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Subpart 5. G. Qualifications, Composition, and Assignment of the Professional Education Faculty
G(1) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The unit ensures that all education faculty are qualified by academic preparation for the faculty member’s current assignments and are actively engaged in the professional community. Standard 5: Qualified Faculty IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 1: Qualified Faculty (p. 79)

G(2) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The unit assigns faculty qualified by academic preparation to support the teacher licensure programs. Standard 5: Qualify of Faculty

(specifically all non full time education faculty)
 

IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 1: Qualified Faculty (p. 79)

G(3) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The unit actively recruits and has plans, policies, and practices for hiring diverse faculty. Standard 4: Diverse Faculty
  • The affirmation of the value of diversity is shown through good faith efforts being made to increase and/or maintain faculty diversity.
IR Standard 4 (p. 63)

Element 2: Experiences Working with Diverse Faculty (p. 70)

G(4) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The workload allows the faculty to be involved in teaching, scholarship, service, and schools in monitoring, assessing, and advising candidate progress. Standard 5: Facilitation of Professional Development
  • Based upon needs identified in faculty evaluations, the unit provides opportunities for faculty to develop new knowledge and skills, especially as it relates to the conceptual framework, performance assessment, diversity, technology, and other emerging practices.

Standard 5: Personnel

  • Workload policies, including on-line course delivery, allow faculty members to be effectively engaged in teaching, scholarship, assessment, advisement, collaborative work in P-12 schools, and service.
     
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 7: Unit Facilitation of Professional Development (p. 88)

G(5) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The unit ensures that faculty who supervise field experiences are academically prepared and professionally experienced in a school setting. Standard 5:Qualified Faculty
  • Clinical faculty from higher education have contemporary professional experiences in school settings at the levels which they supervise.
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 1: Qualified Faculty (p. 79)

Clinical Faculty (p. 58)

G(6) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
Any part-time and adjunct faculty and graduate students in teaching roles provide integrity, quality, and continuity of teacher preparation programs. Standard 5 Personnel
  • The makes appropriate use of full-time, part-time, and clinical faculty as well as graduate assistants so that program coherence and integrity are assured.
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 1: Qualified Faculty (p. 79)

G(7) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
Faculty and teaching in the unit are of high quality reflecting current research and best practice consistent with the curriculum goals of the program. Standard 5:Qualified Faculty
  • Faculty have a thorough understanding of the content they teach. Teaching by professional education faculty reflects the unit’s conceptual framework and research, theories, and current developments in their fields and teaching.
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 1: Qualified Faculty (p. 79)

G(8) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
Faculty and cooperating school personnel model and reflect the best practice in the delivery of instruction. Standard 5 Modeling Best Practices
  • Faculty value candidates’ learning and assess candidate performance. Their teaching encourages candidates’ development of reflection, critical thinking, problem-solving and professional dispositions. Faculty use a variety of instructional strategies that reflect an understanding of different learning styles. They integrate diversity and technology throughout their teaching. They assess their own effectiveness as teachers, including the positive effects they have on performance.
  • They are actively involved with the professional world of practice in P-12 schools.
     
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 2: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching (p. 82)

G(9) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
Faculty use a variety of instructional strategies that reflect an understanding of different models and approaches to learning.   IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 2: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching (p. 82)

G(10) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
Instruction encourages the candidate’s development of reflection, critical thinking, problem-solving, and professional dispositions.   IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 2: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching (p. 82)

G(11) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
Teaching in the unit reflects knowledge and experiences with diversity and exceptionalities. Standard 5 Modeling Best Practices
  • They integrate diversity and technology throughout their teaching.
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 2: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching (p. 82)

G(12) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The institution systematically evaluates the effect of faculty on candidate performance and fosters faculty professional development. Standard 5 Evaluation Faculty Performance
  • The unit conducts systematic and comprehensive evaluations of faculty teaching performance to enhance the competence and intellectual vitality of the professional education faculty. Evaluations of professional education faculty are used to improve teaching, scholarship and service of unit faculty.
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 6: Unit Evaluation of Professional Education Faculty Performance (p. 87)

G(13) Board of Teaching NCATE Evidence
The unit’s faculty demonstrates knowledge, skills, and dispositions which model best professional practices, assessment, and scholarship Standard 5 Scholarship
  • Professional education faculty demonstrate scholarly work in their field(s) of specialization. They are engaged in different types of scholarly work, based in part on the mission of their institutions.
IR Standard 5 (p. 79) | Evidence

Element 3: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Scholarship (p. 84)

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