The Wisconsin Institutions of Higher Education
 
2009 Quality Matters Conference
November 6, 2009

What is Quality and What Does Matter?

Chula Vista Resort
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

This conference is the fourth in a continuing series designed to advance the agenda around "quality matters" in the preparation of educators.

Format

This year we have modified the format to promote in-depth conversations around the following questions:

• How do we define what it means to be an effective teacher?
• What evidence is or should be offered as documentation that teacher-candidates (i.e. future initial educators) are effective?
• What will it take to sustain teacher effectiveness throughout a professional career? 

Details and Agenda(pdf) / Details and Agenda(Word)

Dr. Nicholas Michelli, Presidential Professor
The City University of New York

Quality Counts: A Third Year Check Up

Building a Shared Vision and Reading some Tea Leaves

Powerpoint presentation

Here is a relevant reference for you:

Teacher Preparation: Reforming the Uncertain Profession-Remarks of Secretary Arne Duncan at Teachers College, Columbia University. (10/22/09)

also referenced within the above article:

Art Levine's A higher bar for education. (2006)

Tomorrow's Teachers: A Report of the Holmes Group. (1986).

2008 Quality Matters Conference
November 7, 2008

Focusing on Assessment: What Does Count?

Kalahari Resort
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

This conference is the third in a continuing series designed to advance the agenda around "quality matters" in the preparation of educators.

2008 Intended outcomes

• Exploring issues associated with accountability in educator preparation (i.e., policy, practice, and research methodology)
• Building community around the creation of a culture of evidence
• Identifying strategies for gathering relevant data to inform educational preparation and professional development practices. 

2008 Conference Materials

  Details and Agenda (pdf) / Details and Agenda(Word doc)

Concurrent Sessions

Morning Sessions

Session 1: Beyond assessment as evaluation: Using electronic portfolios as a tool for learning to teach science. Presenters: Gordon Perkins, science teacher, Madison Memorial High School; Brian Zoellner, Ph.D. student, UW Madison; Douglas Larkin, Ph.D. student, UW Madison. Handout (Word doc)

Session 2: Striving for autonomy using reflective practice with teacher candidates. Presenters: Dr. Tracy Caravella, Director, Graduate School Health, UW La Crosse; Dr. Marcie Wycoff-Horn, Director, Graduate School Health.

Session 3: Developing and assessing collaborative leadership qualities in preservice educators. Presenters: Dr. Rose Battalio, Department of Special Education, UW Eau Claire; Dr. Robert Hollon, Director, Center for Collaborative Leadership, UW Eau Claire; Dr. Michael Kolis, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW Eau Claire: Todd Lenz, Altoona High School; Dr. Susan McIntyre, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW Eau Claire; Dr. J. Todd Stephens, Department of Special Education, UW Eau Claire. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt) / 404 Eval (Word doc). Collaborative Leadership eval (Word doc) / MCEA eval modified (Word doc)

Session 4: FIPSE Grant: Wisconsin's grassroots teacher quality assessment model. Presenters: Dr. Francine Tompkins, UWSA; Dr. Erik Hendrickson, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UW Eau Claire; Dr. Nick Michelli, Graduate Program in Urban Education, CUNY; Dr. Kathy Kramer, Carroll University; Dr. Susan Pustejovsky, Alverno College; Dr. Ken Zeichner, Associate Dean, School of Education, UW Madison. Presentation notes (Word doc)

Afternoon Sessions

Session 5: Assessing diversity across the teacher education curriculum. Presenters: Dr. William New, Education and Youth Studies, Beloit College; Dr. Kathleen Greene, Education and Youth Studies, Beloit College; Dr. Gloria Alter, Education and Youth Studies, Beloit College; Jingjing Lou, Education and Youth Studies, Beloit College. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt)

Session 6: We've got data, now how do we use it? Presenters: Dr. Allison Ford, Exceptional Education Chair, UW Milwaukee; Kerry Korinek, Administrative Program Specialist, School of Education, UW Milwaukee. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt). / Feedback Loop graphic (Word Doc).

Session 7: UW Stout School of Education unit assessment system-where we've been and where we're headed. Presenters: Dr. Juli Taylor, Assessment Coordinator, UW Stout; Lesley Voigt, ePortfolio Coordinator, UW Stout.