PDS Executive Council

Fall 2022 | November 11, 2022 | Zoom

Executive Council Archives

PDS website: (Take a look at it)

Differences in PDS and Traditional placements - (We will be working on this during the meeting)

PDS updates and suggestions/feedback from TEC since our last meeting on 9/9/2022:

Share what is the most important issue(s) at your school right now and your thoughts on how we (SOEHS) can help or ways we can get involved.

Examples:

A nationally recognized movement that partners universities with P-12 schools to collaborate on:
- Preparing future educators
- Providing ongoing professional development
- Encouraging mutual research
- Promoting the learning of P-12 students
Past (yes)
Present (not as much)

KUPDS- designed to meet the needs of teaching students that are increasingly bilingual, varying disabilities, diverse backgrounds which includes cultural, religious, and ethnic heritages to challenge the status quo.

Example: in spring of 2017, 46 applied for the 2017-2018 school year.

Teams work together to identify opportunities to differentiate PDS experiences from the traditional student teaching experience

Share some examples and how we can work together to implement it

Pilot new changes in Spring 2024
Work on sustainable funding (scholarships by a donor)
Work with new KU group to help facilitate connections to your schools
Flexible Fridays used for student teachers to work on action research, professional development, PLC with cohort of students in school
Create PDS video for recruiting
Create promotional video for school districts to increase seniors to come to KU for teaching
Get into SOEHS classrooms early to share PDS experiences
Work on badges for clinical supervisors and student teachers

Meet in early January 2023

Supporting Professional Development School (PDS) and encouraging pre-service teacher to choose PDS for student teaching and supporting PDSs

Here are some of the things we are doing in PDS:

Classroom talks via Zoom with PDS principals, clinical supervisors, former PDS alumni, current PDS Ambassadors
Each PDS has scheduled their kick-off with all student teachers that will be at their school
SMSD conducted mock interviews on 10/24 and 10/25 to PDS students and I also invited non-PDS students to give feedback on resume and interview tips
PDS website is getting updated
PDS holiday card competitions (11/18 due)
Hopefully, students are doing their weekly three hours of observations

Recommendation on how to better distinguish it:

Create a schedule where PDS student teachers are released half-days every other Friday to work with instructional coaches, cohorts within schools on teaching and learning advice, to visit other classrooms for observations, trainings on other topics pertinent to teaching and learning, identifying
Have different assignments that are more tailored to PDS settings

Support needed for the PDS program:

Find a donor to sponsor using a scholarship for PDSs
- Pay for Praxis
- Stipend for conference
- Organization membership fee
VLN
- Share materials with each other
- Support for first year of teaching
Pour into them with incentives
- Gift bags provided the first two weeks of placement
- Once per month
- First year of teaching with supplies
- Give cards
Recruit for PDS to grow program
- Early experiences in PDSs using all C&T courses
- Everyone gets a PDS experience prior to student teaching
- Practicum in PDSs

Other considerations