Accountability: Finding Our Voice

Accountability: Finding Our Voice

Spring 2007 Conference

New YorkStateAssociation of Teacher Educators

New York Association of Colleges for

Teacher Education

Gideon Putman Resort & Spa

Saratoga Springs, New York

April 25-April 27, 2007

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The Spring 2007 Conference is dedicated to

Dr. Lucy DiPaola

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New YorkState Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE)

NYSATE is an individual membership organization of teacher educators from colleges and universities, elementary and secondary schools, and teacher centers and institutes committed to the highest quality teacher education in New YorkState. It is the state affiliate of the national Association of Teacher Educators (ATE).

Executive Board Officers

Jerry Rivera-Wilson, President —University at Albany, SUNY

Laura Dorow, Immediate Past President—UticaCollege

Nancy Dubetz, President Elect—LehmanCollege, CUNY

Godfrey Nwoke, Second Vice President—New York CityCollege of Technology, CUNY

Jane Domaracki, Secretary—University at Albany, SUNY

Roy Pellicano, Treasurer—MolloyCollege

Executive Board Members

Julius Gregg Adams,—St JohnFisherCollege

Alice Blake-Stalker—MedailleCollege

Jason Blokhuis,Student Rep.—University of Rochester

Alexandria Ross—LehmanCollege, CUNY

Karen Stearns—SUNY Cortland

Debra Thomas—Rockland Teacher Center Institute

Ralph Ware, Historian—SienaCollege

Lawrence Zoeckler—UticaCollege

New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE)

NYACTE is a statewide organization of public and independent colleges and universities with programs in teacher preparation. It is the state affiliate of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).

Executive Board Officers

Robert Michael, President—SUNY at New Paltz

Margaret Egan, Past President—College of MountSaint Vincent

Lois Fisch, President Elect —UticaCollege

Craig Hill, Executive Secretary—NazarethCollege

Annjanet Woodburn, Treasurer—Pace University

Board of Directors

Kate DaBoll-Lavoie—NazarethCollege

Annette Digby—LehmanCollege, CUNY

Suzanne Weber—SUNY Oswego

Cynthia Lassonde, Exelsior Journal Editor—SUNY Oneonta

NSATE & NYACTE would like to thank

Tk20 Comprehensive Systems for Outcomes-Based Assessment, Accountability, and Reporting

for providing funding for the cocktail hour on Thursday afternoon.

NYSATE/NYACTE

SPRING 2007CONFERENCE

Gideon Putnam Resort & Spa, Saratoga Springs, NY

Wednesday, April 25th

PRECONFERNCE WORKSHOP

This workshop is designed for the new TEACH Online Services user or users who want to learn more about TEACH. Attendees will see an overview of the entire certification process including student self-registration, application, and payment; as well as the college recommendation process (both individual and bulk recommendation); and how both processes relate to program registration and the Inventory of Registered Programs. We will also demonstrate how to find information on students’ certification and how to assist students in finding their own information in TEACH.
We will review procedures for updating who is authorized as a TEACH college user (adding/ deleting users for your institution) and provide a brief overview of the Office of Teaching Initiatives’ Web site resources, including a new online tutorial for applicants. A question and answer period will follow.
Presenters: Robert G. Bentley, Executive Director of the Office of Teaching Initiatives; Deborah Horton, Processing Manager, Office of Teaching Initiatives; Jenese Gaston, OTI Web Master and TEACH Trainer
9:30-10:00
10:00-12:00
12:00-1:00
1:00-3:00 / Registration and Coffee
Preconference Meeting
LUNCH
Preconference Meeting, continued / Veranda
Orenda
Arches
Orenda
NYSATE and NYACTE Board Meetings
5:00PM / NYSATE Board Meeting
NYACTE Board Meeting / Sun
Red
6:30-8:00 / NYSATE & NYACTE Boards – Joint Dinner Meeting / Estate

Thursday, April 26th

8:00-9:00 / Registration and Continental Breakfast / Veranda
9:00-10:30 / General Session:
Welcome, Opening Remarks
Jerry Rivera-Wilson, President, NYSATE
Robert Michael, President, NYACTE
Introduction to Keynote: Lois Fisch, President-Elect, NYACTE
Keynote Address: “Six Degrees of Preparation”
Brooke Haycock, The Education Trust
This performance offers an intimate look at issues of teacherpreparation, support and retention. Based on more than 300 interviews with teachers, teacher educators, teacher leaders, and students, Six Degrees examines belief structures in schools, districts, and schools of education, and the stunning impact they have on new teachers and the children they serve. / Ballroom
10:30 / Refreshment Break / Veranda
10:45-11:30 / Concurrent Paper Sessions
Lessons Learned: Using Data to Improve Teacher Education Programs
Betsy Balzano, SUNY Brockport, Karen Bell, SUNY New Paltz, Joanne Curran,SUNY Oneonta, Christine Givner, SUNY Fredonia, Virginia Goatley, SUNY Albany, Shawn Van Etten, SUNY Cortland, and Suzanne Weber, SUNY Oswego
Presenters from institutions across the state will describe how they made data-driven program improvements to address candidate performance issues based on common evaluation instruments –- NYSTCE scores, student teaching evaluations, teacher work samples, disposition rubrics, and graduate surveys. Participants will have opportunities to talk one-on-one to presenters and get handouts at the follow up poster session. / Ballroom
The Voice of Annie Moore: A Lesson in Historical Storytelling
Mia Mercurio, Jeanne Peloso, & Abigail McNamee, LehmanCollege, CUNY
Teaching history in a world of high stakes, standardized testing has never been more difficult or more necessary than it is today. School-age children in the United States, and more specifically, in New York City are losing the very stories, traditions, and histories that have made New York City what it is today. Recently, the authentic genealogy of Annie Moore, an Irish teenager and the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island in New York City, came to light. The group will present the true story of Annie Moore as an example of historical storytelling. / Estate
10:45-11:30 / Thursday, April 26th ~ Concurrent Paper Sessions, continued
Planning, Coordinating, and Implementing a Two-Year, Multi-Section, On-line Teacher Preparation Program
Linda Vereline, Jon Green, Kara Imm, Rita Silverman, & Roberta Weiner,
Pace University
Five PaceUniversity faculty will describe the early findings from their work with a cohort of 900 Teach For America corps members who are completing a two year certificate or Masters’ program. The program is unique in several respects. First, much of the course work is presented on-line. Second, the content of several traditional “stand alone” courses was integrated to expose students to essential information early in their teaching. Third, students met with their on-line instructors for a day-long class, one Saturday a month. Additionally, full-time and adjunct faculty teaching the on-line/Saturday courses planned the courses collaboratively. / Sun
Sustaining College/Public School Partnerships
Patricia Tempesta, IthacaCollege
A successful ten year partnership between an upstate college and an urban, minority public school in New York City will be examined to identify key factors leading to sustained success. Specific components of this successful partnership will be examined to see how they work together to produce quality experiences for students and faculty from both institutions. The five most important elements of success in building college/public school partnerships and the five key areas that must be addressed for sustained success will be discussed. / Red
11:45-12:30 / Concurrent Paper Sessions
Lessons Learned (Continued): Using Data to Improve Teacher Education Programs (Poster Session)
Betsy Balzano, SUNY Brockport, Karen Bell, SUNY New Paltz, Joanne Curran,SUNY Oneonta, Christine Givner, SUNY Fredonia, Virginia Goatley, SUNY Albany, Shawn Van Etten, SUNY Cortland, and Suzanne Weber, SUNY Oswego
Participants will have opportunities to talk one-on-one to presenters and get handouts at this poster session organized around common candidate performance assessment instruments –- NYSTCE scores, student teaching evaluations, teacher work samples, disposition rubrics, and graduate surveys. / Ballroom
Finding Our Voice: Music for Social Justice in Teacher Education
Penny Prince, LehmanCollege, CUNY
The challenge of integrating themes of social justice in arts education is an enormous one today. In New York City, our students come to us from a vast range of cultural and experiential backgrounds. How can we help build a community where sensitivity to and acceptance of others are deeply held values? One place to begin is in pre-service education programs, where elementary education students are routinely enrolled in music methods classes. The purpose of this paper is to explore precisely why music offers a compelling path toward social justice, and how college methods courses can embrace this challenge. / Estate
11:45-12:30 / Thursday, April 26th ~ Concurrent Paper Sessions, continued
12:45-1:45 / Luncheon &Presentation of the Appleby Award
2007 Appleby Award Recipient: Paul Vermette, NiagaraUniversity, President of NYSATE from 1992 to 1993
Presentation of the Award: Laura Dorow,UticaCollege
The Appleby Award
The R. Neal Appleby Outstanding Teacher Educator Award is given each year by the New York State Association of Teacher Educators to one or more teacher educators who exhibit characteristics by which Neal Appleby is remembered by his colleagues and friends. The award is presented at the Spring Conference.
Neal Appleby was an educator of teachers for twenty years at SyracuseUniversity, until his untimely death in 1993. He was a Renaissance man who loved people, ideas, activities, and teaching. He was concerned with all his students as persons, and he strove for their whole development. Neal was a happy, warm, friendly, caring person who took time to talk to people. Perhaps more importantly, Neal took time to listen. His students spoke of him as a special kind of person who deeply loved teaching and who conveyed that love to all with whom he worked.
The R. Neal Appleby Outstanding Teacher Educator Award recognizes individuals who have worked to nurture the intellectual, personal, and professional growth and development of teachers at various stages of their professional lives. The selection criteria are based on the Standards for Teacher Educators published by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE). These seven standards, along with suggested indicators and sources of evidence, are available on ATE’s website at / Arches
2:00-2:45 / Thursday, April 26th ~ General Session
Environmental Education in K-12 Teacher Education
Mary Leou, New YorkUniversity
Beth Shiner Klein, SUNY Cortland
Mike Zamm, Council on the Environment of New York City
TEEP (Teacher Environmental Education Preparation) is a statewide initiative in support of environmental education in teacher education programs in NYS. This session will provide an overview of efforts currently underway to increase environmental education in K-12 pre-service programs. Participants will learn about resources and methods that effectively foster environmental literacy as part of K-12 teacher preparation. / Conference Ballroom
3:00-3:45 / Concurrent Paper Sessions
Update of NYSED Report on Teacher Supply and Demand
Nancy Willie-Schiff, Special Projects Director, NYSED
A review of the New York State Education Department’s second annual report on teacher supply and demand—which reflects NYSATE/NYACTE comments on the first annual report—and related issues in teacher education in New York State. / Hathorne/
Coesa
“And Nothing to Lose”: Multicultural Stories for Second Language Learners: A Resource Guide
John Travers, St. JohnFisherCollege
“And Nothing To Lose” is a resource guide developed through an NYSED grant and is designed to provide students with multicultural folktales and accompanying illustrations that complement the narrative texts. This workshop will describe the design of the guide, and share strategies for using the materials in a variety of contexts. Currently, these narratives are being explored in educational leadership courses, but the prospects of mining the metaphorical insights to construct and reconstruct ideas and issues in other disciplines are near limitless. At the conclusion of the session, a CD-Rom version of the entire collection of stories will be distributed. / Estate
Supporting Teacher Collaboration in Middle School Mathematics Inclusive Classrooms
Janet DeSimone, LehmanCollege, CUNY
This paper focuses on professional collaboration, which is an integral component in successful mathematics inclusion instruction for middle school students with special learning needs. Collaboration between mathematics teachers, special educators, para-professionals, and administrators, as well as effective co-teaching models will be discussed. Strategies for promoting team instruction, creating shared ownership in classrooms, and negotiating instructional differences between general and special educators co-teaching in middle school mathematics classrooms will be offered. Ways in which both administrators and teacher education programs can support and encourage effective co-teaching relationships will also be examined. / Red
3:00-3:45 / Thursday, April 26th ~ Concurrent Paper Sessions, continued
Why I Hate Curriculum Mapping: Comments on the Pedagogical
Tensions Created by its Use
James Carpenter,BinghamtonUniversity
The author will discuss how curriculum mapping is often misused in ways that can limit the professional development of teachers. Using evidence obtained from district sources and from individual teachers, he will demonstrate how in these instances mapping is not being used in the manner espoused by advocates of the strategy. Too often this misuse can coerce teachers to follow rigid curricular and pedagogical decisions that rob them of their creative authority. / Sun
4:00-4:45 / Concurrent Roundtable Sessions
Roundtable 1
National Board Certification and the Potential for Improving Teacher Preparation Programs
Judy Morley,UnionGraduateCollege
Following a short overview of the components of Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, roundtable participants will be invited to complete a survey of their understanding of the domains of the teaching profession. Using the survey results as a discussion guide, facilitators and participants will then discuss the connection between the components of those domains and the Five Core Propositions of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Conversation will then shift to the use of the National Board standards as a possible framework upon which to modify teacher education programs.
Roundtable 2
Armstrong’s Best Schools Implications for Teacher Education
Paul Vermette , Niagara University, James Shuman, St. Lawrence University, Barb Iannarelli, Niagara University, Frank Pickus, Gloversville School District, & Gary DeBolt , Roberts Wesleyan College
This session will be slightly different from traditional roundtables; althougheach panelist will stake out his or her position on the issue of what Armstrong’s new book says to teacher education, audience participation is essential. There will be a lengthy segment of small group discussion, led by the panelists, and whole-group debriefing. / Orenda/
Geyser
4:00-4:45 / Thursday April 26th ~ Concurrent Roundtable Sessions, continued
Roundtable 3
The LehmanCollege Learning Institutes: Jump Starting Learning in the Neediest Students
Mary K. Sanford, Lehman College CUNY
The session will focus on The Lehman College Summer Institute’s individualized model of diagnostic and prescriptive teaching. The presenters will be faculty members who administer these mini learning clinics in three public schools, where the most severely delayed children are targeted for intensive assistance from students in the college’s Graduate Program in Special Education. An important feature of the program is the daily supervision, coaching and mentoring of teachers by GraduateSchool faculty. Discussion will highlight children’s progress, as well as accounts of graduate students’ experiences over the course of the program.
Roundtable 4
Forms of On-Site Observation Assessments
Thelma Baxter & August Nicoletti, ManhattanCollege
This presentation will have a roundtable format that will focus on professional practice for educators who work with pre-service teachers. The CRESS Model (conversation, reflection, environmental analysis, site-review) developed at ManhattanCollege will be presented to those instructors who are engaged in teaching educational foundation courses and educational courses which require school observation hours. For further dialogue participants are encouraged to present their own assessment models.
Roundtable 5
Thoughtful Teaching
Gary DeBolt, Roberts Wesleyan College, Mark LaCelle-Peterson, Houghton College,Ralph Ware, Sienna College, Paul Vermette, Niagara University,Cathy Leogrande, LeMoyne College, & Mary Beth Scumaci, Medaille College
Several years ago, Christopher Clark spoke to NYSATE about his book entitled Thoughtful Teaching. Clark urged us to consider thoughtful teaching on two levels. The first, reminds us that teaching is an intellectual enterprise that demands a great deal of thought, in the classical sense. The second sense of "thoughtful" is closer to our use of the word to describe a person as being thoughtful. This means to be considerate of others and their feelings. At this round table, a panel of teacher educators will share some reflections about efforts to encourage ourselves and our students to be "thoughtful teachers". / Orenda, Gueyser
4:00-4:45 / Thursday, April 26th ~ Concurrent Roundtable Sessions, continued
Roundtable 6
Combining Voices to Advocate for Field Experience
Diane Maurer, SUNY Brockport, Linda Hefti, SUNY Oswego, Amy Guiney, SUNY Potsdam, Rita Rosenberg, SUNY Cortland
Field experience and student teaching placements are critical components of teacher education programs. Yet, challenges grow each year as placement competition continues, and regulatory mandates increase. In February 2004, the SUNY Field Experience Administrators Consortium was formed to collaborate on issues related to field work in teacher education. SUNYFEAC members will briefly present background about why and how the group evolved, collaborative initiatives undertaken, and the benefits of such collaboration. / Orenda/
Gueyser
4:00-4:45 / Concurrent Paper Sessions
Negotiating Academic Freedom and Maintaining Program Distinctiveness in the Context of Accreditation, Assessment and Accountability
Wendy Paterson, BuffaloState College
Teacher education programs are no strangers to the rigors of evaluation. Teacher Education programs at Buffalo State College have been continuously accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) since its first reviews in 1954. Though teacher educators do not fear the size or scope of the yardstick by which we are measured, in recent years we have noticed an escalation of external control that impacts not just what can be taught for teacher preparation, but what must be taught. This presentation takes a critical look at the impact of standards-based assessment, accreditation and accountability on academic freedom and program distinctiveness. / Sun

Thursday, April 26th Evening Schedule