Friday Memo: October 27, 2017
MACTE Conference
On October 23-25, Susan, Alicia,and I attended the MACTE Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks. Amy Zielinski from Fox School District attended with us and presented with Susan on our Win-Win partnership with the Fox School District. Additional notes from the conference have been added to the Ed Division PD Canvas shell. Particular items of interest were surrounding information related to the Annual Performance Report and an alternative to CAEP accreditation. This coming year's APR will not include programs being separated by tier. Programs will either be accredited, provisionally accredited, or not accredited. However, due to the infancy of the APR, all programs will be identified as accredited until 2020. We were also presented with a new educator preparation accreditation option - AAQEP. Click here for more information. MBU will continue pursuing CAEP accreditation, but it is certainly interesting to know that an alternative option might be available. Click here for links to MACTE presentations.
R3
Remarkable Reflection Reader - R3 - Award goes to Alicia Noddings!!!!
Congratulations to Dr. Noddings for being a remarkable reflection reader. Many of you have embedded MoSPE standard reflections as assignments in your class. I will periodically award faculty members who are excellently supporting students as they submit reflection assignments in your class. Dr. Noddings teaches students how to write the standard reflection and then supports them with feedback and opportunities to perfect their reflections. This supports our students immensely as they proceed through the program, perfecting their portfolios and developing as an educator. Thanks, Dr. Noddings, for doing such a great job supporting students as they write their reflection in your class. We will spend some time in an upcoming faculty meeting sharing ways in which we can all support our students as they write their standard reflections.
Historical Society Chapel
On Thursday the St. Louis Historical Society awards were presented during chapel. Dr. Dykstra was the Master of Ceremonies and Mrs. Pat Lacey received an award for Fine Arts.
Submitted by Mark Engelhart
Students are demonstrating the presentation /lecture instructional strategy. The topic was the experimental method. They began with a pre-test using the Kahoots website. They then gave a PowerPoint presentation over the steps in the experimental method. Next they conducted an experiment on the surface tension of water at three different temperatures using a cotton ball and timing how long it took to be completely submerged. The data was collected and compiled on the white board. The class was asked to draw conclusions from the data. Lastly, a post test was given using the Kahoots website.
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Upcoming Meetings
October 31: Directors' Meeting (initial certification directors only) at 10:15 a.m. in FLD 115
November 14: Education Faculty Meeting at 10:15 a.m. in FLD 115
Closing Thoughts
The keynote speakers at MACTE were researchers from the Regional Education Laboratory at Marzano Research. As noted on REL central's website, David Yanoski and Marc Brodersen shared results from a research study conducted to "analyze teachers' perceptions of feedback provided as part of their district's evaluation system as well as their ratings of the importance of various characteristics of feedback in their response to feedback. The study team then explored how characteristics of feedback and response to feedback are interrelated."
The speakers related this study to the work we do with teacher, leader, and counselor candidates. The research indicated that evaluator credibility and specific and frequent feedback are the two indicators that lead teachers to implement suggestions from evaluation sessions.
My challenge for you this week is for you to provide specific and frequent feedback to your students, whether you are evaluating them during a practicum or grading an assignment. I understand that doing so is time consuming, but research shows that your credibility and your specific and frequent feedback leads to change. Hopefully, your students find you to be a credible evaluator based on your educational and professional experiences. You have control daily over how specific and frequent your feedback is to students. Both specificity and frequency of feedback are important. Students see right through your "Good Job" feedback. This type of feedback is not specific. Please be more specific. Your students deserve to know your professional opinion about their specific performance. And the frequency of your feedback is just as important. Your students deserve to hear from you - often!!!!
Thanks for all you do to guide your students. You make a difference!
On October 23-25, Susan, Alicia,and I attended the MACTE Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks. Amy Zielinski from Fox School District attended with us and presented with Susan on our Win-Win partnership with the Fox School District. Additional notes from the conference have been added to the Ed Division PD Canvas shell. Particular items of interest were surrounding information related to the Annual Performance Report and an alternative to CAEP accreditation. This coming year's APR will not include programs being separated by tier. Programs will either be accredited, provisionally accredited, or not accredited. However, due to the infancy of the APR, all programs will be identified as accredited until 2020. We were also presented with a new educator preparation accreditation option - AAQEP. Click here for more information. MBU will continue pursuing CAEP accreditation, but it is certainly interesting to know that an alternative option might be available. Click here for links to MACTE presentations.
R3
Remarkable Reflection Reader - R3 - Award goes to Alicia Noddings!!!!
Congratulations to Dr. Noddings for being a remarkable reflection reader. Many of you have embedded MoSPE standard reflections as assignments in your class. I will periodically award faculty members who are excellently supporting students as they submit reflection assignments in your class. Dr. Noddings teaches students how to write the standard reflection and then supports them with feedback and opportunities to perfect their reflections. This supports our students immensely as they proceed through the program, perfecting their portfolios and developing as an educator. Thanks, Dr. Noddings, for doing such a great job supporting students as they write their reflection in your class. We will spend some time in an upcoming faculty meeting sharing ways in which we can all support our students as they write their standard reflections.
Historical Society Chapel
On Thursday the St. Louis Historical Society awards were presented during chapel. Dr. Dykstra was the Master of Ceremonies and Mrs. Pat Lacey received an award for Fine Arts.
Counselor Education Update
I am pleased to announce that we have moved forward with the Zoom web conferencing software to improve our live streaming experience for our Counselor Education students and faculty. Faculty will begin learning how to use this product and will instruct their students to move to this platform in the very near future.
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Submitted by Mark Engelhart
Students are demonstrating the presentation /lecture instructional strategy. The topic was the experimental method. They began with a pre-test using the Kahoots website. They then gave a PowerPoint presentation over the steps in the experimental method. Next they conducted an experiment on the surface tension of water at three different temperatures using a cotton ball and timing how long it took to be completely submerged. The data was collected and compiled on the white board. The class was asked to draw conclusions from the data. Lastly, a post test was given using the Kahoots website.
Upcoming Meetings
October 31: Directors' Meeting (initial certification directors only) at 10:15 a.m. in FLD 115
November 14: Education Faculty Meeting at 10:15 a.m. in FLD 115
Closing Thoughts
The keynote speakers at MACTE were researchers from the Regional Education Laboratory at Marzano Research. As noted on REL central's website, David Yanoski and Marc Brodersen shared results from a research study conducted to "analyze teachers' perceptions of feedback provided as part of their district's evaluation system as well as their ratings of the importance of various characteristics of feedback in their response to feedback. The study team then explored how characteristics of feedback and response to feedback are interrelated."
The speakers related this study to the work we do with teacher, leader, and counselor candidates. The research indicated that evaluator credibility and specific and frequent feedback are the two indicators that lead teachers to implement suggestions from evaluation sessions.
My challenge for you this week is for you to provide specific and frequent feedback to your students, whether you are evaluating them during a practicum or grading an assignment. I understand that doing so is time consuming, but research shows that your credibility and your specific and frequent feedback leads to change. Hopefully, your students find you to be a credible evaluator based on your educational and professional experiences. You have control daily over how specific and frequent your feedback is to students. Both specificity and frequency of feedback are important. Students see right through your "Good Job" feedback. This type of feedback is not specific. Please be more specific. Your students deserve to know your professional opinion about their specific performance. And the frequency of your feedback is just as important. Your students deserve to hear from you - often!!!!
Thanks for all you do to guide your students. You make a difference!
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