Standard 1: Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions
Candidates preparing to work in schools as teachers or other professional school personnel know and demonstrate the content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn. Assessments indicate that candidates meet professional, state, and institutional standards.
State program review documents and state findings.
b. Praxis Data for the advanced programs:
Data tables and summaries that show how teacher candidates (both initial and advanced) have performed on key assessments over the past three years for programs not included in the national program review process or a similar state process.
a. Initial Programs:
1) Praxis II Exam: See Exhibit 1.2.a2) Dispositions Assessment: See Exhibit 1.83) OPI4) 20 Competencies Assessment- Practicum - CF Outcome: all, Knowledge, Applications & Dispositions (Spring 2009 - Fall 2010)5) 20 Competencies Assessment- Student Teaching - CF Outcome: Knowledge, Applications, & Dispositions (Fall 2008 - Spring 2011):
- English: Post- Baccalaureate - Foreign Languages: Post Baccalaureate (F2008, S2009, S2010, F2010, & S2011: No candidates) - Mathematics: Post Baccalaureate (S2009 & F2009: No candidates) - Science: Post Baccalaureate (S2009 & S2011: No candidates) - Social Studies: Post-Baccalaureate
- PB K-12 (Assessments 3 and 5): English | Science | Social Studies | Foreign Language
* TWS data for the nationally recognized programs:
- UG K-12 (Assessments 3 and 5): English | Math | Science | Social Studies | Foreign Language 8) Self Assessment (Program Completion Questionnaires): S2007 - S2009
b. Advanced Programs:* M.Ed. in Curriculum and Learning: Overall program data (Assessment 1 & Assessment 5) Concentration data: Bilingual: - Data table - Aggregated data: Assessment 2, Assessment 3, Assessment 4, Assessment 6, Assessment 7, Assessment 8 Early Childhood: - Data table - Aggregated data: Assessment 2, Assessment 3, Assessment 4, Assessment 6, Assessment 7, Assessment 8 Middle and High School Mathematics Teaching Children Mathematics: - Data table - Aggregated data: Assessment 2, Assessment 3, Assessment 4, Assessment 6, Assessment 7, Assessment 8* M.Ed. in Literacy (Language Arts concentration)
* M.Ed. in Special Education: Advanced Studies concentration - Data table - Aggregated data: Assessment 1, Assessment 3, Assessment 4
Samples of candidate work.
- Sample 2 (M.Ed. in Literacy): Target | Acceptable
- Sample 3 (Educational Leadership): Target (Wayne campus), Target (Delran campus)
Comprehensive Exit Project: Electronic Portfolio:- Sample 1 ( M. Ed in Curriculum & Learning program: School Library Media concentration): Target ( Email acknowledgment)
Portfolio:- Sample 1 (M. Ed in Curriculum & Learning program: Early Childhood concentration): Target (Video clip for the math & science lesson; Video clip for the multicultural lesson, Email acknowledgment) | AcceptableThree-Session Staff Development or Parent Education Workshop Plan: - Sample 1 (M. Ed in Curriculum & Learning program: Teaching Children Mathematics concentration): Target | Acceptable
List of candidate dispositions, including fairness and the belief that all students can learn, and related assessments, scoring guides, and data.
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