Every five years the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Ohio Department of Education review the accreditation of programs at BGSU’s College of Education and Human Development.
From Nov. 3-7, the Board of Examiners will be on campus to evaluate the college and determine whether it met the state’s six standards this year.
The college’s teacher candidates as well as other professional school personnel must display knowledge in their field and the ability to engage their students. The Interim Associate Dean of Student Affairs Cindy Hendricks assembled the evidence that the College met this standard.
Associate dean Delma Rosalind Hammond, spearheaded the effort to assess programs. The standard requires that data be collected and analyzed to improve programs.
The college must provide field placement for teacher candidates and personnel in order to determine and encourage their abilities. Kimberly Grilliot, director of student services at the department of education undergraduate student services, arranged the evidence of following this standard.
Since diversity is necessary in any learning environment, Associate Professor of the Division of Intervention Services Lessie Cochran documented the diversity in education, environment, teachers and students.
“When we say diversity, people tend to think immediately of race. Diversity refers not only to race but to disability, sexual orientation and many other things,” Cindy Hendricks said.
Since education never ends, faculty are encouraged to continue their learning both through research and in the classroom. Graduate student Gloria Mathiesen assists the program counselor at the department of education undergraduate student services Sandra Stanford in showing adherence to this standard.
Professor and Interim Dean of the College of Education and Human Development Ellen Williams directed the report of sufficient funding and budgets.
“The Council Board will review the programs based upon the six standards,” Hendricks said. “They will then decide if the college has met those standards, exceeded those standards or not reached those standards.”
However, the College of Education and Human Development has not been reviewed since 1994. When the college was due for review in 1999, the Ohio Department of Education shifted from requiring teacher certification to licensure, and they granted another year for the College to adjust its programs. Then in 2000, the college suffered a personnel shakeup when Dean Les Sternberg accepted a position elsewhere, and the college was left without a dean. The National Council and the Department of Education postponed the review for another year.
After the reaccreditation, the college will return to the original, 5-year cycle, and the next review will be in 2004.