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AASA: American
Association of School Administrators:
This organization " ... founded in 1865, is the
professional organization for over 16,500 educational
leaders." Their Web site is located here: AASA
Accreditation: A process for
assessing and enhancing academic and educational quality
through voluntary peer review. Accreditation informs the
public that an institution has a professional education
unit that has met state and national standards of
educational quality.
Accreditation with Stipulations:
An NCATE accreditation status that specifies critical
deficiencies that must be corrected within a specified
time. Failure to correct the deficiencies within the
specified time results in revocation of accreditation.
ACTFL: American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language: This
organization is "... dedicated to promoting the
study of foreign languages and culture as an integral
component of American education and society." Their
Web site is located here: ACTFL
Administrative Approval: The
status granted by the PSC after a successful paper review
and/or on-site review of programs submitted by Georgia
institutions with approved professional education units
and program(s). For institutions with approved
professional education units in the first five years of
operation of initial approval or for those institutions
seeking initial approval for programs in a field(s) not
previously approved by the PSC and at a degree level not
previously accredited by SACS, an on-site visit to apply
current standards and requirements is required for
program approval.
Advanced Preparation: Programs at
post-baccalaureate levels for (1) the advanced education
of teachers who have previously completed initial
preparation or (2) the initial and/or advanced
preparation of other professional school personnel.
Advanced preparation programs commonly award graduate
credit and include masters, specialist, and doctoral
degree programs as well as non-degree licensure programs
offered at the graduate level.
Alternative Assessment: Assessment
in some form other than multiple choice, standardized
tests, e.g., constructed responses, open-ended essays
with no single correct answer, portfolios that are
collections of student's work over time, and project work
that involves collaboration with peers.(ERIC)
Approval: A process for accessing
and enhancing academic and educational quality through
voluntary peer review. Approval is the process by which a
specific professional education unit and program(s) are
recognized by the Professional Standards Commission as
meeting state standards for their operation and content.
Approval with Stipulations: A PSC
approval status that specifies critical deficiencies that
must be corrected within a specified time. Failure to
correct the deficiencies within the specified time
results in revocation of approval.
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Candidates: Individuals who are
seeking admission to or, are enrolled in programs for the
initial or advanced preparation of teacher or other
professional school personnel. Candidates may be seeking
initial licensure, majoring in education, and/or pursuing
advanced preparation in professional education.
Certification: The process by
which the Professional Standards Commission grants
professional recognition to an individual who has met
certain predetermined qualifications specified by that
agency to practice as a professional educator in Georgia.
Certification based on Institutional
Recommendation: The process of certifying individuals
by verifying that they have completed state-approved
programs under conditions specified in Rule
505-2-.06, Certification by Approved Programs in
Rules for Certification of Educational Personnel in
Georgia.
CEU: Continuing
Education Unit
Check-up Review: (See Continuing
Review) An examination of the changes and assessments of
the improvements and progress occurring in the
professional education unit and program(s) during each
five year interval from the initial review conducted by
the PSC Board of Examiners team to determine continuing
approval status.
Comprehensive Review: A complete
review applying the standards and requirements of PSC
Rule 505-3-.01 to the institution's professional
education unit and program(s) through an on-site review
conducted by a PSC Board of Examiners team to determine
the institution's initial approval status.
Conceptual Framework: The
rationale and organizing principles that guide the
development of the curriculum for professional education
including the categorization of knowledge.
Content Studies: Courses and other
learning experiences in the academic or professional area
that the candidate plans to teach, for the grade level at
which the candidate plans to teach, or for other
professional roles in which the candidate plans to serve.
Examples of content studies include science, elementary
education, school psychology, administration, reading and
physical education. For some content studies like
elementary education, the content and professional
studies are closely integrated.
Continuing Accreditation: The
accreditation status granted by NCATE five years after an
institution's professional education unit has been
initially accredited and for as long as it continues to
satisfy NCATE's standards and requirements.
Continuing Approval: The approval
status granted five years after an institution has been
initially approved and for as long as it continues to
satisfy Professional Standards Commission standards and
requirements.
Continuing Review (See Check-Up
Review): An examination of the changes and
assessments of improvements and progress occurring in the
professional education unit and programs during each five
year interval from the initial review conducted by a PSC
Board Standards Commission to determine continuing
approval status.
Cultural Diversity: The variety of
cultural backgrounds of candidates, faculty, and school
personnel based on ethnicity, race, language, religion,
socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation,
regional/geographic origins and exceptionalities. The PSC
and NCATE do(does) not consider differences in regional
or geographic origins within a single race, religion or
language group to be good faith representation of
wide-range cultural diversity.
Culture: The demonstration of
shared attitudes, beliefs and practices of a group based
on more than one of the following categories: ethnicity
or national origin, race, gender, religion, language,
geography or regional identification, and socioeconomic
status.
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DODDS: Department of
Defense Dependents Schools: Member schools have been
" ... operating on U.S. military bases overseas
since 1946 for the children of military and civilian
personnel assigned overseas." Their Web site is
located here: DODDS
Dispositions: Values, beliefs, and
attitudes toward education, students and communities that
guide one's professional practice.
Diversity: The wide range of ways
in which human groups and populations have observable and
demonstrable physical and behavioral differences.
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- Educational and Instructional Technology: The
theory and practice of design, development, utilization,
management, and evaluation of processes and resources for
learning and the use of computers and other technology
in: (1) delivery, development, prescription and
assessment of instruction; (2) problem solving; (3)
school and classroom administration;( 4) educational
research; (5) electronic information access and exchange,
and (6) personal and professional productivity.
- ETS: Educational Testing Service: Their Web
site is located here: www.ets.org
- Exemplary Practices: Features, characteristics, or
activities of a professional education unit that
demonstrate superlative examples of meeting the NCATE
standards.
- Exceptionalities: Physical, mental and emotional
disabilities or differences, including gifted/talented
abilities, which may necessitate special attention by
school personnel.
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- FERPA: Family Education Rights and Privacy Act:
Code of Federal Regulation (cfr) 34 Part 99, which "
... sets out requirements for the protection of privacy
of parents and students under section 444 of the general
Education Provision Act." Click
here to view document.
- Filed Experiences: Program components that are
conducted in off-campus settings such as a school,
community or homeless shelter. They include classroom
observations, tutoring, assisting teachers and school
administrators, student teaching and internships.
- Full-time Faculty: Employees of a higher education
institution with full-time assignments within the unit as
instructors, professors at different ranks,
administrators, or other professional support personnel
(e.g., student teaching supervisor or advisor).
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- GED: General Equivalency Diploma
- General Studies: Courses and other learning
experiences in the liberal arts and sciences that
candidates in baccalaureate programs typically complete
in the first two or three years of their programs for the
purpose of becoming liberally educated college students.
- Georgia School Boards Association: A
member organization of the National School Boards
Association (NSBA).
Their Web site is located here: GSBA
- Global Perspective: The viewpoint that accepts the
interdependency of nations and peoples and the
interlinkage of political, economic, ecological, and
social issues of a transitional and global character.
- Governance: The system and structure for defining
policy and administering procedures for the professional
education unit.
- GPA: Grade Point Average
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Health of the Unit: The general
condition of the professional education unit - A healthy
unit is one that is dynamic, not static. It is one that
engages in continuous evaluation of its operations and
programs, uses these data to make appropriate changes and
refinements, and continuously improves its capacity to
carry out its responsibilities and improve the quality of
its programs. Board of Examiners teams describe the
health of the unit in their reports of a continuing
accreditation/approval visit.
Health of Programs: The general
condition of the programs which constitute the
preparation of program personnel by the professional
education unit - Healthy programs are dynamic, not
static. They engage in continuous evaluation of their
conceptual frameworks and operations and use these data
to make appropriate changes and refinements, and
continuously improves their capacity to carry out their
responsibilities and improve their quality of
preparation. Boards of Examiners teams describe the
health of the programs in their reports of a continuing
approval visit.
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- Indicators: Operational definitions that suggest
the kinds of evidence that professional education units
should provide to demonstrate that a standard is met. The
indicators that accompany each standard are designed to
provide evidence that the standard has been met. They are
not standards in and of themselves. In determining that a
standard is met, Board of Examiners teams will weigh the
evidence provided for each indicator as well as other
data not necessarily related to indicators germane to the
standard. All indicators must be addressed in a
comprehensive PSC professional education unit/program
review.
- Informal Assessment: Appraisal of an
individual or group's status or growth by means other
than standardized instruments. (term dates officially to
1977). (ERIC)
- Inital Accreditation: The status granted by NCATE
after the first successful on-site review in which the
institution's professional education unit meets NCATE's
current standards and requirements for the first time.
- Initial Approval: The status granted by the
Professional Standards Commission after the first
successful on-site review in which the institution's
professional education unit and/or program(s) meet
current PSC standards.
- Initial Teacher Preparation: Programs at
baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate levels that prepare
candidates for their first certificate to teach.
- Institutional Report: A written report prepared by
the institution to describe how the professional
education unit meets the PSC or NCATE standards.
- Integrative Studies: Courses and other learning
experiences in which candidates learn to integrate their
general and content knowledge with professional and
pedagogical knowledge to help students understand the
content area.
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Knowledge Base: The concepts,
theories, findings and beliefs that inform the unit's
conceptual framework(s), policies, priorities, and
practices.
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- License: The document, referred to as a
certificate, issued by the state of Georgia to an
individual who is deemed to be qualified to practice as
an educator in Georgia schools.
- Licensure: The official recognition by the PSC
that an individual has met state requirements and is,
therefore, approved to practice as a duly
certified/licensed education professional. Certification
is still used to mean licensing in some states.
- LUA: Local Units of Administration
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- MSA: Middle States Association of Colleges and
Schools: is a " ... voluntary, non-governmental,
nonprofit peer administered organization of diverse
educational institutions located in the Middle Atlantic
States region of the U.S.and other areas of the
world." Their Web site is located here:www.business-edge.com/msa-css/index.html
Multicultural Perspective: (1) The
social, political, economic, academic and historical
realities experiences by individuals and groups in
complex human encounters; (2) the representation and
incorporation of issues related to culture, demographics,
ethnicity, race, gender, religion, socioeconomic status,
exceptionalities, and sexual orientation in the education
process; and (3) the inclusive curriculum representing
the contributions of diverse populations.
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- NASC: Northwest Association of Schools and
Colleges
- NASDTEC: National Association of State Directors
of Teacher Education and certification
- NBPTS: National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards: " ... establishes standards for what
teachers should know and be able to do." Their Web
site is located here: www.nbpts.org
- NCA: North Central Association of Colleges and
Schools
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education: The National Council for Accreditation of
Teacher Education (NCATE) is the national accrediting
agency for professional education units in institutions
which prepare education personnel to staff school
programs for children and youth from birth through grade
12. NCATE is recognized by the Commission on Recognition
of Postsecondary Accreditation (CORPA) and the U. S.
Department of Education. Accreditation by colleges and
universities is voluntary. Their Web site is located
here: www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/coe/coed/dean/ncate/ncatemain.html
- NEASC-CIHE: New England Association of Schools and
Colleges - Commission on Institutions of Higher Education
- NOCTI: National Occupational Competency Testing
Institute: "NOCTI technical Skills Tests (TST)
are job-specific tests that assess (a) candidate's
knowledge of their trade or profession."
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- OCGA: Offical Code of Georgia Annotated: A
compendium of state law/state statutes.Connect at: www.ganet.org
- OPI: Oral Proficiency Interview
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- Part-time Faculty: Employees of a higher education
institution who less than a full-time assignment in the
professional education unit. Some part-time faculty are
full-time employees of the college or university with a
portion of their assignments in the professional
education unit. Other part-time faculty are not full-time
employees of the institution and are commonly considered
adjunct faculty.
- Pedagogical Studies: Courses and other learning
experiences in which candidates and apply concepts,
theories, and research about effective teaching.
- Performance Based Evaluation:Testing that
requirwes a student to create an answer or a product that
demonstrates his or her knowledge skills.(Office of
Technology Assessment, 1992)
- Portfolio Assessment: Systematic
collection of a student's work samples, records of
observation, test results, etc., over a period of time
for the purpose of evaluating student growth and
achievement. (ERIC)
- Portfolios:Collections of records,
letters of reference, work, samples, etc., documenting
skills, capabilities, and past experiences. (ERIC)
- Professional Community: Teacher educators, teacher
candidates, faculty in general studies and arts and
sciences, P-12 practitioners, and others involved in the
educational enterprise.
- Professional Development: Opportunities for higher
education faculty to develop new knowledge and skills
through in service education, conference attendance,
sabbatical leave, summer leave, intra- and
inter-institutional visitations, fellowships, work in
P-12 schools, and so forth.
- Professional Development Schools: A specially
designed school in which school and higher education
faculty collaborate to: (1) provide student teaching and
internship experiences and; (2) support and enable the
professional development of teachers in the school and
higher education faculty. The faculty also have a joint
responsibility for the provision of high quality
instruction to the school primary clientele--students.
- Professional Education Faculty: Those individuals
in an institution and in school who teach one or more
courses in professional education, provide professional
services to education students (e.g., advising or
supervising student teaching), or administer some portion
of the professional education program. All professional
education faculty are considered members of an
institution's professional education unit. Unless
otherwise designated, professional education faculty
include both higher education faculty and school-based
personnel who supervise student teaching and/or other
internships.
- Professional Education Unit: The professional
education unit is the institution, college, school,
department, or other administrative body within the
institution that is primarily responsible for the initial
and advanced preparation of teachers and other
professional school personnel. (The institution as a
whole may also be considered to be the unit.) Although it
is not essential that all professional education programs
be administratively housed in the unit, the NCATE
standard on governance and accountability requires that
all professional education programs in an institution be
organized, unified, and coordinated by the unit.
- Professional Education Unit Review: The process by
which a professional education unit is reviewed by NCATE
or the PSC for purposes of determining whether standards
for the content and operation of the unit are met.
- Professional Education Unit Approval : A process
that guarantees critical aspects of the professional
education unit are reviewed and evaluated. The total
professional education unit is evaluated. A composite of
the unit guides APPROVAL actions. Separate unit approval
decisions for initial and advanced levels are rendered by
the Professional Standards Commission.
- Professional Education Unit Head: The
individual--usually a dean, director, or chair officially
designated to represent the professional education unit
and assigned authority and responsibility for its overall
administration and operation.
- Professional Standards Commission (PSC): The state
agency authorized to assume full responsibility for the
certification, preparation and conduct of certified,
licensed or permitted personnel employed in Georgia, and
the development and administration of teacher
certification testing. The PSC's authority applies to
certified, licensed and permitted personnel employed in
Georgia public schools and institutions of higher
learning that prepare educators.
- Professional Studies: Courses and other learning
experiences to help candidates learn the historical,
economic, sociological, philosophical, and psychological
foundations of schooling and education.
- Program: The sequence of courses and experiences
that candidates must complete successfully to earn a
degree, obtain state licensure, and/or be adequately
prepared to provide professional education services in
schools.
- Program Approval: The process by which a state
governmental agency reviews a professional education
program to determine if it meets the state's standards
for the preparation of school personnel and recognizes
the program to certify teachers.
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- RESA:Regional Education Service Agency
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- SACS: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- SACS-CC: Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools - Commission on Colleges
- SACS-COEI: Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools - Commission on Occupational Education
Institutions
- Scholarly Activities: The active
involvement in one's area of specialization as
demonstrated through such faculty activities as research,
articles published in refereed journals, program
evaluation studies, documentation of on-going activities,
grant-seeking, and presentations at professional
meetings.
- School Faculty: Licensed
practitioners in P-12 schools who provide on-site
instruction, supervision, and direction for candidates
during field-based assignments.
- SDU: Staff Development Unit
- Sound Professional Practice:
Educational strategies and practices that have evolved
from the successful experiences of educators and that are
generally recognized and accepted by the professional
community.
- Standards: The professional
education unit and program requirements that all
institutions shall meet to receive initial and/or
continuing approval from the Professional Standards
Commission.
- State Approval: Approval is the
process by which a specific professional education unit
and program(s) are recognized by the Professional
Standards Commission as meeting Georgia standards for
their operation and content.
- Strengths: The features and
characteristics enhance the professional education unit's
effectiveness to a superior level than that expected for
national accreditation or state approval.
- Student Teaching: An in-depth,
direct teaching experience conducted in a school setting
that is usually a culminating field-based experience for
the initial teacher preparation program.
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- TCT: Teacher Certification Test
- Teacher Educators: Professional educators who
demonstrate knowledge of and commitment to teacher
education and who serve as the training arm of the
teaching profession. They include higher education
faculty and school-based practitioners who supervise
field experiences, student teaching, and internships.
- TPAI: Teacher Performance Assessment Instrument
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- Unit Head: (See Professional Education Unit Head)
-The individual--usually a dean, director, or
chair--officially designated to represent the
professional education unit and assigned authority and
responsibility for its overall administration and
operation.
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- WASC:Western Association of Schools and
Colleges: This is an accrediting commission for
schools. Their Web site is located here: wworks.com/~pieinc/wasc.htm
- Weaknesses: The features and characteristics that
prevent the unit from being effective at the level
expected for national accreditation.
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