Title: Merged General Education Special Education Teacher Preparation University of Southern Maine College
1Merged General Education Special Education
Teacher PreparationUniversity of Southern
MaineCollege of Education and Human Development
Department of Teacher Education Extended
Teacher Education Program (ETEP)
- National Invitational Forum
- State and Higher Education Policy, Practices, and
Strategies to Improve the Teaching of Students
with Disabilities - Arlington, VA
- June 28 30, 2007
- Walter H. Kimball
2K-8 Unified General Education Special Education
Concentration
- 2 year, cohort based, graduate 54 credit
certification and degree program - K-8 General Education, K-8 Special Education
certification - Master of Science in Special Education
- NCATE Accreditation and state program approval
- Began 1999
- 2003 redesigned as certification pathway for
paraeducators- offer the program where the people
are - INTASC Model Standards for Licensing General and
Special Education Teachers of Students with
Disabilities - Co-coordinated by school and university faculty
3Common Targets, Different Paths
- An eight month placement each in general
education and special education - Individual Internship Plan (IIP)
- http//www.usm.maine.edu/wkimball/etepunified/int
ernship/IIP/IIPgenedsped.htm - Collaboration between school and university
faculty to design placements - Collaboration between interns, course
instructors, internship supervisors, general
education and special education classroom mentor
teachers - Online tools, online learning community web
based journal, web-based portfolio, courses
4Research-based Program Curriculum Strands
- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
(PBIS) - Assessment Curriculum-based assessment,
Progress Monitoring/Response to Instruction,
standardized testing. - Explicit Instruction
- Strategic Learning
- Co-Teaching under consideration
- introduced in Coursework, guided practice
opportunity, internship assessment project
5Assessments Across General Education and Special
Education
- Teaching various student groupings in general
education and special education individual
student, pairs, small groups, whole class - Teaching Standards Reviews in general education
and special education (2 licenses) - Internship Journal
- Teaching Unit
- Teaching Videotape and Reflection
- Capstone Portfolio and Presentation
- Vision Statement
- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Project - Response to Instruction Project
- Learning Strategies Project
6Preliminary Program Data Exit Survey with 2005
2007 groupRate the extent to which you feel
prepared or confident in your ability to carry
out each of the following very much, to a
good extent, to a fair extent, very little
- Differentiate lessons to meet the needs of
students with a range of abilities, learning
styles, and backgrounds - very much 61, to a good extent 31
- Read, understand, and implement IEPs
- very much 56, to a good extent 43
- Accommodate individual differences by adapting
curriculum and instruction - very much 77, to a good extent 23
- Teach students with different ability levels in
the same class - very much 67 to a good extent 17
- Teach students with different socio-economic
backgrounds - very much 90 to a good extent 11
- Teach students from diverse racial/ethnic/cultural
backgrounds - very much 83 to a good extent 6
- Teach students with different linguistic
backgrounds
7Collaborative Preparation Research
- Simultaneous School and University Renewal What
is the impact on the program, the university
department and the school of a collaborative
preparation curriculum? What is the impact on
the internship experience, university
supervision, and the school of requiring general
education and special education placements for
each candidate? - Teacher Development What is the impact of a
collaborative preparation program on a
candidates teaching during the internship and
during the first years in the profession, whether
a general educator or a special educator? What
is the impact of a collaborative preparation
program on a candidates bridging of general
education and special education during the
beginning induction years of teaching? - Program website http//www.usm.maine.edu/wkimba
ll/etepunified - Walter H. Kimball
- 500 Bailey Hall
- University of Southern Maine
- Gorham, ME 04038
- 207-780-5082
- wkimball_at_usm.maine.edu