Evidence

Standard 5: Faculty Qualifications, Performance, and Development

Faculty are qualified and model best professional practices in scholarship, service, and teaching, including the assessment of their own effectiveness as related to candidate performance. They also collaborate with colleagues in the disciplines and schools. The unit systematically evaluates faculty performance and facilitates professional development.

Unit faculty members have extensive academic backgrounds and hold an earned doctoral degree or terminal degree. Unit faculty members model best practices in teaching and learning and collaborate with faculty from other units and from P-12 settings. Faculty members are very productive in areas of scholarship and provide extensive professional service. When rated by candidates, they are considered to be excellent teachers and scholars. They are involved in local, state, national, and international organizations.
—NCATE final report, 2006

			CEHD Compact - agreement with the University
			CEHD Constitution and Bylaws
			CEHD Strategic Plan 2005-2010
			Conceptual framework
			Council on Teacher Education
			Faculty handbook - policies and procedures
			Human resource materials for faculty
			Mission statement
			Organizational chart
			Workload guidelines for faculty
Element 1: Qualified Faculty
			Cooperating Teacher Demographic Survey - instrument and data
			Cooperating Teacher Handbook
			Council on Teacher Education
			Dispositions for cooperating teachers and University supervisors
			Graduate Assistants Policies and Procedures
			Measures of Teacher Quality in Minnesota (MTQM) survey conducted by MACTE (Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education)
			Professional and Administrative (P&A) Staff Policy and Procedures
			Resources for Academic Professional and Administrative Employees
			Student credit hours
			Table 5.1 Professional faculty organization
			Table 5.2 Highest educational degree earned by P & A professional education faculty and staff 2004-05
			Table 5.3 Highest educational degree earned by tenure/tenure-track professional education faculty 2004-05
			Table 5.4 Academic rank of professional education faculty who teach 2004-05
			Vitae for faculty and staff
Element 2: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching
			CEHD Technology Enhanced Learning services
			Conceptual framework
			Course syllabi
			Endowed chairs
			Faculty awards
			Faculty handbook - policies and procedures
			Instructional Strategies and Technologies Survey
			Learning Technologies program information
			Strategic plan
			Table 5.5 Mean student evaluation of CEHD and University faculty instruction 2004-05 using 1-7 scale
			University Center for Teaching and Learning Services
			University policy on evaluation of faculty teaching
			University Student Evaluation of Teaching
			Vitae for faculty and staff
			Workload guidelines for faculty
Element 3: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Scholarship
			Conceptual framework
			Grants and awards
			Guide to college expertise
			Mission statement
			Proposal and award reporting data
			Research Development office
			ResearchWorks publication about faculty research
			Table 5.6 Faculty scholarship 2000-05
			Vitae for faculty and staff
Element 4: Modeling Best Professional Practices in Service
			CEHD departments
			Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI)
			Continuing Professional Studies office
			Institute on Community Integration
			Research centers, labs, and projects
			Table 5.7 Faculty service 2000-05
			Vitae for faculty and staff
			Workload guidelines for faculty
Element 5: Collaboration
			Advanced Programs Representative Committee
			CAREI assembly of member school districts
			Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI)
			Collaboration with Patrick Henry High School article
			Committee on Civic Engagement and Service
			Continuing Professional Studies office
			Council on Teacher Education
			Council on Teacher Education advisory board
			Measures of Teacher Quality in Minnesota (MTQM) survey conducted by MACTE (Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education)
			Web sites for each college department and center
			Workload guidelines for faculty
Element 6: Unit Evaluation of Professional Education Faculty Performance
			Curriculum and Instruction intranet Web site
			Faculty handbook - policies and procedures
			Human resource materials for faculty
			Procedures for the Annual Post-Tenure Review
			University performance appraisals for Professional and Administrative staff
			University senate document: Avoiding Common Mistakes in the Tenure or Promotion Process
			Workload guidelines for faculty
Element 7: Unit Facilitation of Professional Development
			Faculty handbook - policies and procedures
			University Center for Teaching and Learning Services