Strategic Plans and Assessment

Program Goals for 2004-2005

Program Goals for 2005-2006

Goals/Outcomes by Area

• Learner Outcomes for Academic Development
• Learner Outcomes for Counseling & Psychology
  • Agency Counseling
  • Mental Health Counseling
  • Psychology
• Learner Outcomes for Music & Art
  • Art
  • Music
• Learner Outcomes for Office of Teacher Education
• Learner Outcomes for Exceptional Learning Ph.D.

Goals by Unit

• Institutional Effectiveness System - Unit Strategic Planning (College of Education)
  • First, enter planning year (ex. 2006)
  • Hit the Submit button
  • Next, choose "ED" from the College/Division drop down Menu
  • Hit the Submit button
  • Finally, scroll down to find specific Strategic Plans for each department within the College of Education

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)

• QEP Unit Strategic Goal Survey (Choose ED from College/Division)

 

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Mission and Goals

The organizational structure and mission of the College of Education at Tennessee Tech has evolved since the beginning of the University in 1915, when teacher education was one of the early recognized functions. Currently the College of Education is divided into five separate departments. The departments are Curriculum and Instruction, Health and Physical Education, Music and Art, Counseling and Psychology and the Academic Development Program.
Our college is broader than a traditional college of education. Thus, we have five missions.

1. Prepare caring, competent professionals for a diverse, technological society in teaching, school leadership, counseling, psychology, music and art.

2. Provide a high quality preparation program for doctoral students in Applied Behavior and Learning, Young Children and Families, and Literacy. (Program Planning and Evaluation are soon to be added as the fourth concentration.)

3. Ensure the success of developmental students in their majors.

4. Provide a model childhood development laboratory.

5. Provide cultural events through the Fine Arts for the Upper Cumberland, the state and the region.

Our emphases in the College for 2004-05 will be:

1. 2 + 2 program goals:

• Implementing 2 + 2 in McMinnville and Chattanooga.
• Starting the new professional communities at Oak Ridge (both sites).

2. Graduate program goals:

• Redesigning the master’s programs in Elementary, Secondary, Reading and Instructional Leadership to improve their currency, appeal and consistency with current accreditation standards.
• Redesigning and resubmitting the Master of Arts in Music proposal.
• Redesigning the education specialist’s programs in Elementary, Secondary, Reading and Instructional Leadership to improve their currency, appeal and consistency with current accreditation standards

3. Implement our NCATE Standard 2 plan.

• Adopt an electronic portfolio system.
• Implement the adopted electronic portfolio system.
• Integrate performance and demographic data bases.

College 2005-2006

1. Conduct feasibility study of 2+2 onsite programs in Early Childhood Education and/or Special Education.

2. Redesign the Masters’ and Ed.S. programs in Instructional Leadership to include SREB modules and reflect findings in Educating School Leaders by Arthur Levine.

3. Realign the Masters’ and Ed.S. programs in Reading to reflect the new reading licensure standards.

4. Implement our NCATE Standard 2 continuous assessment plan by:

a. Adopting an electronic portfolio system,
b. Implementing the adopted electronic portfolio system, and
c. Integrating performance and demographic databases.

5. Conduct five year program review of the Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning.

6. Promote more “sharing” of ideas among the Dean, Chairpersons and faculty with the Dean attending departmental faculty meetings in rotation to “listen.”

7. Create new Summer Reading Clinic (Pilot - Summer, 2006)

8. Prepare College vision for 2010.

9. Increase visibility with local school systems with College of Education sponsored events.

10. Begin College Of Education newsletter.

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