Teacher Education Committee

C34S

Membership List Y34G.

• Planning, developing, and administering a program for the education of teachers.
• Engaging in continuous study of the teacher education program and making recommendations to the Curriculum Committee and/or the administration for any needed or desirable institutional policy changes with regard to teacher education.

• Director of Teacher Education, chair
• Eleven faculty members who serve as licensure program coordinators from each of the following areas: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, English, Spanish, Physical Education and Health, Mathematics, Middle Grades Education, Music, Science, Social Studies/History, and Special Education
• Coordinator of Secondary and K-12 Programs
• Director(s) of graduate programs
• Education Department Chair
• Director of Assessment and Accountability
• Director of Education Outreach
• Director of Teaching Fellows Program
• Coordinator of Technology for Teacher Education
• Two public school representatives, appointed by the Dean of the School of Education
• Two non-voting teacher candidates, appointed by the Dean of the School of Education

• The committee meets as often as necessary (usually three or four times per semester) to carry out its duties.
• The committee develops and supervises a system of selection, interviewing, and enrollment of students for admission to the teacher education program.
• The committee determines standards to be met by students for the satisfactory completion of teacher education curricula.
• The committee provides guidance for students who have been admitted to the teacher education program and for their advisors.
• The committee makes decisions on committee business through normal parliamentary procedure and a majority vote of members present.
• The Chair selects another committee member to record the minutes of the meetings.
• The committee notifies the Department of Education and the subject area department (for secondary education majors) of a teacher education applicant's admission or rejection to the program.
• The committee notifies the general faculty of any curricular or policy changes concerning teacher education through communication with the Curriculum Committee and/or the University administration.