Spring Meeting and Collaboration
Spring Meeting, Thursday, April 22, 2010
Spring Collaboration, Friday, April 23, 2010
Location: Crowne Plaza, 2200 Freeway Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minnesota
MACTE's Spring 2010 Collaboration
(Collaboration flyer)
By working together, we learn more about what's hot and what's not about Minnesota's teacher preparation programs.
Large Groups:
TPA (Teacher Performance Assessment)
PERCA (Program Effectiveness Reports for Continuing Approval)
Mentoring & Induction
Round Tables: What Works; What Doesn't
NCATE or TEAC: What's the difference? Does it matter?
Testing our METL: Plans and Procedures by Pearson
Race to the Top: Round Two
Technology Standards: Plug-in, Turn-on, Teach
Teachers of Color: Find, Recruit, Support, Retain, License
Licensure Initiatives: STEM, Media Arts, On-Line, Immersion, G&T
Developing Academic Skills: Reading, Writing, Math
Internationalization: Study and Teaching Abroad
Student Organizations: Ed Club Redux
Show and Tell: What hot in your spot?
Following the guidance offered by MACTE members during our spring 2009 meeting, we've designed a new kind of "congress" that will provide more opportunities to share and learn from each other. Large group sessions will each be repeated twice to enable more to hear and share, while topical round tables will provide informal conversation on topics of mutual concern.
Rooms are available at the Crowne Plaza- Minneapolis North by calling the hotel directly at 763-566-8000. To guarantee receiving the contract's conference room rate, reserve your room at least three weeks in advance and mention MACTE's special discount rate. Reservations at the MACTE discounted rate are now available online: MACTE February Meeting Crown Plaza Reservations.
Please note our new registration policy: "All MACTE meeting and congress registration cancellations must be made in writing to the executive assistant one week prior to the event. Due to meeting and congress costs incurred, refunds cannot be issued within the week prior to the event. Registrations may be transferred within each institution.
Hill Day Agenda
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
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Hill Day Briefing |
| 9:30 to 12 noon | Hill Day Meetings with legislators |
| 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. | Lunch in the Senate Cafeteria |
| 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. | Hill Day Meetings with legislators |
| 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. | Hill Day Debriefing: State Office Building Cafeteria |
Thursday - Tentative Schedule for Legislators
8:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Senate E-12 Education Budget and Policy Division
Room 112 Capitol
Chair: Senator LeRoy Stumpf
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
House: K-12 Education Policy and Oversight
Room: Basement State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
12:30 t 2:45 p.m.
Senate: Higher Edcuation Budget and Policy Division
Room: 123 Capitol
Chair: Senator Sandra Pappas
An important anniversary, for which we offer a small remembrance this morning, somehow slipped past us in 2009. We should mark this event for the significant influence it has on our work, both for those who prepare Minnesota’s teachers and for those who guide the licensure process authorizing their practice. During the fall of 1999 a new word began to dominate our conversations with colleagues and students. Then new to the work of teacher preparation after serving as an instructional developer and program evaluator, I first encountered “The Minnesota Standards of Effective Practice for Teachers” during a June conference hosted by the Board. At that gathering I learned that Minnesota’s colleges would soon use these new “SEPs” to identify, instruct, and assess the pedagogical knowledge and skills to be acquired by Minnesota’s future teachers. Where once the number of course credits, course titles, and their descriptions were criteria for approving a program of study leading to a teaching license, now our colleges would provide evidence that their candidates’ preparation included sufficient and appropriate opportunities to learn, practice, and to be assessed on the knowledge and skills described by each of the 140 SEPs as well as the content standards for each licensure area. (Full MACTE Minute)
One of the action items on your agenda this morning is of great interest to MACTE. You will review the framework for a redesigned system for evaluating teacher licensure programs. Previously, the system was called Professional Education Program Evaluation Report, or PEPER, and you have heard much about PEPER over the past few years. The redesign represents a shift from a system based primarily on inputs to one based on both inputs and outputs. Along with Board of Teaching staff, representatives of MACTE institutions have spent a great deal of time over the past year participating in the redesign effort. The purpose of the redesign work was to place an emphasis on candidate competence and performance data, while streamlining the reporting requirements for institutions. Both the Board of Teaching and MACTE want the data from the redesigned process in order to engage in continuous improvement for the benefit of Minnesota’s students. Although the basic structure is in place, the work is not yet done. See Full position statement.