As part of its Professional Education Program Report
that is submitted to DPI prior to the site visit, each professional
education institution must complete the Self-Assessment of Institutional
Policies and Practices Form. Please indicate whether your institution
has met each rule or statutory requirement in Yes/No column. Possible
sources of evidence for documenting how your institution has met
the requirements are suggested. However, this list is not exhaustive.
Each institution must identify where specific evidence of meeting
each rule or statutory requirement may be found (e.g. See Faculty
Policy Manual p. 5) in the Institutional Evidence column. Please
do not submit this evidence with the Self-Assessment Form.
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Institutional
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PI 34.10 Organization and administration
of professional education programs.
(1) Organization Support for Professional
Education.
(1) The institution insures the SCD is clearly
identified and has the responsibility, authority and personnel
to develop, administer, evaluate and revise all professional
education programs. |
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(2) Recognition of SCD’s Authority.
The institution has policies which clearly identify
selection, promotion and tenure of faculty, teaching loads,
faculty development opportunities and institutional and community
service expectations. |
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(3) Resources and Facilities for Program
Operation.
(a) The institution insures the SCD has adequate
resources to support teaching and scholarship by faculty and
candidates. |
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| (b) The institution insures the SCD
has sufficient facilities, equipment and budgetary resources
to fulfill its mission and offer quality programs. |
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| (c) The SCD insures that constituent
groups from the local community are involved in the development,
evaluation and revision of all professional education programs. |
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PI 34.11 Faculty.
(1) Recruitment of diverse faculty.
The institution recruits, hires and retains
a diverse professional education faculty. |
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(2) Faculty Qualifications.
(a) Faculty who teach in initial and advanced
programs leading to licensure have preparation specifically
related to their assignments, hold an advanced degree and
demonstrate expertise in their assigned area of responsibility. |
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| (b) Faculty who teach in initial
and advanced programs are knowledgeable about current elementary,
middle and secondary curriculum, practices, requirements, technology
and administrative practices appropriate to their assignment. |
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| (c) Faculty who supervise practicum
students, student teachers or interns have at least 3 years
of experience in prekindergarten through grade 12 settings or
administrative settings appropriate to their assignment. |
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| (d) Faculty who teach in an initial
or advanced program are actively engaged in professional practice
with prekindergarten through grade 12 schools, professional
organizations and other education related endeavors at the local,
state or national level. |
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| (e) Faculty responsible for the leadership
or coordination of initial or advanced programs leading to licensure
must hold a minimum of a master’s degree or its equivalent
in the principal discipline of the program. |
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(3) Promotion, Load and Professional Development.
(a) The institution has workload policies which
insure all faculty who teach in initial and advanced programs
have the time and resources to accommodate teaching, advising,
research and scholarship, administration, committee work,
supervision and other institutional and community service
activities. |
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| (b) The institution provides the
resources, time and opportunities for all faculty to engage
in professional development to enhance intellectual and professional
vitality. |
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| (c) The SCD has sufficient numbers
of full time faculty to teach in initial and advanced programs
to insure consistent quality and delivery of programs. |
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PI 34.12 Facilities, Technology, Instructional
Resources and Support.
(1) Facilities.
(a) The institution provides adequate classroom,
laboratory, office and workspace which have current technology,
equipment and supplies needed to fulfill the mission of the
institution. |
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| (b) The institution provides a library
that serves as the primary resource center and adequately supports
instruction, research and services pertinent to the needs of
professional education programs. Resources related to professional
education are organized and indexed so faculty and candidates
can easily identify, find and use them. The library provides
up-to-date catalogs, indexes, directories and electronic information
access tools. |
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(2) Instructional Resources.
(a) The institution maintains an instructional
materials center that is accessible on a schedule approximating
that of the main library which houses instructional materials
used in elementary, middle and high schools including sample
textbooks, periodicals, computer software and other teaching
materials. These materials include print and non-print materials
and teaching aids, materials for the evaluation and assessment
of learning and the institution provides instruction in the
construction and use of the materials. |
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| (b) The institution provides sufficient
qualified library and technical staff who have substantial knowledge
of materials used in schools and school library media centers
to support the library, the instructional materials collection,
media and computer support services and other instructional
technology necessary to support the goals of the professional
education programs. |
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| (c) The institution ensures that
candidates have access to and can use current educational technology
in instructional settings. This includes equipments such as
computers, projectors, recorder and other specialized equipment
used for teaching. |
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(3) Review and Purging.
All resources are identifiable, relevant, accessible
and systematically reviewed by professional staff to make
acquisition and purging decisions. |
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PI 34.13 Student Services.
(1) Advising Resources and Materials.
The institutional insures all candidates have
access to and are provided information and resources on student
services including personal, professional and career counseling,
career information, tutoring, academic and job placement assistance. |
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(2) Student support services.
The SCD insures all candidates, upon entry
into and throughout the professional education program, are
provided with an advisor and written information describing
the professional education program leading to licensure. |
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(3) Student Records.
(a) The institution maintains a cumulative record
on each of its candidates enrolled in an approved program
for license and that record contains a transcript and written
evaluations of field experiences completed during the clinical
program. |
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| (b) Each candidate has a portfolio
of evidence that demonstrates that the Wisconsin teaching/pupil/service
/administration standards have been met. Institutions do not
need to maintain a file copy of the portfolio. |
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| (c) The institution, in collaboration
with the department, systematically evaluates and reports to
the public graduate performance in obtaining employment in Wisconsin
schools or school districts as well as graduate performance
in advancing from the initial to professional educator license
and master educator license after the first five years of employment. |
- Reports to public of graduate performance
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PI 34.14 Student Recruitment, Admission
and Retention.
Diversity of Students.
The SCD has and implements an explicit plan
with adequate resources to recruit, admit and retain a diverse
student body. |
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