项目成功数据

The mission of the Department of Education is to elevate the teaching profession by educating the next generation of teachers. We achieve this mission through:

• Rigor – alignment with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• Residency – full-year, mentored induction into the profession
• Modeling – scaffolded professional teaching interactions and practices
• Teamwork – deliberate, cohort-based, collaborative experiences
• Growth mindset – a purposeful commitment to fostering growth and reflection

Measures of our success toward meeting our goals include the following objective data:

• 100% job placement of Master of Arts in Teaching candidates since 2016
• 93% or higher pass rate on all New York State Teacher Certification Exams
• 93% 5-year persistence rate among alumni in the field

To continually improve upon our teacher education model, the programs have recently integrated the following support for graduate candidates and alumni:

• 15-hour seminar on diversity and inclusion
• 10-hour workshop series on the job market
• An annual alumni event with professional development opportunities

我们的质素评估

The Clarkson Department of Education has an integrated and comprehensive quality assurance program, 其中包括:

• An Advisory Board made up of alumni, 公立学校合作伙伴, independent and charter schools, 以及社区伙伴. The Board meets twice annually to tackle challenges in the field and lend expertise to strategic planning and departmental decisions.
• Institutional course evaluations
• 年度教师评估
• 一个验证, residency assessment instrument which is part of a national consortium providing benchmarking and comparative data annually
• 一个验证 dispositions tool to measure and provide feedback to all candidates on their growth toward developing professional dispositions
• New York State Teacher Certification Exams, including the Educating All Students exam and Content Specialty Tests
• A culture of continual assessment, research and redesign with the goal of meeting the needs of our school partners and larger education field

For further details, please see the 教育部门's annual accreditation report at this link. 

成功的措施

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Because fewer than ten students are in each of the disciplinary cohorts (biology, Chinese, math, etc.), the CST reported scores are not disaggregated by discipline.

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技术

技术 is a cross-cutting theme in all Clarkson Master of Arts in Teaching courses. Candidates are continually expected to use technology in service to their curriculum design and instruction with a focus on modeling and teaching effective applications of technology to students. ED 560 Modern Teacher weaves together the latest trends in the field of teaching with the impact technology is having on the field. All students prepare and present screencasts, 万事皆, and a variety of different classroom-ready applications. 除了课程作业, all candidates complete a full-year teaching residency during which they are specifically evaluated on their effective use of technology as a teaching and learning tool.

面向所有学习者的教学

技术也是如此, the integration of strategies to effectively meet the needs of students with disabilities and students with limited English proficiency cuts across all of the Master of Arts in Teaching curriculum. Topics related to student support are the specific focus of ED 550 Effective 面向所有学习者的教学. This course includes detailed instruction related to teaching strategies, 教育法, 目前的研究. In addition to the formal coursework, candidates write daily lesson plans throughout their full-year residency. The required lesson plan format asks candidates to apply their learned teaching strategies to meet the needs of all students. Candidates' mentors and university supervisors read and provide feedback on all lesson plans. 

NC-SARA规定

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