Team Mentoring and Teacher Work Samples:

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Team Mentoring and Teacher Work Samples

• A Winning Combination for Shared Accountability

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Presenters

• Pat Pokay - Eastern Michigan
• Lillie West - Millersville, Pennsylvania
• Vickie Robinson - Northern Iowa
• Toby Daniel - Western Kentucky
• Discussant
• Meredith Brodsky - Western Oregon

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The Renaissance Partnership for Improving Teacher
Quality

• A Title II Funded Project with Offices at Western
  Kentucky University
• 1999-2004
• Roger Pankratz, Director

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Project Goals

• Become accountable for the impact of teacher
  candidates on P-12 student learning
• Improve teacher performance in key areas and show
  an increase in teachers ability to facilitate
  learning of all students

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Project Objectives

• 1. Accountability Systems
• 2. Teacher Work Samples
• 3. Team Mentoring
• 4. Program Redesign
• 5. Business Partnerships
• 6. Networking
• 7. Research and Dissemination

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Five Year Project Objective

• Accountability
• Fully implement accountability systems that
  regularly collect and report performance data on
  teacher candidates and first year teachers
  including impact on P-12 student learning

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Five Year Project Objective

• Teacher Work Samples
• Develop and use teacher work samples in teacher
  education programs as a means of improving skills
  and reporting teacher candidate performance,
  including the ability to facilitate learning of
  all students

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Five Year Project Objective

• Team Mentoring
• Develop and implement a team mentoring model
  consisting of teacher educators, arts and science
  faculty and school practitioners that facilitates
  teacher candidates ability to produce high
  performance work samples

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Teacher Work Sample Teaching Processes

• Use of Context
• Learning Goals
• Assessment Plan
• Design for Instruction
• Instructional Decision Making
• Analysis of Student Learning
• Reflection and Self-Evaluation

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Teacher Work Sample Components

• Teaching process standards
• Teaching performance prompt
• Scoring rubric
• Twenty page narrative plus attachments teaching
  exhibit
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Performance Levels

• Level 4 - Expert
• exceeds standards
• Level 3 - Proficient
• meets standards
• Level 2 - Developing
• below standards but well on the way
• Level 1 - Beginning
• still around the starting gate

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Performance Level of Teacher Candidates Based on
High Standards

• Spring 2001 Fall 2002
• n110 n134
• Beginning (1) 16 18
• Developing (2) 42 48
• Proficient (3) 35 29
• Expert (4) 07 05

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Role of Mentoring in the Renaissance Partnership

• High Performance of Candidates
• Professional Development (Teacher Educators, Arts
  Science Faculty, School Practitioners)
• Collaboration of Key Players Focused on Teaching
  and Learning

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Presenters

• Pat Pokay - Eastern Michigan
• Lillie West - Millersville, Pennsylvania
• Vickie Robinson - Northern Iowa
• Toby Daniel - Western Kentucky
• Discussant
• Meredith Brodsky - Western Oregon

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Web Site Home Page
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Symposia on Renaissance Model TWS at AACTE in New
York
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Renaissance TWS Training Workshops in 2002

• June 13-15 Improving Performance on Teacher Work
  Samples (location TBA)
• July 12-13 Initial Training Scoring of
  Renaissance Model TWS (to be held near Kansas
  City airport)
• Check our web site for details
• http//fp.uni.edu/itq