Department of Special Education

Department Meeting 2-27-13

In attendance: Casey, Katy; Collet-Klingenberg, Lana; DeVore, Simone; Gordon, David; Gwalla-Ogisi, Nomsa; Jewell, Kelly; Kolb, Sharon; Lindahl, Lynn; Robinson, Rowand; Schultz, Tia; Stuart, Shannon; Toms-Williams, Ozalle; Troemel, Eileen; Mai Yang, Cindy Konrad, Benson, Marie

1.  Announcements

  1. Approve minutes
  2. Moved – Katy Casey
  3. 2nd – Shannon Stuart
  4. Passed unanimously

2.  Academic and Student Affairs

  1. Cindy and Mai will be visiting (15 min)
  2. Warhawk Connection Center
  3. Home to all residence groups
  4. Half in student affairs and half in academic affairs
  5. Provide advice on diversity issues
  6. Will have 4 – 8 internships that would be good in students with leadership skills
  7. Undergrad positions with a stipend

3.  Announcement continued

  1. SCEC – Katy
  2. Katy is stepping down as the faculty advisor. Please see her if you want to take it over. More of a mentorship role …
  3. Shannon might be interested in taking this on.
  4. Second assessment class – always trained them on Woodcock Johnson which hasn’t been updated since the late 90s. They WIATT has been used more often. What does everyone think about switching from WJ to WIATT
  5. Some of the schools have weighed in that they are buying WIATT rather than WJ.
  6. Would buy the electronic version of the WIATT
  7. Unanimous agreement
  8. Advising forms – hand out checklist for advisors
  9. Student Awards – Rowand
  10. Amy would like to take a hiatus from planning this – please let Rowand and Amy know.

4.  edTPA

  1. Marie is our edTPA coordinator in the college – she is the disseminator of information from the state to college. She needs to know what departments are doing because it goes into reports.
  2. Started the pilot with four students
  3. They are not getting a lot of hand holding so they are a little stressed about it.
  4. Starting to get a lot of rich information from cooperative teachers and student candidates about where there are gaps and where we are excelling
  5. Nomsa, Kelly and Rowand met to talk about moving forward with edTPA.
  6. We are going to pick 10 – 12 students for edTPA in the fall. It will not be voluntary
  7. Spring of 14 will likely go live with edTPA – just rolling out the whole thing. The college has to go live with Fall 14
  8. National scores will be released this summer.
  9. Tammy and other people are coming to us asking for feedback.
  10. If we go live there are 500 unit credits (prior to being consequential). If we say we are field testing it – we will be able to get live scoring.
  11. There is national scoring and local evaluation scoring
  12. Training – last week
  13. Looked at real components and evaluated them based on the rubrics provided by Pearson.
  14. In the state of Wisconsin – one specific for Special Education – so there will be an evaluation across the state for Spec Ed only.
  15. Regional meeting for training for special ed specifically
  16. National scoring – just get the score back. If they are done locally as well – we will get more feedback concerning curriculum and so on.
  17. Rowand and Kelly are the only two in the university and state who are trained in the Speced handbook
  18. All DPI requires we substantiate that they are proficient in all of the 10 core standards
  19. edTPA hits 7 of the standards
  20. Portfolio and edTPA is too much for students to do
  21. edTPA asked for them to do some assessment in every lesson - nationally this is an area where students struggle
  22. Students have to spend a school semester (based on the school semester not UW semester) performing this – the hours are used for reports and administrative purposes
  23. When do we make our edTPA deadline. Students submit their material and then get a score – so when is best to set the deadline – early so they can get feedback and make changes or later so they are more settled in the placement.
  24. Bigger decisions need to be made about deadlines, platforms, and so on. The college is coming to Spec Ed for our viewpoint.
  25. Different levels of passing / no passing
  26. Once the four student candidates go through – Kelly and Cheryl will go through and nationally score them. We will walk through one of their examples.
  27. We will put on a mini training if need be for our faculty
  28. We need to get the other departments on board – the college needs to push that.
  29. DPI has not put anything in writing yet. We need to make sure we are covering all the requirements as they are written.
  30. This is why Kathy Cullen is being brought in to collaborate with us.
  31. Next steps
  32. Try to get stipends for our department to revamp our curriculum – in May hopefully – 480, 470, 380, and we will see where we go from there
  33. We have to determine where we are going to do mini edTPA – it might be good to do in 410 or 485
  34. Group of faculty to participate in the week long sessions of revamping this
  35. Local evaluation training – getting as many of us trained as possible
  36. Kelly will send link for national handbook – please give feedback on the national link.

5.  Questions

6.  Move to adjourn Kelly Jewell 2nd Tia Schultz