might you be interested and able to serve on team to "condense:" science cert standards for prep program approval on either 4/11 or 4/12?

[Freeda, Stanley]

Dear Colleagues,

 

We are seeking experienced educators and teacher educators to help us in a very important new initiative. As you may know, New Hampshire’s educator preparation programs focus on preparing future educators and school leaders to meet the standards for certification as a professional educator.

In some credential areas, the number of certification standards can be considerable. In these instances, it becomes a challenge for those who volunteer to review a program and recommend it for state approval to know which of the many standards are most “essential” for the program to address. This also makes it challenging for the preparation program since, with so many standards to address, it’s unclear where they should most invest their limited resources, and how best to prepare for external review of so many standards.

 

For these reasons, we are seeking experienced and insightful science educators (as well as those who prepare them), such as yourself, to serve on a “standards writing team” to review the certification standards for the given credential.  The team will recommend no more than twelve that it regards as especially “essential” for the NH programs that prepare educators in this field to address. Depending on the team members’ availability, the given team will meet for one day on either Thursday April 11^th or Friday April 12^th at Southern New Hampshire University, starting with breakfast at 8 a.m. and ending by no later than 4 p.m.

 

Continental breakfast, lunch, CEUs – and our deepest thanks – will be provided.

We need at least:

·       2 educators in chemistry

·       3 educators in earth space science

·       3 educators in life science

·       3 educators in middle level science

·       1 in physics for Thursday April 11^th

Might you be interested and available to serve on one of these teams? If so, could you please send the following information to Bob McLaughlin, administrator, Preparation Program Approval, NHDOE at Robert.m...@doe.nh.gov at your earliest convenience:

Your name, credential area(s) in which you would be qualified to review certification standards, your email address, and whether you would be available for a day-long meeting on April 11^th and/or April 12^th.

 

Thanks very much!

 

Sincerely,

 

Bob McLaughlin

 

Robert T. McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Chair, Association of Teacher Educators’ national commission on  technology and the future of teacher education

Administrator, Professional Educator Preparation Program Approval

New Hampshire Department of Education

101 Pleasant Street

Concord, NH 03301

Office:                    1.603.271.2634

Cell                         1.802.249.1159

Fax:                         1.603.271.8709