During the 2006 NCATE accreditation visit, the Educator Preparation Provider (EPP) unit at ECU received three AFIs or Areas for Improvement. According to the NCATE Glossary, an Area for Improvement is: A […]
11.14.2014
Traditionally, student teaching has involved the pairing of one teacher candidate (intern) with one experienced classroom teacher (clinical teacher). Gradually, the intern takes on more and more responsibility in the […]
11.13.2014
The Senior Year Internship is a required clinical experience for teacher education majors at East Carolina University. It is a two-semester experience within a public school classroom, under the mentorship […]
11.11.2014
In small teacher preparation programs, the issue of implementation and scale-up of using a standardized performance assessment, like edTPA, can be challenging. Peck and McDonald (2013) found one of the […]
11.7.2014
The Educator Preparation Provider (EPP) Unit at East Carolina University is hosting an accreditation visit by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) on February 8-10, 2015. The […]
11.6.2014
With edTPA implementations growing nationwide, it is imperative that teacher preparation programs explore meaningful ways to feed that data back to faculty for program and unit improvement. Key to this […]
11.5.2014