Fall Meeting and Congress

Fall Meeting, Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Fall Congress, Thursday & Friday, October 28-29, 2010

The Fall, 2010 Congress will continue to focus attention on "Rethinking Schooling."  The congress will explore new ways to provide P-12 education and implications for the preparation of Minnesota's teachers for the next decade.

 

Kathleen Paliokas, CCSSO

The InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards (Click for CCSSO InTASC website) 

 

Congress Special Session, Thursday, October 28, 4-6 p.m.

Amended Program Standards - Reading
Maureen Prenn, Minnesota State-Mankato
Gail Jordan, Bethel University
Michelle Page, University of Minnesota-Morris
Jane Anderson, St. Mary's University

Click here for the presentation PowerPoint

 

$85.00 per day 

Location:  Crowne Plaza Minneapolis North
2200 Freeway Boulevard, Brooklyn Park, MN
(763) 566-8000 or (800) 481-3556

Crowne Plaza Hotel reservation

 

Fall Meeting Agenda  (click for PDF)

Congress Agenda (click for PDF)

 

Breakout session topics include:

• Naadamaadawin Tribal Licensure Program:  A Collaborative On-line Approach to Reaching Non-traditional Students. Trudie Hughes, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Susan O'Connor, Donna Patterson, Dana Wagner, Augsburg College
• Discerning theEmerging Skills of Cultural Competency in Pre-Service Teachers.  Steve Jongewaard and Letitia Basford, Hamline University
• Teacher Self-Efficacy:  Does it Really Matter?  Kevin Mackin, College of Saint Scholastica
  
• Would a More Diverse Teaching Force Help Close the Achievement Gap?  Steven Kaatz, Bethel University
  
• Birds Flock, Fish School, but Colleagues "Tribe."  Success in academe reflects the strength of its colleagues in workgroup-based "tribes" as revealed through their language and behavior.  Richard Bowman, Winona State University
• University-School Collaboration to Support Culturally Responsive Teaching Practice. Anne Dahlman, Patricia Hoffman, Maurella Cunningham, Minnesota State University, Mankato
  
• A Native Teacher Training Program at a Catholic College.  Valerie Tanner, College of Saint Scholastica
  
• A Critical Inquiry, Arts-based Instructional Design for the Year of Water. Lynn Brice and Jiyoon Yoon, University of Minneasota-Duluth
• Walk the Talk: Community Based Learning.  Molly Minnikkinen, University of Minnesota-Duluth
  

 

 Keynote Address

New Standards for New Times:  The InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards
Kathleen Paliokas, Direcor for the Council of chief State School Officers, Washington, D.C.
Thursday, October 28, 9:15 - 10:30

The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers, has revised the Model Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Devlopment that were first introduced in 1992 and later used as the model for the Minnesota's Standards of Effective Practice for Teachers (MSEPT).  Describing of a common core of teaching knowledge and skills that cut across all subject areas and grade levels, their purpose is to outline what all teachers should know and be able to do if they are to help all their students reach the goal of being college and career ready in today's world.

Ms. Paliokas serves as program director for the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington, D.C.  In that capacity she guides the development of the Model Core Teaching Standards.  She completed her baccalaureate at the University of Virginia in American Government, her master of arts in Cinema Studies from New York University, and her Juris Doctor from the Marshall Wythe Law School of the college of William and Mary.

Why do legislators think that way? What to expect on teacher education policy for the 2011 legislative Session.  
Carlos Mariani, Minnesota
House of Representatives
Friday, October 29, 9:15-10:30 a.m. 

Representative Carlos Mariani will share his perspective and insights on the current thinking and focus of the legislature around issues and challenges in education.  The implications for the community of teacher educators will be discussed.

Value-Added Methodologies Used in Teacher Performance Assessment
David Heistad, Executive Director, Research, Evaluation, and Assessment
Minneapolis Public Schools
Friday, October 29, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

This talk will provide a basic overview of value-added statistical methods used in measuring teacher effectiveness.  Examples of how these methods are used in Minneapolis Public Schools will be discussed.  Issues related to value-added methodologies will be addressed through discussion.

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The Spring Meeting was held on April 22 and the Spring Collaboration was held on April 23.  Resources from some of the speakers are available below.

MDE Update - John Melick

BOT Update - Karen Balmer

Greetings!  We hope that you enjoyed the first meeting in our Literacy Teacher Educator Series and that you will join us for the second meeting—to be held on Tuesday, January 27^th, 2009 from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Bethel University (the Eastland Room in the Academic Center).  The topic of our second meeting is “Preparing Teachers to Teach Reading in K-12 Schools:  Redesigning Preparation Programs & Continuing Professional Development.”   Dr. Alan Farstrup, Executive Director of the International Reading Association, will be our featured speaker.   After Dr. Farstrup speaks, we will examine our course syllabi in light of the research and newly proposed BOT standards, and discuss strengths and areas of concern re: course content, assignments, and assessments.  In essence, the January 2009 meeting kicks off several linked sessions where we will work together on the best ways to prepare teachers at the preservice level (early childhood, K-6 and 7-12).

 Please bring the following materials to our Tuesday, January 27^th meeting:

1.  Two copies of your preservice literacy course syllabi (reading, writing, language arts, children’s lit.) for early childhood, elementary, middle and secondary content reading courses (you will use one copy during the workshop and we’d like to retain one copy of all syllabi for a master file, please.)

 

2.  The notebook of materials you received at the Nov. 21^st Literacy Educators Meeting—we will use the 2010 IRA standards and the proposed BOT standards from this notebook as well as refer to other documents; we will also provide other items for you to place into the notebook for use at future meetings

 

If you have any questions about the Tuesday, January 27^th meeting, please contact me as soon as possible.  Because this meeting is an invitation only/RSVP event, we are not able to accommodate additional guests other than those pre-registered and confirmed.  Please email me by January 16,^th  2009 if you are able to attend our second meeting.

 

I look forward to seeing you very soon.

 

Sincerely,

Deborah Dillon

dillon@umn.edu

Guy Bond Chair in Reading

  & Professor of Literacy Education

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

330B  Peik Hall, 159 Pillsbury Dr. S. E.

Curriculum & Instruction Department

College of Education & Human Development

Minneapolis, MN 55455  

PH: 952.944.2142  

 

 

Changes for the Future

• Collaboration & strategic partnerships
• Capitalizing on online opportunities keeping a balance with traditional discourse
• Recruiting/retaining a culturally competent teaching force
• Quality through collaboration in professional learning communities
• Pre-K through adult
• Re-establish a common purpose for education
• Expanding learning platforms
• Impacts of economic disparity
• International partners
• Teacher is the core for change
• Need for policy and leadership initiatives: Teachers as leaders
• Conceptualize & discuss the achievement gap differently
• Local teaching for global awareness
• Unleashing human potential
• Partner w/ state & national legislators
• Focus on needs of individuals

Each year MACTE's executive committee sets goals. Accomplishments for the year are generally reviewed the following spring. The following attachments include goals set since 2002. Also included is the 30th year celebratory powerpoint presentation as shown in 2003.

Meeting minutes from most fall, winter and spring meetings.

Meeting Agendas from 2001- 2007 for fall, winter and spring.

Teacher Education Congress Agendas: Fall 2000- Winter 2007