Meetings
| To: |
Members, Indiana Professional Standards Board |
| From: |
Joe Weaver, Chair
Teacher Education Committee |
| Subject: |
Minutes of April 12, 1999, Meeting |
| Date: |
June 17, 1999 |
| Committee members present: |
Gary Ingersoll, Cathleen Rafferty, Dale Scannell, and
Joe Weaver. Resource advisors present: Steve Gilbert, Carl deGraaf, and
Steve Holtrop. |
| Staff members present: |
Bet Kotowski, T. J. Oakes, and Nancy Taylor. |
| Committee members absent: |
Judy Briganti and Barbara Livdahl.
Resource advisors absent: Merribeth Bruning, Deborah Butler, Jill Shedd,
and James Smith. |
The Teacher Education Committee (TEC) was convened by Chair Joe Weaver on April
12, 1999, at 9:15 a.m. in Conference Room D, at 251 East Ohio Street.
| I. |
Consultations with representatives of education stakeholder
groups:
There were none at this time. |
| II. |
Materials reviewed related to the group's charge:
| A. |
Minutes of the February 17, 1999, Teacher Education
Committee |
| B. |
February 19, 1999, Institutional Session Notes |
| C. |
Recommendations to the Teacher Education Committee
from the TEC Transition Subcommittee |
| D. |
The Proposed Process to Review Unit Assessment
Systems |
|
| III. |
Issues/questions examined as related to the group's charge:
| A. |
The committee approved the minutes of the February
17, 1999, meeting. |
| B. |
Bet Kotowski reviewed the recommendations to the
Assessment Coordinating Committee (ACC) from the Teacher Education
Committee for the ACC's April meeting. |
| C. |
The next Institutional Session will be held on
Friday, September 24, 1999. Steve Gilbert will draft an invitation
and will ask institutions to submit questions and concerns to
be addressed at the meeting. |
| D. |
Gary Ingersoll commented on considerations for
the institutional annual reports for October. These included
the need for succinctness as well as excluding appendices and
giving suggestions for formatting. Other suggestions were to
separate the instructions from the National Council for Accreditation
of Teacher Education (NCATE) from the IPSB report instructions. |
| E. |
Bill Thompson, consultant to the Interstate New
Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), will be the
presenter at the September Institutional Session. His workshop
will focus on preservice portfolios; hopefully teams from the
attending institutions will return to their institutions ready
to provide support for portfolio development. |
| F. |
Nancy Taylor talked about the INTASC Test for
Teaching Knowledge in response to a question about tests currently
being developed. Also, discussion followed about providing information
to candidates with disabilities as to their accommodation options
for taking tests. |
| G. |
There was discussion about the need for a Unit
Accreditation Committee (UAC) to review the Board of Examiners'
team report and the institutional rejoinder for Calumet College.
This UAC will be used in the future as part of the process for
handling state- only accreditation. The recommendation of the
UAC will go to the TEC , and its recommendation will then go
the IPSB. |
| H. |
There will be a third-year review committee for
Wabash College to review annual reports from the institution
and provide written comment to the institution. |
| I. |
There was discussion of the blue draft document
concerning the Proposed Process to Review Unit Assessment Systems.
This document resulted from the September Institutional Session
as an effort to communicate with institutions about what materials
would be requested for evaluating their assessment systems. |
|
The document was shared at the February Institutional
Session, but the TEC has not received any comments in writing about the document.
Dale Scannell will revise the introduction. Pairs of committee members were
given assignments for further developing the criteria.
The next TEC meeting will be held on May 14, 1999.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 p.m.