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Enhancing Teacher Readiness: The Gates Assessment System Overview

The Gates Assessment System, utilized in teacher education programs, aims to identify students at risk of failing early on, providing crucial opportunities for remediation or counseling to exit the program. It encompasses three assessment gates—Foundations, Methods, and Student Teaching—each evaluated by a Gatekeeper. This structured approach ensures that future educators meet accreditation standards and develop essential teaching competencies. Comprehensive feedback through commented papers, rubrics, and professional disposition assessments helps guide student progress throughout their training.

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Enhancing Teacher Readiness: The Gates Assessment System Overview

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  1. April 24, 2010 Teacher Ed Seminar DTC Campus Gates Assessment SystemAffiliate Faculty

  2. Why a Gates System? • To identify early, students who • may fail in their program (remediation) • should not be teachers (counsel to leave program) • To provide accrediting bodies with evidence that our students are ready to teach and meet their standards when they graduate

  3. How does it work? • Three Gates: • Gate 1: Foundations • Gate 2: Methods • Gate 3: Student Teaching • Student Portfolio Assessment • Each Gate is assessed by a Gatekeeper • Each Gate builds on the previous one • Artifacts: • Commented paper • Rubric • Professional Disposition

  4. Who is on the Gates System? • Undergraduate Students • If started after 2008 Summer 8 week 1 • Graduate Students • If started after 2008 Summer 8 week 1ANDLicensure • BUT Not Fastforward and not ECE, Special Ed, or Principal Licensure

  5. Gates Courses

  6. Instructor’s Essential Role • Course Artifact(s) and Professional Disposition • Identified in Course Guide • For Each Specific Artifact • Paper should be returned with comments • Rubric filled by instructor • Professional Disposition filled by instructor (at the end of the course)

  7. Interactive Forms • Download interactive forms (from Sharepoint Site—request access to Yvaine) • Fill rubrics & Professional Disposition Forms in Adobe Reader (latest version) • Email forms still interactive to Yvaine (yschulz@regis.edu) • Lock forms and Email them to each individual student (Regis email only)

  8. Scores Impact • Understand the Gatekeeper Forms: • Total Rubric Score no less than 2.57 • Conventions no less than 3 • Criteria aligned to Proficiencies no less than 3 • In danger of failing gate: • Student should rewrite paper (identified in document title as a rewrite) • Student should upload all three: • Original Paper • Original Rubric • Rewritten Paper

  9. Student Portfolio • Urge students to purchase an iWebfolio account • Urge students to upload their artifacts as soon as they receive them back from you • Recommended file naming convention: • DoeJane_EDFD402_Smarthinking_Paper.doc • DoeJane_EDFD402_Smarthinking_Rubric.pdf • Rewrite_EDFD402_Smarthinking_Paper.doc • DoeJane_EDFD402_PD.pdf …

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