Goals of TQE



TQE: Teacher Quality Enhancement: Project Goals
*Goals of the TQE project are to improve teacher quality through...*
1. Collaborative Partnerships With P-12 Schools
	1.1	Collaboration - Make use of collaborative advisory board to evaluate and assist in implementing teacher quality improvement activities
	1.2	Professional Development - Provide assistance in professional development for P-12 school partners to enhance their performance and thus the quality of experiences for pre-service and beginning teachers
	1.3	PDS Expansion - Expand the existing Professional Development Schools (PDS) network as a vehicle for simultaneous renewal of P-12 schools and teacher preparation
2. Better Quality Teacher Preparation
	2.1	Instructional Improvement - Improve the performance of the university faculty who teach professional education courses
	2.2	Assessment - Initiate standards-based performance assessment of candidates in professional education programs
	2.3	Interdisciplinary Training - Initiate collaboration between education faculty and arts and sciences faculty involved in teacher preparation
	2.4	Clinical Experiences - Improve the quality of clinical experiences for professional education candidates
3. High-Quality Induction Into the Teaching Profession
	3.1	Pre-Service Induction Experiences - Build professional induction into the undergraduate education program
	3.2	Beginning Teacher Induction Experiences - Assess and track the professional activities and performance of education program graduates
	3.3	Beginning Teacher Support - Initiate a system for providing education and professional support for graduates
4. Attention to Assisting High-Need Schools
	4.1	Pre-Service Preparation - Increase the diversity of field placements for professional education candidates
	4.2	Urban Experience - Provide expanded urban experience opportunities
	4.3	Professional Certification - Assist uncertified school personnel to obtain teaching licenses
	4.4	Recruitment - Help develop a magnet school for the teaching profession in a major urban center to attract young people into teaching
5. Research in Teacher Quality
	5.1	School-Based Research - Support action research efforts within teacher education collaborative programs in PDS sites
	5.2	Large-scale PDS Research - Carry out a major research study related to the effectiveness of PDS

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4. Attention to Assisting High-Need Schools