Faculty of Education

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Faculty of Education

• Submission to Nipissing University Strategic
  Planning Committee

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Goals

• COU and Nipissing University goal to provide
  capacity to grow in high demand areas
• Nipissing Faculty of Education goals
• To develop programs that will attract students
• To provide quality teacher education programs.

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Trends in Supply and Demand

• General teacher shortage for the next 8 to 10
  years
• Shortages greater in select subject areas
• Ministry of Education funding teacher recruitment
  program for Faculties of Education

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Trends in Supply and Demand

• Recruitment of university students in high demand
  areas of
• mathematics
• chemistry
• physics
• computer science
• French as a Second Language
• French as a First Language
• technological studies

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Ministry of Education Teacher Supply Study 2002

• Global shortfall in teacher supply and demand
  more supply required
• Aggregate supply of new applicants province-wide
  does not meet aggregate demand
• Continued low supply of teachers in specific
  subjects
• Continued low supply in specific boards and
  regions

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Letters of Permission and Temporary Letters of
Approval

• Letters of Permission
• 891 issued in 1987
• 1858 issued in 2002
• Temporary Letters of Approval
• 133 issued in 1997
• 1165 issued in 2002

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Facts on teacher supply

• 12 (or 2000) loss of substitute teachers from
  1997-2001
• New graduates in 2002-03 fell 1736 short of new
  FTE vacancies
• Any policy change, e.g. smaller class sizes, will
  alter demand estimates

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Facts on teacher supply

• Class of 2001, surveyed in March and April, 2002
• 98 of the graduates had joined the College of
  Teachers
• 96 were teaching at the time of the survey

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Facts on teacher supply

• In 2001
• 5892 teachers retired
• 4212 non-retired teachers exited teaching
• Ontario Faculties of Education have 6500 funded
  spaces annually
• In 2002, there were 900 graduates from concurrent
  education programs

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Facts on teacher supply

• There is a 10 loss of Ontario graduates to other
  jurisdictions and professions
• In 2001, 3041 new Ontario certificates issued to
  teachers with out-of-Ontario professional
  education
• In 2001, 4.6 of graduates were employed in the
  private school system

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Facts on teacher supply

• College of Teachers, teacher supply needed by
  2010
• Central Ontario, 16,500 new teachers
• Eastern Ontario, 11,500 new teachers
• Northern Ontario, 5000 new teacher
• Southwestern Ontario, 12,500 new teachers
• Catholic Boards, 4300 new teachers
• annual demand to 2009 8500 to 11,000

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Facts on teacher supply

• Continued teacher shortage, excess number of
  applicants has created market for foreign and
  private universities
• Unless Ontario universities expand available
  spots in Faculties of Education, the government
  will feel compelled to approve these universities
  that charge high, non-regulated tuition

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Facts on teacher supply

• Canadian Teachers Federation study 2001
• teacher shortage is a national and international
  problem
• number of teachers in Canada declined to 271,000
  in 1999 to from 284,000 in 1991
• more than 25 of Canadian teachers were 50 years
  or older in 1996
• 45 of current teaching force will be eligible to
  retire by 2008

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Facts on teacher supply

• Canadian Teachers Federation study 2001
• Canada could lose 25-30 of beginning teachers in
  the next 5 years
• U.S.A. will have a shortfall of 200,000 teachers
  for each of the next 10 years 21 growth in
  demand
• Australia predicts a secondary teacher supply of
  66 of demand in 2004
• U.K. unfilled teaching posts have risen by 60 in
  the last 2 years

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Trends in Applications and Enrollments
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High School Applicants

• February 5, 2004, Nipissing University
  experienced a 42.2 drop in applications to Arts
  Science
• Provincially, in all institutions, concurrent
  education had the lowest drop in high school
  applications over last year (18.7)

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High School Applicants

• Laurier Nipissing Brantford program has equalled
  last years applications to date and will
  experience an increase over last year (currently,
  800 applications for 105 spots)
• Entry average for Brantford campus will exceed
  80
• Nipissing concurrent program will experience the
  same phenomenon and drive entry averages well
  beyond 75 range

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Consecutive Program Applicants

• Consecutive program has experienced a 10.1
  increase in applications over last year
  provincial average is 5.8 increase
• 4651 applicants for 700 spots

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Consecutive Program Applicants

• High cost ITeach program is not an obstacle our
  mandatory laptop program and tuition fees make us
  the costliest program in the province
• Entry cut off averages will increase beyond last
  years P/J of 78 and J/I in the B to B range,
  depending on teachables

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Trends in Consecutive Program Applicants
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Strategic Plan
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Current State

• Nipissing University Faculty of Education enjoys
  the reputation of being the best in Ontario
• Employers, alumni, and associate teachers are our
  best advocates

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Current State

• Our ITeach Computer program makes us the leader
  in Canada in ICT in education. But this
  competitive advantage will be short-lived without
  further advancement.
• Six other universities in Canada are launching
  mandatory laptop pilot projects, which gives us a
  three year head start at most.

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Current State

• In the next five years we will have to launch a
  number of new initiatives in order to remain a
  leader in teacher education in Canada.
• There will be strong opportunity to increase
  enrollment, to parallel governments commitment
  to reduce elementary class sizes
• We are proposing an expansion of the current
  education offerings

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Teacher Education is a high demand business
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Proposed Future BEd Initiatives (Within 5 years)

• Implementing a part-time BEd program.
• Increase of BEd program to two years duration.
• OR
• Combination of 1-year teacher certification, plus
  1-year of graduate education for a masters of
  teaching degree.

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Proposed Future BEd Initiatives (Within 5 years)

• Plan to expand to 11 months initially within two
  years, contingent on funding.
• Expand primary/junior intake to correspond to
  government initiative to reduce class size in
  primary school.

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Proposed Future BEd Initiatives (Within 5 years)

• Partner with local boards of education to deliver
  the government mandated two-year induction
  program for new teachers. Currently, we are
  piloting an E mentoring component to provide
  on-going support for beginning teachers.

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New Programming (BEd)

• Adding an English as a Second Language
  specialization.
• Adding an Adult Education specialization.
• Creation of a Reading Clinic and Research Chair
  (E. Thorn Endowed Chair) and creation of a
  Research Center of ICT in Education.

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New Programming (BEd)

• Adding a technological BEd in partnership with
  Canadore. There is a shortage of teachers in
  technological studies.

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New Programming (BEd)

• Development of new Special Education initiatives
  (to take advantage of proposed government funding
  in autism, learning disability, students at
  risk).
• Development of a bridging program for
  international BEd graduates (i.e. with partner in
  Punjab in India)

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New Programming (BEd)

• Development of distance education BEd and MEd
  programs, for national and international
  exporting.
• BEd initiative a 4-year BEd degree for Native
  students. A combination of the 2-year Native
  certificate program with 2-years BEd.

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New Programming (BEd)

• Creation of a concurrent physical education,
  bachelor of education program (new degree).
• Creation of a technology teacher education
  program for select applied degree graduates

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AQ Plans for the Future

• Phase in new Special Education AQ program
• Develop Honour Specialist courses
• Market more aggressively in Ontario
• Rapidly develop on-line delivery capability
• Model for other departments in both faculties
• Expand provision of in-service education to other
  provinces/territories

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Initiatives Graduate Education

• Recent studies predict Canadian and Ontario
  universities will be under greater pressure to
  increase enrollment in graduate programs in the
  next decade.
• Students are increasingly expressing their
  dissatisfaction with existing traditional
  programs

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Initiatives Graduate Education

• Massive teacher turnover and large number of new
  teachers creating unprecedented demand for
  graduate education (M.Ed. and Ph.D.)
• We intend to capitalize on this opportunity by
  expanding our graduate enrollment.
• Concomitantly, school administrators are retiring
  in significant numbers and aspiring future
  administrators will need Masters of Education
  degrees.

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Proposed Initiatives

• In 2005/2006 an intake of 40 full-time MEd
  student cohort.
• Creation of additional web-based graduate
  courses.
• Joint PhD in Education Program (Windsor, Brock,
  Lakehead).
• Add additional special education stream in MEd
  program.

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International Initiatives

• CIDA has identified its development initiatives
  to include basic education, girls education and
  teacher training.
• International student teaching experiences in
  Africa, England, Australia and Panama.
• International partnerships in Nepal and Cameroon
  in terms of teacher education.

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Funding for Growth

• Any consecutive education student over the
  targeted 655 students can be incorporated into
  the ETAs, or in an amended ETA (due in April
  2004), and each student is funded at two BIUs.
  This is outside of the Teacher Education
  Expansion Special Purposes Grant Allocation.
  Every concurrent student is funded fully at a
  blended rate of 1.25.

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Summary

• Nipissing University should grow to between 4500
  and 5000 students.
• The Faculty of Education should grow modestly to
  contribute to this institutional growth.
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Summary

• The demand is there 4649 consecutive
  applications in education plus 800 concurrent
  applications.
• The job opportunities are there for its graduates.

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Summary

• The funding is there for the growth.
• The Faculty of Education is the most
  cost-effective faculty with the lowest cost per
  BIU and FTE and with the highest tuition and BIU
  values for its program
• The Faculty of Education has the reputation to
  continue to attract students from Southern
  Ontario

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Current and Future Enrollment
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Current and Future Enrollment
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Current and Future Enrollment
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Current and Future Enrollment
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The Big Picture

• Total Faculty in Education, including
  administration
• 43
• Total University FTEs 4347
• Education has 42.8 of the total FTEs