Minutes of the Council on Teacher Education – February 22, 2000

The Council on Teacher Education met at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 2000, in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the MLK University Union.

Members present: Dr. K. Bower, Dr. Campanis, Dr. Edwards, Dr. L. Greathouse, Dean Hitch, Dr. Hooser, Dr. Hussey, Ms. Karwoski, Dr. Olsen, Dr. Poulter, Dr. Sylvia, Ms. Traub, Dr. Wolf.

Staff present: Dr. D. Bower, CEPS; Mrs. Chancellor and Ms. Herrington-Perry, Academic Affairs.

Guest present: Kathlene Shank.

  1. Minutes.

    2. The Minutes of February 8, 2000 were approved.

  2. Announcements.

1. The date of the Teacher Quality Forum will be announced later.

      1. Design of Professional Education Inservice will be March 3, 2000 from 8:00 a.m. to noon.

III. Discussion of General Education Changes and Impact on Teacher Certification.

Dr. Kathlene Shank presented the information and answered questions of the Council.

Teacher Certification at EIU will not change until the ISBE & NCATE have completed their deliberations.

This means that:
      1. Students must continue to complete Illinois 1992 teacher certification requirements for general education.
      2. Transfer students who complete the IAI general education core and native students who complete Eastern's newly revised general education programs must complete additional requirements for teacher certification.

Once ISBE & NCATE guidelines are official, EIU will move forward in a deliberative fashion to revise teacher certification requirements.

See the attached "General Education Requirements"

General Education Requirements

 

Fall 2000

EIU

General Education

IAI

General Education

Core

Additional Gen Ed for Teacher Cert. (Based on 1992 IL Teacher Cert. Requirements for General Education)

Total Semester

Credit Hours

Communication

9 sem credits

9 sem credits

0

9

Mathematics

3 sem credits

3-6 sem credits

0

3-6

Physical/Life Science

7 sem credits

7-8 sem credits

1-2 sem credits

9

Social/Behavioral Sciences to include American/US Government (3)

9* sem credits

9 sem credits

0

9

Humanities/Fine Arts

9 sem credits

9 sem credits

US/American History (3)

English (3)

15

Senior

Seminar

3 sem Credits

-

-

3

-

-

-

2 sem credits in Health/Physical Development

2

TOTALS

40 sem credits

37-41 sem credits

9-10 sem credits

50-53 sem credits

 

*must include constitution course

 

The meeting was adjourned at 2:50 p.m. Kathy Chancellor, Recording Secretary

 

All Council Minutes and Agenda are available on the Web at http://www.eiu.edu/~eiucote.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEXT MEETING

Tuesday,March 28, 2000 at 2:00 p.m.

Arcola/Tuscola Room