TEAC News Archive
Leadership Changes at TEAC
July 1st, 2011The TEAC Board of Directors appointed Mark LaCelle-Peterson as the second president of the organization. Mark has served as Vice President of TEAC since July 2009 when he stepped down as the head of teacher education at Houghton College. LaCelle-Peterson represents TEAC at national policy meetings, reviews and monitors TEAC accreditation policies and practices, serves as lead academic auditor, and participates in the ongoing development of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). Prior to joining the TEAC staff, LaCelle-Peterson guided the Houghton College teacher education program’s successful bid to become one of the earliest to gain TEAC accreditation. He served in faculty and administrative roles in the teacher education programs at SUNY Geneseo and Roberts Wesleyan College and has served on the executive boards of both the New York State Association of Teacher Educators and the New York Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.
New appointments to the TEAC Board of Directors include Frank B. Murray, founding president of TEAC and H. Rodney Sharp Professor, University of Delaware; Rebecca Pelton, Executive Director, Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE); and Kate P. Stavish, teacher, Herndon High School, Herndon, Virginia. Murray was appointed to a two-year term as Chair of the Board of Directors.
Announcing the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)
October 25th, 2010The boards of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) met in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 22, 2010, and voted to consolidate teacher education accreditation under a new organization, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). See a copy of the formal press release announcement.
CAEP will offer four options for accreditation, each dedicated to two goals: (1) to raise the performance of candidates as practitioners in the nation’s P-12 schools and (2) to raise the standards for the evidence the field relies on to supports its claims of quality. The report from the Design Team outlines the recommendations for CAEP, and a letter to members provides assurance of the continuity of accreditation terms.
The CAEP website is www.caepsite.org.
TEAC accredits 9 new programs
September 22nd, 2010At its September 13-14, 2010, meeting in Washington, DC, TEAC’s Accreditation Committee accredited the following nine programs: Bethel University graduate education program, Bethel University undergraduate education program, Binghamton University State University of New York teacher education program, Centenary College graduate educational leadership program, Centenary College undergraduate teacher education and graduate special education program, Dixie State College of Utah teacher education program, Montana State University educational leadership program, Montana State University teacher education program, Ohio Christian University teacher preparation program.
Murray examines relationship between TEAC and National Board standards
June 25th, 2010Frank Murray, president of TEAC, proposes “A Role for NBPTS Standards in Teacher Education Accreditation” in his chapter contribution to a new book, Accomplished Teachers, Institutional Perspectives (NBPTS 2010), that considers ways to expand links between the NBPTS standards and assessment process and teacher preparation, program accreditation, and state licensure.
Murray points out that TEAC accreditation is focused on a program’s quality control system and the quality of the evidence the system yields that graduates have acquired the knowledge, disposition, and skill their academic degrees indicate and that the state license requires for a beginning teacher. He proposes ways the TEAC audit approach to accreditation could enhance the National Board’s examination of evidence of a teacher’s effect on student learning.
Other contributors to the book include C. Kent McGuire, dean, College of Education, Temple University; James Cibulka, president, NCATE; Marty Hopkins, professor of education, University of Central Florida; and Richard Navarro, professor of education, California State Polytechnic University. For more information and to view excerpts of the book, visit http://www.nbpts.org/products_and_services/books/accomplished_teachers
200th member joins TEAC
May 25th, 2010Roberts Wesleyan College of Rochester, New York, has become the 200th member of TEAC. Membership includes 185 institutions of higher education — 88 are already accredited and 83 are candidates for accreditation. TEAC also enjoys the membership of 13 affiliate institutions and 16 professional associations who support the TEAC process of accreditation.