Facilitators: Beverly Cox and Kevin Sue Bailey
Recorder: Margaret Manuzzi
Solutions & Actions - download in print-friendly format
Based on what is happening currently to prepare new teachers …
- What should we be doing?
- Who should be doing this?
- How should this be accomplished?
Discussion notes
Significant Issues From Morning Discussions
- Need to understand all writing components and the writing process.
- Need to use instructional and management strategies to teach writing effectively, efficiently, and creatively.
- Must provide writing instructional strategies as well prepare pre-service teachers for the unrealistic and overwhelming experience of too many kids and too short of time.
Transcript
- What should we be doing?
- Universities need to hold standards that students leaving their institutions have adequate oral and written communication skills.
- There needs to be a communication network of higher ed professionals who are evaluating student experiences (exit interviews, pre-service teacher “host schools,” etc.)
- What are the foundation pieces for pre-service teachers?
- NCATE standards are what higher ed holds themselves accountable to.
- Accreditation drives data collection and policy.
- What needs to be done in all universities to prepare students?
- How do we monitor pre-service teachers in their in-service experiences?
- How do we create accountability for all Indiana universities for their student teachers?
- How does the funding for mentor programs become “reinstated” and continued.
- Who needs to take ownership of making these changes?
- Legislators on education committee and others
- IDoE
- Conference hosts should convene a network of university literacy stakeholders to address the issues raised today.
- How should this be accomplished?
- Determine what kind of data should be collected
- How data should it be compiled, sorted, and communicated
- Pre-service teachers should have multiple pre-service experiences in actual classrooms beginning in the first university year
SOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS - PRESENTED
- Teacher educators need to “hold the line” so that pre-service teachers master a high standard of the following:
- Skills as a writer
- Writing process
- Writing conventions
- Instructional strategies
- There should be multiple assessments of pre-service teachers in various field experiences over several semester by university instructors
- In person
- Via CD/DVDs
- Cooperating teachers/other trained evaluators.
- Conference hosts should convene a network of university literacy stakeholders to address the issues raised today.
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