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Session I
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and Western Kentucky University’s Partnership in the State Title II Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant Project
Come see how Western Kentucky University and Elizabethtown Community and Technical College used grant funds to align both colleges' core content and teacher education courses with Praxis II, Kentucky Program of Studies, and Kentucky Core Content. The end result was the identification of any gaps that needed to be addressed in courses and services provided to pre-service teachers.
Moving the Practicum Seminar Online
This session describes moving the student teaching seminar to the online environment. The focus is on designing a physical space and interactional environment that supports student learning and meets diverse needs without advanced instructor or student technical skills. (Student practicum hours, observations and supervision continue in the traditional format.)
Does Early Induction into Teacher Education Influence One’s Decision to Pursue a Career in Teaching?
Since the community college is often the gateway to higher education for marginalized students and adults facing career transitions, teacher preparation programs at the Community College level may provide an opportunity to include these traditionally overlooked groups to help meet the demand for highly qualified teachers.
Implementation of Florida’s Educator Preparation Institute: a Comprehensive Alternative Certification Program at the Community College
For the last three years, Florida has been able to produce only half of the new teachers needed for hire each year, which is a shortage of about 15,000 teachers a year. In August of 2005, the State of Florida approved the first Educator Preparation Institutes. Within this new framework, presently about 30 colleges and community colleges can offer a comprehensive alternative route to professional teacher certification through coursework and test preparation that often also includes a strong mentoring system for the first year teacher. In many ways this change in the ability to structure teacher preparation programs based on the competencies, not the courses taught, has led directly to an increase in partnership building among institutions of higher education, communities, schools, and teachers. In Northeast Florida this collaboration extends beyond districts and school service areas.
Algebra with Literacy Professional Development Program for Middle School Teachers
This session demonstrates the collaborative process of creating and facilitating an innovative professional development program on algebra with literacy strategies implemented for differentiated instruction. This program features Brookdale Community College faculty from four disciplines reaching out to middle school math teachers who work in urban at-risk districts.
An Active Partnership: an Advisory Committee’s Role
Learn how an active advisory committee provided an open forum to build relationships, approve curricula, establish fieldwork sites, implement a targeted recruitment plan, and facilitate successful student graduation and transfer in an Associate of Arts in Teaching to a Baccalaureate degree for mathematics secondary education teachers. Hear the community college and university perspective of the advisory committee.
The Partnerships Project: A New Beginning
This session describes a professional development school program that brings public schools and the college together to prepare new teachers. Program development and tips for building relationships will be shared.
Praxis Assessments: More Than Just Multiple Choice
This interactive presentation provides participants with information about Praxis Assessments. Participants will learn what is on the assessments, how to analyze items, the types of problems students typically have, and strategies for student success. Participants will receive tips for taking tests and reducing anxiety to share with their colleagues and students.
Session II
Statewide Teacher Education Articulation Agreements: Making Them and Making Them Work!
This presentation will describe the outcomes of an initiative to establish teacher education articulation agreements between Virginia’s 23 community colleges and 14 four-year institutions. Emphasis will be given to the process of negotiating the agreements, the results of a revision cycle, and the establishment of infrastructure for successful implementation.
Innovative Teacher Certification Programs at New Hampshire Technical Institute
This conference presentation describes a model teacher certification program at a community college, New Hampshire Technical Institute (NHTI). This innovative, post-baccalaureate program, approved by the New Hampshire State Board of Education, leads to certification in the critical teaching shortage areas of mathematics, science, and special education.
Influencing Change: Community College Leads the Way
Reform is needed in the way four-year institutions regard two-year teacher preparation programs. Hear about the impetus for change in New Jersey, and why faculty, advisors and administrators from all levels of higher education together developed a plan for degree articulation. Advocates will gather tools for gaining the interest of their state legislators for initiating change in the higher education system.
Rebirth
Learn how Louisiana Community Colleges answered the call to add to the pool of highly qualified teacher candidates in an accountable manner. As Louisiana orchestrated its nationally recognized redesign of Teacher Preparation, two-year colleges met the challenge to design a common statewide framework that fully articulates into baccalaureate education degrees.
Creative Challenges: Design and Development of E-Learning for Professional Development
Maricopa Community Colleges is developing an E-Learning Professional Development Project jointly supported by the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, the National Center for Teacher Education, and Educational Impact. Teachers are creating three professional development modules that full-time teachers, part-time teachers, and Education students will be able to access 24/7 via the Web. The E-Learning Project is expected to start spring 2007. This program will present examples from each module and provide insight into the process of design and development of E-Learning for professional development. The three modules focus on Creating Effective Learning Environments, Engaging Students in Active Learning, and Biology of Memory and Learning.
The Little Red School House: Beginning Educator Support Team (BEST) Courses
The challenges of attrition, competence and retention of teachers are evident nationwide. Research documents a clear link between the importance of teacher induction and mentoring programs to the retention and quality of beginning teachers. Presenters will share the BEST interactive multi-media courseware for institutions preparing new teachers and mentors.
New Beginnings: Conversation Buddies
ESL and future teachers are a perfect match for new beginnings. Jackson Community College faculty will offer a model program that includes best practice methods, helps future teachers and ESL students, and is active learning based. Discover the “How to’s ” with this partnership in learning.
“Jazzing Up” Your Reading Program with Charm A Child
Learn to energize and “charm” students with this five-step approach that emphasizes the effective domain of Reading. In this session you will become a “child charmer” and be able to Enchant, Engage, Expand, Encourage, and Empower both at-risk and on-level students to enjoy and love reading.
Session III
Partnerships that Work! Fostering Success for ALL Students – the Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (IBEST) Model
This interactive session provides participants with opportunities to examine current issues and trends in education. Successful partnerships in Washington State, like Highline Community College's IBEST program, provide a model of collaboration that meets the needs of diverse groups of teachers entering the profession.
Yá at' eeh! A Model for Navajo Teacher Education Preparation
Learn how Phoenix College’s Teacher Education Program, Navajo language faculty, with Arizona State University's Indigenous Teacher Education Preparation faculty collaborated to develop the Center for Navajo Teacher Education. A digital storytelling showcase will culminate the session to express the richness of the program.
Jazzing Up Early Childhood Education in North Carolina!
North Carolina is recognized for its leadership in early childhood education programs and the North Carolina Community College System is playing a key role in the process of improving the lives of young children. From program accreditation, to AAS articulation, to the new curriculum improvement project, this state is jazzing up ECE!
The Borough of Manhattan Community College-City College of New York/City University of New York (BMCC-CCNY/CUNY) Jointly Registered Degree Program in Childhood and Bilingual Childhood Education
The BMCC-CCNY/CUNY jointly registered degree program in Childhood and Bilingual Childhood Education was created when CUNY Colleges, a community and a senior college (BMCC and CCNY) collaborated to address the projected teacher shortage in New York City, to ease the transition from junior to senior college, and to realize the best way to maximize the college experience for students.
State Aligned Certification Tests: A Clear Focus for Community College Teacher Preparation
Reform minded states work hard to develop clear state standards for students and related endorsement competencies for teachers. The result is a logical structure in which teacher preparation, classroom teaching, and student learning are aligned. This alignment in turn determines the content of state certification tests for prospective teachers. Join us and learn how community colleges can help your teacher candidates succeed by understanding alignment and this proven model.
Educational Attainment of Community College Students as Future Teachers
Participants will walk down "research lane" to discover mysteries that lie in current research relating to barriers and supports; that education majors experience throughout their first two years of teacher preparation at the community college. Participants will unravel strategies for recruiting, preparing, and retaining future teachers who attend the community college.
Partnering to Become More Inclusive
The EdTrAc program at Normandale now offers a two-year degree in Special Education, leading to a four-year degree offered on-site by the Minnesota State University, Mankato. Two Spanish for Educators courses are being offered this year as part of a planned certificate program that will be available to both pre-service and in-service teachers
Enhancing the K-6 Teacher Education Curriculum: The Tennessee Board of Regents Teacher Preparation Partnership
The Tennessee Board of Regents Teacher Preparation Partnership (TBR-TPP) project is improving the preparation of future teachers through collaboration and systemic change. Participating schools are developing a common core of courses for K-6 teachers, consisting of an introduction to teaching and technology course and standards-based mathematics and science courses.
Using NASA Earth and Space Science Resources to Enhance Teacher Preparation
Quality pre-service education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) plays a fundamental role in ensuring our nation’s future workforce and the public will be poised to participate in an increasingly technology-based society – a society that will take NASA’s scientific exploration of the universe to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Pre-Service Education Working Group (PSEWG) therefore seeks to identify creative ways in which scientists and educators can facilitate teacher preparation and the professional development of both science faculty and education faculty involved in teacher preparation.
Session IV
Using NASA's Earth and Space Science Resources to Enhance Teacher Preparation
Quality pre-service education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) plays a fundamental role in ensuring our nation’s future workforce and the public will be poised to participate in an increasingly technology-based society – a society that will take NASA’s scientific exploration of the universe to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Pre-Service Education Working Group (PSEWG) therefore seeks to identify creative ways in which scientists and educators can facilitate teacher preparation and the professional development of both science faculty and education faculty involved in teacher preparation.
Infusing Educational Technology into Teacher Education Courses
Teacher Education Faculty from Lorain County Community College will present their newly developed Real-World-Learning-Objects (RWLO’s) developed during the Savvy Cyber Professor associated with the PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology) program. Internet-based content and strategies from this Savvy Cyber Professor training will be presented and demonstrated in a way that brings relevant, pertinent, dynamic and real-world data into the classroom learning environment.
Technology Tips, Tools, Tutorials, and Templates
Although the adage “practice makes perfect” is not new, technology has provided us with a powerful new vehicle to design and deliver meaningful practice opportunities to our students. In hybrid (blended) and online courses, these practice opportunities are even more critical as students have only limited interaction with their teachers. However, finding the time and energy required to produce relevant yet engaging materials demanded by today’s students is a daunting task for most teachers.
Bringing a Four-Year Degree to a Small, Rural Two-Year College
In May 2006 three students at North Arkansas College received four-year degrees from Arkansas Tech University in Early Childhood Education (P-4). Northark and Arkansas Tech entered into a partnership in 2002 to bring the degree to students who did not want to move away from their rural homes.
Digital Teaching Portfolios: Integrating Technology and Instruction for Future Teachers
This session provides a description of a faculty team effort at Rappahannock Community College to deliver activities centered on development of digital teaching portfolios. Current activities and future enhancements are shared with session participants, along with demonstrating the use of web conferencing as a viable tool for instruction and professional development.
Science Teaching Characteristics of Community College Graduates
This session outlines preliminary results of a three-year National Science Foundation study of community college inquiry-based science courses coupled with a science-intensive elementary education degree. Session participants will explore research methods, participate in a lesson taught by a program graduate, and learn techniques for studying the impact of specific courses.
North Country Teacher Certification Program: a Partnership between Plymouth State University, New Hampshire Community Technical College, and Granite State College
This presentation showcases a “seamless pipeline” from a two-year to a four-year institution for teacher training. The North Country Teacher Certification Program was collaborated between Plymouth State University, New Hampshire Community Technical College, and Granite State College, to provide Bachelor’s degrees and teaching certification to place-bound students in New Hampshire’s North Country.
Hybrid Courses; the Best Choice
The presenter will discuss her experience developing hybrid classes to meet the need for pre-service training of special and elementary education teachers and paraeducators who live in rural and/or areas that are a great distance from a college or university campus.
Session V
"Locally Owned and Grown" - A Collaborative Story of a Community College, a University, and a Special Education District
Responding to the requirements of NCLB and special education teacher shortages, three organizations pulled their needs and resources together and became part of the solution. The partnership has strengthened: the community outreach efforts of the community college, program expansion for the four-year institution, and the future applicant pool of special education districts.
Engaging Curriculum, Integrating Technology, Student Assessment, and All That Jazz: Portfolios in a Community College Teacher Education Program
This session presents one college’s means of utilizing “education portfolios” for both development of engaging assignments, integrating technology; and formalizing student and program assessment. One college’s approach, rationale and methods will be shared, as well as demonstrations of student portfolios using both TaskStream and a custom-designed college-based program.
Mind in the Making: the Science of Early Learning
Mind in the Making is a newly launched national program from the Families and Work Institute that is currently being used in community college early childhood teacher preparation in Oklahoma and Florida. Research studies indicate that participating in the modules has a positive impact on a teacher’s ability to interact effectively with young children. This session shares information about the resources available from this initiative.
A Research Study on the 36 Community College Teacher Education Programs Funded Under the National Science Foundation/Phi Theta Kappa Grants
After two rounds of National Science Foundation funding to Phi Theta Kappa, 36 community colleges developed programs to strengthen math and science courses for teachers and their overall teacher education programs. Each community college was paired with a four-year institution. The results of a 2006 survey given to these community colleges and their four-year partners will be discussed.
Lateral Entry Teacher Certification - Putting Collaboration to the Test!
North Carolina faces severe teacher shortages like other parts of the country. Find out how North Carolina Community Colleges have collaborated with the Department of Public Instruction and the Senior Education Degree Granting Colleges and Universities to provide professional development courses for employed teachers. Successes and pitfalls will be included.
Community College Baccalaureate: Great Basin College's Beginnings, Progress and Outcomes
Great Basin College is a community college that began offering a Bachelor’s degree in education six years ago. This presentation highlights how that community college began offering baccalaureate degrees, how they have progressed, the lessons learned through the process, details and outcomes of the program, and suggestions for other interested colleges.
Starting a New Life as a Teacher in Rural Southwest Louisiana
We will describe a unique 2+2 partnership between Louisiana State University at Eunice and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) that has placed nearly 200 new elementary teachers in local schools. Many of our graduates are non-traditional in age and represent a special category of "second career" learners. Both universities recruit participants actively and faculty from the Baccalaureate institution travel to the two-year campus to deliver junior and senior year classes and to supervise student teaching. Instruction is face-to-face at all times and is supported by the latest technology and teaching materials obtained through joint grant-writing activities. There is nothing typical about this collaboration between two universities in two different university systems. This factor was recognized by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in its reaccreditation visit to ULL, and high praise was accorded for the effort. All of the partners involved in the program will be represented, including faculty, students, and recent graduates.
Early Childhood Teacher Education: New Challenges, Opportunities, and Resources
New opportunities and challenges are being presented to community college early childhood education programs as pre-kindergarten expands, expected teacher qualifications rise, and the focus on assessment of student learning deepens. Join representatives from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, ACCESS, and the National Association for the Education of Young Children Early Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation system to discuss current issues and resources.
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