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Professional Development Schools
Professional Development Schools (PDS) are collaborative partnerships between school districts and universities that provide opportunities for teachers and administrators to shape the development of the teaching profession and positively influence student learning in the schools. We have partnered with these school districts to conduct PDS activities:
- Carbondale Elementary District #95
- Carbondale High School District #160
- Carterville Community Unit School District #5
- Desoto Community Consolidated School District # 86
- Giant City Consolidated School District #130
- Murphysboro Community Unit Schools District #186
- Trico Community Unit School District #176
- Unity Point Community Consolidated School District #140
Advisory Board of Teacher Education (ABTE)
The SOE values the collaboration and support of our P-12 school partners to ensure that high-quality clinical practice is central to our educator preparation programs.
The Advisory Board for Teacher Education consists of unit faculty as well as P-12 teachers and administrators and meets three times a year to discuss and share responsibility for continuous improvement of our candidate preparation.
The Board is involved in the analysis of multiple measures of candidate progress and complete achievements to evaluate programs, make recommendations for improvement, and identify models of excellence.
Heidi Bacon
Faculty, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC
Julie Bohnsack
SIU Instructor and P-12 educator (retired)
Daniel Booth
Superintendent, Carbondale Elementary School District #95
Andrea Brown
Illinois State Board of Education (retired)
Dulce Garcia
SIUC Graduate and current Kindergarten Educator, Unity Point School
Cheryl Graff
Regional Superintendent of Schools, ROE #30
Crystal Shelby-Caffey
Faculty, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC
Nancy Mundschenk, Board Chair
Office of Teacher Education, SIUC (retired)
Patrick Rice
Superintendent, Cairo School District #1
Gerald Speith
Clinical Supervisor, SIUC and School Board Member Trico School District #176
Luke Stegman
SIUC Graduate and current Science Educator, Murphysboro High School
Nathaniel Wilson
Superintendent/Principal, DeSoto Grade School
State Educator Licensure Board
Illinois State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board (SEPLB)
www.isbe.net/Pages/State-Educator-Preparation-and-Licensure-Board.aspx
Program Improvement and Assessment Committee (PIAC)
PIAC is composed of Program Coordinators and other representative faculty from every Teacher Education major offered in the School of Education and four colleges: Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences; Arts and Media; Engineering, Computing, Technology, and Mathematics; and Liberal Arts. PIAC has designed and implemented a comprehensive assessment system and agreed upon data collection methods for CAEP accreditation and Illinois State Board of Education program compliance. PIAC has shared responsibility for the Conceptual Framework underlying Teacher Education at SIU; for the values, commitments and behaviors we expect of our teacher candidates; for how we plan to assess those values, commitments, and behaviors in all Teacher Education courses and in the schools; and for how to monitor the effectiveness of the assessment system.