The AILACTE Annual 2010 Annual Meeting will be held
at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta on February 19, 2010. The final program is available for your perusal. Registration is available online for AILACTE's conference, however, those registered after February 14th should contact Stacy Ernst for assistance. We can accept payments with a credit card through our website. Be sure to have your card on hand when registering and printing your invoice. We also gladly accept payment via check.
AILACTE members traditionally meet and
conference during the day preceding AACTE’s annual meeting.
AACTE meeting is scheduled for 2010 in Atlanta from February 19-22. In an effort to be mindful in planning for the needs of our membership, we've worked out the following schedule with AACTE for 2010. Note that AILACTE will begin in the morning of Friday, February 19th with the first half of our conference, break for AACTE's opening sessions, and resume in the late afternoon. Our business meeting will be held with a light dinner. Please refer to the schedule below:
Meeting and Conference at a Glance
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4:00- 7:00 PM AILACTE Executive Board Meeting* (Room: Williams)
Friday, February 19, 2010
7:30-8:30 AM Breakfast for State Reps (Room: Roswell)
7:30-8:30 AM Continental breakfast for registrants (Room: Piedmont)
8:30-9:00 AM AILACTE Conference Welcome with Dwight C. Watson & Sharon Robinson (AACTE) (Room: Piedmont)
9:10-9:55 AM Break out sessions (Rooms: Piedmont, Spring, Techwood, University, Marietta, & Roswell)
10:05-10:50 AM Break out sessions (Rooms: Piedmont, Spring, Techwood, University, Marietta, & Roswell)
11:00-11:45 AM Break out sessions (Rooms: Piedmont, Spring, Techwood, University, Marietta, & Roswell)
**12:00-3:30 PM** AACTE Opening Session & Concurrent Sessions
(AILACTE will not meet or hold break out sessions during this time)
3:30-4:00 PM Reconvene with the NCATE/TEAC Design Team- Frank Murray & Jim Cibulka (Room: Piedmont)
4:05-4:45 PM Break out sessions (Rooms: Spring, Techwood, University, Marietta, & Roswell)
4:50-5:30 PM Break out sessions (Rooms: Spring, Techwood, University, Marietta, & Roswell)
5:30-7:00 PM Business Meeting w/light dinner (Room: Piedmont)
* This meeting is generally held pre-conference with the executive board consisting of the four regional reps, secretary, president, president-elect or past-president, treasurer, publications editor, with updates from AILACTE's AACTE/GRC reps.
** AILACTE will not meet or hold break out sessions between noon and 3:30 PM on Friday, February 19th. Our meeting will resume at 3:30 PM.
Floor plan for hotel (PDF)
Final program (PDF)
Request for Proposals: (No longer accepting proposals at this time. Thank you for the exceptional submissions for 2010).
Our changing world requires us to prepare teachers that
are nimble, adroit, and savvy about these challenges of the future.
What can we do to prepare teachers for a global, ever-expanding, economically
challenging, diverse, technological work place? Preparing the teachers
and educational leaders of tomorrow places heightened expectations
on schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs) for accountability.
Our charge is to take action in order to create accessible programs
that recognize that the “problems of the new world cannot be
solved,” as Albert Einstein once proclaimed, “with the same
mind that created them.” The 2010 AILACTE Annual Meeting &
Conference will enable us to present, discuss, and reflect on the
future of teacher preparation in liberal arts colleges. To engage
in the conversation, please follow the guidelines to submit proposals
according to the following strands:
Strand I: Action: Pedagogical and Clinical Experiences
Many of our programs are clinically-based and benefit
from rich partnerships with our local schools. Tomorrow’s teachers
need to have real world connectivity in order to be culturally confident
and competent. What do our programs offering pedagogical and clinical
experiences to shape tomorrow’s teachers?
Proposals in this strand might address some of the
following key questions:
- What are some of the best practices in field-based programs? How
have these programs embedded pedagogy into clinical programs? Discuss
gradual release clinical models that enhance preservice teachers’
knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
- What is the role of teacher education programs when it comes
to improving teaching across the school, college, university, and
the school districts in which they preside?
- How can teacher education units ensure the continued improvement
of clinically based programs through an anticipated period of diminished
financial resources for both SCDES and P-12 districts?
- What major pedagogical and clinical challenges, from visceral
to virtual, confront teacher education programs? To what extent
have these challenges resulted in effective models that improve
the development of teacher candidates’ skills?
- What are the characteristics of effective school-college partnerships,
and how do these partnerships positively influence student achievement
in both the P-12 and college/university contexts?
- What are emerging best practices regarding content-based methods
and skills for professional educators?
Strand II: Access: Creating Opportunities that are Inclusive, Affirming,
and Equitable
Teacher education programs must be inclusive enterprises
in the composition of their faculties, in the teacher candidates they
produce, and in the ways they integrate cultural, linguistic, and
developmental diversity. The liberal arts environment is the seedbed
for inclusivity. This strand will address programs and practices that
are a salient part of the teacher education program that promotes
equity, diversity, and inclusivity.
Proposals in this strand might address some of the
following key questions:
- How do we assure that our programs are gateway and not gatekeeping?
- What are the implications for teacher education regarding emerging
practices in the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework?
- What can SCDEs do to increase or maintain the diversity of faculty
members who are involved in education classes and clinical practice?
- What do we do to recruit, retain, and matriculate students of
color in our programs?
- How do we create a climate of affirmation that embraces the ideals
of equity, inclusivity, and diversity?
- What types of evidence have teacher educations programs provided
which demonstrate that their candidates are prepared to teach in
inclusive classrooms?
Strand III: Accountability: Maintaining Fidelity
to our Mission and Conceptual Framework
When colleges and universities declare their missions,
they are not just determining future goals; they are determining the
kind of people they hire, the various communities they serve, the
manner in which they define progress, and perhaps most importantly,
their role in the educational environment. As colleges slowly alter
their missions to allow for changes that may increase funding, enrollment,
or status, they often overlook the people who have come to depend
on the prospects of their original missions. Even worse, they sometimes
overlook their boundaries within the educational environment by attempting
to take on the roles of other institutions, which can adversely affect
those areas they originally sought to improve.
Proposals in this strand might address some of the
following key questions:
- How do we maintain the fidelity of our mission during these economically
challenging times?
- How do we revise and improve our conceptual framework?
- Describe processes for successful mission, vision, and conceptual
framework discussions that lead to from ideas to actions.
- How do we assure that our candidates graduate program with our
marks of distinction through measures of success, accountability,
and documentation of outcomes?
- How can teacher education become part of the core mission of
institutions of higher education?
Submission deadline: Proposal packets and e-mail
submission were to be postmarked by October 15, 2009.
General information from 2010 proposal instructions:
As you design your proposal, address one or a combination of the themes
and elaborate by describing your research and/or practice, and insights.
Also note the following:
- Presentations by multiple presenters are encouraged. Proposals
that include collaboration among AILACTE teacher education programs
together with P-12 schools and/or higher education colleagues from
other institutions are also encouraged.
- Notification regarding acceptance of proposals will be mailed
by or before November 15, 2009.
- All persons listed in the program as presenters must pay the
AILACTE Annual Meeting registration fee.
- Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to prepare a version
of the presentation for distribution to the AILACTE membership
- Interactive formats that allow participants to actively consider
new approaches or ideas are also encouraged.
Specific Guidelines for Proposal Submission:
Please include the following:
- Cover page (4 copies) including:
- Title of session.
- Session organizer: List name, title, institution, mailing address,
telephone, fax, and e-mail.
- Additional presenters: List names, titles, institutions, and
e-mails.
- Summary of your proposal for the printed program: 40-word limit
- Audiovisual equipment needed, if any. (PLEASE NOTE: Overhead
projectors and screens provided; additional equipment will be at
presenters' expense.)
The body of the proposal (4 hard copies). Since
proposals will be submitted to blind review, presenters' names and/or
institutions should not appear in this section. Type double-spaced,
12 pt. Font, and include the following:
- Title of the presentation.
- Paragraph explaining how the presentation connects to the theme(s).
- Paragraph explaining how you plan to organize the session and
present the information.
- Description of your research, practice, and insights (Limit to
two pages).
Submission of Proposal:
- One copy of the proposal must be sent electronically by October
15, 2009 to: Stacy Ernst, executive assistant at: erns0039@umn.edu.
- Additionally, the proposal packet- (containing 4 hard copies)
must be postmarked by October 15, 2009, and mailed to:
Dr. Dwight C. Watson
Associate Dean, Teacher Education Program
Chair, Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Foundations
of Education
Brewer 284
105 Garfield Avenue
Post Office Box 4004
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
(715) 836-2013
watsondc@uwec.edu
