ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
NCATE ACCREDITATION
NCATE Onsite Visit Spring 2012
Standard 4
Diversity
The unit designs, implements, and evaluates curriculum and provides experiences for candidates to acquire and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions necessary to help all students learn. Assessments indicate that candidates can demonstrate and apply proficiencies related to diversity. Experiences provided for candidates include working with diverse populations, including higher education and P–12 school faculty, candidates, and students in P–12 schools.
EXHIBITS
- 4.4 - AREAS OF CONCERN:
- 4.4.1 - Candidates appear to have limited opportunity to interact with diverse faculty
- 4.4.2 - The unit has not clearly identified proficiencies related to diversity that all candidates are expected to develop during their professional education program.
- 4.4.3 - The unit has not clearly identified diversity proficiencies that candidates in distance learning programs are expected to develop.
- 4.5 - EVIDENCE TO VALIDATE:
- 4.5.1 - Candidate Demographics: What do the data for initial, advanced, and other
- 4.5.2 - School based faculty demographics: What do the data for school based faculty indicate about candidates’ opportunities to interact with diverse school based faculty?
- 4.5.3 - Diverse Faculty: What does the evidence indicate about the unit faculty expertise related to diversity?
- 4.5.4 - Diversity Proficiencies/Competencies: How are the candidates’ coursework and field experiences/assignments aligned to the unit’s diversity proficiencies/competencies? How does the unit ensure that candidates acquire and apply diversity dispositions?
- 4.5.5 - Experiences Working with Diverse Students: What are the unit’s mechanism/policies to ensure that all candidates have diverse field experiences and clinical practice placements?
- Diverse Experiences - Undergraduate Students (ecampus)
- Diverse Experiences - Graduate Students
- *P-3 Program Diversity
- *Diversity of partnership placement districts 2010 US Census
- 4.5.6 - Diversity Assessments: What do the diversity proficiency assessments for initial, advanced, and other school professional candidates demonstrate about the candidates’ diversity proficiencies?
