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.