Winter Meeting
Friday, February 12, 2010 |
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2010 Winter Meeting Agenda Location: Crowne Plaza, 2200 Freeway Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN Registration is now open. 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Five-minute Updates
10:15-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-10:50 a.m. MACTE Day on the Hill 10:50-11:35 a.m. Table Discussions - Rule-making Revision 8700.7600 11:35-11:45 a.m. Set up caucus process
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:15 p.m. Caucus discussions & elections 1:15 - 1:30 p.m. Caucus report outs 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. BOT update from Louise Wilson 1:45 - 2:00 p.m. Bush Foundation and educational initiatives update 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Licensure updates from John Melick 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. BOT update from Karen Balmer
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.
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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. |
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.