Spring CAEP WorkshopClinical Partnerships and Practices

Standard 2Hope College

March 26, 2015

• Align and sequence clinical experiences for vertical coherence.• Create immersive clinical experiences for horizontal coherence.• Develop a strategic plan for faculty to guide clinical experiences.• Maintain duration of clinical experience during student teaching.• Increase the duration of clinical experiences in the BS in

Education, especially within Secondary program.• Offer clinical experiences in a variety of sites and learning

environments using culturally responsive and place-based pedagogy.

Teacher Preparation Task Force Recommendations for Clinical Experiences

Standard 2: Clinical Partnership and Practice

The provider ensures that effective partnerships and high-quality clinical practice are central to preparation so that candidates develop the knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development.

Partnerships for Clinical PreparationDevelopment of partnerships between P-12 schools and CMU clinical experiences at both the pre-student teaching and student teaching levels. Major partnerships should be well-planned with collaboration between the P-12 schools, CMU and other interested entities.

• Develop Advisory Teams • Education/Resources/Research• Goals for Both/All Partners• Formulize Partnership• Develop Action Plan• Identify Liaison between University and P-12 School• Examples of St. Johns Public Schools and Immokalee, FL

Clinical EducatorsProfessional development for university coordinators and mentor teachers to include:

• Co-teaching model• Student teacher assessment/inter-rater reliability• P-12 student achievement• Program expectations• Public relations.

Develop plan to infuse more tenure-track faculty into supervision of students in clinical experiences to create a stronger relationship between pedagogy and field work.

Clinical ExperiencesCurriculum mapping be done in various parts of the clinical experiences to include collaboration:

• Between secondary methods courses and EDU 325 – Secondary Methods

• Between the TEPD methods courses• Between the university coordinators teaching EDU 432 – Seminar in

Student Teaching

• All departments within the PEU develop a plan to infuse a minimum of 60-80 hours of planned clinical experiences within their professional education methods coursework.

• Secondary departments make EDU 325 a pre- or co-requisite for the departmental subject matters methods course.

Referenceshttp://oacte.org/pdf/ClinicalPrepPaper_03-11-2010.pdf The Clinical Preparation of Teachers: A Policy Brief from AACTE

http://www.ncate.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zzeiB1OoqPk%3D&tabid=7 Transforming Teacher Education Through Clinical Practice: A National Strategy to Prepare Effective Teachers – Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning

https://caepnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/breakout_iv_designing_and_implementing_a_clinical_model_henning.pdf

Referenceshttp://www.stcloudstate.edu/soe/coteaching/ Academy for Co-Teaching and Collaboration – St. Cloud State University

http://www.aascu.org/uploadedFiles/AASCU/Content/Root/Programs/TeacherEducation/07_st_cloud.pdf N Bacharach, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

http://caepnet.org/standards/standards/standard2/standard-2-rationale/ Standard 2: Rationale, Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, Washington, D.C.