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The five tables below reflect extensive information and data related to Northwest's programs, partnerships, standards alignments, candidate clinical experiences, and faculty; they have been designed to provide at-a-glance information, with links to deeper information available for items for which you'd like more information. In this, they serve as both an introduction to the quality assurance report and also as reference material for the narratives that follow. It is recommended that you begin by orientating yourself with these tables before reading and then come back to them again later as a reference resource while reading the narratives for each standard that follow.
Table 1: Northwest Teacher, Leader, & Counselor Preparation Programs Summary lists all of Northwest's teacher, leader, and counselor programs. For each Northwest program, it provides basic information about the program (i.e. grade level, whether the program is initial or advanced, program hours, content hours, and enrollment). Further, if you'd like to learn more about the program, it also links to contact information for the program coordinator(s), its program narrative, its HLC five-year review, its catalog description, and its program-of-study information. Further, Table 1 provides the previous year's annual performance review (APR) information from that state. It is an excellent place to begin your reading of the quality assurance report to get a sense of the programs that Northwest offers.
Table 2: Northwest Birth-12 District Partnerships lists all of Northwest's district partnerships. It states location and enrollment information; as well as its distance from Northwest; whether it is a rural, suburban, or urban district; school liaison information; as well as its information about the diversity of its students. To get a sense of the relationship, it also states whether candidates complete mid-level practicum experiences in the district as well as how many student teachers have taught there since the fall 2014 trimester.
Table 3: Northwest State and National Educator Prep Standards Alignment provides a standard alignment for each of Northwest's programs. Use the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to look at different programs. For each program, it aligns state-level standards to School of Education outcomes, InTASC standards, and the AAQEP standards, through to program-specific standards and outcomes, and then lists classes and key assessments in each program aligned to those standards. Syllabi providing further detail on classes and key assessments are available in the Northwest AAQEP Canvas site.
Table 4: Northwest Teacher Candidate Clinical Experiences Crosswalk lists all Northwest Professional Education (PEU) classes that include clinical experience hours. There are three tabs: one for old programs' clinical experiences, one for redesigned programs' clinical experiences, and one for advanced/graduate programs. Each tab begins at the top with classes that all candidates take and as it works down, lists classes that only students in specific programs take. Each entry provides the class number and name, the title of the experience, a brief description, and the hours and location for each field experience. Some select course syllabi are available via links in the spreadsheet; all other course syllabi are available in the Northwest AAQEP Canvas site.
Table 5: Northwest Professional Education Unit (PEU) Faculty lists Northwest's Professional Education Unit (PEU) faculty in alphabetical order. For each, it provides the school/department in which they teach, their position, their highest degree, and a summary of their role in the PEU. Each of the names is also a link that takes you to the corresponding faculty biography page on the Northwest website, which provides additional information. Faculty vitas are not available through the table but can be accessed through the Faculty Curriculum Vitas link in the Northwest AAQEP Canvas site.
