College of Education and Human Services

Teacher Education CREATE Team

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Meeting Minutes

Attendees: Dinah Volk, Tachelle Bank, Marius Boboc, Delores McCollum, Erin Herbruck, Kristine Still, Julie Beers, Andrea Celico, Laura Purnell, Dick Hurwitz, Anne Galletta, Brian Harper

Absent: Debbie Jackson

Meeting began at 10:00

Welcome

Dr. Hurwitz welcomed the Team.

Agenda

Diane Ravitch seminar was added to the agenda.

Diane Ravitch at the City Club

Summary of discussion comments. Poverty is greatest predictor of test scores. We are so focused on testing that we are hurting our students. It would have been nice for her to give recommendations to how to tackle poverty in the classroom.

Essential Content (K. Still): Report from Essential Content Sub-Team

Kristine Still presented the results of the essential content subcommittee. Discussion took place regarding meeting needs of all learners, what teaching is all about, diversity, broaden context to the community, academic and social diversity. Classroom management techniques and curriculum and teaching methods were included. Dick Hurwitz emphasized that we are simply looking at the content and not the avenue to apply it at this time. The team identified items of essential content in the Sub-Team draft, and added others.

Dick will compile all of the identified essential content items and will send the list to Kristine. The Essential Content Sub-Team will organize and “massage” it and send it around for comments. The hope is to have a draft ready for the next CREATE Team meeting on February 29.

Program Standards (B. Harper): Report from Standards Sub-Team

The Standards Sub-Team examined CSU and state standards. The Sub-Team decided to use the state standards as a starting point while clarifying language and making sure that important aspects of the CSU standards were included. The next Program Standards Sub-Team meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 22nd.

Program Models: Reports from Team Members.

Work sheets were handed out to enable note taking.

Erin Herbruck reviewed the Wisconsin model and the St. Cloud model.

Julie Beers reviewed Teacher U.

Andrea Celico reviewed Boston Ped Labs.

We will finish reviewing models at the next meeting. The summaries and the strengths and weakness will be put in the drop box. Dick will send around the template for taking notes on the various program models.

Other

The CREATE website is up and running. We are still trying to work it out so that individuals who wish to comment on the CREATE documents can do so in a way that the comments will be accessible to others who view the docuements.

For Next Meeting

Dick will talk to Maria Angelova regarding presenting to the team.

Judy Usherman wants to talk about problem based learning.

A new draft of the Essential Content list will be reviewed

Program Standards will be completed and reviewed.

The Program Models will be completed and reviewed.

Meeting Schedule

The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 29th at 10:00 in JH 292

Recorded by Jennifer Higgins