AILACTE National Forum

Annotated Agenda

(Sessions Listed Alphabetically by Title)

Session Title: A Dialogue about Difference: Understanding the Uniqueness of Teacher Education within the Higher Education Context

Presenter(s): Ellen S. Faith

Institution: Christian Brothers University

Summary: Professional education units are unlike other academic units in higher education. This session explores those differences and discusses strategies for unit leaders dealing with resistant faculty, perplexed upper administrators, and peers and faculty in other academic units.

Session Title: A Model for Leadership in Assessment and Accountability

Presenter(s): Dennis Sterner and Barbara Sanders

Institution: Whitworth College

Summary: Research on the need for leadership decisions regarding program and candidate accountability, and a description of a model for assessment leadership across programs in a liberal arts college school of education.

Session Title: A Success Story in West Tennessee

Presenter(s): Ileene Huffard and James L. Murphy

Institution: Freed-Hardeman University

Summary: The description of a program in which a small, private, church-affiliated university in rural West Tennessee transformed its teacher education program from one being almost exclusively white to one that became the second largest producer of African American teachers in the State of Tennessee.

Session Title: Building Consensus for Strong Liberal Arts and Teacher Education Collaboration

Presenter(s): Diana Rigden

Institution: Council for Basic Education and Maryville University

Session Title: Characteristics of High Performing Principals--A New Study

Presenter(s): Richard Conrath and John Smith

Institution: Saint Leo University

Summary: "What makes high performing leaders tick?" Researchers raised that question in a new study in which selected high performing principals were asked to take a personality inventory. Their initial findings will be presented. Participants will also review the inventory used.

Session Title: Educational Partnerships: A continuum for collaboration among Colleges of Education, Arts & Sciences, and Pre-K-12 schools

Presenter(s): Debra A. Colley and Nancy McGlen

Institution: Niagara University

Summary: Collaboration among Colleges of Education, Colleges of Arts and Sciences, and PreK-12 schools provides the opportunity for enhanced preparation of teachers and educational leaders, as well as the improvement of student performancce in the schools. This presentation will discuss a model for partnernships that suggests the importance of collaboration along a continuum from early childhood through professional development. Focused on common educational issues, leadership strategies and accomplishments will be highlighted.

Session Title: Leadership for Program Renewal: Successes & Challenges

Presenter(s): Jamie D. Stockton

Institution: DePauw University

Summary: Successes and challenges towards program renewal will be discussed as a means of encouraging those considering undertaking similar opportunities. It is hoped that session attendees will participate by sharing their journeys so that additional strategies can be gleaned by all.

Session Title: Models of Excellence Award Winners: Dwight C. Watson and Jill N. Lederhouse

Presenter(s): Dwight C. Watson and Jill Lederhouse

Institution: Hamline University

Session Title: No Chair or Director Left Behind: Support for New Administrators

Presenter(s): Jacqueline McDowell, Lynne Weisenbach and Dennis Sterner

Institution: Berry College

Summary: This panel will focus on emerging leaders considering moving or have recently moved into AILACTE chair and director roles. Topics include creating a culture for success, recruiting and retaining faculty, preparing for accreditation, working with the dean and president, continuing one's research, and growing comfortable with authority.

Session Title: Revising the End-of-Program Portfolio to Assist New Teachers in Preparing for State Licensing Mandates

Presenter(s): Jane MacKenzie , Beverly Reitsma and Cynthia Jackson

Institution: University of Indianapolis

Summary: The end-of-program (student teaching) portfolio can be a useful tool in assessing the proficiencies of teacher candidates, as well as key component within unit assessment system. This presentation reviews the process used to assure that the portfolio also prepares new teachers to complete state licensing mandates.

Session Title: Sinking or Swimming Together: Throwing a life raft to adjuncts in shark infested waters

Presenter(s): Carolyn Schoultz, Ann Bagley, Yvonne Giberson and Ellen Maracotta

Institution: Saint Leo University

Summary: Many small liberal arts colleges have opened 2 + 2 agreements with community colleges to stay afloat in a sea of tight budgets. Concurrently, state mandates, i.d., the sharks, increased dramatically for teacher education. This session shares ideas on supporting adjuncts at distant sites or on-line to maintain undergraduate elementary education program consistency and quality.

Session Title: The Challenge of Developing Educational Leaders in a Period of Accountability

Presenter(s): Kathryn Moran and Nancy Sutton

Institution: Univeristy of Indianapolis

Summary: Sharing examples of the change negotiation process, in both metropolitan area school districts and within a School of Education, the presenters will describe their parallel and intersecting work in this arena to foster new conceptions of educational leadership.

Session Title: The Slippery Slope of Folders, Binders and Other Such Portfolio Formats: E-Portfolios to actively manage student portfolios and maintain accreditation evidence, and to integrate continuous assessment in the evaluation of performance outcomes

Presenter(s): Geoff Coward

Institution: Wagner College

Summary: The intent of this presentation/demonstration is for Wagner College faculty and students to share their on-going experiences of using College Live Text to manage active portfolios, to maintain accreditation evidence, and to integrate continuous assessment in the evaluation of performance outcomes.

Session Title: You All Need to Make the Profession More Attractive: When High School Students of Color Consider the Teacher Profession

Presenter(s): Kay Williams

Institution: Hanover College

Summary: What factors influence the decision to be a teacher for a select group of minority high school students? How does this college's partnership with two urban high schools influence high school students' decision to teach? You are invited to contribute to research design and discourse about high school minority students' disposition to teach.