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The College and Career Transition Initiative: The Teacher Education Career Pathway Model |
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Cheri St. Arnauld (District Office) cheri.st_arnauld@domail.maricopa.edu |
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Ray A. Ostos, National Center for Teacher Education Deb Raffin, Education Faculty, Estrella Mountain Community College Jan Brite, Education Program Specialist, Arizona Department of Educati |
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Estrella Mountain Community College District Office |
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Teacher Education |
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Teacher education model that transitions the student from high school to teaching certificate |
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(This initiative is District Office's 2006 Innovation of the Year.) The National Center for Teacher Education has partnered with Estrella Mountain Community College, and the Arizona Department of Education’s Education Professions Program to create a Teacher Education Career Pathway Model for high school students. This model has created a teacher education continuum facilitating the transition of Peoria high school students to higher education through support systems and an articulated sequence of courses. Program Description -------------------- Education Professions is an Arizona Department of Education, Career and Technical Education program for high school students who have an interest in pursuing a career in the field of education. This partnership has created a teacher education continuum facilitating the transition of high school students to higher education through support systems and an articulated sequence of rigorous academic and career courses. The goals of this program are to: • Decrease need for remediation at postsecondary level; • Increase enrollment and persistence in postsecondary education • Increase academic and skill achievement at secondary and postsecondary levels The goals of this program are being accomplished through a series of initiatives. The following are key initiatives between Estrella Mountain Community College and the Peoria Unified School District’s Education Professions Program • As a first step to developing the Teacher Education Career Pathway Model, the National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE) worked with community college districts throughout Arizona to identify the education courses within the statewide Associate of Arts Elementary Education degree (AAEE) program that were appropriate for dual enrollment articulation within the model (see attachment). AAEE courses are articulated through community college dual enrollment agreements with Estrella Mountain Community College and the Peoria high schools. The AAEE is articulated for transfer with all of Arizona’s public university Bachelors of Arts in Elementary Education degree programs. • The partnership model supports Education Profession future teacher clubs and community college teacher clubs through student conferences that provide career information, higher education opportunities, skill development, and professional exposure for the students. This initiative assisted in supporting the 2004 Future Teachers Conference at Estrella Mountain Community College and the 2005 Future Teachers Conference at Paradise Valley Community College. Each of these conferences had over 200 future educators in attendance. A Future Educator Conference for high school Education Profession students was also supported in 2005. • The Teacher Education Career Pathway Model includes student benchmarks for assessments, advising, and additional preparation to assure student success and persistence. Secondary students enrolled in the program are assessed for community college course placement in the 10th, 11th and/or 12th grade. This information provides students with key information on where they would be placed if they enrolled at Estrella Mountain Community College. The students use this information and work with their teachers and advisors to develop their course and career plan. In the fall of 2005 over 150 Peoria Ed. Professions students completed the ACCUPLACER test. • The Peoria Education Profession teachers and Estrella community college education faculty have been trained in utilizing electronic portfolios in their classrooms. These e-portfolios allow students to build a purposeful collection of their work that illustrates their efforts, progress and achievement over a period of time. The goal of this effort is to develop a continuum of electronic portfolios through high schools, community colleges, and universities. The teachers are encouraged to develop and maintain their own professional development portfolio to document their careers. Within these portfolios they can chronicle instructional strategies, professional goals, evaluations, educational philosophy, curriculum and planning, competencies, resume, etc. • The e-portfolios have allowed students to develop and update their individualized career pathway plans. These career plans help students map out their plan for higher education. Items in their career plans include a resume, education philosophy essay, career objective, reflection assessment test results and post secondary education plan. • Meetings between NCTE, the Peoria Education Profession Teachers, the Peoria Career and Technical Education Director (Mr. John Mulcahy), the Arizona Department of Education, Education Professions Director (Ms. Jan Brite) and Estrella Mountain Community College Education faculty have been held to share information and strengthen the partnership. Familiarity between the high school teachers and community college faculty has allowed for open communication and the sharing of important information. In the fall of 2005 An EMCC faculty member, Dr. Debra Raffin, visited each of the Peoria high schools and has presented program information to the Education Professions students. In March 2006 a group of 50 Education Profession students will be visiting EMCC and will meet with teacher education students and faculty and will be introduced to the college support systems and facilities. This will allow the students to become familiar with the institution and its resources. While the Maricopa Community Colleges - National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE) has a leadership role in guiding this program; everyone involved has a voice and is active and committed. NCTE’s role in the program is one of facilitator and catalyst. Staff from NCTE works closely with ADE and the high schools to plan organize and execute, meetings and activities. Dr. Cheri St. Arnauld, Director of NCTE serves as overall program director; Ray Ostos serves as the project coordinator. This program fits into Maricopa Community Colleges’ commitment in strengthening Arizona’s P-20 efforts and will continue to provide support to this program. Outcomes are being measured through various methods: • Early Assessment test-The early assessment tests have provided the teachers and students with immediate feedback regarding student course enrollment. Many of the students are very surprised to learn that they may be placed in remedial courses. This early assessment allows the students time to take more math or English classes and has allowed students to enroll in non-remedial courses. • Electronic portfolio surveys – Both teachers and students are currently completing surveys regarding the use of electronic portfolios. Questions regarding usability, effectiveness, and the enhancement of learning are being asked. Preliminary information indicates that students enjoy using the technology in creating portfolios and place value in their work. Complete results will be available in March 2006. A follow-up survey will be distributed in the Fall 06 semester. • College and Career Transition Data Collection-Longitudinal data is being collected on the cohort of Education Profession students. Information collected includes: The number of Ed. Profession students enrolling at a community college, a comparison of aggregated early assessment scores, comparison of academic achievement, degrees attained by Ed. Profession students and student persistence. This year will mark the third year that the program has been established. The partnership between EMCC and Peoria is very strong and continuing to grow. It is a partnership that benefits the high schools, the community college and more importantly the student. We will be sharing this successful model with our other community colleges so that they can establish effective partnerships with their local Education Professions program. Note! 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http://innovate.maricopa.edu/ |
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District Office Innovation 2006 (document) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below. |
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Last modified: Apr-07-2006 Date created: Apr-07-2006 Visitor count: 5468 Dublin Core Metadata record  This package is included in the Innovation of the Year Awards 2006 special collection. |
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