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NCATE Standards & Exhibits

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Shared Vision:


Establishes the shared vision for a unit's efforts in preparing educators to work effectively in P-12 schools. It provides direction for programs, courses, teaching, candidate performance, scholarship, service, and unit accountability. The conceptual framework is knowledge-based, articulated, shared, coherent, consistent with the unit and/or institutional mission, and continuously evaluated.


Standards

Exhibits

Standard 1

Candidate Knowledge, Skills & Dispositions:
Candidates preparing to work in schools as teachers or other professional school personnel know and demonstrate the content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to help all candidates learn. Assessments indicate that candidates meet professional, state, and institutional standards. 


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Standard 2

Assessment System & Unit Evaluation:
The unit has an assessment system that collects and analyzes data on the applicant qualifications, the candidate and graduate performance, and unit operations to evaluate and improve the unit and its programs.

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Standard 3 

Field Experience & Clinical Practice:
The unit and its school partners design, implement, and evaluate field experiences and clinical practice so that teacher candidates and other school personnel develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all candidates learn.


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Standard 4

Diversity:
The unit designs, implements, and evaluates curri culum and experiences for candidates to acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all candidates learn. These experience include working with diverse higher education and school faculty, diverse candidates and diverse students in P-12 schools.


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Standard 5

Faculty Qualifications, Performance & Development:
Faculty are qualified and model best professional practices in scholarship, service, and teaching ,including the assessment of their own effectiveness as related to candidate performance; they also collaborate with colleagues in the disciplines and schools. The unit systematically evaluates faculty performance and facilitates professional development.



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Standard 6

Unit Governance & Resources:
The unit has the leadership, authority, budget, personnel, facilities, and resources, including information technology resources, or the preparation of candidates to meet professional, state, and institutional standards.

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