1. Investigating the Success of the First Year of a PDS Implementation
Debra Patterson, Kinesiology
Sandy Ritter , Special Education
Cathy Nachum, Site Director Middle School
Natalie Messinger, Site Director Elementary School

2. Setting Goals for Year Two
Where are we after our first pilot year of implementing a PDS model at three clinical sites?
Elementary
Middle School
High School
Successes
Overall Progress
Areas for Improvement
Setting Goals for Year Two

3. Evaluation of Year One Gather evidence in a variety of formats
Development and refinement of assessment tools
Need to “process” year one for setting year two goals
Inside evaluators: SRI

4. Assessment Measures NCATE PDS Standards Site Administrators
Student Teacher
Mentor Teachers
1st Cohort Group during their first year teaching
Tracking system to correlate student teaching with pupil learning

5. NCATE PDS Standards
Needed to see where the sites where after year one and set goals for year two
Standards used in matrix format
Each Site Leadership completed their own matrix
Rated their site in terms of partnership implementation
Provided qualitative evidence
Comparison of all three sites (evidence of change)

6. NCATE PDS Standards, continued
Site Directors responsible for assembling the evidence for their matrix
Discussion of process at each site
Sites set goals for year two partnership implementation

7. Site Administrators
Semi-structured interview with one administrator from each site
Included questions on:
TNE Goals established prior to implementation year
Unique opportunities for cohort of student teachers
Site logistics and developing committees
School district support
Pilot tool: need to collect more rich data

8. Student Teachers Questionnaires Journal Development
Quantitative analysis and results
Qualitative analysis and results
Journal
Completed at conclusion of every week
Reflect on “learning about yourself as an educator”
Data collected on both cohort and non-cohort groups

9. Mentor Teachers Questionnaires Refinement of the process
About their first year experiences with the PDS partnership
Development
Gathering evidence
Site Team responses
Mentor Teacher responses
Refinement of the process

10. Future Directions
Continue refinement of assessment tools used to gather ‘hard’ evidence of PDS model and set goals
Continue to look at areas of improvement needed to sustain PDS model at all sites
Currently collecting specific information and tracking pupil achievement and learning with cohort of student teachers