson• Analysis Tracy Hendrickson• Clinical Director Roxanne Pickle• Clinical Director Janine Wahl• Assessment Carol Knicker

3. Mentors Track Content Methods Competencies

8710.4500Teachers of Health

EducationDescribe how candidate met the standard

I. A teacher of health must understand the content and methods for teaching reading including:

(1) knowledge of reading processes and instruction including:

(a) the relationships between and among print processing abilities and digital content, motivation, background, and discourse knowledge, cognitive abilities, and reader’s interest and how those relationships impact comprehension; and

(b) the complexities involved in the development of academic language and the impact of that development in school success; and

(2) the ability to use a wide range of instructional practices, approaches, methods, and curriculum materials to support reading instruction including:

(a) selection and implementation of a wide variety of before, during, and after reading strategies that develop reading meta-cognitive abilities;

(b) the ability to develop and implement effective vocabulary strategies that help students understand words including domain-specific content words;

(c) the ability to develop critical literacy skills by encouraging students to question texts and analyze texts from multiple viewpoints or perspectives; and

(d) the ability to identify instructional practices, approaches, and methods and match materials, both print and digital, to the cognitive levels of all readers, guided by an evidence-based rationale, which supports the developmental, cultural, and linguistic differences of readers.

Pathway to Licensure- DetailsFasTrack PostBac Modifications A

• Teacher candidate enrolls first semester in planning and introductory course ED3000

• All official transcripts are initially reviewed by instructors of the ED3000 course

• Competency grids and standards are used in review

• After initial review, the transcripts are sent to content coordinators

FasTrack PostBac Modifications B

• Content Coordinators approve or note additional courses needed for the teacher candidate

• Using the transcript review results, the ED3000 instructor and content mentor help the candidate with the planning of his/her Program of Study, including the content methods competencies

• Content methods textbook is purchased this first semester and is used across the program

FasTrack PostBac Modifications C

• Licensure candidate completes program as laid out in the Program of Study including a Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) MidPoint Assessment, Dispositions review, and MTLE testing

• Licensure candidate’s performance on Standards of Effective Practice are tracked in TaskStream, our department’s data aggregation tool, final results must meet Professional Education department criteria.

• Candidate completes supervised student teaching experience which includes completion of the required TPA by candidate

• Clinical director(s) and Registrar verify completion of requirements, including successful passing of all required testing

• Teacher candidate is recommended for licensure by BSU

MentorsSecret to Success in the FasTrack Design

Each candidate finds a mentor teacher in their community prior to starting the program.

Mentor must have 3 years of public school teaching.

Mentors are approved by their principal for involvement in the program.

Mentors are licensed in the field in which the student is seeking licensure.

BSU verifies that the mentor has a standard license in the content area.

BSU Clinical Director provides support to mentors.

Mentors Track Content Methods Competencies

8710.4500Teachers of Health

EducationDescribe how candidate met the standard

I. A teacher of health must understand the content and methods for teaching reading including:

(1) knowledge of reading processes and instruction including:

(a) the relationships between and among print processing abilities and digital content, motivation, background, and discourse knowledge, cognitive abilities, and reader’s interest and how those relationships impact comprehension; and

(b) the complexities involved in the development of academic language and the impact of that development in school success; and

(2) the ability to use a wide range of instructional practices, approaches, methods, and curriculum materials to support reading instruction including:

(a) selection and implementation of a wide variety of before, during, and after reading strategies that develop reading meta-cognitive abilities;

(b) the ability to develop and implement effective vocabulary strategies that help students understand words including domain-specific content words;

(c) the ability to develop critical literacy skills by encouraging students to question texts and analyze texts from multiple viewpoints or perspectives; and

(d) the ability to identify instructional practices, approaches, and methods and match materials, both print and digital, to the cognitive levels of all readers, guided by an evidence-based rationale, which supports the developmental, cultural, and linguistic differences of readers.

Pedagogy CourseMethods Component

• Content methods which have already been met with mentor teacher will be submitted for review in Pedagogy

• Content Methods textbook required-1st semester will be used

• Unit of study is developedfor content area with input from mentor teacher

Student Teaching and ClinicalField Experiences

• Fifteen weeks of student teaching in the Content Area• Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) completed during

student teaching• Mentor Teacher and ED3000 professor will help candidate

plan field experiences across the desired license in the first semester on their Program of Study

OPTION: Connections• Ten weeks of Face-to-Face Student Teaching with five

additional weeks student teaching with a practicing online teacher or at a different grade level.

Ninety School District Partners for Field Placements in Student Teaching Students request three possible sites based on their location and access. These districts are vetted by the clinical coordinators. The principals are approached and they recommend the most appropriate cooperating teacher for that candidate.

Aitken ISD#1Anoka Hennepin ISD #11Bagley ISD# 162Bemidji ISD# 31Bertha ISD # 786BlackduckISD#32Bloomington ISD #271Browerville ISD # 787Brainard ISD #181Cass Lake ISD# 115Cambridge-Isanti ISD #911Chaska ISD # 112Clearbrook-Gonvick ISD # 2311Clouquet ISD# 94Cook CountyCrookston ISD # 593Crosby-Ironton ISD# 182Detroit Lakes ISD# 22Deer River ISD# 317Duluth ISD #709Greenway-Coleraine ISD # 316Eagle Valley ISD # 2759Eastern Carver County ISD#112Eden Prairie ISD #272Edina ISD#273Elk River ISD#728Eveleth-Gilbert ISD # 2154Farmington ISD# 19

Eveleth-Gilbert ISD # 2154Farmington ISD# 192Forest Lake ISD # 431Fosston ISD # 601Goodridge ISD# 561Grand Rapids ISD#318Greenbush-Middle River ISD # 2683Greenway ISD #316Hastings ISD # 200Hibbing ISD#701Hopkins ISD# 270International Falls ISD#361Kelliher ISD#36Laporte ISD# 306Littlefork-Big Falls ISD# 362Long Prairie ISD# 2753Menahga ISD # 821Minneapolis ISD#1Minnetonka ISD#276Monticello ISD# 882Mounds View ISD#621Mountain Iron-Buhl ISD # 712Nashwauk-Keewatin ISD # 319Nevis ISD # 308New London Spicer # 345New Ulm ISD#88Nisswa ISD #181North St. Paul Maplewood ISD# 623

Oklee ISD # 627Osseo ISD# 279Parkers Prairie ISD# 547Park Rapids ISD# 309Pequot Lakes ISD #186Perham ISD #549Pillager ISD# 116Pine River-Backus ISD # 2174Plummer ISD # 628Princeton ISD # 477Prior Lake Savage ISD#719Red Lake Falls ISD # 630Red Lake ISD# 38Renville ISD #2890Robbinsdale ISD#281Rochester ISD #535Roseau ISD # 682Rosemount ISD# 196Rush City ISD# 139Schoolcraft Learning ISD # 4058South Koochiching (Northome) ISD# 363Staples-Motley ISD # 2170St. Louis County ISD # 2142Thief River Falls ISD# 564Wadena-Deer Creek ISD # 2155Walker-Hackensack-Akeley ISD# 113Warroad ISD # 690Virginia ISD # 706

FasTrack PostBac Change Summary

1. The new ED3000 course, in collaboration with the content coordinators, will be required to review transcripts for content competencies.

2. Transcript review recommendations will be used to create a Program of Study for each student.

PROGRAM OF STUDYName_______________________

MTLE Basic Skills ScoresMath_____Reading_____Writing_____

Mathematics Glen RichgelsScience Social Studies Patrick DonnayMusic Jennifer SwansonLanguage Arts Larry Swain PE Donna PalivecHealth Karl SalscheiderSpecial Ed Janne LillestolChair Judy OlsonAnalysis Tracy HendricksonClinical Director Roxanne PickleClinical Director Janine WahlAssessment Carol Knicker

FasTrack PostBac Change Summary

2. The Program of Study will provide the candidate with a an individualized program.The program will reflect necessary content courses, if needed.

Content Methods competencies will be reviewed, applied, and reflected upon with the mentor using a content standards worksheet.Candidate will demonstrate competencies in clinical field experiences supervised by the mentor and through BSU course work.

FasTrack PostBac Change Summary

3. Bemidji State University will recommend for licensure whenall the Standards of EffectivePractice and Content Competencies are met, as documented in TaskStream and on the student’s transcript, student teaching and TPA have been successfully completed,and all required tests have been passed.

FasTrack PostBac Accountability Prior to Start: Take Basic Skills Tests and secure mentor

1st Semester: Program of study created by BSU, content program reviewed by mentor during Field Experiences

2nd Semester: Methods and Standards of Effective Practice progress checked in Pedagogy course, Mini-TPA during Field Experiences, must have passed Basic Skills, Dispositions review by two faculty and mentor

3rd Semester: Review of SEP completion in TaskStream, review of transcript for completion of content coursework, review of methods completion in Professional Teacher

4th Semester: Final check with completed standards entered into TaskStream after a successful completion of student teaching is achieved and all licensure tests are passed

Boots On The Ground

Candidate Dan Morrison