Student Teaching Committee

Minutes for Sept. 15, 2003

 

Present: Joy Bartlett, Gretchen Irvine, Carol Knicker, Barbara West.

 

Establish Work Goals for 2003-2004

·      K-12 Partnerships formalize partnerships with specific schools; develop descriptions of the types of partnerships with each (using definitions from continuum); determine appropriate type of contract for the various types of partnerships.

• Evaluate 12 week single placement student teaching experience and 2.0 course minimum requirement and financial aid impact on various majors; impact DAY vs. WEC. Evaluate 12 week dual placements in art and music; are we able to be flexible with weeks, adding if needed and delaying second placements. Teacher response to various placements
• Explore Rochester programming: student teacher supervision; field experience placements; course offerings; participate in college decision-making process as needed.
• Barbara has already been in contact with a student who will most likely need to do his student teaching in Rochester due to transportation and health issues. Starting now to identify possible supervisors. Augsburg would administer one to two observations to assure compliance.

• Explore options for providing support for new teachers who have completed their programs at Augsburg.
• Carol has looked in to this and suggested bring Al Greenfield, a retired literacy specialist formerly connected with CFL. He is willing to come to conduct a 3 hour seminar. Homecoming was the ideal date, but too soon (Oct. 3-5) to publicize. We decided on a March 5, 2004 date.
• Develop a monitoring system for field experience and for ensuring that feedback is gathered and conveyed to the right people and places.

 

Seminar Evaluations

• In response to request to address issues of classroom management, it was suggested to use Blackboard as the platform to initiate discussion and examples. The favorite lesson that student teachers are asked to bring to the Oct. 24 seminar could also be shared at the Blackboard site, complete with outlines and description of activities so that all could print as desired.
• Reminder to identify cooperating teachers who are strong and continue to use them.

 

Petitions

            Brian Schmit – to student teach while completing 2 Winter Tri classes & 1 Spring Tri.

                        Response: Committee approved, with Brian’s student teaching start delayed to March 1-May 28 (one class will be done by mid-Feb.). If Brian is overwhelmed, he can always student teach 6 weeks in spring and 6 weeks in summer at Crosswinds. Committee especially wanted to convey to Brian that his proposal is outside the realms of Augsburg policy, that we make decisions on a case-by-case basis, and that he should not broadcast this decision to others as though it should be standard expectation for anyone. The extenuating circumstances in Brian’s case (excellent student, quit his job to complete program in 1-1/2 years) influenced our decision.

           

Chad Klopp – to student teach at Valley Middle where he currently works as an Assurance of Mastery instructor.

                        Response: All of Chad’s clinical experiences have been at this middle school, only 20 hours at Franklin Middle School. Committee decrees that he should student teach at least 2 hours/day at Apple Valley High School for the entire semester, then keep his job as EA at the middle school.

                        Note: Barbara has since learned that Chad is lacking 3 core courses (geography, sociology, political science), School & Society and Chemical Dependency. This was never mentioned when Chad requested his desire to stay at the middle school. This issue will be discussed at the next Student Teaching Committee meeting.

 

Student Teaching Applications Online

            Barbara will send the elementary and secondary applications to Joe Erickson to be put on the Education Dept. website.

 

Blackboard Assignments

• Suggests that seminar feedback be put on Blackboard as well as reminder about homework for Oct. 24 seminar

 

 

 

Student Teaching Committee

Minutes for October 13, 2003

 

Present: Joy Bartlett, Gretchen Irvine, Carol Knicker, Barbara West

 

Petitions

       Joseph Albright: to take PHY 103 and BIO 102 while student teaching this spring. PHY 103 is offered Winter Tri T-Th nights, 6-9p.m. The BIO 102 is offered Winter Tri Friday p.m. or he could enroll in an IDL (independent and distance learning) course at the U which starts 11/15/03. He is currently taking Soc St M.S. Methods, a .5 course, and Special Needs Learner.

 

 

         Stacy Gohman: to teach chemistry from her classroom at Eagan H.S. She has been hired on a limited license, and has glowing letters of recommendation from her principal and dept. chair. We have allowed this in the past, just need to review each case.

 

 

         Patrick Hook: to take ESE 311, Soc St Methods next fall while he student teaches. It is the only class he will have left, and is only offered in the fall. He had a job conflict this fall and didn’t realize the course was offered only once/year.

 

         Chad Klopp: to take geography, sociology, economics, School & Society, chemical dependency while student teaching. NO.

 

 

       Pamela LaManna: to take MAT 271 (math is her specialty field) Winter Tri while student teaching in spring. Advisor, Vicki Olson, supports.

 

         Brian Massie: to take the equivalence of Outdoor Education at MCTC while student teaching.

 

         Kim Nelson: to take PHY 103 in Winter Tri while student teaching. Lynn & Jeannine have worked with her trying to find alternatives, but nothing has worked. Her student teaching start date could be delayed to March 1.

 

         Kristine Nitti: to take ESE 325 CLE while student teaching. She was enrolled in the class this spring, but dropped it. Did not enroll this fall, taking School & Society instead.

 

 

 

 

         Josh Roots: to student teach before taking Special Needs Learner, offered Spring Tri (April 16 start). Also needs SPC 351 Argumentation, which is offered in the summer (this supports his Communication Arts specialty field), and finally, one lifetime fitness class, offered spring and summer.

 

 

 

         Mary Taris: to take PHY 103 while student teaching.

 

 

 

 

K-12 Partnerships

       Cedar Riverside, GEMS, EBD Licensure Program/St. Paul, REACH.

              Recommend that Seward replace REACH.

 

       Look at rankings of our “partner” schools and decide if any changes/additions need to be made.

 

 

 

 

Discuss Goals (from last month’s meeting)

 

Student Teaching Committee

November 10, 2003

 

Present: Joy Bartlett, Gretchen Irvine, Carol Knicker, Barbara West

 

Discussion of how to handle student appeals.

       Committee agrees that any appeal a student makes in response to the ruling on a petition by the Student Teaching Committee should be referred to the Dean’s office. It should not be referred to another arm of the Education Dept. It is also agreed that in “sticky” situations, the entire department, or at least the Department Chair should be made aware to assure that department policy is being followed.

      

NCATE Needs:

• Student Teaching Website
• Gretchen was given a copy of the items that are currently housed at the student teaching website. She suggested that any items which would provide explanation and example to our students be included, i.e., the descriptions that student teachers must provide in their portfolio of how they can measure student learning under their teaching.
• Should there be a link to NCATE documents

 

• Documentation of Student Learning
• This can’t be documented on a form because it will be a different scenario for every student teacher. Perhaps a paragraph describing how the student teacher assessed student learning.
• One example was given: In a sociology class, students are required to present oral reports (in groups of 5) on the major personalities, events and places they learned after studying a unit on the Civil Rights Movement. After each presentation to the class, the audience (comprised of 5 other groups of 5) must generate 3 questions of the reporting group (try to stump them). The students demonstrated keen listening and critical thinking skills, as well as provided their own grasp of the content learned in order to formulate the questions.

Partnerships and Placement Requests

            Barbara expressed the difficulty of finding placements for “problematic” or “weak” student teachers when we could not find a teacher that we had used before and knew s/he would provide the kind of support needed. This underlies the extreme need to get the supervision course for cooperating teachers reinstated. And it points to the timeliness of partnering with Eden Prairie School District, who also acknowledge this need and want to be a part of the planning and extension.

         Also, an extensive discussion of how we could identify sooner those students who do not wish to obtain teaching licensure. After the student teaching placement has been confirmed seems a bit late. As instructors, we should immediately conference with students when we hear or read them expressing a desire to complete the program without licensure, or that they just plain don’t want to teach.

 

FORGOT TO MENTION THE NEW POLICY FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS REQUIRED OF STUDENT TEACHERS BY R-A-V-E SCHOOL DISTRICT STARTING NEXT SEMESTER. THIS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE NEXT DEPT. MEETING.

 

ALSO NEED TO CLARIFY THE STIPEND THAT WILL BE PAID TO COOPERATING TEACHERS THIS SEMESTER AND NEXT.

 

 

Student Teaching Committee

February 9, 2004

 

Present: Joy Bartlett, Gretchen Irvine, Carol Knicker, Barbara West

 

I.            Student Teaching:

a.   When are students introduced to the expectations of student teaching?

- in Orientation

 

b.   How could seminars be improved?

-       Clear explanation at first meeting to identify student teachers that the seminar is required and part of the experience for which students are registering

-       Perhaps involve students in more of a leadership role in the seminar, i.e., let students lead discussions in the small groups

 

II.         Seminar for Cooperating Teachers

This just has to be made a priority! One of the “problematic” issues is that usually only the “good” teachers respond. Regardless, we need to try to get this back in place. Aim for Fall 2004, the Saturday before Labor Day Weekend, a 2 hour session.

              Send letter invitation to all teachers who have accepted a

student teacher for Fall 2004, require RSVP. Word this as an expectation for cooperating teachers. Send announcement with the Acceptance Letters that are mailed in May.

 

III.     Petitions

a.     Rochester supervision for Barb Purrier

- we need more response from Barb. Committee prefers the model of requiring student to meet us half way (Hastings) for Augsburg supervision in a 6 week placement, then allowing her to student teach the remaining 6 weeks in Rochester.

(Barbara West has received more information from Rick Thoni that the expectation has been for Rochester students to complete ALL of their student teaching there. The Education faculty voted to allow adjunct supervision in Rochester, but that one of our full-time faculty will make 1-2 observations to assure confidence in making recommendation for licensure).

b.     Student teaching half days

                                                 i.     Jennifer Waisanen

this will be allowed only if Jennifer has total control of classes for a minimum 8 weeks

 

                                                   ii.     Maren Macosko (teaching in a charter school)

Barbara has learned that Maren won’t be done with coursework, so this is no longer an issue

 

c.     Kathryn Bunkers (Middle School Methods)

Does not have the clinical hours

- she needs to be informed that the clinical hours for this course must be completed before she can student teach

d.     Pat Hook (Middle School Methods)

Has already met with Anne to complete the clinical hours

 

e.   Stephen Abenth (MAT 132)

- approved.

 

f.    Don Winston, math major (MAT 331)

Denied by Math Department

         However, after further discussion with Su Doree, who considered the other math courses that Don has taken elsewhere (he already has a B.A. and M.A. in math) that he could student teach successfully without the content of this course.

 

 

IV.          Abroad Student Teaching

a.   Jazz Burch – Spain

b.   Addie Lauter – Australia

c.    Chad Prigge? (he has decided not to)

 

V. Keith Scott

         - has withdrawn from his student teaching placement after being there 4 weeks due to health issues. Since he withdrew last fall for the same reasons, his “X” grades for student teaching will revert to “N”

 

VI. Revising the Evaluation Form for Cooperating Teachers

-       a title was provided

-       one redundant question was eliminated

-       the term “supervisor” was changed to “mentor”