Standard 5.D
Modeling Best Professional Practices in Service
Target: Professional education faculty are actively engaged in dialogues about the design and delivery of instructional programs in both professional education and P-12 schools. They work in schools with colleagues. They provide leadership in the profession, schools, and professional associations at state, national, and international levels.
Professional education faculty members from three academic colleges are involved at any given time as members of the Basic Programs Committee and of the Advanced Programs Committee. In addition, another group of faculty members from the COE makes up the membership of the College of Education Council. These three bodies are substantially involved in dialogues about the design and delivery of professional education programs. The work of these groups may be seen in the extant minutes of the Basic Programs Committee, the extant minutes of the Advanced Programs Committee, and the minutes of the COE Council. In addition, each department has an "instruction" or "curriculum" committee which deals with program-specific aspects of design and delivery. (To see a copy of each COE department's "Department Input Document" (DID), click here and scroll down to the DID for each department.)
Numerous professional education faculty members from three colleges are substantially involved in P-12 schools. Examples of these interactions with P-12 colleagues on matters related to the design and delivery of instruction may be found in the Faculty Outreach section of the COE Office of Collaborative Education, the Service Beyond the University section of the Faculty Reports, the COE Annual Reports, the COE Monday Report, and faculty vitae in Exhibit 5.2.
Many COE faculty members hold leadership roles in professional organizations at the state, regional, and national levels. Examples of ones held during 2001-2002 may be found on p. 8 of the 2002 COE Annual Report. Comparable information for 2002-03 may be found in the 2003 COE Annual Report.