Support Networks
STEP is proud to offer resources to its graduates that
will continue to facilitate community building and professional
development even after graduation.
STEPnet
This comprehensive system will allow us to consolidate our efforts:
from the admission process, through the STEP year, to your work
as teachers--this system will be a key tool in managing information
efficiently.
STEPnet will store biographical and academic information such
as assessments from clinical work and select examples of university
coursework. Teacher candidates, faculty, and their university
mentors and cooperating teachers will have varying levels of access
to this user-friendly system. Access to this information will
help staff, faculty, university mentors and cooperating teachers
coordinate their guidance of teacher candidates. The system has
the capacity to store both word documents and video clips which
will provide candidates with an array of examples of their work
over an extended period of time.
After graduation from STEP, alumni will continue to have access
to the system which will be useful as many prepare for National
Board Certification. Given our commitment to program development,
STEPnet will promote periodic program evaluation and support our
research efforts. The system has tremendous potential to facilitate
networking and strengthen the STEP community.
SUSE
Alumni Services
SUSE values its alumni and provides a number of services to foster
community building, career-seeking services, and professional
development.
Teachers for a New Era
Teachers for a New Era (TNE) is a landmark
initiative designed to strengthen K-12 teaching by developing
state-of-the-art programs of teacher education. With funding from
the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Annenberg Foundation,
and the Ford Foundation, this reform endeavor aims to
strengthen teacher education by creating strong links among departments
of humanities and sciences, schools of education, and the local
schools where teachers are trained. Teachers
for a New Era is an ambitious reform initiative
which aims to construct excellent teacher education programs at
selected colleges and universities. At the conclusion of the project,
each of the selected institutions should be regarded by the nation
as administering one of the best teacher education programs.
Teachers for a New Era
hopes to:
- Better prepare student teachers
- Build stronger clinical experiences
- Increase collaboration between K-12 & university faculty
- Improve teaching of prospective teachers across the university
- Improve the knowledge base for teacher education
- Develop new methods of assessment
- Promote improved pupil learning
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