Invitation to CATE Pre-Conference
INVITATION TO CATE PRE-CONFERENCE
At the annual CSSE conference in Victoria this year, June 2-5, 2013, the Canadian Association of Teacher Education (CATE) is sponsoring a pre-conference on June 1, 2013 from 13:00- 17:00 (room: TBA) exploring the question:
“How are faculties of education assessing program outcomes and student learning in an era of innovation, diversity, evaluation, and
accountability?”
The purpose of this Pre-Conference is to provide an opportunity for teachers, teacher educators and researchers, including graduate students, to engage in extended conversations with each other and to forge working relationships and connections between CATE members. CATE would like to encourage you as graduate students to attend this pre-conference as many of you consider a future that will include teacher education. As the Graduate Student Representative for CATE, and member of CCGSE, I will be at the pre-conference to help facilitate your involvement. This is a great opportunity to broaden your network and understanding, so please join us.
We will open the session by hearing the perspectives of a panel of
student teachers, then follow up with a working session that provides us an opportunity to break into smaller groups for work and conversation.
We will create working groups according to three themes. Participants are asked to declare in advance which working group they would like to work with. There will also be an opportunity for all participants to interact with the participants from other working groups. The three working groups are as follows:
· Theme/Working Group #1: Assessment practices in teacher education programs within the context of innovation.
· Theme/Working Group #2: Assessment practices in teacher education programs within the context of diversity.
· Theme/Working Group #3: Assessment practices in teacher education programs within the context of evaluation and accountability.
If you are interested in joining this session you must pre-register by contacting Paige Fisher atFisher.paige@gmail.com by March 28, 2013. There is no cost for this session, but it is essential you register in
advance to attend and that you be a current member of CATE