Unit: College of Education
2010-2011
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
current strategic plan goals does your
2011-2012 goal best align?
1- Academic Excellence
Goal for2011-2012
Complete successful NCATE accreditation
and successful state approval for the
undergraduate Integrated Teacher
Preparation Program and graduate
programs in School Counseling and
Educational Leadership
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Compile learning outcomes data
2. Response to six NCATE standards: Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Professional
Dispositions; Assessment System and Unit Evaluation; Field Experiences and
Clinical Practice; Diversity; Faculty Qualifications; Performance, and Development;
and Unit Governance and Resources
3. Complete the Institutional Report
4. Develop an Exhibit Room (real and online) to house all necessary documents and
data to respond to the NCATE standards
5. Prepare for the on-site visit
6. complete Florida Department of Education continued State Approval concurrently
with NCATE
7. Respond to three FLDOE standards: Core Curriculum Content; Candidate
Performance; Continuous Improvement
8. Develop and Exhibit Room to house all necessary documents for the DOE site visit
2010-2011
Strategic Plan Goals
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
current strategic plan goals does your
2011-2012 goal best align?
1- Academic Excellence
3- Strategic Growth
Unit Goal
Goal for2011-2012
Admission of the first cohort for the
Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) with
concentrations in Educational Leadership
and Curriculum & Instruction. Students
may also apply to the Education Specialist's
degree.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
In the spring of 2012 the Admissions Committee will review all applications. They will
select a pool of students and interview them. From this pool the first cohort will be
chosen. Their plan of study will be approved and they will begin coursework in the fall of
2012.
2010-2011
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
current strategic plan goals does your
2011-2012 goal best align?
3- Strategic Growth
Goal for2011-2012
The Master's in Special Education M.Ed. will
convert all course delivery to an online
format to make the program accessible to
all qualified teachers.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
The faculty in the graduate Special Education program will convert all instruction from
face-to-face and a hybrid format to all online course delivery to make M.Ed. in Special
Education accessible to candidates across the state. Information regarding the program
course delivery format is being distributed through the COE website; Facebook; and
program information flyers.
2010-2011
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
current strategic plan goals does your
2011-2012 goal best align?
1. Academic Excellence
3. Strategic Growth
Goal for2011-2012
Create a crosswalk for post baccalaureate
teacher certification students to move into
our Educator Preparation Institute
(EPI) and then into our C&I M.Ed.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Develop a work group within the Graduate Curriculum Team consisting of members
from TIP, C&I faculty, DOE certification ombudsman, and senior College of
Education administration.
2. Identify courses that all three programs currently share in common.
3. Identify content of current EPI courses (with EPI prefix) that offer no graduate
credit.
4. Identify graduate courses in either the course-by-course teacher certification route
or the C&I M.ED that align with the EPI courses.
5. Identify EPI content that may not exist in any current graduate courses.
6. Develop new course(s), if needed.
7. Submit revision of the EPI and the C&I M.ED to College of Education graduate
curriculum team by September 2011.
8. If approved, submit revisions, including new course(s), to university graduate
curriculum team by October 2011.
9. If approved, implement the crosswalk option in fall 2012.
2010-2011
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
current strategic plan goals does your
2011-2012 goal best align?
Goal for2011-2012
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
2009-2010
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20102011 goal best align?
Goal for2010-2011
Goal 1: Academic Excellence
Continue to build a process for continuous
improvement for all academic programs
within the College.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Develop a system to collect needed data for various accreditations (CACREP, DOE,
NCATE, SACS) and generate reports by course, program or standard.
2. Dedicate 2 days per year for program review.
3. Review the annual pass rates on subject area and professional state exams to
determine if a program needs to be adjusted.
2009-2010
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20102011 goal best align?
Goal 1: Academic Excellence
Goal for2010-2011
Expansion of Master's Degree and Post
Master's Programs to include a Doctorate in
Education (Ed.D.)
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Recruitment and admission of second cohort of the Education Specialist candidates.
2. Continued first time offerings of courses for the first cohort of the Education
Specialist (Ed.S.) candidates.
3. Revision of the M.Ed. in Elementary Education and recruitment of candidates for
the first cohort of the revised program.
4. Continued progress towards the initiation of the Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.)
2009-2010
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20102011 goal best align?
Goal 3: Co-Curricular and Athletic
Programming: Offer quality
co-curricular and athletic programming that
promotes and enhances student
development and community engagement.
Goal for2010-2011
Unit wide support for candidate cocurricular educational organizations, honor
societies, and service activities
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Faculty is given service credit for advising students in Kappa Delta Pi, an education
honor society, and encourages students to join professional organizations. The
organizations meet on campus and candidates participate in university sponsored
activities and service.
2. The faculty is given service credit for advising Chi Sigma Iota, a counseling honor
society, and encourages students to join this professional organization. The
organization meets on campus and participates in university sponsored activities
and service.
3. The faculty is given service credit for advising the student chapter of Eagles
Educate ACEI and encourage students to join this professional organization. The
organization meets on campus and participates in university sponsored activities.
4. Candidates may apply for a $100 stipend to defray the cost of attending their
national organization conference.
2009-2010
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20102011 goal best align?
Goal 6: Community Engagement
Goal for2010-2011
Extend Community Connections
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Establish Professional Development Schools (PDS) with two Naples schools Veteran's Memorial Elementary and Park Side Elementary.
2. Conduct undergraduate courses at school locations.
3. Utilize school environment for direct service to children.
4. Invite school leadership to participate in Senior Seminar.
5. Develop graduate programs geared to teachers from professional development
sites.
6. Develop additional partnerships with area schools (Tropic Isles Elementary in North
Fort Myers).
2009-2010
Strategic Plan Goals
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 2010-
Unit Goal
Goal for2010-2011
2011 goal best align?
Goal 6: Community Engagement
Extend professional development
opportunities to area teachers
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Utilize the National Writing Project (NWP) at Florida Gulf Coast University cadre of
Teacher Consultants to design and provide professional development
activities/events.
2. Schedule a series of open workshops funded by the NWP grant.
3. Provide materials (books, etc.) for participants.
4. Provide high quality presenters for conference format events.
5. Provide support for the Sanibel Island Writers Conference.
6. Schedule Invitational Summer Institutes (ISI) on a 20-day workshop format for
area teachers.
7. Schedule special 5-day Mini-Summer Institute specifically for Hendry/Glades
teachers (to be conducted in Hendry County).
8. Provide Advanced Institute for the purpose of developing leadership skills for ISI
participants to promulgate additional development in area schools.
2008-2009
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20092010 goal best align?
Goal 8: Ongoing Quality Improvement &
Assessment
Goal for2009-2010
Develop Advisor assessment instrument
and implement.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Research current advisor assessment instruments, especially those from ACT and
NACADA.
2. Research forms of delivery.
3. Meet with advisors and administrators and determine what information is desired
from assessment, what is the best method of delivery, and how to best insure
anonymity of student responders.
4. Develop draft assessment instrument.
5. Meet with university and college experts in assessment and get feedback about
draft assessment instrument.
6. Edit assessment instrument and meet with advisors and administrators for
approval.
7. Test assessment instrument with limited population of students.
8. Assess effectiveness of instrument and make desired changes.
9. Implement assessment tool college wide.
2008-2009
Strategic Plan Goals
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
Unit Goal
Goal for2009-2010
strategic plan goals does your 20092010 goal best align?
Goal 8: Ongoing Quality Improvement &
Assessment
Develop an undergraduate handbook and
make it available on the College of
Education website.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. Research current student handbooks, develop handbook outline, and obtain
approval from advisors and administrators.
2. Locate electronic copies of all approved university and college resources that should
be included in handbook.
3. Develop draft handbook, insure it is consistent with graduate handbook, and obtain
approval from advisors and administrators.
4. Edit draft and receive final approval.
5. Publish handbook on the College of Education website.
2008-2009
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20092010 goal best align?
Goal 7: Community Leadership
Goal for2009-2010
Continue to build and strengthen our
community outreach.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. We will review all advisory boards.
2. We will develop a process to increase members in the PDS to form a consortium.
3. We will monitor impact of grants.
2008-2009
Strategic Plan Goals
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20092010 goal best align?
Goal 1: High Quality Education
Unit Goal
Goal for2009-2010
Advance the level of education in the
educational community and increase
enrollment in our teacher education
preparation programs and our graduate
programs.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1.
Initial development of the EDGE Academy. This is an accelerated 15 month (5 th
year) master’s degree for the highest achieving FGCU COE graduates. Participants
will take graduate courses in the summer immediately following their
undergraduate graduation and will take graduate courses as well as a supervised
practicum in their first fall and spring semesters of teaching.
2. The cohort of Ed.S Student will begin conducting their culminating
experiences towards the completion of their Ed.S. degrees.
3. A new Ed.S. Cohort will be recruited for the Fall of 2010.
4. The faculty will continue to advocate for the inauguration of an Ed.D. degree
program in the College of Education. The Committee may have to update the
forms for new courses and new programs due to the time that has passed since the
program was originally proposed.
2008-2009
Strategic Plan Goals
Unit Goal
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20092010 goal best align?
Goal 8: Ongoing Quality Improvement &
Assessment
Goal for2009-2010
Creation of the end-of-program surveys of
graduates and their employers with results
used for program improvement
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. A graduate assistant will be hired to help create the surveys, distribute, compile
and analyze the data from the surveys for the graduate programs.
2. Unified surveys are being developed for all of the graduate programs sent to
graduates and their employers.
3. The surveys will be distributed to the graduates and their employers.
4. The surveys will be administered and results collected and analyzed during this
summer.
5. Results will be distributed to graduate program faculty at the first fall faculty
meeting.
2008-2009
Strategic Plan Goals
With which 1 or 2 goals from the
strategic plan goals does your 20092010 goal best align?
Goal 5: State of the Art Infrastructure
Unit Goal
Goal for2009-2010
Initiation of CAPP for Graduate Programs to
track student progress through the various
graduate programs.
What action(s) will you undertake to achieve the goal?
1. The program leaders will meet with university staff to develop an automated
tracking system for graduate students' academic progress through their programs.
2. Faculty advisors will be trained to use CAPP.
3. The system will be piloted.
4. CAPP will be instituted within the year.