Evidence

Standard 3: Field Experiences and Clinical Practice

The unit and its school partners design, implement, and evaluate field experiences and clinical practice so that teacher candidates and other school personnel develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn.

Field experiences are clearly connected to MBOT and NCATE standards, and conceptual framework. Evidence indicates that experiences are designed to impact student learning and meet individual candidate needs. Interviews, review of assessment data, and school visits indicate that candidates complete highly structured programs. Candidate completers and employer surveys indicate a high degree of satisfaction with knowledge, skills and dispositions demonstrated.
—NCATE final report, 2006

			Conceptual framework
Element 1: Collaboration between Unit and School Partners
			Administrative licensure advisory boards membership
			Clinical experiences handbook
			Clinical experiences policies
			Cooperating Teacher Demographic Survey - instrument and data
			Council on Teacher Education
			Council on Teacher Education advisory board
			Council on Teacher Education clinical experiences sub-committee charges
			Evaluations of student teaching supervisors - instruments and data
			Field experiences application (You have been accepted website)
			Handbooks for advanced programs
			Minnesota Standards of Effective Practice for Teachers (MNSEPT) (external site)
			MN Rules for teacher prepartion (8700.7600 Subpart 5.c) (external site)
			School counseling practicum sites
			School psychology practicum sites
			Student teaching agreement
			Table 3.1 Distribution of student teaching placements 2004-05 school year
Element 2: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Field Experiences and Clinical Practices
			Administrative licensure competencies
			Administrative licensure portfolio
			BOT rules regarding student teaching placements
			Clinical experiences handbook
			Clinical experiences policies
			Clinical experiences responsibilities and dispositions
			Cooperating teachers Web site
			Council on Teacher Education
			Global Student Teaching (external site)
			Global Student Teaching placements
			Global Student Teaching protocols
			Handbooks for advanced programs
			Mid-term assessment of student teaching
			Minnesota Board of School Administrators (external site)
			New Era workshop for Univeristy supervisors
			School counseling Evaluation of Practicum Student
			Student teaching
			Table 3.2 Clinical experiences summary: initial programs
			Teacher Education Data System (TEDS)
			University supervisor workshops
Element 3: Candidates’ Development and Demonstration of Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions to Help all Students Learn
			Case conference description
			Clinical experiences handbook
			College-wide clinical experience assessment tools
			Context for reflective conferencing
			Dispositions Assessment - instruments and data
			Evaluation of Student Teaching - instrument and data
			Formative assessment for practicum and clinical experiences
			Mid-term assessment and final evaluation of student teaching
			School counseling Evaluation of Practicum Student
			School psychology Evaluation of Trainee - instrument and data
			Standards Rubric - instrument and data
			Table 3.3 Summary of student ethnic characteristics in P-12 schools where student teachers were placed – 2004-05
			Table 3.4 Summary of student need characteristics in P-12 schools where student teachers were placed – 2004-05
			Table 3.5 Evaluation of candidate clinical performance assessment of P-12 learning and collaborative problem-solving to assure high academic achievement of all students by University supervisor
			Teacher education assessment system graphic