Friday Memo: March 23, 2018
Education Faculty Meeting
On Tuesday, March 20 we had our third presentation from EdPlus titled "Engaging Student Learners." Dr. ClauDean Kizart and Dr. John Waters presented and the group came away with several ideas on how to keep students engaged. Dr. Kizart's PowerPoint presentation is available on the Education Division Professional Development Canvas Shell, along with an article titled "Engage Students with 7 Times the Effect" and an engagement activity called "Read & Reflection."
DESE News
We received an email from DESE this week regarding the use of the MEP, MoPTA, MoSCPA, and MoLPA. Please familiarize yourself with the information below if you teach any students impacted by these assessments. The full-time faculty and staff in the Education division at MBU are in the process of determining how this information impacts our programs, syllabi, folio guide, and catalog. We will update you along the way. For the time being, please feel free to share this information from DESE with your students. It is imperative that the students pursuing teacher, school counselor, or librarian certification this spring continue working diligently on their performance assessment and submit by the due dates. Any student wishing to be recommended for certification prior to September 1st MUST have a passing score.
The MACTE Conference is Monday, March 26 and Tuesday, March 27 and I will learn more at that meeting. Thanks for your patience as we work through another interesting time of transition.
DESE Memo
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Office of Educator Quality (OEQ), Educator Preparation would like to make a formal announcement regarding the use of the Missouri Educator Profile (MEP) and the Educator Performance Assessments: Missouri Performance Teacher Assessment (MoPTA), Missouri School Counselors Performance Assessment (MoSCPA), and the Missouri Librarian Performance Assessment (MoLPA). The Department would like to thank our educator preparation program colleagues for providing valuable feedback which helped make these decisions.
The Missouri Educator Profile will no longer be required as of June 1, 2018. The Department highly recommends a disposition tool be in place in each Educator Preparation Program. Information regarding EPP created disposition tools will be available on the DESE Educator Preparation website. DESE is discontinuing the use of the MEP for the following reason:
The Missouri Standards for the Preparation of Educators (MoSPE), Standard 2.A. states, “Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) may establish their own valid and reliable assessment tools that provide additional measure(s) of the growth and development of their candidates.” This standard allows for other disposition assessments to be used by EPPs.
Passing scores on the following Missouri Performance Assessments will no longer be required for students seeking certification after September 1, 2018: MoPTA, MoSCPA, and MoLPA. These ETS scored assessments will be replaced with a MEES evaluation tool developed and implemented by Missouri educator preparation programs.
• Students completing their culminating experience prior to September 1, 2018 will be required to pass the performance assessment (MoPTA, MoSCPA MoLPA) in order to be recommended for certification prior to September 1, 2018.
• Students who failed the performance assessment (MoPTA, MoSCPA, MoLPA) may be recommended for certification by their EPP on or after September 1, 2018, with a minimum composite score on their summative evaluation in the Missouri Educator Evaluation System. Discussions regarding what the minimum score on the MEES should be for certification eligibility are currently taking place with our educator preparation colleagues. A passing score on the Missouri Content Assessment and minimum GPA requirement are also still required for certification.
• The MoPTA, MoSCPA and MoLPA will no longer be the required performance assessment to recommend a student for certification on or after September 1, 2018. Students being recommended for certification beginning September 1, 2018 will be required to have a minimum composite score on their summative evaluation in the Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES).
DESE is discontinuing the use of these three Educator Performance Assessments for the following reasons:
1. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Educator Preparation office requested EPPs feedback regarding the effectiveness of the exit assessments during the Ed Prep Business meeting held on September 6, 2017. During this discussion EPPs revealed that these exit assessments do not effectively evaluate competencies, skills and abilities as clearly as defined through the active involvement during their student teaching and/or internship.
2. Validity and reliability questions on scoring.
3. Student teachers, school counselor candidates, and librarian candidates will have more immediate feedback based on their MEES score(s), which will provide performance data as the candidate progresses through the student teaching/internship experience.
4. The timeliness of the performance assessment results does not align with school district hiring practices.
5. Defined “tweaks” could not solve issues related to the assessments.
6. To eliminate the redundancy of having two performance assessments since the Missouri Standards for the Preparation of Educators, Standard 3. B. states, “Educator Preparation Programs shall use the Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES) to measure the effectiveness of their candidates.” Students in professional education programs are immersed in the learning community and are provided opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the professional roles for which they are preparing, which is being assessed through the Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES) for teacher, school counselor, and librarian candidates. These experiences are a true demonstration of performance.
The benefits of eliminating the MoPTA, MoSCPA and MoLPA as required exit assessments for teacher, school counselor, and librarian candidates, respectively, are as follows:
1. Students will be able to solely focus on developing their skills, abilities, lesson planning, students, and additional classroom responsibilities in their student teaching and/or internship environment.
2. Students will receive more opportunities for feedback through student teaching and/or internship environment as opposed to a couple of paragraphs of feedback that is currently provided through the exit assessment. Timely feedback allows the student to implement any suggested changes to further their own professional development and growth.
Commission Service - April 29, 2018
Our 2nd annual Commissioning Service is scheduled for Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m. in the Performance Hall. Plans are being made and invitations will go out shortly. Full time faculty are required to attend and adjuncts are encouraged to attend. This is a special night for our students and it's nice for them to see your support. Mark your calendar!
David Collum goes to AACTE
David Collum attended the AACTE Conference March 1 & 2, 2018 and presented a workshop titled "A Simulated Classroom: Evaluating simSchool on its Effectiveness in Diversity Understanding through a Multi-University Study."
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| Dr. Brook Blanks from Radford University, Dr. Vickie Johnston from Florida Gulf Coast, and David. |
Troy Wentzville Regional Learning Center student teachers gave a panel discussion on what to expect and how to plan for the student teaching experience to the field experience one and two students as well as the portfolio one and two students.
We encourage you to send us articles, pictures, and events. Please submit pictures for the blog by Thursday. We love to share your good news. Email to melanie.bishop@mobap.edu or nancy.sickler@mobap.edu
Upcoming Meetings
March 26-27: MACTE Conference in Columbia
April 10: Education Faculty Meeting at 10:15 am in FLD 315
April 29: Commissioning Service at 7 p.m. in the Performance Hall
Closing Thoughts
"Family"
That is what we are here at MoBap. The counseling program is in the process of hiring a new faculty member and this morning we interviewed an applicant. The interviewee mentioned at the end of the interview that he very quickly sensed that there is a culture and atmosphere of family here at MBU. We protect and trust each other as a family of professionals, rooted in our spiritual one accord as God leads us as members of His family. What a joy it is to work here!!!
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