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PTEAC Minutes Thursday, February 19, 2015 106 Student Services Building 3:00 PM

Present: Collins, Cooley, Evans (recorder), Gibbs, Kane-Schneider, King, P. Lancaster, McCrea,

Miller, Schaner, Schutten, Siko, Vree, Ysasi

Absent: Armstrong, Campbell, Cimitile, Coffey, Golden, Pfahler, Pickett, Vigna

I. Welcome (Elaine Collins)

A. Formalization of a student advisory board that would provide input on their

experiences within the Teacher Preparation program

i. COE Alumni Association had previously attempted to organize such a group

ii. Strong level of student interest and excitement on providing feedback

B. Self-governance

i. Student run

ii. Dean’s participation

iii. Many of the involved students are nearing the conclusion of their collegiate

experience

a. Seeking opportunities to form networks earlier in their programs

b. A strong student network that begins in their pre-admission years,

that continues through their COE experiences, may prove a very

powerful vehicle for involvement

C. Met yesterday for the first time

i. Concern has shifted from placement concerns to curricular concerns

ii. Concern related to the sustainability of this group (earlier involvement)

D. Discussion i. This might be something that we want to target during the second year

ii. Music example given

iii. Second major option allows us to identify majors early

iv. Could it be considered an open group, with a smaller number of “official”

members?

v. A diverse age range of those involved would be beneficial

vi. Teachers of Tomorrow and SCEC would be other examples of groups where

we can cast this net

vii. Transitions presentations may also be a good time to mention this

a. SISC is seeking to change how the Transitions presentations are

delivered

b. Considering moving to Saturday morning

E. Seeking further input from PTEAC on this idea

i. Also seeking student representatives from the Student Advisory Committee

on PTEAC and Leadership Team

II. Discussion of Student Support for the Mathematics PRE (Caryn King)

A. Math department is currently teaching a one credit PRE prep course

i. John Golden is leading this initiative

ii. Designed to help prepare Math majors with their PRE experience

a. Tracking students enrolled in this course and comparing it with their

PRE results

B. Do we want to consider more initiatives in this area?

i. Dick Cooley has done this in the past for the MTTC

ii. Concern expressed that this course was not communicated/advertised well a. It is important that we are all communicating these opportunities

effectively and consistently

b. The Mathematics Unit Head was unaware of the initiative

iii. CLAS is working to make similar courses an official curricular opportunity for

more students in different disciplines

a. Discussions underway with Maria

b. Writing workshops have been effective

C. Are we going to support these types of course offerings in other disciplines in the

future?

i. Discussions continue with Maria

ii. Dick Cooley outlined his efforts with four students who had self-reported on

their test prep experiences and test results

iii. Suggestion of a five week course, rather than a semester long experience

a. Pre-med experiences in prep courses discussed

D. Discussion

III. Secondary Admission Task Force (Mary Schutten)

A. Is there still interest in crafting a Secondary Admission Task Force?

i. The HB that mandated that students would need to pass their subject area

test prior to admission has died; it may be reintroduced

ii. Do we want to continue this discussion?

B. Who is in the group?

i. Keith Vree, John Hassenbeck, Raul Ysasi, etc.

C. Last year we had data that indicated that the majority of our test failures were

secondary admission students i. Seeking additional ways that we can support these students better, similar to

the ideas discussed behind helping our students prepare for the PRE

D. Please proceed with another meeting/discussion with this group and bring the

information from that group back to PTEAC

i. Student Success Collaborative may provide additional data that will help us

identify means to assist our students

IV. Super Majors (Mary Schutten)

A. Social Studies is seeking to attempt a Super Major, with the hope that the program

will be established by Fall 2015

i. History Department will vote on this next month

ii. Curriculum may not have final approval prior to Fall 2015

iii. What is a super major?

a. A comprehensive major

b. No minor necessary; several endorsement areas within the major

c. More intense coursework in each endorsement area

iv. How will this impact the Elementary Group Social Studies majors?

a. Will they elect to take a different path?

b. Yes; examples provided

B. The comprehensive Social Studies major is a very positive step for our students

C. Integrated sciences are also working on a comprehensive major, but they are a bit

further behind

i. Work continuing

ii. Committee established

iii. Working with all of the content areas V. ZS Proposal (Mary Schutten)

A. New majors/minors task force meeting this week

i. ZS minor would be housed in the CSAT major

ii. The second non-teaching minor was not recommended to move forward

iii. The non-teaching major mirrors many courses that are available through

Psychology

a. The writing committee will look to eliminate the redundancies

b. Psychology will continue to work with the author of these proposals

(Linda Pickett)

c. The writing committee will continue to work with Linda Pickett on

the program proposal

VI. Announcements

A. New COE 50th Anniversary Golden Lecture Series bookmarks distributed

i. Reflections and Predictions next

ii. The Education of Gerald R. Ford rescheduled in the Seidman Forum on April

15, 2015

iii. Discussion on the panel of superintendents

a. This presentation was videotaped and will be available shortly

b. Superintendent Flannigan gave very complimentary remarks

B. Dean Collins has accepted the Presidency at Johnson State College in Vermont

beginning July 1, 2015 (just about when the snow will melt in Vermont)

C. Replacement of Dick Cooley on sabbatical next fall

i. Please send recommendations