TEAC News Archive
TEAC BOARD AMENDS ACCREDITATION TERMS
November 29th, 2011The TEAC Board of Directors revised TEAC’s policies relating to the length of accreditation terms so that, beginning with accreditation decisions made in 2012, programs that submit an Inquiry Brief and satisfy TEAC’s Quality Principles will be awarded accreditation for seven years (instead of the former accreditation terms of five years and ten years). Five-year terms of initial accreditation will continue to be awarded to programs that satisfy Quality Principles II and III in an Inquiry Brief Proposal. For full information of the revised policy, see TEAC Policy Update: Seven-Year Terms of Accreditation. Click here to view full document.
TEAC Accredits Ten Programs
October 20th, 2011At its September 29‐October 1, 2011, meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, TEAC’s Accreditation Committee took the following ten accreditation actions: Albion College (MI) Teacher Education Program; Bard College (NY) Master of Arts in Teaching Program; College of Mount Saint Vincent (NY) Teacher Education Program; Houghton College (NY) Teacher Education Program; Lakeland College (WI) Teacher Education Program; Manhattan College (NY) School Building Leadership Program; Spring Arbor University (MI) Teacher Education Program; St. John’s University (NY) Teacher Education Program; Texas Lutheran University (TX) Teacher Education Program; and University of Utah (UT) Teacher Education Program. Congratulations to these programs!
To date, TEAC has accredited 132 programs in 104 institutions of higher education in 25 states. TEAC has 222 members, 93 candidate IHEs, 10 affiliate IHEs, and 15 affiliate groups.
An Update on the Transition to CAEP
October 20th, 2011We know that institutions have many questions on the transition to the new accrediting body, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). While we do not have all of the answers yet, here is [a link to] information to help clarify where we are now and our plans for the near future. We hope that this is a help to you as you engage in your own strategic planning.
Revised publications available on TEAC website
September 1st, 2011TEAC has revised the Guide to Accreditation (www.teac.org/literature/) to include more specific information on scheduling the audit (pages 18-19) and clearer information on describing the program’s rationale for its assessments (pages 47-49). The revised Guide also includes a full list of TEAC staff and the questions each staff member is a resource for answering (www.teac.org/about/staff/).
In addition, the Fall 2011 Exercise Workbook (which will be used at the Inquiry Brief Workshop held as part of the CAEP Conference, September 8-10, 2011, has also been posted on the Literature page (www.teac.org/literature/).
Aloha to Hawaii!
August 3rd, 2011TEAC is pleased to welcome the “Aloha State of Hawaii” as its newest state partner. Hawaii joins 13 other states that have signed partnership agreements with TEAC.
States with TEAC Agreements:
TEAC has partnership agreements with 13 other states – California, Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia. Discussions about partnership agreements are currently underway in a number of other states.
Advantages to States with TEAC Agreements
- TEAC requires that claims made in its self-study document, the Inquiry Brief, be consistent with claims made elsewhere; therefore, the program must incorporate the state’s standards.
- State program (credentialing/endorsement area) approval and national accreditation through TEAC can be coordinated, thus saving time valuable time, money, and staff resources.
- National accreditation is more attractive to institutions when it is integrated with the state’s program approval process.
- TEAC shares valuable information with the states that would otherwise be unavailable.
- TEAC’s accreditation process is based on empirical evidence and data that is clear, convincing, and contributes to on-going program improvement.