Division of KHS - College of Education - Wayne State University

College of Education Accreditation Update
By Dr. Mariane Fahlman
The College of Education is currently involved in a process to review all programs and practices with the goal of eventual accreditation by
the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). The purpose of TEAC is to support the preparation of competent, caring and qualified
professional educators. It is dedicated to helping educator preparation programs improve and be accountable for their quality. By
participating in the TEAC process, all of the teacher preparation programs in the college, including Physical Education and Health, will be
strengthened.
Dr. Mariane Fahlman represents KHS on the college’s TEAC advisory board. This board meets monthly and has undertaken the arduous
task of determining how to demonstrate that the college is consistent with its theme, and prepares “Effective Urban Educators: Innovative,
Reflective and Committed to Diversity.” Thus far, the board has worked with students and faculty to produce narrative statements addressing
these components of the college’s mission.
Additional tasks of the board include analyzing surveys completed by pre-service teachers, coordinating discussions about the college
mission, theme and goals at COE assembly meetings, and determining how to demonstrate that the college, is indeed, meeting its goals.
Crucial to this demonstration is a college-wide assessment on a variety of common student experiences. KHS students will be participating
in this assessment by submitting assignments through a web-based tool called LiveText. Dr. Bo Shen is coordinating LiveText for the
Physical Education students, and Dr. Fahlman is doing the same for Health students. Assignments such as lesson plans, unit plans, case
studies and other selected assignments are required to demonstrate the college’s goals. By using LiveText, students within the college are
graded with a common rubric and the grades are immediately stored and compiled in one database. This enables the college to determine
both areas of strength and areas that need improvement.
Exercise and Sport Science Programs
By Dr. John Wirth
Student retention and recruitment were important goals identified over the past year by both the university and the College of Education.
In the area of student retention, the faculty in Exercise and Sport Science (ESS) invested a great deal of time in strategic planning sessions
to impact and improve student retention. Faculty, and especially the academic advisors, planned and attended numerous Learning
Community functions in an effort to help our students remain enrolled and progress toward graduation. Student feedback indicated that
this contact with faculty in an informal setting was very much appreciated. ESS faculty intend to expand these functions in the coming
academic year.
Relative to student recruitment, ESS has updated its content on the KHS website and program flyers for public dissemination. Currently,
there are preliminary plans to investigate the creation of a new undergraduate pre-professional track. The task of examining the possibility
of this pre-professional track will be completed by winter of 2011.
ESS would like to thank all faculty and students for a very successful year.
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