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STANDARD 6: UNIT
GOVERNANCE AND RESOURCES
The unit has the leadership, authority,
budget, personnel, facilities, and resources including information
technology resources, for the preparation of candidates to meet professional,
state, and institutional standards.
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Unit Leadership and Authority
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ACCEPTABLE
The unit has the leadership and authority
to plan, deliver, and operate coherent programs of study. The
unit effectively manages or coordinates all programs so that
their candidates are prepared to meet standards. Faculty
involved in the preparation of educators, P-12 practitioners,
and other members of the professional community participate in
program design, implementation, and evaluation of the unit and
its programs. The unit provides a mechanism and facilitates
collaboration between unit faculty and faculty in other units of
the institution involved in the preparation of professional
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TARGET
The unit provides the leadership for
effectively coordinating all programs at the institution design
to prepare education professionals to work in P-12 schools. The
unit and other faculty collaborate with P-12 practitioners in
program design, delivery, and evaluation of the unit and its
programs. Colleagues in other units at the institution involved
in the preparation of professional educators, school personnel,
and other organizations recognize the unit as a leader. The unit
provides professional development on effective teaching for
faculty in other units of the institution. |
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Unit Budget
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ACCEPTABLE
The unit receives sufficient budgetary
allocations at least proportional to other units on campus or
similar units at other campuses to provide programs that prepare
candidates to meet standards. The budget adequately supports
on-campus and clinical work essential for preparation of
professional educators.
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TARGET
Unit budgetary allocations permit faculty
teaching scholarship and service that extend beyond the unit to
P-12 education and other programs in the institution. The budget
for curriculum, instruction, faculty, clinical work,
scholarship, etc., supports high quality work within the unit
and its school partners. |
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Personnel
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ACCEPTABLE
Workload policies, including on-line
course delivery, allow faculty members to be effectively engaged
in teaching, scholarship, assessment, advisement, collaborative
work in P-12 schools, and service.
Faculty loads for teaching on campus and
on line generally do not exceed 12 hours for undergraduate
teaching and 9 hours for graduate teaching. Supervision of
clinical practice does not generally exceed 18 candidates for
each full-time equivalent faculty member. The unit makes
appropriate use of full-time, part-time, and clinical faculty as
well as graduate assistants so that program coherence and
integrity are assured. The unit provides an adequate number of
support personnel so that programs can prepare candidates to
meet standards. The unit provides adequate resources and
opportunities for professional development of faculty, including
training in the use of technology.
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TARGET
Workload policies and practices permit and
encourage faculty not only to be engaged in a wide range of
professional activities, including teaching scholarship,
assessment, advisement, work in schools and service, but also to
professionally contribute on a community, state, regional or
national basis. Form policies and procedures have been
established to include on-line course delivery in determining
faculty load. The unit’s use of part-time faculty and of
graduate teaching assistants is purposeful and employed to
strengthen program, including the preparation of teaching
assistants. Clinical faculty included in the unit as valued
colleagues in preparing educators. Unit provision of support
personnel significantly enhances the effectiveness of faculty in
their teaching and mentoring of candidates. The unit supports
professional development activities that engage faculty in
dialogue and skill development related to emerging theories and
practices. |
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Unit Facilities
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ACCEPTABLE
The unit has adequate campus and school
facilities to support candidates in meeting standards. The
facilities support faculty and candidate’s use of information
technology in instruction .
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TARGET
The unit has outstanding facilities on
campus and with partner schools to support candidates in meeting
standards. Facilities support the most recent developments in
technology that allow faculty to model the use of technology and
candidates to practice its use of instructional purposes. |
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Unit Resources Including Technology
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ACCEPTABLE
The unit allocates resources across
programs to prepare candidates to meet standards for their
fields. It provides adequate resources to develop and implement
the unit’s assessment plan. The unit has adequate information
technology resources to support faculty and candidates. Faculty
and candidates have access both to sufficient and current
library and curricular resources and electronic information.
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TARGET
The unit aggressively and successfully
secure resources to support high-quality and exemplary programs
and projects to ensure that candidates meet standards. The
development and implementation of the unit’s assessment system
is well funded. The unit serves as an information technology
resource in education beyond the education programs-to the
institution, community, and other institutions. Faculty and
candidates have access to exemplary library, curricular, and
electronic information resources that not only serve the unit,
but also a broader constituency.
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