Teacher Education Decision Point 3

(Needed for admission into student teaching--You must pass DP3 requirements in all 3 of your chosen areas)

(B) Overall GPA of at least 2.5 in at least 93 credit hours and an overall GPA in history classes of 2.5 or better in at least 18 of the required 27 hours of history classes.

(C) Within 9 hours of completion in content courses.

(D) GPA of at least 2.5 in content area and sub-areas.

(E) Successful Completion of Disposition Assessment in SS 395 (beginning spring 2007).

(F) Successful Completion of Portfolio Assessment in EDSEC 380/EDJHM 385 (beginning fall 2006).

(G) Completion of EDSEC 380/EDJHM 385 with C or better.

(H) Completion of Phase Two of PGP (for those who declared a teaching major in fall of 2004 or after). For information on PGP, see the URLs listed on the Decision Point 2 Requirements page (and seek assistance in Teacher's College)

Economics

1. All Economics courses completed with at least a 2.5 GPA. While the final two courses after 201, 202, and 301 are elective, the Department strongly recommends that students take 302 as one of the two electives to enhance preparation for the exam mentioned in the next point.  

2. Economics content area exam passed with at least a 70%.

3. Meet with Economics content area advisor for review of artifacts from all Economics courses. See the following description of what you need to prepare for this review:

Artifacts Requirements for Decision Point 3 in Economics:

Choose one subject in microeconomics and one subject in macroeconomics. For each subject, students need to complete the following items.

1. Define the subject that you choose.
2. What have you learned from this subject?
3. How are you going to teach high school students on this subject? Prepare teaching materials for one week (one hour each day).
4. What are the examples and exercises that you want to include in your teaching?
5. How do you assess students' performance?

Geography

1. All Geography courses completed with at least a 2.5 GPA.

2. Geography content area exam passed with at least a 75%.

3. Meet with Geography content area advisor for review of artifacts from all 5 Geography courses.

Political Science

1. All Political Science courses completed with at least a 2.5 GPA.

2. Political Science content area exam passed with at least a 70%.

3. Meet with Political Science content area advisor for review of artifacts from all 5 Political Science courses.

History

1. Passage of the Decision Point 3 Historical Perspectives Exam. This will include
not only questions based upon core requirement courses (as in the Decision Point 2 exam) but also questions that are document-based, assessing analytical skills developed in 300/400-level courses to that point in which the student integrates inter­pretation of the documents and knowledge of the period referred to in the question.  Students will have only THREE opportunities to achieve the necessary passing score of 70%.

2.  Satisfactory review of a student's electronic portfolio by faculty members in the Department of History, based upon INTASC/IPSB standards and including artifacts developed in classes as appropriate.  The artifacts include not only artifacts from history content classes but also best lesson plans from SS350 and SS395. These items must be included in electronic portfolio under INTASC Principle #7. An updated reflection must also be included with Principle #7.   Also evaluated at the time of the portfolio review will be fluency in technology. Students must demonstrate that they meet or exceed the performance expectations outlined in the Social Studies Teaching Majors Fluency in Information Technology (FIT) Policy Statement. The FIT Review Rubric is at: http://www.bsu.edu/history/media/pdf/fit.pdf     The University Portfolio Review Assessment Rubric for DP 3 is at: http://www.bsu.edu/teachers/media/pdf/dp3rubric1_071306.pdf     The policies and procedures for evaluation, determining overall proficiency, and remediation are at http://www.bsu.edu/teachers/article/0,,45723--,00.html.  Click on the following for the University Portfolio Review Assessment Rubric for DP 3: DP 3 Rubric

Note about Portfolio Review at Decision Point 3: The Department of History focuses its review of reflective statements, rationales, and performance based artifacts that are tied to INTASC Principle #1 and 7.

Also note that you are required at Decision Point 3 to have an artifact in your portfolio for seven of the ten INTASC principles (not seven total artifacts).. Even though you will have multiple artifacts in Social Studies for INTASC 1 and 7, you still need artifacts for five other principles. Also, you are required to have updated reflective statements for all ten INTASC principles.

Review Procedures

1. Choose Artifacts from history courses which you have completed. Submission of multiple artifacts in both U.S. and World history is strongly encouraged to give multiple examples of content comprehension. Provide artifact(s) that demonstrate that you have synthesized knowledge, not that you are able to simply repeat it in a rote form—essays, papers, etc.The artifacts

A. should reflect your knowledge and understanding of history;

B. should have been completed in a history course taken at Ball State (as many as possible must have been: this allows for transfer students to include previous work but does require mostly BSU work to be included)

C. must include the specific course name, instructor, and date of completion, as should also include any feedback you received from your professor (i.e., rubric, comments); and

D. must be digitized and accessible online at the link you have provided.

2. Digitize (as a doc, html, pdf, or ppt file) the artifact(s) and publish online.

3. Update the Reflective Statement for INTASC Principle #1. You should not delete the previous reflective statement, but you may include excerpts from it. We are looking for intellectual growth and development. You must go beyond defining Principle 1 or outlining a meaningless, one-size-fits-all statement that lacks any mention of history. You absolutely  must explicitly discuss your approach to teaching Historical Perspectives. You do not have to be profound.  But you should go beyond generalized clichés about the "usefulness" of history, Santayana's misused dictum, or the application of the past to the present day.  One sentence referring to taking a specific class is not sufficient to merit a passing score. You should ask yourselves what, beyond making the teaching of History "fun" and "interesting," do you hope to convey to their students about the past?  Do you intend to emphasize change or continuity; conflict or consensus; the role played by race, gender, class, and ethnicity; the expansion of the state; international relations, etc.? This reflective statement will answer the following questions:

A. What does this standard mean to you and why is it important?

B.  How does mastering/exhibiting this standard make someone a skilled teacher?

C. Most especially, what experiences have you had, especially in Ball State classrooms, that have influenced your interpretation of the principle? Be specific.

4. Provide a separate Rationale for each artifact demonstrating competency in INTASC Principle #1. Describe the artifact & justify its inclusion in your portfolio by showing how it demonstrates your increasing grasp of historical content and how historians "do" history. Explain what the artifact demonstrates about your growing competence and what your strengths and weaknesses are in relation to this standard. The rationale is your "bridge" between the artifact that demonstrates your competence and your reflective statement that demonstrates your increasing grasp of the discipline of history. As such, it should provide a narrative link between the two.

5. Include Course Data (e.g., course number and title, date/semester completed, instructor name) and Instructor Feedback (e.g., scoring rubric, comments sheet, grading summary page)--when available--for each artifact. If at all possible, provide at least one artifact which has instructor feedback.

6. Provide a Link to all of the above items on the INTASC Principle #1 page of the electronic portfolio index created in EDSEC 150.

7. Notify via email the Director of Social Studies Education when you are ready for the review to be conducted, providing your URL: Dr. Sarah Drake Brown, Director of Social Studies Education, Department of History sedrakebrown@bsu.edu 

8. Please note that individual portfolio reviews must be requested by the designated deadline for each fall and spring semester, which is posted on the SSTM bulletin board outside of BB 221, on the front page of this Web site, and/or in email correspondence sent to teaching majors regarding the historical perspectives DP2 exam. 
   

Remediation

As noted above, the DP2 summative evaluation is diagnostic; the DP3 exam must be passed with a specific score. Each will be administered each semester as determined by the Department of History.  Social Studies Teaching Majors will have THREE opportunities to pass the DP3 exam. Those students who do not so will NOT be certified by the Department of History as having satisfied content requirements as specified by the student's licensure area in History.

Administration

The preparation and administration of evaluations for Social Studies Teaching Majors in the Department of History, as well as reviews of their prescribed teaching portfolios, involves a substantial amount of time and effort on the part of faculty members in this licensure area.  Therefore, each faculty member in the Department of History involved in this process shall be compensated for doing so.  The decision of faculty members in the Department of History involved in this process regarding satisfaction of content requirements in a student's licen­sure area, and portfolio review requirements as speci­fied in the licensure area, shall be final.

Psychology

1. All Psychology courses completed with at least a 2.5 GPA OR all but PSYCH 494 with favorable narrative evaluation.

2. Digital portfolio review of all Psychology artifacts.

3. Essay on role of psychology in high school.

4. Paper critiquing popular print medium

Sociology

1. All Sociology courses completed with at least a 2.5 GPA. Students may be enrolled in their final sociology class(es) at the time of the DP3 portfolio review.

2. Sociology content area exam passed with at least a 75%.

3. The completed portfolio  is submitted to the content area advisor for review of artifacts and rationale statements from Sociology courses. Students must have a minimum of 4 artifacts and rationale statements from at least 3 sociology classes to pass the DP3 portfolio review and to establish eligibility for student teaching.