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Title: Colorado Teacher Cadet


1
Colorado Teacher Cadet
  • Michelle Koch
  • Colorado Teacher Cadet
  • FACS Program Director
  • Colorado Community College System
  • August 17, 2019

2
Teacher Cadet Mission
  • Encourage students who possess exemplary
    interpersonal, academic and leadership skills to
    consider a teaching career
  • Provide these future community leaders with
    insights about teaching and schools

3
Historical Milestones
  • 1985 -- Teacher Cadet began in South
    Carolina

1999 -- Over 23,500 students have
completed Teacher Cadet in South
Carolina
2004 -- Replicated in over 25 states
4
Teacher Cadet Details
  • Year-long course

Honors elective
For Juniors and Seniors
College level
Enrollment criteria Application, 3.0 GPA, three
teacher recommendations, possible interview
5
Teacher Cadet Requirements
  • Application Process
  • State-wide Syllabus
  • Prescribed Curriculum
  • Required Artifacts
  • Portfolio
  • Certificates of Field Experience Hours and
    Portfolio Credit Recommendation

6
Teacher Cadet Content
  • Theme 1
  • Experiencing Learning

Theme 2 Experiencing the Profession
Theme 3 Experiencing the Classroom
7
Teacher Cadet Programs in Colorado
  • Under the CCCS/CTE Education Career Cluster
  • Teacher training and on-going classroom support
    professional development

8
Colorado Implementation
  • CTE Education Program Formula Funding
  • Option to select a dynamic teacher for TC
  • Career Technical Education Credential
  • Curriculum Training Prof. Development
  • Some districts offering English elective credit
  • Program Accountability
  • Rigorous Curriculum
  • Student data collection

9
Historical Milestones -- Colorado
2014 Completers
Over 2500 Colorado students have taken the
Teacher Cadet (TC) class (as of May 2014)
10
Colorado Teacher Cadet Programs (2008)
Adams 12
Ft. Morgan
Arapahoe/Douglas
Jefferson Co
Aurora
Mesa Valley-
Boulder
Platte Valley
Cherry Creek
Poudre Co
Co Springs 11
Weld Co.10
Academy 20
Widefield
Douglas Co
Windsor
Elizabeth
Greeley
20 Programs 18 Districts
11
Resources for Experiencing Education
  • Use South Carolina curriculum - CERRA
  • Supplemental College Texts
  • Becoming a Teacher (Forrest W. Parkay and
    Beverly H. Stanford)
  • Annual Education Edition Dushkin/McGraw-Hill

12
Connections with Higher Education
  • Curriculum alignment to the Colorado Teacher
    Licensure Standards
  • College credit for Intro to Ed./Education
    Foundations Courses
  • UNC - EDF 366, 3 to 6 credits
  • CSU Pueblo EDU 202, 3 credits
  • UCD TC Internship, 1 to 2 credits
  • UCCS TC Internship, 1 credit
  • ED PSY, Colo. Springs only
  • CCU EPS 203 PSY. Of Ed. Foundations, 1 credit
    20 hours of EDU Field Experience
  • CCCS EDU 221, Elementary Ed, 3
    credits (statewide)

13
Student Benefits
  • Develop leadership skills
  • Build presentation skills
  • Inside look at education as a career
  • Experience the intrinsic rewards of teaching
  • Expand decision-making experiences
  • Begin development of common EDU artifacts based
    on CO teacher licensure
  • Earn field experience credit towards teacher
    prep programs

14
Program Vision/Needs
  • A state leadership position and funding for the
    administration, training, professional
    development, articulation and public relations of
    the program
  • Student access to a Teacher Cadet program in
    every district in Colorado
  • Strengthen the teaching pathway by linking high
    school students to college teacher education
    programs and licensure
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