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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA TEACHER EDUCATION

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

The Charge, the Challenge, and the Change: Monitoring and Responding to State and National Reform Initiatives

To educate, serve, and lead

GOAL 3: LEAD THE STATE AND NATION IN PRE K-12 EDUCATION

G3.Objective 1 – Focus educator-preparation programs on developing 21st century leader practitioners at all levels

G3.O1.S1 – Recruit, develop and retain nationally recognized facultyG3.O1.S2 – Collaborate with the Iowa Department of Education to develop a research and development school as a leading demonstration site for innovative evidence-based practiceG3.O1.S3 – Re-examine and adapt educator-preparation programs, formal and non-formal, focusing on 21st century skills and knowledge, and the use of technology

GOAL 3: LEAD THE STATE AND NATION IN PRE K-12 EDUCATION

G3.Objective 2 – Expand the ownership of educator preparation to the entire university community

G3.O2.S1 – Redefine the role of the Teacher Education Office, especially its university-wide responsibilities for educator-preparation programs G3.O2.S2 – Redefine the role of the Council of Teacher Education as the leading governance body for university-wide educator preparationG3.O2.S3 – Promote integration of: the liberal arts, the professional education sequence, educator-preparation majors and minors, and field experiences

GOAL 3: LEAD THE STATE AND NATION IN PRE K-12 EDUCATION

G3.Objective 3 – Expand and improve the network of external partners involved in educator-preparation programs

G3.O3.S1 – Establish additional professional-development partnerships with school districtsG3.O3.S2. Expand the use of advisory board networksG3.O3.S3 – Ensure a wide range of diverse field experiences for educator preparation studentsG3.O3.S4 – Recognize and support external professional partnerships to promote exemplary teaching, research, scholarship, creative activity and engagement

Diversity Statement

The College of Education promotes education, service and leadership and their effects on the next generation. The core values in which we predicate the work that we do are diversity, engagement, leadership, transformation, and service-community outreach.  We are a college of diverse ideas, perspectives and intellectual pursuits.  We strive to become a college that is representative of diverse people with dispositional stances that embrace all people regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age or ability.  In the college, people will be treated with dignity and respect as human beings. Ignorance, bigotry, and harassment will not be accepted.  

GOAL 1 

Lead the state and nation by developing highly effective professionals prepared to educate, serve, and lead future generations. 

GOAL 2 

Faculty will distinguish themselves by engaging in creative and intellectually rigorous teaching, scholarship, and service.

GOAL 3 

Create, maintain, and enhance a culture that is characterized by a proactive commitment to diversity, collegiality, and mutual respect.  

GOAL 4

 

Increase resources, including human, capital, and informational.  

GOAL 5: 

Establish and enhance strong, mutually beneficial relationships with external constituencies.

The State The Nation Create a statewide teacher

education scholarship program so more of the brightest students choose teaching as a career in hard-to-staff areas

Raise the GPA to 3.0 for entry into the teaching profession

Improve field-based experiences for new teachers

Newly create teacher mentors in all schools will serve as adjunct faculty in supervising student teachers

Expand alternative pathways into professional education

Demonstrate content mastery via assessment

Institutional reporting and state accountability

Reform financing of students preparing to become teachers

Target support to institutions that prepare high quality teachers from diverse backgrounds

The Charge: The state report One Unshakable Vision: World-Class Schools for Iowa and a national report Our Future, Our Teachers set the charge for the transformation of teacher preparation.

One Unshakable Vision: World-Class Schools for Iowa

• Improve educator recruiting and hiring practices• Attract and support talented educators• Create educator leadership roles• Transformational teacher salary structure• Develop a new faculty accountability system based

upon a meaningful, peer-based evaluation system where job protection is based upon effectiveness

• Free principals to lead• Improve and expand the Iowa Core• Initiate the next generation assessment framework• Ensure third grade literacy• Increase school innovations• Promote Online learning options• End the factory education model and create any

time, anywhere learning• Engage parents and community in a statewide

network

Response Frames

• Responsive – supportive and affirming

• Proactive – a need to inform and shape the discussion, should be at the table

• Reactive – opposed to the idea and boldly state rationale

Premier Points and Signature Programs

1. Diversity2. Research and Development School3. Technology – rich teaching and

learning environments4. Early Childhood Education5. Elementary Science6. Literacy Education7. Place-based Education?8. Rural Education?

Current and Aspirational Points of Distinction

1. Assessment2. Community service and outreach3. Diversity4. Field-based Experiences5. Inquiry6. Leadership7. Literacy8. Technology

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Human Capital informational

Phi Delta Kappa 2011 Gallup Poll

76% of respondents believe that high achieving students should be recruited as teachers

Nearly 75% would encourage the brightest person they have to become teachers

70% of respondents said they have trust and confidence in the men and women who are teaching in public schools

67% of respondents said they would like to have their child become a public school teacher