May 2014 – CEHS Curriculum Revision

Meeting Notes – Friday, May 16, 2014

While there was not an official curriculum redesign meeting, a portion of the EDST department meeting was dedicated to content relevant to the curriculum revision work.

Dean May provided an overview and information that Genesis, the student data management company, is going to enter into a long term arrangement with CEHS. All students and faculty in the EDST department will have access to the data sandbox that was developed on a trial basis for use this past Spring semester. We are contacting Genesis about coming to campus on Monday, June 23rd for a more in depth training and look at the data available. This is the same date as Pirate Adventure.

A large amount of time was dedicated to discussing and looking at the feedback from the ESED and SCED focus groups that took place at the end of the Spring 2014 semester. The PowerPoint presentation was distributed by the dean via email after the meeting. Dates for development of both short and long term goals for both programs were also communicated via email.

As part of the development of short term goals, the dean communicated the missing pieces for the Pass-Port portals to be developed for the Fall 2014 semester. This included items for ESED Portals 1, 2 and 3 and SCED Portals 1 and 2. Rubrics and assessments need to be completed by June 15.

The remainder of the meeting focused on EDST department business. Enjoy the activities and events related to commencement this weekend. We are looking forward to a productive summer and a great start to the Fall semester!

TLTC Summer Technology Workshops

Veroica Armour, the newly hired Instructional Designer in TLTC, recently shared an email with information on the TLTC Summer Technology Workshops being offered. For more information on the sessions, you can either visit the Computer Training Classroom Website or contact William Otskey, William.Otskey@shu.edu. Additionally, Veronica can be reached at Veronica.Armour@shu.edu. Veronica will also be at the EDST meeting on Friday, May 16th, if you’d like to speak with her in person.

The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center is again offering their annual summer technology workshops for faculty and staff. This year the theme is Step It Up With Technology. Don’t miss these informative sessions, all held in the Computer Training Classroom, located on the ground floor of the Walsh Library. Lunch is included, with a fitness towel as a gift for attending.

Online and Hybrid Learning Fundamentals – May 28, 2014

To meet the needs of all learners, new modes of instruction need to be explored. Online and hybrid learning are two modes of instruction that are hot topics in teaching and learning but the transition from face-to-face coursework and activities to alternate environments can be challenging. This session will focus on essential elements of online and hybrid course development including an overview of Quality Matters and the available resources for online and hybrid course development.

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Introduction to Personal Lecture Capture – June 4, 2014

This session will provide faculty members with an overview of the Echo360 Personal Capture System at Seton Hall University. Participants will have an opportunity to view a personal capture being created, edited, and published. Discussion will include how faculty can request an Echo360 Personal Capture account, downloading, installing, and configuring the Echo360 Personal Capture software. Best practices will be covered via viewing a sample Personal Capture from the student’s point of view. Participants will have the opportunity to create a sample Echo360 Personal Capture recording prior to requesting their own account.

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Go the Extra Mile with Blackboard – June 11, 2014

Go beyond the basics of Blackboard with this hands-on workshop. This workshop will show you how to incorporate media, utilize voice tools and manage student assessments through various Blackboard features. The day will conclude with a demonstration of Blackboard Collaborate, a webinar tool for synchronous online instruction, which will be available soon.

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Audience Response and Classroom Engagement Tools – June 18, 2014

This workshop will involve a demo of the Top Hat audience engagement and participation software, which allows students to respond to class material both in and out of the physical classroom using virtually any device. Quickly create polls to elicit feedback from students so that you can gauge their understanding of course content. We will also demo the DyKnow software, which allows faculty to share and record presentations to share with students, quickly assess student understanding through polls and instant questions, as well as many other collaborative features. We hope you will join us to learn how to incorporate exciting new student engagement strategies in your courses.

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Personal Computers: Back to Basics – July 9, 2014

We have had a lot of requests for a computer basics course, so here it is. This session will cover basics such as turning on your machine to shutting it down properly, how to work with Windows, how the internet works and browsing techniques. In addition, we will discuss where to save your files and how to protect them. This course will help you become more comfortable with a PC, its components and how to use it to your advantage. If you struggle with trying to figure out what you’re looking at and what’s happening, this course is for you.

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E-Mail, Files, Software, How Do I Manage It All? – July 16, 2014

Are you frustrated with receiving tons of e-mail every day, the stream of new software is available every day, or locating that file that you were on last week? These are common dilemmas we all have to work through but how do you manage it all? This course will show you best practices for dealing with e-mail, how to set up a system for storing files you need and how to protect both of them. We’ll also delve into the realm of “cloud” drives and how they can help you with both work and personal files.

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Spreadsheets 101: Using Excel – July 23, 2014

We will cover a whole myriad of Excel topics during this session so come prepared to work at learning how to properly use this software. Besides formulas, we’ll cover creating graphs, using database functions, data validation, linking spreadsheets and a lot more. It will be a full day with attendees executing these techniques to help make you more efficient with this powerful software.

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Win a FitBit Wristband! – Attend a TLTC Summer Series Event to enter the raffle. Increase your chances by attending more than one event! Drawing will take place on July 24, 2014.

For descriptions and a list of more offerings visit the Computer Training Classroom Website or contact William Otskey, William.Otskey@shu.edu.

NJDOE – Updated NJ Professional Teaching Standards and AchieveNJ Update – May 2014

Dr. Martinelli, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs shared two updates from the NJ Department of Education.

Following is an overview of both communications from the NJDOE.

1. On April 1, 2014, NJ updated the Professional Standards for Teachers to more closely align with the 2011 Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards. The overview from NJDOE as well as links to the full crosswalk between the NJ Professional Standards for Teachers and the InTASC standards are located on the Teacher Preparation page within this site.

2.. Peter Shulman, Assistant Commissioner/Chief Talent Officer, Division of Teacher and Leader Effectiveness distributed an update on May 6, 2014. It is an update on AchieveNJ and focuses on completing the teacher and adminstrator evaluations for the 2013-14 school year and also includes an update of SGO’s 2.0 for next academic year. This letter can be found in its entirety on the Standards & Regulation page within this site.

April 25, 2014 Curriculum Revision Meeting Notes

The following are the meeting notes and comments from the April 25, 2014 Curriculum Revision meeting.

Dean May took the lead on this meeting. She spent some time reviewing what we have done and discussed over the past year including:

Communicating and becoming familiar with the new CAEP standards
Identifying and mapping SPA standards, CAEP Standards, the new INTASC standards and the Danielson Framework to each other and cross-referencing them
Creating this blog for a single point of communication and resources
Gathering and compiling syllabi in one location within the blog for reference and communication
Visiting groups and presentations – Technology Advisory Committee and the Genesis and NJEA SGO presentations
Continuing work within Pass-Port and the Portals
Gathering feedback from students and alumni via focus groups and surveys
Evaluating and discussing how the current curriculum might be redesigned and realigned to better meet our students’ needs

Dean May provided several resources to help further the discussion and consider next steps. One of the excerpts provided was from the Journal of Teacher Education. The entire article on Core Practices and Pedagogies of Teacher Education: A Call for a Common Language and Collective Activity can be found within the Scholarship and Teaching section of this blog.

The dean noted that we are ending our year of information gathering and reflection. It’s time for programs to meet and establish some short and long term strategic goals for program continuous improvement. The short term goals should focus on essential steps before the start of the fall semester, while the long term goals should have interim steps and deadlines throughout the next academic year.

When programs have established their short and long term goals, we will look for common goals to maximize resource support. Programs do not have to pursue all of the same goals, but where there is a sensed need across the unit, we will work collaboratively.

March 28, 2014 Meeting Notes

This post is a little delayed. Apologies for the slow follow up to the meeting. Due to a number of different circumstances, this meeting had a smaller turnout of attendees and was basically combined with the EDST Department meeting.

Following are the main topic areas that were discussed and required follow up or next steps:

1. Genesis Overview – The faculty who were able to attend the Genesis presentation Wednesday, March 5th provided an overview and gave feedback on the session, Genesis as a student information database and inpout on the lesson plan format that is used within the Genesis system. Dr. Devlin-Scherer. Dr. Carr, Dr. Daly and Dr. Peskin all provided their feedback. If you were unable to attend the Genesis session or the Curriculum Revision meeting and would like more information, please feel free to contact one of those faculty members or stop by JH Room 434 for a Genesis folder/packet.

2. Alumni Survey – Final review and feedback on the Initial Programs and IDAT/SLMS Alumni Survey was requested from the faculty. That input was included in a draft that was emailed to faculty on April 4th for final approval. In the time between this meeting and posting of these notes, the surveys have been created in Qualtrics and are ready for electronic distribution to alumni who have graduated between 2010 and 2013. We are waiting to receive alumni contact information from the alumni office and then they will be distributed.

3. Pass-Port Portals – A spreadsheet was distributed and discussed with those in attendance. It included a starting point of what could be included in Portals 1, 2, 3 and 4 for each major and secondary education concentration. The request was made that by the end of the Spring 2014 semester each program provide feedback and input as to what assessments should be included in each portal. Specifically, Secondary Education was asked to identify key assessments for Portals 1 and 2 and ESED were to verify and validate Portals 1, 2 and 3.

4. Supervisor Training – There was feedback and a request from some faculty to look into providing training or an information session for the supervisors to ensure consistency and standardization of messaging and observations. Some of the topics discussed as possible topics for inclusion in the session were classroom management, what to observe and look for at each field observation, how to communicate in a respectful, kind and supportive manner with interns, lesson plan approval and review, and a method for improving communication between faculty, supervisors and cooperating teachers. Dr. Peskin, Dr. Mueller and Dr. Liberty volunteered to help coordinate this effort.