Tiered Licensure & Developmental Continuums August 9, 2011 CCSSO State Consortium on Educator Effectiveness (SCEE)
Dec 31, 2015
Tiered Licensure &Developmental Continuums
August 9, 2011
CCSSOState Consortium on Educator
Effectiveness (SCEE)
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Using The Model Core Teaching Standards To Make A Difference For
Teachers And Their Students
Peter Winograd Director, University of New Mexico Center For
Education Policy Research
Kathleen Paliokas Program Director , Interstate Teacher
Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC), Council of Chief State School Officers
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1. Just me
2. Me and 1 other
3. Me and 2-5 others
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Presentation
The Challenges We Face
Brief Background
Why This Effort Is Important
Today’s Conversation
The Panel
Next Steps
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InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource For State Dialogue
In April, 2011, CCSSO released these standards. The purpose of this document “is to serve as a resource for states, districts, professional organizations, teacher education programs, teachers, and others as they develop policies and programs to prepare, license, support, evaluate, and reward today’s teachers. As noted above, a systemic approach and supportive infrastructure are essential to successful implementation of these standards.”
(p.5, InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards, CCSSO, 2011)
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The Challenges We Face
We believe that a systemic approach and a supportive infrastructure are essential to successful implementation of the InTASC Standards.
State licensure is, arguably, the most important policy infrastructure related to teaching and teaching standards.
The challenges we face are how to embed the Model Core Teaching Standards into the wide variety of state licensure systems facing challenges of their own.
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Brief Background
April 28-30, 2011 SCEE National Summit on Educator Effectiveness: Transforming State Systems For The Future
June 14, 2011 SCEE Webinar - Summit Strands: Where Do We Go From Here?
Lessons Learned
There is no clear definition of what a tiered licensure system looks like or how it is implemented across different states
Relationships between licensure, compensation, and educator evaluation are extremely complex
Teacher evaluation should inform decisions about professional development, tenure, dismissal, renewal and promotion at the local level, but it should not determine the revocation of a teacher’s license
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Ideas For Next Steps
Develop rubrics for the InTASC Standards across the developmental continuum that can be contained in tiered licensure systems
Develop communication strategies and partnerships that help states implement or strengthen tiered licensure systems that embed the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards in state policy
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Next Steps
Develop a usable source of information about the status of state tiered licensure systems, how they can be implemented or strengthened, related state policies, potential problems and how they can be avoided, research on their impact on student learning and other important outcomes.
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InTASC Standards – A New Vision of Teaching
Developmental Continuum
A Focus on 21st Century Knowledge and Skills
Personalized Learning for Diverse Learners
Increased Emphasis on Assessment Literacy
A Collaborative Professional Culture
New Leadership Roles for Teachers and Administrators
InTASC Standards – The Implications For Licensure
Licensure systems should:
Provide a coherent framework for assessments across teachers’ developmental career from initial licensure to renewal
Ensure that teacher candidates are well prepared to teach
Licensure systems should:
Support teacher growth over time
Provide incentives to encourage teachers to accept new roles and responsibilities
Encourage teachers to seek out continued training to gain the knowledge and skills they need
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Teacher Licensure Systems Vary Widely Across The Country
Unclear (3) 1 Level (10) 2 Levels (21) 3 Levels (12) 4 Levels (5)0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
5.9%
19.6%
41.2%
23.5%
9.8%
Source: NASDTEC Knowledgebase, www.nasdtec.info. Retrieved 4.24.11
What are some of the components of licensure systems?
Assessments – (pedagogy, content, performance, new approaches to teacher evaluation)
Links to teacher preparation (standards, alternative pathways, qualifications and requirements)
Induction support – (mentoring, coaching)
Structure of licenses, certificates (tiers, renewal requirements, K-12, subjects, special education, leadership)
Links to compensation
Links to hiring/firing/tenure/ethics
State Licensure Systems are Facing Challenges of Their Own
New approaches to teacher evaluation
The implementation of common core state standards
SEA budget cuts and staff reductions
SEA missions are changing
Alternative pathways into teaching
LEA budget cuts and staff reductions
Fewer opportunities for professional development
Others?
If the goal is to use the Model Core Teaching Standards to strengthen teaching,
AND
if professional learning is developmental across a continuum,
AND
if state licensure systems are facing many challenges,
THEN
what does this mean for how we strengthen our licensure systems?
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Panel Members
Linda Alder, Coordinator, Educator Effectiveness, Utah State Office of Education
Jean Satterfield, Assistant Superintendent, Certification & Accreditation , Maryland State Department of Education
Phillip Rogers, Executive Director, Education Professional Standards Board, Kentucky
Questions for Panel
1) Requests for rubrics and a developmental continuum aligned to the InTASC standards:
How would you use such a continuum and what are the
implications of one for how to design a tiered licensure system?
2) A tiered licensure system presumes a continuum of assessments:
Where do you see licensure assessment trending?
How does the idea of including measures of student growth and/or teacher evaluation results in licensure decisions fit in?
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Poll
Is your state currently working on changes to licensure? If no, you may skip. If yes, which elements are being changed?
a) Assessments
b) Links To Teacher Preparation
c) Induction
d) Licensure Structure
e) Links To Compensation
f) Links To Hiring/Firing/Tenure/Ethics
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