| The evaluation of the New York State partnership requirements in TEAC’s accreditation system
In accordance with TEAC’s protocol agreement with New York State, an eighth component to the TEAC capacity standards (4.0) has been added as follows:
4.8 Partnership between the program and the schools. The New York program must have evidence that both it and the school providing clinical experiences benefited from the partnership with respect to candidate and student/pupil learning. In particular, evidence of the following is required:
4.8.1. There must be evidence that the teacher education candidates' experiences in the schools were a factor in the program's satisfying TEAC's 1.3, evidence of caring teaching skill.
4.8.2 . There must be evidence that the students/pupils in the school learned the lessons taught by the student teacher (also part of 1.3).
4.8.3. There must be evidence that there are some formal partnerships between the program and the clinical sites (e.g., a negotiated agreement, and/or a joint board or advisory committee, etc.)
4.8.4 The program's Quality Control System (3.2) must have a procedure for monitoring the success of its graduates in the field.
The audit and panel evaluation the 4.8 component of 4.0
1. The TEAC audit map programs will have a row of audit tasks to verify the 4.8 claims made by the program and will be counted in the overall audit opinion of the Brief on a par with any other audit task on the audit map.
2. If the evidence for 4.8 is not verified in the audit, the Brief could still go forward to the Panel in accordance with TEAC policy. However, the program would be required to submit verifiable evidence for 4.8 within one year for the program to remain in compliance with its accreditation status.
3. If the evidence for 4.8 were verified, but if the Panel found the verified evidence insufficient to satisfy the requirements of 4.8, the program would receive a stipulation, which like all stipulations, would need to be satisfied within two years for the program to remain in compliance with its accreditation status.
4. If the verified evidence for 4.8 were sufficient, it would play the same role in the TEAC " preponderance of the evidence" standard for capacity as the evidence for any other component of 4.0.
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